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Post by profh0011 on Jan 16, 2024 17:45:22 GMT
I feel there were several actors they could have gotten to briefly play Dracula in LEGEND... who would have done better than John Forbes-Robertson. Among them, Ferdy Mayne, Charles Macauley, Francis Lederer. But the make-up in the opening sequence makes one really shake your head. I'm reminded of the make-up job they did on Christopher Lee in SCARS... The crazy thing is, Lee got more dialogue in that film than all the others combined, allegedly, because when it was planned, they intended the film as a reboot with a different actor. But the distributor refused to put up the money unless Lee was in it.
The shot of Dracula rising from his coffin as if his feet were on a hinge (heeheehee) was a tribute to the scene in NOSFERATU on board the ship. Much later, they used the same shot with Leslie Nielsen in ...DEAD AND LOVING IN, and in there, when he gets to the top of his movement, he hits his forehead on an overhanging lamp. "I must either move the lamp, or my coffin." Mel Brooks always loved to reference MANY films at the same time in any comedy he was doing.
In a better world, LEGEND... would have featured Lee (or someone decent) as Dracula, Ian Ogilvy as Leyland, Bruce Lee as the lead brother, and maybe Ingrid Pitt as the rich lady.
And, we would have seen a series of "Professor Van Helsing" films, each set in a different country & culture.
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Post by GC on Feb 22, 2024 14:48:24 GMT
Seems it's from The Mind of Evil...
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Post by profh0011 on Aug 11, 2024 15:12:08 GMT
Re-reading this thread, it suddenly occured to me, The Keller Machine reminds me of something from THE OUTER LIMITS.
In particular, the episode "Don't Open 'Till Doomsday", where some malevolent space alien is in a box terrorizing people.
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