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Marcelo Ferreyra
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It seems that the beautiful GDI releases with Hammer music has stopped.
I mean, no new releases so far.
posted 01-02-2002 07:42 PM PT (US) Graham Watt
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Marcelo, again, good to see you here! The upcoming GDI releases are still mentioned in Film Score Monthly. Their latest ones are apparently The Mummy's Shroud, Blood From The Mummy's Tomb, and Captain Kronos. It's true though that things like Satanic Rites Of Dracula and Dr Jekyll And Sister Hyde have been announced for months, and never turned up. The GDI page has been down for ages too, not a good sign.Let's hope these things see the light of day!
HAIL TO THE HAMMERHEADS! And Timmer and Gae too!
posted 01-03-2002 02:34 PM PT (US) Timmer
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...and let the Hammer Heads releases continue...oh, please!
posted 01-03-2002 06:19 PM PT (US) Timmer
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...and lets not forget Stephen Lister and Matt Perkins?...Matt, where are you?
posted 01-03-2002 06:20 PM PT (US) Kimiakane
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Uh oh. I only bought the first two "greatest hits" releases. I always meant to buy the others as they came out, being a huge Hammer Horror fan, but pesky life expenses kept getting in the way. I guess I better get busy on collecting those, eh? Maybe I'm the reason they've stopped production?
the filmscore gal
posted 01-03-2002 06:34 PM PT (US) Gae
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Well, I watched "The Satanic Rites of Dracula" on Channel 4 recently ( for nostalgic reasons) but have to say that I didn't really like the score by "John Cacavas". If it wasn't bad enough having Dracula transported to 70's London, the music also had a contemporary funky 70's feel and didn't do anything for me. The film is still enjoyable hokum, purely for being so different and wacky and also having a lovely young Joanna Lumley in it. What happened to Chris Lee and Dracula though? Apart from one brief appearance we dont even see him until about an hour into the movie. Also, the way he meets his fate in the Bracken? bush at the end was so weak. Where ever in the Vampire mythology have you ever heard that a vampire could die this way? A bit of a liberty from Hammer here, trying to come up with different ways to kill Dracula no doubt
. My favourite unintentionally funny part though is near the end when one of Dracula's disciples contracts the bubonic plague and starts blistering etc. At one part, his hand reaches over slowly almost touching Van Helsing's hand who manages to pull it away at the last minute. I couldn't help hearing the words in my head...."TIP, you're IT!!" Gae NP Dances with Wolves
[Message edited by Gae on 01-04-2002]
posted 01-04-2002 01:01 PM PT (US) Graham Watt
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Our film score gal, don't you feel SO guilty about making GDI go bust, on all your own? You could at least have bought Franz Reizenstein's The Mummy, one of those great crossover works which I'm sure appeal even to people who don't normally go for the Hammer sound. I've ranted about this magnificent score in the past, but you didn't get it, and you thus put the nail in GDI's coffin (appropriately!)Gae, yes, Satanic Rites is no great shakes as a movie, but it is marginally better than the previous Drac A.D. 1972. I must admit that I liked the John Cacavas score, like Kojak with fangs. I think the James Bernard approach would have been wrong here. And it's not all wah-wah guitar: Cacavas did some good semi-religious chords for Peter Cushing melting down his silver bullets. Still, even a brilliant score wouldn't have saved this movie. I too felt that the bramble bush ending was weak. Could Dracula have existed for six centuries being so stupid? Peter Cushing's on the other side of the bush, cooing "Over here, Dracula", and Drac walks right through the bush to get to him. "Oh no, BRAMBLES! I don't LIKE brambles!"
posted 01-04-2002 03:37 PM PT (US) Marcelo Ferreyra
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John Cacavas speacks about his score of
Satanics Rites Of Dracula:"I didn't make it as Gothic as I probably would have wanted it, because I was under presure from the other studio...(Warner Brothers, the distributor)
What we ended up with was neither fish nor fowl" posted 01-04-2002 03:50 PM PT (US) Gae
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Graham said"Peter Cushing's on the other side of the bush, cooing "Over here, Dracula", and Drac walks right through the bush to get to him. "Oh no, BRAMBLES! I don't LIKE brambles!"
Yep, that pretty much sums up my thoughts too Graham!!
Gae
posted 01-04-2002 04:13 PM PT (US) Graham Watt
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Or maybe it was a hawthorn bush? Whatever, Dracula didn't know either, and that was his downfall. Perhaps the weakest ending ever for a Drac film. He is undone through his lack of knowledge of bushes. Mind you, I thought that the "running water" death that appeared firstly in the otherwise excellent DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS was a bit contrived too. That idea was taken to its ludicrous extreme in the fairly terrible DRACULA A.D. 1972, when one of Drac's disciples IS CORNERED IN THE BATHROOM AND THEY PUSH HIM INTO THE BATHTUB AND TURN THE SHOWER ON! ! ! !By the way, I think Marcelo's John Cacavas quote comes from Randall Larson's book "Music From The House Of Hammer". A must-have for all those whose heads are remotely shaped like said battering instrument.
And another by the way: It was Christmas present time in Spain today. I got...
THE DEVIL RIDES OUT (James Bernard)
CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB (Carlo Martelli)
THE LOST CONTINENT (Gerard Schurmann)
All beautiful GDI releases. So THERE!
posted 01-06-2002 02:41 PM PT (US) Gae
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Graham said:-He is undone through his lack of knowledge of bushes.
If only he'd kept up with those horticultural evening classes!!
NP Classic FM
posted 01-06-2002 04:18 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB