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Spirits of the Dead (1968); aka Histoires extraordinaires
Topic Started: Aug 18 2015, 04:32 PM (204 Views)
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A collection of three different Edgar Allen Poe tales: a sadistic baroness finds that a wild horse is the reincarnation of a doomed soul she condemned to die, an exact double causes trouble for a sadistic courtesan, a boozing actor falls under his impulses and personal demons when arriving to shoot a new movie in Italy.

What did everyone think of this one?
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The Good Stor(ies): Metzengerstein-Living a life of decadence and depravity, a sadistic baroness enjoys living alone in her castle watching her distant cousin carry on his life whilst ignoring her advances and existence. When word reaches her that he has perished in a deadly fire on his land, she becomes distraught and begins a fanatical obsession with restoring a tapestry depicting a fiery, wild horse he supposedly own by him, while carrying on an equally deadly obsession with a stray horse that appears shortly afterword that bears a striking resemblance to the individual in the cloth. Easily the best of the stories, with a rather impressive mixture of Gothic atmosphere here with it's crumbling castle setting, expansive layouts and decadence littering the entire area, which creates a visually haunting location to use here. As well, the lone action scene, the fire to the adjacent estate, is equally impressive with it's large-scale impact, noteworthy fire stunt and visual dynamics as this is usually the ending to many of these Gothic horrors with the burning-the-house-down finale here placed in the middle section, which is quite innovative, and with both of these segments meshing with her sense of sadism and depravity with humiliation games, orgies and other forms of entertainment overall create a rather impressive entry.

William Wilson-Rushing into a church, a distraught man begs the local priest to hear his confession. Starting with his first introduction, he relates the story of a man who is his identical in every way, even sharing the same name as each other, and whenever he tries to entertain himself through his usual sense of depraved fun, his doppelganger appears to ruin it, and by the time it finally grows to a maddening scale, he engages his mysterious twin in a final game of fate. This here is certainly watchable enough as the depravity here is increased with games as the dunking into the rats, surgery on the nude woman and whipping the woman he won in the card game, which creates a rather creepy air when they're all interrupted and dropped with clever rationalizations. There's even a bloody sword-fight to give it some nice action as well. The only real flaw to this one is that the segment tends to meander from the same set-up to the next without any variation, really keeping this one from doing anything entertaining with it's premise. It does grow tiresome to know everything is going to keep repeating, regardless of what's going on, so it looses a little there but is overall quite enjoyable.

The Bad Stor(ies): Toby Dammit-Arriving in Italy, a boozing, drugged actor is constantly shuffled around from one personal requested-appearance to the next without delay, causing him to sink deeper into his sense of personal despair. Finally arriving at a gala award show for his honor, he finds the locals gathered there far too much for his sanity to overcome, and when he begins to let his inhibitions loose to their fullest extent, finds himself in a deeper Hell than before. This was overall quite boring as the entire segment plays out as though it's an acid-trip nightmare. Sure, it's overtly weird and generally quite stylish visually, but that doesn't really make it scary. The drive through the deserted streets at night is about the only thing worthwhile here, as it's a lengthy, extended sequence that really gets far more enjoyable over time, though the majority of time taken up by the strange award ceremony rather than being scary really dooms this entry. Not enough for the movie overall, but just slightly.
Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs.

My review blog: http://donshorrormovieblog.blogspot.com/
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Toby Dammit > William Wilson > Metzengerstein

Terence Stamp's performance and Fellini's visual poetry makes Toby Dammit the best of the three for me. I love the character's descent into madness; his further descent into Hell. The only lead character I felt truly sorry for. Great choice for the Devil in that one as well. Metzengerstein was kind of boring and could have used more sadism. Although a young Jane Fonda was good on the eyes (hello) William Wilson made up for the sadism ten-fold, but that made the main character very unlikeable, which he was supposed to be. Still, that's my ranking of the three segments. I'd recommend this movie. If only for the last two. 6 or 7/10.
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