Movie Recap: Atom Age Vampire

People talk about the “vampire craze” ushered in by the publication of the Twilight books, but this movie (filmed in Italian in 1960, dubbed into English for some sinister purpose) proves that the vampire craze is as eternal as the actual vampires.

Speaking of actual vampires, though, this movie doesn’t have any. What it DOES have is a handsome mad scientist who creates a sinister serum and then has to murder young women to harvest their “glands” for complicated reasons.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

 

• Script Quality: For all I know the Italian script was brilliant. The English one, not so much. It’s serviceable. 5/10.
• Acting Quality: Also serviceable, and I think the stripper/heroine and the lovesick assistant-to-the-doctor were having fun with this. 5/10
• Overall feeling afterwards: I feel so much better right now about my extensive collection of skincare products, none of which required me to murder anyone.
  

movie recap: Ouija

The Blurb: How far would you go to make contact with someone you lost?

Why I’m Watching: I impulse-bought this at Walmart because I literally cannot be trusted with a credit card when there are movies with Ouija boards on the cover right there in front of me.

Recap: The movie opens with the camera looking straight down at a Ouija board on a carpeted floor, and eventually we’re there with two little girls, one of whom (Debbie) is persuading the other to use the board. She lists out some rules: you don’t use it alone (I remember fervently believing this when I was ten, and quite honestly, it’s not something I’d do now either); you don’t use it in a graveyard (I’ve never heard this one); you always say goodbye (yup, this was also part of the mythos when I was a kid). Also she claims you can SEE ghosts through the hole in the planchette, which is a nicely terrifying addition. So the more timid kid tries it and screams when a third girl (her kid sister, I think) shows up. Ha.