I'll have to do another run, horror movies, and try harder.
Yeah, that's Tony's Porsche and the office 'cubicle farm' is from TRON. Before Flynn gets digitized and when Alan is heading upstairs to meet with Dillinger.
I was idly reviewing our comments and posts when I noticed on your graphic, Dan, that Bela Lugosi is featured in something called Daughter of Horror. I found out all of the following with one click:
Daughter of Horror (1955) started life as a film called Dementia (1953). Neither has any dialogue, nor any directing credit. In it, a young woman, played by Adrienne Barrett, wakes up from a nightmare in which she's drowning, but upon her awakening the nightmare only continues. She carries a switchblade and is strongly hinted at as the perpetrator of a series of murders. She's manipulated into joining a Rich Guy in his top-floor apartment. The Rich Guy - characters don't have names, only names of types (she's known as the Gamin) - is played by Bruno VeSota, who later appeared several times in Roger Corman productions.
She stabs the Rich Guy and pushed him out a window. She tries to retrieve her distinctive pendant from the corpse's hand and eventually has to hack his hand off to get it. She's pursued and arrested by a police detective known as the Enforcer, who looks and sounds exactly like her abusive drunkard dad.
The only difference between Dementia and Daughter of Horror is a voiced-over narration by Ed McMahon, of all people (who's greatest claim is as Jeffrey Tambor's inspiration on "The Larry Sanders Show.") It's questionable whether the narration adds anything: at various points the narrator says, "Let me show you the bed of evil you sprang from!" and "Guilty! Mad with guilt and the devils who've taken possession of you!" Dementia couldn't make it past the New York censors, apparently because it was just so confusing.
At no time does Bela Lugosi make an appearance, credited or otherwise.
Nicely done, Dan!
ReplyDeleteHere goes:
The Shining, Under Siege, King King, the Blob, Mr, Majestyk (I only know that because of our conversation about it)...
Is that last one Scarface, maybe? I should have gotten that office scene one, but it stumped me.
Holy Shit.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to do another run, horror movies, and try harder.
Yeah, that's Tony's Porsche and the office 'cubicle farm' is from TRON. Before Flynn gets digitized and when Alan is heading upstairs to meet with Dillinger.
Good fucking Job.
I was idly reviewing our comments and posts when I noticed on your graphic, Dan, that Bela Lugosi is featured in something called Daughter of Horror. I found out all of the following with one click:
ReplyDeleteDaughter of Horror (1955) started life as a film called Dementia (1953). Neither has any dialogue, nor any directing credit. In it, a young woman, played by Adrienne Barrett, wakes up from a nightmare in which she's drowning, but upon her awakening the nightmare only continues. She carries a switchblade and is strongly hinted at as the perpetrator of a series of murders. She's manipulated into joining a Rich Guy in his top-floor apartment. The Rich Guy - characters don't have names, only names of types (she's known as the Gamin) - is played by Bruno VeSota, who later appeared several times in Roger Corman productions.
She stabs the Rich Guy and pushed him out a window. She tries to retrieve her distinctive pendant from the corpse's hand and eventually has to hack his hand off to get it. She's pursued and arrested by a police detective known as the Enforcer, who looks and sounds exactly like her abusive drunkard dad.
The only difference between Dementia and Daughter of Horror is a voiced-over narration by Ed McMahon, of all people (who's greatest claim is as Jeffrey Tambor's inspiration on "The Larry Sanders Show.") It's questionable whether the narration adds anything: at various points the narrator says, "Let me show you the bed of evil you sprang from!" and "Guilty! Mad with guilt and the devils who've taken possession of you!" Dementia couldn't make it past the New York censors, apparently because it was just so confusing.
At no time does Bela Lugosi make an appearance, credited or otherwise.