It seems our last photo was a bit of a tough one. But that didn’t stop a couple of you out there from recognizing this little bit of Euro-Trash (and I mean that in the best possible way)! Kudos to Kuba Haczek & Michael Shields for sending the in the correct answer, which was Antonio Margherit’s 1963 film The Virgin of Nuremberg, aka Horror Castle, a great little film that needs some attention!
Okay…on to this week’s photo. Going to be another tough one, and I will tell you it is probably not the one that is immediately coming to your mind. At least, I bet it probably isn’t. Take a good look, and good luck.
As always, please remember not to post your answers here, but send them in an email to jon@kitleyskrypt.com.
If you’re a collector of film reference books, you just might recognize the name Philip J. Riley. He was a man that was determined to help keep the facts and memories of old classic monster films alive and well by releasing some amazing books over the last few decades. Starting in the late ’80s, he started to release the Universal Filmscripts Series Classic Horror Films, which he edited. Along with the help of such scholars as Gregory William Mank and Forrest J. Ackerman, fans got to not only read the original shooting script, but see original newspaper clippings, different news stories, and a ton of other info about the making of the film. He went through most all the Universal Classics and then started a different sereies on films that never came to be, based on original scripts that were found, such as Robert Florey’s version of Frankenstein.
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He also appeared in plenty of shows and movies in small bit parts, as well as working as a stuntman. He is one of those “men in suit” guys that never received proper screen credit for the hard work that they did over the years, only because they were hidden underneath their costume. This is something that needs to be changed.
Made in 1969, this was the quick follow up to Hemisphere’s Brides of Blood, and I don’t think they could have come up with a better exploitation style title! According to Sam Sherman, who worked for Hemisphere, this was a “gimmick picture from the word go”, which you can see right away when a prologue starts and you can take the “Oath of the Green Blood”. During its run at the drive-ins, little packets of green gel-like substances were passed out so the audience could participate in the Oath. Good old fashion ballyhoo that has nothing to do with the actual film, but who cares. What I wouldn’t give for one of those little packets.
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