This is one of those movies that you find while browsing on youtube and think it might be cheesy fun, but soon you realize that you had seen it before and had forgotten about it. It's literally a train-wreck - it happens in slow-motion, then everything grows dark, and when you come to your senses, you have no recollection of the traumatic event.
My God! I saw this movie back when I was like 4 or 5 years old, it must have been 1965 or so. I remember the grave robbing scenes, the guy getting old and the overly dramatic music kinda disturbing me, which is why it stuck with me. I've always wanted to know what it was. Thanks for the memories, Robin.
Some of these original Mexican films are actually terrific gothic horrors. You need to check them out. If you’ve seen every Universal too many times they are a treat. Try El Vampiro or The Witches Mirror
@@robotrix I mean, Spanish is not a hard language to learn at a basic level, and knowing a bit of it is arguably the best second langauge you can have in large parts of the world, the US included. Couple of months with a good self-teaching program will get you to the point where you can at least listen to a film and get the gist of it.
@@richmcgee434 This will sound strange but I grew up in Miami where people would assume you knew Spanish. But there are so many variations and if you used the wrong one (especially back in school) you were in trouble. I'm kind of "allergic"
So, basically all resurrection really requires is a blood transfusion? I also have a million other questions about this movie but I'd rather not break my brain asking them.
I like how the small town police force has a massive map of the entire world taking up one wall of their office. Just how large is their jurisdiction? My favourite actors in dual roles include Danny Shwarzenager in the roles of the twins, Vincent and Julius Benedict. The makeup is so convincing that the two characters look totally different. Also, Stewart Granger is great in the Prisoner of Zendar, as Rudolf Rassendyll and Rudolf V; or Jack Lemmon as Professor Fate, and Crown Prince Frederick Hoepnick, in the Great Race. Oh, not forgetting Peter Sellar's in Dr Strangelove, as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, Merkin Muffley, and Dr. Strangelove.
Marshall, Will, and Holly On a routine expedition Met the greatest earthquake ever known. High on the rapids It struck their tiny raft. And plunged them down a thousand feet below. To the Land of the Lost. To the Land of the Lost. To the Land of the Lost. Love this 70s krofft classic 😊
Watching this I had flashbacks of THE CREEPING TERROR and THE BEAST OF YUKA FLATS. This had to be the third feature at the drive-in , if not hundreds of people would have swarmed the box office demanding their money back. BTW , love the T-Shirt Robin. Are you guys sell it in your merch?
@@DarkCornersReviews Is that what you did, Robin? BTW, what does the Dark Corners Scientific Advisor think about the blood transfusion as a fountain of youth angle?
Just saw the unsubtitled Mexican version in Spanish on RUclips. And it's easier to follow than the Jerry Warren mishmash. The title (Marca del Muerto) refers to the mark of the hangman's noose on the ancestor's neck. If anyone cares.
Favorite actors in Dual roles: Boris Karloff as the twins in "The Black Room" and another pair of twins with Jeremy Irons in David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers"
Jerry Warren was responsible for one of my favourite bad movies The Wild World of Bat Woman. I don't know if it has been covered on this channel but please consider it for a future episode. It's one of those movies I would never have heard of were it not featured on an episode of MST3K. I have the DVD which has both versions and I've watched both an equal amount of times. It's wonderfully weird. 👍👍
Pretty close to the same plot as Shriek Of The Devil, my still unmade follow up film to my equally unmade masterpiece Howl Of The Demon. Maybe I should shelve them both to continue not making Cry Of The Hellspawn?
Oddly, my favorite "actor in a dual role" movie is one with almost the exact same plot, just, you know, good: The Resurrected! Fantastic movie, excellent practical effects, with the great Chris Sarandon (Humperdinck!) playing the scientist and his own mad grave-risen ancestor.
It was one of the better Lovecraft adaptations. Superior to The Haunted Palace version starring Vincent Price. Sorry Mister Price but even you couldn't save that turkey.
One of my favorites is Boris Karloff in The Black Room. I only stumbled over it this year, and I feel that it's one of his best films AND performances, albeit relentlessly bleak.
The Fleshtones dedicated their latest album 'Face of the Screaming Werewolf' to the memory of Jerry Warren and added the quote "Fortune Favors the Bold!" The LP even comes with a werewolf mask!
Saw this a number of years ago and figured it had to be one of the worst of its kind… but years of watching Dark Corners has taught me otherwise 😅 Or as the movie itself said @ 7:01 : _”SO YOU THINK!”_ 😆
I picked this one up as a freebie from Something Weird many moons ago. "This - the house of Malthus - was his house." Hmmm, maybe that's why they called it that. Also got a laugh at the world's most inept cops rushing off and leaving the victim strapped to a table.
HA - how convenient that the first lady never found someone following her suspicious AND happened to be caught right in front of the Doctor's lab so he would not have to carry her far
That was some serious "mood music" when he was going up the stairs, huh? I was waiting for Cheney, Karloff, and Lugosi to be waiting at the top of the stairs, in full regalia!!!
Another classic in the vein of "The Creeping Terror" and "Beast Of Yucca Flats". Who needs dialogue when you can just dub in the voiceover? Interestingly enough, there is an actor in Steven Spielberg's "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" who plays two roles. Vic Tablian plays both the Amazon guide Barranca (killed early in the film) and later as the Monkey Man henchman in Cairo.
"What are your favorite actors in dual roles?" One has to include all the permutations of "The Prisoner of Zenda," especially those with Ronald Coleman, Stewart Granger, and Peter Sellers. Of course, Peter Sellers made a career of playing multiple roles in "Dr. Strangelove," "The Prisoner of Zenda," and "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu." Diana Rigg played Edwina Lionheart and the young man assisting Edward Lionheart's various murders in "Theatre of Blood." Tim Curry played Ma Brackett, Pa Brackett, and Winona Brackett in the "Tales from the Crypt" episode "Death of Some Salesman" (1993). But for me the most impressive tri-role performances go to Martin Sheen as Kraygen, Thomas Miller, and Zorbin the Magnificent in the "Tales from the Crypt" episode "Well Cooked Hams" (1993); physically, Sheen is unrecognizable, but his too distinctive voice gives him away sometimes (though not as Kraygen; as Kraygen he is perfect).
If you enjoyed teh film and you ever get a chance to read the Circus of Dr. Lao (the book the film was based on) I heartily recomend it. It's a very different story, darker and much more satirical. Also quite short, like many older novels, so a low time investment.
John Lithgow in _Raising Cain_ was an amusing train-wreck of a movie that I guess you could call dual roles. It's such a mess it's hard to tell, just like sometimes it's hard to tell if it's a thriller or a comedy.
Don’t blame the Mexcan film makers for what how Jerry Warren took their adopted adequate movies and RUINED them with re-editing, adding scenes from other movies, and adding in bland boring characters and scenes of horror own. There were always added scenes of bland and stupid police detectives whose sleuthing was far behind what the audience and most of the characters knew what was actually happening. They would PAD the movie siting around talking cynically about about irreverent plot points and characters. And I noticed that they would be played by the same 3 or 2 dull actors.
You're quite right about the whole getting blood thing, it would have been far, far easier just to get hold of 'The Spinners'. And at least the girl would get a cup of tea and a biscuit afterwards....
Jerry Warran was an idiot who took competent and good horror movies from Mexico and absolutely ruined them. He would cut out dialogue and instead of translating it, would change it to something else or just leave the scene silent or heavily over narrate it. He would remove important and interesting scenes and replace them with boring and irrelevant scenes of some guys in suits sitting around talking, like as if pretending to be involved, usually repeating stuff that the audience already knows. And it seemed to always be the same dull actors. I think that Warren must really had a very deep spiteful contempt of his audience.
I'm impressed the blood infusion not only restored youth, but fixed a broken neck! For my favorite dual role, I have to go with David Warner, who in Quest of the Delta Knights played at least 3 parts.
Does Patrick Stewart playing both a psychiatrist and the Space Girl count as a dual role when she's possesing him in Lifeforce? I watched that again last night, so it's fresh in my mind. :)
Since you've reminded me of Trek now, do either Jonathan Frakes or William Shatner playing their respective transporter accident clones count as one actor doing two roles? Funny how often that sort of thing happened in that franchise, and there was the weird one-episode transporter fusion character on Voyager too. McCoy's paranoia about that method of travel was 100% justified.
@@richmcgee434 Another thing to take into account is the utter devestation she caused. You saw how much impact the Voyager crew had during the first 7 years of their journey, most of which was positive. Consider the impact they would have had during the next 16 years. Because she lost a few of her friends Janeway went back through time and erased all of that to get the crew home quicker. That's 16 years of historical alteration across the entire quatrant affecting more lives, species and cultures than can be (easily) calculated. That would have been so devestating to the timeline that the only way the Temporal Agents wouldn't have intervened would have been if this had also wiped them from existence. Janeway destroyed the Federation's future. Which explains why Star Trek: Picard was such a shitshow. It also explains why in the original Star Trek series women were not allowed to Captain Starships. The Federation should have stuck to it's guns with this.
After that bit with the medium came to naught, I thought 'never mind. They can go and work for Batwoman.' Having completely forgotten who directed the wild world of...till I saw that title card at the end...
I liked this. I bought it on VHS, 30 years ago. Not the best of course, but I've witnessed a lot worse. Some of these Mexican horror films, aren't too bad☺️!!!
My favorite actor in a duel role is William Shatner in White Comanche. Shatner plays brothers separated shortly after birth: cowboy Johnny Moon and Notah, raised by the Comanches who loves peyote and believes himself to be the Comanche Messiah who will lead them to victory against the white man. It's as ridiculous as it sounds.
I don't even have to take time pondering this one: David Cronenberg's uber-creepy ass masterpiece DEAD RINGERS, wherein the great Jeremy Irons brilliantly portrays identical twin brother gynecologists "Doctors Eliot & Beverly Mantle". That's right, folks---you're given two Jeremies for the price of one. (If only they could've pulled off the same trick with Larry Moe & Curly.) Rather than depicting the lookalike siblings as having psychologically uniform identities---as is regularly the demonstrated case with real life identical twins---he imbues each with his own unique temperament. Thus, Eliot is a charming lady-killing schmoozer while twin Beverly is a shy introvert with a passive nature. It's the emotional interplay between these two differing personalities that sparks the movie's most dramatic turn, when a female patient and love interest of one twin gets drawn into their insular world with ultimately fatal complications ensuing. Though they might well be loath to admit it, the subject of gynecology gives some guys the honest-to-God woozies. I think Cronenberg cleverly (or is it perhaps mean-spiritedly?) plays upon this innate queasiness once he starts goosing the perversity quotient at his movie's midpoint. Increasingly becoming unhinged by profound depression coupled with worsening prescription drug abuse, poor put-upon Beverly manifests weird delusions about "mutant women" with grossly abnormal genitalia (oh yikes! Ouch! Ow!). He seeks out a metallurgical artist who he commissions for a set of grotesquely surreal "gynecological instruments" specially designed for operating on these pitiable mutant females. Soon a drug-addled Dr. Beverly is preparing for a surgery on a fully anesthesitized patient with one of these hellish "medical" tools, while horrified glances are flying back & forth between members of the surgical team. But before the thoroughly disoriented physician can commence the procedure he drops the instrument he's holding on the floor and then collapses atop the patient, where he begins frantically inhaling from her gas mask. So as it used to be said---Too Much. I was already to cite De Palma's SISTERS where Margot Kidder neatly finesses the dual role of separated Siamese twins. But since it's such a classic & so widely viewed, I figured nearly everybody else would be talking about it. Sooooo....
You know horror fans from around the world...even though some of these film are not good, you still give them the benefit of doubt because of our eternal love for the genre. We tend to make the best of it when it can be difficult & find some charm or appeal.
Barbara Streisand. She's Anshel, she's Yentl, she's Anshel, she's Yentl. She never allowed her face to be photographed or filmed from a particular angle because she felt that side was too masculine looking. But she allowed it for filming her scenes as Anshel. So ...Avigdor fell for her masculine side?
if the secret laboratory was so well concealed that the first woman victim was left untouched for 84 years then why in the hell didn't he just ignore the police knocking at the door?
2:42-nobody is going to say anything about the guy in the middle. Weird looking fella. 3:41-I don't think she's going to make it. 4:30-I spoke to soon I guess. Buttons are complicated 5:15-If you didn't know what it was doing then why did you do it?
so basically its a bad version of a mexican version of Charles Dexter Ward People really got to learn to stop resserecting their identical relatives. It never ends well.
Hello, I don't know if you already have done a review on 1971 Dracula vs Frankenstein (AL Adamson)...it's our favorite ridiculous laugh fest..back in late 80's we actually had stoner parties surrounding the watching, reciting lines and trivia of this totally insane flick and we are all huge huge Universal/Hammer Horror fans
You know, my parents' 8mm. Kodachrome vacation home movies were probably better than this maggot-ridden rat-gnawed dried-up booger chunk of shit movie. Though the live narration wasn't any better. At all.
Wow, so the police busted in and carted away the doctor but just left the girl's body there. No need to worry with things like funerals and burials. I wonder if, in the original uncut film, there was a reason stated for it.
It looked like she was in a hidden room, so maybe they didn't know she was there. But one would assume they were arresting him for kidnapping women and draining their blood. 🤷♂
Appears Warren's laziness spilled over to the police force. "We arrested the doc for kidnapping." "Did you find the victim?" "Think she was dead." "Did you recover the body?" "Why?" "...OK. Let's hang him."
I'm not at all sure about this one, but I seem to remember that Rock Madison had a supporting bit or just a cameo in LAST TANGO IN PARIS. Though I could be thinking about something else. Somebody oughta go & look it up.
I wouldn’t expect the walking dead to be at all creative… Malthusian jokes: perhaps better avoided? It would have been funnier if because the blood was from a young woman, the ancestral corpse became female when revived. Oh, well.
Wasn't this guy named Malthus the inspiration for that Dead Kennedys' song "Kill the Poor"? Wait. I think I might have my Malthuses confused. Whatever. Shit. Forget it.
Sometimes you just wanna sit back, relax, and watch Robin’s dark corner of this sick world 🍿
Very often
Testify!
3:07 No one will be seated during the suspenseful "walking up stairs" scene.
That must be the single most dramatic scene of a man casually ascending stairs in cinematic history
Perhaps that scene was scored by a dog?
Ahem, John Huston in 1979's The Visitor would like a word with you.
@@bentilbury2002 -- This sounds like an old Simpsons joke I don't remember.
@@bafflemint8442 -- I'll have to check that out...for comparative purposes, of course.
I'm surprised Rock Madison even allowed his name to be attached to this !
I hear he fired his fictional agent for getting him involved in this mess.
I heard about that agent! His name was Ponsonby Britt. He was also the FICTIONAL Producer for the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon series.
His manager and lawyer Malory Practice, said it was legal and sound......
This is one of those movies that you find while browsing on youtube and think it might be cheesy fun, but soon you realize that you had seen it before and had forgotten about it. It's literally a train-wreck - it happens in slow-motion, then everything grows dark, and when you come to your senses, you have no recollection of the traumatic event.
I've had dates like that.
Can't get enough of these Rock Madison movies.
My God! I saw this movie back when I was like 4 or 5 years old, it must have been 1965 or so. I remember the grave robbing scenes, the guy getting old and the overly dramatic music kinda disturbing me, which is why it stuck with me. I've always wanted to know what it was. Thanks for the memories, Robin.
My favorite movie with an actor playing a dual role would be Bette Davis in "Dead Ringer" (1964) playing twin sisters. Terrific thriller.
Absolutely! She was AMAZING in that!
Some of these original Mexican films are actually terrific gothic horrors. You need to check them out. If you’ve seen every Universal too many times they are a treat. Try El Vampiro or The Witches Mirror
Yeah - and even this movie has a lot of interesting visuals.
Mexican cinema in general is full of wonders and amazement for Dark Corners viewers.
In addition to those two, I'll add Curse of the Crying Woman.
It's just finding them with subs or dubbing that's the problem
@@robotrix I mean, Spanish is not a hard language to learn at a basic level, and knowing a bit of it is arguably the best second langauge you can have in large parts of the world, the US included. Couple of months with a good self-teaching program will get you to the point where you can at least listen to a film and get the gist of it.
@@richmcgee434 This will sound strange but I grew up in Miami where people would assume you knew Spanish. But there are so many variations and if you used the wrong one (especially back in school) you were in trouble. I'm kind of "allergic"
So, basically all resurrection really requires is a blood transfusion? I also have a million other questions about this movie but I'd rather not break my brain asking them.
I like how the small town police force has a massive map of the entire world taking up one wall of their office. Just how large is their jurisdiction?
My favourite actors in dual roles include Danny Shwarzenager in the roles of the twins, Vincent and Julius Benedict. The makeup is so convincing that the two characters look totally different.
Also, Stewart Granger is great in the Prisoner of Zendar, as Rudolf Rassendyll and Rudolf V; or Jack Lemmon as Professor Fate, and Crown Prince Frederick Hoepnick, in the Great Race. Oh, not forgetting Peter Sellar's in Dr Strangelove, as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, Merkin Muffley, and Dr. Strangelove.
Marshall, Will, and Holly
On a routine expedition
Met the greatest earthquake ever known.
High on the rapids
It struck their tiny raft.
And plunged them down a thousand feet below.
To the Land of the Lost.
To the Land of the Lost.
To the Land of the Lost.
Love this 70s krofft classic 😊
What about Uncle Jack???
I literally just got the nod in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back with Federal Wildlife Marshal Willenholly. :)
@@thrashpondopons8348 No Uncle freaking Jack. Seasons 1 and 2 only.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah Dark Corners! Thank you for all the fun videos this year! Love being exposed to these films
Watching this I had flashbacks of THE CREEPING TERROR and THE BEAST OF YUKA FLATS. This had to be the third feature at the drive-in , if not hundreds of people would have swarmed the box office demanding their money back. BTW , love the T-Shirt Robin. Are you guys sell it in your merch?
You deserve some sort of endurance award for sitting through this garbage. Duel roles? Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers, astounding.
Honestly you can watch most of this film on fast forward.
@@DarkCornersReviews I´m sure. Love your work, thanks.
@@DarkCornersReviews Is that what you did, Robin? BTW, what does the Dark Corners Scientific Advisor think about the blood transfusion as a fountain of youth angle?
Just saw the unsubtitled Mexican version in Spanish on RUclips. And it's easier to follow than the Jerry Warren mishmash. The title (Marca del Muerto) refers to the mark of the hangman's noose on the ancestor's neck. If anyone cares.
I quite enjoyed La Casa del Terror which was edited into Face of the Screaming Werewolf.
"Why, I'm descended from Robert Wagner!" LOL ...and your acting is just as Natalie Wooden!
Fernando Casanova has to be one of the greatest names ever, and here I was already loving Rock Madison.
Favorite actors in Dual roles: Boris Karloff as the twins in "The Black Room" and another pair of twins with Jeremy Irons in David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers"
Jerry Warren was responsible for one of my favourite bad movies The Wild World of Bat Woman. I don't know if it has been covered on this channel but please consider it for a future episode. It's one of those movies I would never have heard of were it not featured on an episode of MST3K. I have the DVD which has both versions and I've watched both an equal amount of times. It's wonderfully weird. 👍👍
We have indeed covered it. ruclips.net/video/qx5ouTMstcI/видео.html
Love the shirt. It reminds me to keep an eye on my kids (especially around the garden tools). You just never know.
Especially trowels. In close quarters they can be even deadlier than a machete, ax, or chainsaw.
Pretty close to the same plot as Shriek Of The Devil, my still unmade follow up film to my equally unmade masterpiece Howl Of The Demon. Maybe I should shelve them both to continue not making Cry Of The Hellspawn?
I'm wondering if the original film in Spanish with English subtitles is good? Some of the cinematography looks quite beautiful.
It's on YouTue and yeah it is worth checking out. This Jerry Warren edit seems godawful and incoherent.
My favorite dual role is probably Divine in the original Hairspray. It's one that sincerely didn't even occur to me until I saw the end credits.
My favourite dual-role performance is Arnold Schwarzenegger playing Quaid and Hauser in Total Recall.
Oddly, my favorite "actor in a dual role" movie is one with almost the exact same plot, just, you know, good: The Resurrected! Fantastic movie, excellent practical effects, with the great Chris Sarandon (Humperdinck!) playing the scientist and his own mad grave-risen ancestor.
It was one of the better Lovecraft adaptations. Superior to The Haunted Palace version starring Vincent Price. Sorry Mister Price but even you couldn't save that turkey.
One of my favorites is Boris Karloff in The Black Room. I only stumbled over it this year, and I feel that it's one of his best films AND performances, albeit relentlessly bleak.
The Fleshtones dedicated their latest album 'Face of the Screaming Werewolf' to the memory of Jerry Warren and added the quote "Fortune Favors the Bold!"
The LP even comes with a werewolf mask!
Was the mask better than the one in the film? I guess it couldn't be worse...
@@richmcgee434 it's a cardboard mask like the kind you get in a cereal box back in the day.
The music video for the title track is miles better than the movie
Rock Madison, who we last DIDN'T see in...
That line has me in bits every time I hear it🤣🤣
My Mom loves loves Hayley Mills performances in The Parent Trap.
This is a "MAD LIBS" movie before such a thing existed.
"Where did _SHE_ come from!"
...meow, Robin
Love the T Shirt Robin .... that was a fun review, not seen this one.
You can buy it here www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/21485614-night-of-the-living-dead?ref_id=26415
Saw this a number of years ago and figured it had to be one of the worst of its kind… but years of watching Dark Corners has taught me otherwise 😅
Or as the movie itself said @ 7:01 : _”SO YOU THINK!”_ 😆
I picked this one up as a freebie from Something Weird many moons ago. "This - the house of Malthus - was his house." Hmmm, maybe that's why they called it that. Also got a laugh at the world's most inept cops rushing off and leaving the victim strapped to a table.
HA - how convenient that the first lady never found someone following her suspicious AND happened to be caught right in front of the Doctor's lab so he would not have to carry her far
That was some serious "mood music" when he was going up the stairs, huh? I was waiting for Cheney, Karloff, and Lugosi to be waiting at the top of the stairs, in full regalia!!!
Another classic in the vein of "The Creeping Terror" and "Beast Of Yucca Flats". Who needs dialogue when you can just dub in the voiceover?
Interestingly enough, there is an actor in Steven Spielberg's "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" who plays two roles. Vic Tablian plays both the Amazon guide Barranca (killed early in the film) and later as the Monkey Man henchman in Cairo.
The film has a cheap look but still manages some atmosphere- I wonder if it is any better in Spanish?
"What are your favorite actors in dual roles?" One has to include all the permutations of "The Prisoner of Zenda," especially those with Ronald Coleman, Stewart Granger, and Peter Sellers. Of course, Peter Sellers made a career of playing multiple roles in "Dr. Strangelove," "The Prisoner of Zenda," and "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu." Diana Rigg played Edwina Lionheart and the young man assisting Edward Lionheart's various murders in "Theatre of Blood." Tim Curry played Ma Brackett, Pa Brackett, and Winona Brackett in the "Tales from the Crypt" episode "Death of Some Salesman" (1993). But for me the most impressive tri-role performances go to Martin Sheen as Kraygen, Thomas Miller, and Zorbin the Magnificent in the "Tales from the Crypt" episode "Well Cooked Hams" (1993); physically, Sheen is unrecognizable, but his too distinctive voice gives him away sometimes (though not as Kraygen; as Kraygen he is perfect).
'The Dark Corner of Boxing Day - perfect!
7 Faces of Dr Lao with Tony Randall. He played all 7 roles.
If you enjoyed teh film and you ever get a chance to read the Circus of Dr. Lao (the book the film was based on) I heartily recomend it. It's a very different story, darker and much more satirical. Also quite short, like many older novels, so a low time investment.
John Lithgow in _Raising Cain_ was an amusing train-wreck of a movie that I guess you could call dual roles. It's such a mess it's hard to tell, just like sometimes it's hard to tell if it's a thriller or a comedy.
A lot of De Palma's thrillers border on the ridiculous
Don’t blame the Mexcan film makers for what how Jerry Warren took their adopted adequate movies and RUINED them with re-editing, adding scenes from other movies, and adding in bland boring characters and scenes of horror own. There were always added scenes of bland and stupid police detectives whose sleuthing was far behind what the audience and most of the characters knew what was actually happening. They would PAD the movie siting around talking cynically about about irreverent plot points and characters. And I noticed that they would be played by the same 3 or 2 dull actors.
You're quite right about the whole getting blood thing, it would have been far, far easier just to get hold of 'The Spinners'. And at least the girl would get a cup of tea and a biscuit afterwards....
Jerry Warran was an idiot who took competent and good horror movies from Mexico and absolutely ruined them. He would cut out dialogue and instead of translating it, would change it to something else or just leave the scene silent or heavily over narrate it. He would remove important and interesting scenes and replace them with boring and irrelevant scenes of some guys in suits sitting around talking, like as if pretending to be involved, usually repeating stuff that the audience already knows. And it seemed to always be the same dull actors. I think that Warren must really had a very deep spiteful contempt of his audience.
At 3:35 was anybody else tempted to say "Put the candle back!"
I'm impressed the blood infusion not only restored youth, but fixed a broken neck!
For my favorite dual role, I have to go with David Warner, who in Quest of the Delta Knights played at least 3 parts.
I was shock when I heard that the old man in "Suspiria" was Tilda Swinton.
Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland in Don't Start the Revolution Without Me
I love that movie! They were hilarious.
Does Patrick Stewart playing both a psychiatrist and the Space Girl count as a dual role when she's possesing him in Lifeforce? I watched that again last night, so it's fresh in my mind. :)
Since you've reminded me of Trek now, do either Jonathan Frakes or William Shatner playing their respective transporter accident clones count as one actor doing two roles?
Funny how often that sort of thing happened in that franchise, and there was the weird one-episode transporter fusion character on Voyager too. McCoy's paranoia about that method of travel was 100% justified.
@@richmcgee434 Ah, Tuvix. Which posed the question: Did Janeway murder an innocent man to bring back 2 of her friends? (She absolutely did.)
@@cord113 100% true. Janeway's a stone cold killer.
@@richmcgee434 Another thing to take into account is the utter devestation she caused. You saw how much impact the Voyager crew had during the first 7 years of their journey, most of which was positive. Consider the impact they would have had during the next 16 years. Because she lost a few of her friends Janeway went back through time and erased all of that to get the crew home quicker. That's 16 years of historical alteration across the entire quatrant affecting more lives, species and cultures than can be (easily) calculated. That would have been so devestating to the timeline that the only way the Temporal Agents wouldn't have intervened would have been if this had also wiped them from existence. Janeway destroyed the Federation's future. Which explains why Star Trek: Picard was such a shitshow.
It also explains why in the original Star Trek series women were not allowed to Captain Starships. The Federation should have stuck to it's guns with this.
After that bit with the medium came to naught, I thought 'never mind. They can go and work for Batwoman.' Having completely forgotten who directed the wild world of...till I saw that title card at the end...
@7:28, a surprising cameo by Ethel Merman!
I liked this. I bought it on VHS, 30 years ago. Not the best of course, but I've witnessed a lot worse. Some of these Mexican horror films, aren't too bad☺️!!!
My favorite actor in a duel role is William Shatner in White Comanche. Shatner plays brothers separated shortly after birth: cowboy Johnny Moon and Notah, raised by the Comanches who loves peyote and believes himself to be the Comanche Messiah who will lead them to victory against the white man. It's as ridiculous as it sounds.
I liked Tom Hollander playing the three WW1 kings in The King's Man
I have this on DVD , and am properly ashamed.
When I die, I want one of those spring loaded coffin lids 😂
I'm partial to Cliff DeYoung's dual roles in _Shock Treatment_ personally.
Hahah I thought I recognized the music! It’s also used in the movie “the video dead”
I don't even have to take time pondering this one: David Cronenberg's uber-creepy ass masterpiece DEAD RINGERS, wherein the great Jeremy Irons brilliantly portrays identical twin brother gynecologists "Doctors Eliot & Beverly Mantle". That's right, folks---you're given two Jeremies for the price of one. (If only they could've pulled off the same trick with Larry Moe & Curly.) Rather than depicting the lookalike siblings as having psychologically uniform identities---as is regularly the demonstrated case with real life identical twins---he imbues each with his own unique temperament. Thus, Eliot is a charming lady-killing schmoozer while twin Beverly is a shy introvert with a passive nature. It's the emotional interplay between these two differing personalities that sparks the movie's most dramatic turn, when a female patient and love interest of one twin gets drawn into their insular world with ultimately fatal complications ensuing.
Though they might well be loath to admit it, the subject of gynecology gives some guys the honest-to-God woozies. I think Cronenberg cleverly (or is it perhaps mean-spiritedly?) plays upon this innate queasiness once he starts goosing the perversity quotient at his movie's midpoint. Increasingly becoming unhinged by profound depression coupled with worsening prescription drug abuse, poor put-upon Beverly manifests weird delusions about "mutant women" with grossly abnormal genitalia (oh yikes! Ouch! Ow!). He seeks out a metallurgical artist who he commissions for a set of grotesquely surreal "gynecological instruments" specially designed for operating on these pitiable mutant females. Soon a drug-addled Dr. Beverly is preparing for a surgery on a fully anesthesitized patient with one of these hellish "medical" tools, while horrified glances are flying back & forth between members of the surgical team. But before the thoroughly disoriented physician can commence the procedure he drops the instrument he's holding on the floor and then collapses atop the patient, where he begins frantically inhaling from her gas mask. So as it used to be said---Too Much.
I was already to cite De Palma's SISTERS where Margot Kidder neatly finesses the dual role of separated Siamese twins. But since it's such a classic & so widely viewed, I figured nearly everybody else would be talking about it. Sooooo....
You know horror fans from around the world...even though some of these film are not good, you still give them the benefit of doubt because of our eternal love for the genre. We tend to make the best of it when it can be difficult & find some charm or appeal.
Barbara Streisand. She's Anshel, she's Yentl, she's Anshel, she's Yentl.
She never allowed her face to be photographed or filmed from a particular angle because she felt that side was too masculine looking. But she allowed it for filming her scenes as Anshel.
So ...Avigdor fell for her masculine side?
if the secret laboratory was so well concealed that the first woman victim was left untouched for 84 years then why in the hell didn't he just ignore the police knocking at the door?
Nice KAREN T-Shirt!
2:42-nobody is going to say anything about the guy in the middle. Weird looking fella.
3:41-I don't think she's going to make it.
4:30-I spoke to soon I guess. Buttons are complicated
5:15-If you didn't know what it was doing then why did you do it?
Tom Hardy playing the Kray brothers, British gangsters in the sixties London. The make-up was quite good.
Thanks, Robin!
I must the the 100th to say "Please don't tell me this is Peter Thiel's favourite movie!"
so basically its a bad version of a mexican version of Charles Dexter Ward
People really got to learn to stop resserecting their identical relatives. It never ends well.
Love the shirt.
Hello, I don't know if you already have done a review on 1971 Dracula vs Frankenstein (AL Adamson)...it's our favorite ridiculous laugh fest..back in late 80's we actually had stoner parties surrounding the watching, reciting lines and trivia of this totally insane flick and we are all huge huge Universal/Hammer Horror fans
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@Dark Corners Reviews hahaha. Love it ty
Great job, as always! Peace
Favorite Dual Role? I hate to be politically incorrect, but.... George Hamilton in Zorro, the Gay Blade was always hilarious to me.
THE NIGHT STRANGLER did a similar story much, much better. Then again, MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE was better, too.
You know, my parents' 8mm. Kodachrome vacation home movies were probably better than this maggot-ridden rat-gnawed dried-up booger chunk of shit movie. Though the live narration wasn't any better. At all.
non stop quality. thank you
reminds me a lot of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
This really could have used John Carradine and Katherine Victor.
I only recommend watching Jerry Warren movies if one if suffering from a very severe case of insomnia.
For dual roles Ernest. Ernest goes to jail.
So...who else hits the like button b4 Robin even starts talking? Roflmfao!
I don't remember seeing a film with voice over during actual dialogue. Weird.
How were the police able to catch Dr. Morphus so fast?
No police unions in 1880, I'm guessing.
Wow, so the police busted in and carted away the doctor but just left the girl's body there. No need to worry with things like funerals and burials. I wonder if, in the original uncut film, there was a reason stated for it.
It looked like she was in a hidden room, so maybe they didn't know she was there. But one would assume they were arresting him for kidnapping women and draining their blood. 🤷♂
Appears Warren's laziness spilled over to the police force.
"We arrested the doc for kidnapping."
"Did you find the victim?"
"Think she was dead."
"Did you recover the body?"
"Why?"
"...OK. Let's hang him."
@@KasumiKenshirou That's a quite reasonable assumption.
How many films didn't Rock Madison star in?
IMDB admits it's a "hoax name", but does list two uses. This film and "Man Beast" from 1956.
Gives a short history.
I'm not at all sure about this one, but I seem to remember that Rock Madison had a supporting bit or just a cameo in LAST TANGO IN PARIS. Though I could be thinking about something else. Somebody oughta go & look it up.
How many films didn't Alan Smithy produce?
@earlleeruhf3130 don't know but it was any more the Rock,Alan was a schizophrenic he had so many per
Personalities
It's the Spanish version of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
Yep.
Love. Love. Love the TSHIRT
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@@DarkCornersReviews You'll wash and iron it first though, right?
@@cord113 Uh uh. No, he won't.
Rock Madison - when Stone Jefferson is too pricey for a cheap horror film!!!
If it is a juvenile lead role, you can't go far wrong with Pebble Lincoln.
@@euansmith3699 Perhaps Boulder Roosevelt!!!
@@euansmith3699 Yes. Love 'em.
Remember him with Boulder Adams?
Great opening, sunk under it's own weight!
@@ashleys9397 Ahhh... Yes, teacher.
(granite grant hee-hee)!
I wouldn’t expect the walking dead to be at all creative…
Malthusian jokes: perhaps better avoided?
It would have been funnier if because the blood was from a young woman, the ancestral corpse became female when revived. Oh, well.
Like "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde" (1971)?
Wasn't this guy named Malthus the inspiration for that Dead Kennedys' song "Kill the Poor"? Wait. I think I might have my Malthuses confused. Whatever. Shit. Forget it.
Seems likely it’s based on H.P. Lovecraft’s story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Watch The Resurrected instead though!
Too lazy to dub. That is a new low.
Jack's Back with James Spader was identical twins. End of the first act surprised me.
I think I saw Rock Madison at the seance!
barbara steele in nightmare castle
My mother & I just watch this within the last week on Tubi TV. I'm drawn to crappy movies like moths to a flame.
Nooo, he's descended from Glenn Ford!
Jerry Warren is a genius, for all the wrong reasons..🤣
This is ironic because I just ended up with, and watched, this piece of crap last week. LOUSY and LAZY sums it all up succinctly.
I'm changing my name to Rock Madison
I liked _Night of the Black Lagoon_ better.
Honestly I don't think this movie would make much sense in spanish either.