Il Caso Valdemar
This 1936 Italian short is totally silent (though it would certainly be more effective with the right music) There are no title cards( though you see the doctor's notes every so often) but the movie's...
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Imaginatively staged and well lit. Thanks for letting us see it, HNicolella.
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Yeah, I have this downloaded.The end sure puts Corman's chocolate scene to shame.
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Wow! This made me think of Zombie Flesh Eaters.... years ahead of its time! Is the 1936 date definite? I'm a bit dubious given it's silent and the doctor's notes seem to say 1928. Plus didn't Italy...
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ZUUL wrote: Is the 1936 date definite? I'm a bit dubious given it's silent and the doctor's notes seem to say 1928. Plus didn't Italy ban horror films before this point? (Given the oft-quoted remark...
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Rick wrote:If I'm right about its amateur status, that could explain how it might fly under Mussolini's ban on horror. Anyway that's my theory at least until Doctor Kiss arrives and blows it all to...
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Thank you, Doctor Kiss. I expected you to find something on this, but you went the extra mile. Lotsa great information there. Now I have to watch that TELL TALE HEART. And, yes, I'm very glad to be...
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One slight correction, which only demonstrates further that cinema and artistic production under fascist regimes are always riven by contradictions; the gore-tastic IL CASO VALDEMAR did in fact get...
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Thanks for shedding light on that one, guys - and that 'Tell-tale Heart' movie was fantastic!
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Having now watched both of these amateur silent shorts, it seems clear to me that VALDEMAR is much more successful than TELL-TALE HEART. Obviously both of them are extremely low-budget and sort of...
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It's true TELL-TALE HEART is probably not a good idea to do as a silent movie, but I loved the camera angles and the framing - and the general ambiance of the thing which matched the tone of the...
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I haven't watched TELL yet but VALDEMAR was definitely inspired by German Expressionism.
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Just in case anyone hasn't seen the solid little Schildkraut version:
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