News and Notes from William Hopkins, Indie Filmmaker in NYC: Vincent Price

Thursday, February 10, 2022

WILLIAM CASTLE'S CAMP HORROR: Gimmicks, Ghosts & Vincent Price

1959 was a banner year for Hollywood Gimmick King, William Castle. That was the year he broke out his vibrating chairs and flying skeletons to promote two of his most entertaining productions: HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL and THE TINGLER, both starring horror great, Vincent Price.

Along with the falling chandeliers, acid pits and bathtubs of blood, the films feature stylish performances, witty dialog and some of the wackiest plots ever commited to film. Filmmaker William Hopkins (Demon Resurrection, Sleepless Nights) joins APFB hosts Carey Vickers and Aaron Poe in this affectionate look back at Castle's camp classics.

Abundant spoilers in this episode.

Other films mentioned in this episode include: The Maltese Falcon (1941), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Witchfinder General (1968), Psycho (1960), 13 Ghosts (1960), Bug (1975) Shanks (1974), The Innocents (1961), And Then There Were None (1945), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Rear Window (1954) and, Columbo: Lovely But Lethal (1973)

Edited by William Hopkins.

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Friday, May 9, 2014

Sex Gore Mutants Reviews DEMON RESURRECTION

In his review of DEMON RESURRECTION, Stuart Willis of the UK's Sex Gore Mutants website has several nice things to say about the film. Some excerpts...

"A carefully paced, impressively escalated journey into gory zombie mayhem ... [with] some keen forays into worlds of the supernatural and inner-group paranoia....

When the gore comes, it's lurid and crusty - as is the undead make-up - and all the better for it.... There is, however, also style in evidence. Hopkins clearly has an eye for camp colour schemes, lending the film a theatrical element which brings to mind the cinema of Vincent Price in the late 60s and early 70s. The ageless theme of good versus evil gets a convincing ride out here too, a game cast and literate screenplay (making reference to Cthulhu, no less) both being too wise to sink into the mire that sullies most soulless modern horror efforts....

Even the violence, gory though it is (neck and belly stabbings, bloody births, zombie carnage) is so clearly fashioned on fantastical Italian horror films of yore that it too raises DEMON RESURRECTION above the torture-porn bores that account for 90% of today's entry level genre releases.... I maintain one thing: your appreciation of this fine film will rely heavily on your tolerance of its lo-fi aesthetics. Go with it."

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http://www.sexgoremutants.co.uk/reviews/demresfr.html

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Thanks, Stuart!