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The Vampires of 1960: A 50th Anniversary Photo Retrospective
1960 was a blood-red year for the vampire’s kith and kin, with over a half-dozen variations on the theme: some old school, some modern; some ugly, some sexy; some classic, some camp. In short, there such a rich diversity of undead revenants and blood-drinking monsters that it is hard to generalize; you have to take each on on its own terms. Here then is a Photographic Retrospective of the Vampires of 1960.
Blood and Roses: A Celebration of 1960 Review
I didn’t see BLOOD AND ROSES when it was originally released; I first encountered it while reading early books on genre films, where it was mentioned very favorably, and I was particularly haunted by the image of a man in a bat-mask with spread wings bending over a beautiful woman, which appeared in the book The [...]
Sinister Image: The Karnstein Ultimatum
BLOOD AND ROSES remains unavailable on DVD, in either its American or original French versions.
I first saw BLOOD AND ROSES at the Crest Theater in Sacramento in the summer of 1960. The city was suffering from a month-long heat wave the afternoon I entered the well air-conditioned theater to sit alone in the darkness and [...]
