Fangs of the Living Dead
Year: 1968
Director: Amando de Ossorio
Written by: Amando de Ossorio
Threat: Vampire
Weapon of Choice: Fire
Based upon: none
Color/B&W/3D: Color
Language: English (dubbed from Spanish)
Country of Origin: Spain
IMDb page: 
Fangs of the Living DeadYear: 1968 Director: Amando de Ossorio Written by: Amando de Ossorio Threat: Vampire Weapon of Choice: Fire Based upon: none Color/B&W/3D: Color Language: English (dubbed from Spanish) Country of Origin: Spain IMDb page: |
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The tyranist's thoughts
I like the variety the European sensibility brings to horror. If it weren't for a slightly different
outlook, we wouldn't have Dario Argento's great films, the recent British wave with movies
like Dog Soldiers and
Shaun of the Dead and many others in between. Still these social horror flicks of the
late '60s and early '70s that mostly came out of Italy (although this one came from Spain) just
don't work for me. The horror just never really materializes and it seems that a lot of them were
made very cheaply and largely without a shooting script.
So a woman who is only 2 weeks from her wedding date, decides to visit the countryside where
she is apparently heir to a castle and the title that comes with it. Once there, her uncle begins
to weave the tale of their inheritance and how some of it involves sucking a little blood once in a
while.
This was better than some of the same sub-genre, although it lacked the gratuitous nudity that
was so common. The story sort of makes sense until about the last half an hour. I suspect the cut
I saw was incomplete to say the least, but I was greatly confused by the ending. The characters
are somewhat interesting and some of the flippant attitude of this kind of movie is lacking in the
places it is usually most annoying.
Not much I can really recommend about this one. It wasn't the worst I've seen, but the ending
made it impossible for me to enjoy it at all.
Posted: February 20, 2006
Total Skulls: 14
| Sequel | ||
| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location |  |
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| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | |
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| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | |
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| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | |
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| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | |
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| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | ||
| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | |
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| Virgin survives | |
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| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | |
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| "It was all a dream" ending | |
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| Unbelievably happy ending | |
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| Unbelievably crappy ending | |
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| What the hell? | |