Episode 416: Daughters of Darkness (1971)

Special Guest: Danielle Ouimet
Guest Co-Hosts: Kat Ellinger, Heather Drain

It seemed a fairly ordinary night when Stefan (John Karlen) and his wife Valerie (Danielle Ouimet), two young, normal, healthy kids on their honeymoon. They stop in Belgium on their alleged way to England where they check into a nearly abandoned hotel. There they encounter the mysterious Countess Bathory (Delphine Seyrig) and her assistant Ilona (Andrea Rau). From there, some strange things start to happen in Harry Kümel's Daughters of Darkness (1971).

Kat Ellinger -- author of the Devil's Advocates book on Daughters of Darkness -- and Heather Drain join Mike to discuss lesbian vampires, Blood and Roses, The Velvet Vampire, and more.

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Links:
Buy Daughters of Darkness on Blu-Ray

Music:
"Accident Et Cymbalum" - François de Roubaix
"Daughters Of Darkness Opening" - François de Roubaix

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Episode 387: The Mr. Vampire Series

Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, El Goro

Released in 1985, the original Mr. Vampire was directed by Ricky Lau and stars Lam Ching Ying as a Taoist priest who battles the forces of evil along with his two inept students. This became a blueprint for dozens of other films -- some of them under the Mr. Vampire moniker and others not. We discuss the “official” Mr. Vampire movies as well as the unofficial entries, some copycat films, and many other jiangshi movies along the way.

Samm Deighan (Daughters of Darkness) and El Goro (Talk Without Rhythm) join Mike to discuss all manner of hopping vampires, beautiful ghosts, bad subtitles, and Taoist magic. Get your sticky rice ready!

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Movies Discussed

Movie Title	Chinese Title	Year
Mr. Vampire	Geung si sin sang	1985
Mr. Vampire 2	Jiang shi jia zu: Jiang shi xian sheng xu ji	1986
Mr Vampire 3	Ling huan xian sheng	1987
Mr. Vampire Saga	Jiang shi shu shu	1988
Shy Spirit	Pa xiu gui	1988
Vampire vs. Vampire	Yi mei dao ren	1989
Magic Cop	Qu mo jing cha	1990
The Ultimate Vampire	Jiang shi zhi zun	1991
Crazy Safari	Fei zhou he shang	1991
Mad Mad Ghost	Huang jin dao shi	1992
Mr. Vampire 1992	Xin jiang shi xian sheng	1992
The Musical Vampire	Yin yue jiang shi	1992
Exorcist Master	Qu mo dao zhang	1993
Vampire Expert	Geung Si Dou Cheung	1995
Rigor Mortis	Geung si	2014

Links:
Get an amazing Mr. Vampire t-shirt from Shelf Life clothing
Read Hopping Vampires and the Unibrowed Priest Who Hates Them by Wes Black

Music:
"Mr. Vampire OST Guitar Cover" - TK Viper
"Mr. Vampire" - Glen Porter

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Episode 342: Happy End (1966)

Guest Co-Hosts: Ben Buckingham, Kat Ellinger

We wrap up the first Czechtember series with a film from director Oldřich Lipský, 1966's Happy End, an experimental comedy (which is as unusual as that sounds) that puts shots in opposite order and runs motion backward from the death of our main character (Vladimír Menšík) while he gives the voice-over account of life from birth. Of course, this provides us with constant ironic juxtapositions.

The film was co-written by Lipský and Milos Macourek, the screenwriter behind some of the best comedies out of Czechoslovakia in the '60s and '70s.

Kat Ellinger and Ben Buckingham join Mike to discuss Happy End and other favorite Czech comedies.

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Links:
Buy Happy End on DVD-R
Buy Lemonade Joe on DVD
Buy other Oldrich Lipsky films
Learn more about the Memorial Hall of Lipský Family
Visit the Czech & Slovak Film Festival of Australia website
Visit the official Diabolique magazine website
Order Kat Ellinger's Daughters of Darkness episode
Listen to the Hells Belles podcast

Music:
"I Just Can't Be Happy Today" - The Damned

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Episode 341: The Cremator (1968)

Guest Co-Host: Samm Deighan

Czechtember continues with a look at Juraj Herz's The Cremator (AKA Spalovac mrtvol). Released in 1968, the year of the Prague Spring, the film stars Rudolf Hrusínský as Karl (or Roman) Kopfrkingl, a man dedicated to the idea of liberating the soul from the body through the practice of cremation.

Samm Deighan joins Mike to discuss collaborators and the madness that gripped the world in the 1930s and '40s.

Update: Second Run is putting out The Cremator on Blu-Ray which features commentary by Kat Ellinger, an essay by Daniel Bird, and this episode of The Projection Booth.

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Links:
Buy The Cremator on Blu-Ray (includes this episode as a bonus feature)
Buy The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks
Watch This Way to the Cooling Chambers: Making The Cremator
Keep up with Samm Dieghan at Diabolique Magazine

Music:
"Mili's Carousel (Lovely Acrobatics)" - Zdeněk Liška
"A Well-Respected Man" - The Kinks

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Episode 331: The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

Guest Co-Hosts: Ken Stanley, Samm Deighan

Peter Greenaway's The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989) tells the tale of Albert Spica (Michael Gambon), a monstrous gangster putting on airs as a gourmand. This loutish brute is the co-owner of a restaurant where he, his wife Georgina (Helen Mirren) and his crew are regulars. Also a frequent patron at the restaurant is Michael (Alan Howard), a book dealer who is secretly Georgina’s lover.

Samm Deighan and Ken Stanley join Mike to discuss this controversial film as well as Greenaway's other work.

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Links:
Buy The Cook, Cook The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover on Blu-Ray
Buy Peter Greenaway's Postmodern / Poststructuralist Cinema Paperback edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi and Mary Alemany-Galway
Buy Peter Greenaway: Interviews edited by Vernon Gras and Marguerite Gras
Buy Peter Greenaway: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover by Peter Greenaway
Visit The Cinematic Endeavors of Peter Greenaway
Visit Luperpedia Foundation
Hear more from Samm Deighan at Daughters of Darkness
Hear more from Ken at Ken's Loud Band

Music:
"Book Depository" - Michael Nyman
"I Eat Cannibals" - Total Coelo

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Special Report: Nineteen Eighty Four (1984)

Special Guest: Michael Radford
Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, Emily Intravia

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we discuss Michael Radford's 1984 version of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four starring John Hurt as Winston Smith, Suzanna Hamilton as Julia, and Richard Burton as O'Brien.

Emily Intravia of the Feminine Critique podcast and Samm Deighan of the Daughters of Darkness podcast join Mike to discuss Radford's 1984 as well as several other TV and film adaptations from the 1950s.

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Links:
Buy Michael Radford's 1984 on DVD
Read 1984 by George Orwell
Buy Michael Anderson's 1984 on DVD
Buy V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Listen to the Daughters of Darkness podcast
Listen to the Feminine Critique podcast

Music:
"Oceania, 'Tis For Thee" - Dominic Muldowney
"Anthem 1984" - Anthony Phillips
"1984" - David Bowie
"1984" - Rick Wakeman
"Standards" - The Jam

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Episode 298: Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Special Guest: Stephen D. Youngkin
Guest Co-Hosts: Maitland McDonagh, Samm Deighan

Directed by Boris Ingster with a screenplay by Frank Partos , Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) defines the stylistic conventions that would come to be known as film noir. The movie stars John McGuire as a hot shot reporter and Margaret Tallichet as his best gal (who eventually becomes the protagonist). He's framed for a murder committed by the man only known as "The Stranger" (Peter Lorre).

Maitland McDonagh and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss this first entry in the film noir pantheon as well as what it helped spawn. Author Stephen D. Youngkin joins the program to talk about the captivating Peter Lorre.

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Links:
Buy Stranger on the Third Floor on DVD
Buy The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen D. Youngkin
Buy books from Maitland McDonagh
Hear more from Samm Deighan on the Daughters of Darkness podcast
Visit the Diabolique Magazine website

Music:
"Peter Lorre" - The Jazz Butcher

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