This series has been one of my better ideas the last few years, perhaps the top one! They do take a while to write up though are enjoyable and think the best thing is that it's opened my eyes to so many things out there. One would be American TV shows and just began on a series I had never heard of. What's also been an eye-opener is discovering how many terrific foreign movies there are and will admit I was getting into a rut with my Japanese movie watches but I still enjoy those the most. You viewers also seem to be enjoying this series of my current watches though would like to see a comment here and there which sadly never happens. It's now August 5th and the goal is to get this published within four days, would be nice to have one of these a week but that may be impossible to do. As usual will lead off with an American show and it's one you may never have thought you'd see here, same goes for me! Have also watched a British horror flick and will also be discussing the second half of the "Gilgamesh" anime series, after that trio unsure what my other watches will be.
EDIT: I often change my mind on what to view and would rather add in newer thoughts than to edit what was written. Put "Gilgamesh" on hold for another post or two as I wanted to watch two more movies. One is Japanese and the other is Italian but that one will also be held back until the next post in this series. I don't want to review more than four things, the format for one TV show and three films seems to be working out okay. At one time those four things may have taken 6-7 posts but keeping the reviews somewhat mini have been able to squeeze those into one post, sure you fans of dramas and movies prefer the shorter reviews. The three films for today all came out between 1966-69, this is another International post as the TV series is from America while the movies are from Mexico, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Whew, tough to top those above photos but will have a batch with another ultra hottie in this post though these days I may the only one who still thinks Hottie is an apt adjective for her! As I was saying in the intro these posts do take a while to write up but these are my favorite posts to do yet will need to liven these up a bit. For instance would be nice to change up the format a bit though this current way seems to have been working out well. What's really needed are more 'Theme Watches' such as I had for Halloween. So will be working on having posts devoted to older Japanese movies, perhaps one just for many American shows plus I need to start digging through my immense backlog of Korean series and those are all from the past two years. You may also see some other countries have a post just featuring films from those places, England, Italy and Mexico are countries which have so many older horror flicks and many of those movies have flown under the radar.
Have been doing well as far as whittling down my pile of American TV shows goes but it'll still be two years to complete those! That's if I don't buy anymore for a while and had done well as the last boxset I bought was at the beginning of March. However ten days ago was at the store and noticed the below TV boxset which was a series I had never heard of. But began talking with a woman customer at the store and asked if she had ever seen it, I usually do buy boxsets on a whim but it being $90 wanted to know if it was worth it. And it was for the woman said it was her husband's all time favorite show, she also was a fan of it and before I had a change of mind scooped the set up and dashed home! And she was correct with that glowing recommendation as "Criminal Minds" has been worth the price so far and how had I never heard of it? The show aired for fifteen seasons, 2005-20, and then took almost two years off. But a continuation of the series began with "Evolution" added to the title and now the show is up to nineteen seasons with a 20th coming up! The boxset I have has seasons one to fifteen and that's plenty as it'll take two years to finish as I still have a few more seasons of "Gunsmoke", "Vampire Diaries", "Babylon Five" and a few others to complete. I never have a problem of not having anything to watch but instead have so many things the problem is what to watch and sometimes it takes so long to make a decision.
The bottom picture above are the main five FBI field agents who often travel to a different American city for each case but in one show they did travel to Mexico to help out on a case. The picture above that shows seven characters who formed the team and all will remain together for season two. A pair of women were added in as the season went along and almost forgot to bring up the main point which is of the team the seven are on. Which is the BAU and is a very important yet small group of the FBI, that acronym stands for Behavioral Analysis Unit. I think most FBI agents work in groups of two except for raids, these seven work as a large team but only five are allowed to take part in the raids were are the group in the bottom picture above. This team of Profilers solves cases in a unique way and they never know who the suspect(s) may be, they dub these unknowns as an Unsub(unknown subject). So the team may investigate a series of gruesome murders where it's an unknown killer, the team looks for clues such as Why, How, When, etc. and from the evidence they gather the team can make a fairly accurate profile of the culprit and so far that's led to a 100% accuracy rate though the endings aren't always happy ones. For by the time the BAU team does solve the cases more crimes or killings have taken place. There was one incident when the team caught a murderer who did confess but before they could arrest him an FBI sniper took him out(!) and that really shook up the team. Even though the team has solved every case it's done in a believable way and it is explained well how they came about coming up with the clues on who a culprit may be. Plus for the most part the characters are likable but two will be leaving at the end of the second season which is probably common for a long running show.
In the picture above that has seven characters will tell you who they all are, in the middle is Jason Gideon who is played by Mandy Patinkin and he's the only actor I had heard of. Jason had left the force for a while after a screw-up where six agents were killed in Boston but was recruited back for this elite BAU group and he's the most knowledgeable as far as profiling goes. Behind his right shoulder is the unit's chief Aaron Hotchner and he's played by Thomas Gibson. He's my favorite male character so far and he's the only one in BAU with a family yet he's rarely at home, it was him who wanted Gideon back on the team. Behind him is Derek Morgan(Shemar Moore) who is quite a likable man, he's the best fighter on the team and also the most handsome as the ladies swoon over him! The final person in that row is the woman wearing glasses and her name is Penelope Garcia(Kirsten Vangsness). She's been on the show since the first episode but finally in the 14th episode she officially joined the BAU team and is such an ace hacker, she's always at a computer and never goes in the field. Behind Gideon's left shoulder is the young agent Spencer Reid who is played by Matthew Gray Gubler. Reid is a 24 year old genius who graduated from high school at the age of twelve and has an IQ of 187, he has five college degrees with three being PHD's. Even though Reid is such a genius he fits in well with the group and at times is indispensable, below are the four male characters together.
Final segment and there's two more characters to tell you about. Behind Reid in that above picture is the female agent Elle Greenaway, that first name is pronounced like the letter L and she's played by the ultra alluring Lola Glaudini. Elle was promoted to a FT agent early on in season one and she can be one tough woman when the situation calls for it and I wouldn't mess with her but she is also very adept at profiling, Lola left after season two and as I said she is so alluring so in the next post for this series will have some sweltering photos of her, she's in the second photo below. Rounding out the team is Jennifer Jareau though everyone calls her JJ, she's played by the very attractive AJ Cook. She too was added to the BAU team after the series began and she's their Communications Liaison, JJ will be with the team when they're in the field but doesn't take part in the raids. So think everything above gives you a decent starting point to what this series is about and I am really liking it so far, so far my success rate with buying TV boxsets on a whim is abut 95% as there's only been one semi-dud to date and actually that series was good for two seasons. I do view a lot of crime, action and mystery shows but think this is the first modern day police drama I've viewed though "Person of Interest" is close to being a police show. I have one more season to go n my rewatch of it and that may be the featured drama in the next post(it will be!). After the pictures is a video that features many short clips from season one to give you an idea of what happens, unlike the DVD it's subbed. **** The bottom two photos feature Amber Heard who was in episode eighteen and played an actress being stalked. Had heard of her but had never seen Amber in a show nor do I think had seen any photos of her! Amber truly made my blood boil in that episode and was aware of her because of the trials she went through some years back. Didn't follow it too closely but don't think Amber was treated too fairly by the judge or her ex-mate who I've always thought is such a creep.
Time for my sixth (El) Santo film and there's only 47 more of these to view! Which will never happen but all six to date have been such fun and entertaining watches, Santo is the one in the grayish mask. Once again he's joined forces with his real life rival Blue Demon in this movie, the pair weren't enemies but back in 1953 Blue Demon beat Santo in a championship match. Santo did get his revenge later on but was still bitter about that defeat and the pair were the most popular Mexican wrestlers from the early 1950's to the mid 70's, both were in the ring even after the age of sixty!!!! This was an 86 minute movie but with a catch as about a dozen minutes were of stock footage. The opening five minutes showed old tapes of wars, protests and what happens when evil tries to conquer the world, with Santo around that's an impossibility! The strangest stock footage was that the sci-fi scenes were lifted from the movies "Godzilla vs. Monster Zero" and "Atragon", how did the staff get away with that? No clue but stock footage used wisely can help a film but it was odd and a tad humorous seeing Japanese insignias on Mexican rockets and fighter planes! Before I forget the title of this 1969 movie was "Santo vs. Blue Demon in Atlantis" though no action took place on that sunken island. A mad Nazi scientist named Hugo Olvrich and his wife have resurfaced in the SW region of America and also have a base on the west coast of Mexico. Olvrich was thought to have died in 1945 and even if alive would be 95 in age. But in those years he developed a formula to make him and his wife fifty years younger, Olvrich has renamed himself Achilles after the Greek god and will be using that name.
Somehow the rockets Achilles built and sent to the Moon(!) went undetected on Earth until he fired one back to the planet and it destroyed a small island near Samoa. Achilles has given every nation in the world ten days to surrender and make him the Emperor of the World, the dream of every fanatic! But in Achilles case it could work as he has plenty of rockets on the Moon, any country that doesn't anoint him as their leader will cease to exist. The screenshots below show what I'm talking about, there was a meeting between the most powerful nations but no solution was found except for perhaps one. There was an American scientist named Gerard who has developed a program to ward off Achille's rockets but the professor/scientist needs a bit more time to work on it. Gerard is agent X-22 for the international GPA spy network, of all things our hero Santo is agent X-21. He's been assigned to guard and help Gerard out, he'll do so after that evening's bout with Blue Demon. In the two films I've see with the pair Blue Demon does seem to be the tougher fighter but it takes more than muscle to take down Santo! In a best 2 out of three match the rivals each had one pin, before the third match Blue Demon's water was spiked, he passed out and before long had been taken hostage by Achille's henchmen, he does have quite a massive army. In pursuit was Santo but couldn't overtake the ambulance Blue Demon was in, he was taken to Achille's underwater lair and the evil Nazi did try to recruit the champion wrestler to no avail. This led to the hypnotizing of Blue Demon and we'll see more of him later on.
Unknown to Santo and the head of GPA the organization has many moles working for Achilles, one named Duval tried to slaughter our hero at his apartment. But not before Duval's other option in the mini blue negligee tried to seduce Santo, that failed but would have worked on me! Santo had trusted Duval so him attacking threw X-21(!) for a loop, Santo ended up throwing him from his tenth floor apartment and the unnamed hottie was killed by an errant Duval shot. Santo then met up with Professor Gerard(X-22) for the first time and in a few days the scientist's invention that will stop Achille's rockets from hitting the Earth will be ready to go. The question is will Santo be there to help his fellow GPA mate out for the top priority of Achilles and his growing army was to eliminate Santo! And the best way was to use his wrestling rival/friend Blue Demon who has been hypnotized, that lab is underground and the only way to reach it is by a sub or scuba diving. Blue Demon did meet up with Santo who was quite leery as the wrestler seemed so different, one of the best scenes was when the pair were grappling in Blue Demon's car and that's in the video below the screenshots. Santo was able to get out of that dangerous situation and soon after Blue Demon was back to his usual self. The GPA organization is sending Santo another agent to work with, her code name was X-25 and she's the blondish woman in two below screenshots. She did save Santo's life while he was sparring with four of Achille's henchmen who had guns, X-25 shot two of them but knowing Santo he would have found a way out. He's the only person to know the whereabouts of Professor Gerard's lab, Santo wouldn't even tell X-25 the location and not sure if Santo started to become a bit suspicious when she pressed him a few times for the information.
Last segment and Santo had a right to be worried as X-25 was also a traitor who switched sides from GPA to Achille's 'Nazi' army. Santo was captured and under a spell did reveal the location of Gerard's lab, soon sent was a clone of Santo to destroy the scientist's invention! I didn't know it was a clone until Santo arrived to take down the evil impersonator but the damage was done, Gerard could only use his rocket blocking device at Achille's lair. By now Blue Demon was fit to go and helped Santo out in this last mission as Gerard was able to get his device working and stopped a rocket from taking off that would have destroyed a country! There was one other traitor but a 'good one' as it was a woman named Juno who had worked for Achilles but was against his evil ways. Thanks to her Achilles was found and killed by Blue Demon but in the process Juno was shot and killed, the movie ended with the HQ of Achilles being blown to smithereens as once again Santo was the savior of Mexico and the World! Every Santo film follows a pattern which is a positive to me and you know how every movie will be which is one that's action packed, interesting and kind of corny! The top screenshot below is from the twenty minute mark and I thought was the best part of the movie. Achille's henchmen had used a Laser Gun on two police officers, slowly their bodies evaporated and wish we had seen those guns used again. There was no trailer for the film so after the screenshots is a video that has a few of the action scenes and they're probably better than any trailer.
I don't do a review for every movie I watch, there's been three in the last two weeks that I haven't reviewed though in the next post may have a quick look at my last watch which was an Italian movie. It's been a while since I last discussed a Japanese film in this series, did just view the 1977 semi-horror flick "House". I thought it was only so-so so decided against talking about it and I do have to leave some movies out of these posts for they're large enough as they are. For today have this very obscure movie from 1968 titled "The Living Skeleton", it wasn't a gory or terrifying movie but I did find it quite enjoyable. I would classify it as a mystery/revenge film and even though it came out in 1968 it was a B&W film, shortly after that year they became very rare but to me I prefer horror/mystery movies in Black and White. The woman above had the lead role in the film and played two characters who were twin sisters. Her name is Kikko Matsuoka who did star in many late 60's films but when the calendar turned to the 70's she only appeared in dramas and retired in in 1978 to raise a family. Kikko was 21 in age for this film but I think her character(s) was about 25 in age, she also was in the 1969 movie "Black Rose Mansion". That's a known film but I've never seen it so will be fixing that problem soon. While not a well known movie this did have a trio of semi-popular actors who I've seen in so many other films. Those three are Ko Nishimura who played Dr. Nishizato, Nobuo Kaneko as Suetsugu and Asao Koike as Tsuji, Kikko played the roles of Saeko(alive) and her twin sister Yoriko(dead).
Want to keep reviews at three paragraphs but seeing as how I used up one and never discussed the film it'll have to be four but that's still much better than I used to do which was two posts for a single movie! No year was given but seeing as how this film came out in late 1968 let's say the opening five minutes were from 1965 as after that the setting was three years later. The screenshots go in order of the action so they do help you follow the story better, when the film opened a small gang of six gangsters/pirates were holding a cruise ship hostage! It was more than a cruise ship as it was carrying millions of yen in gold bullion which the gang took for themselves. But instead of just fleeing the gang tied up the passengers in chains and proceeded to shoot all of them plus raped a woman named Yoriko(Kikko) in front of her husband Dr. Nishizato. They then sank the boat and after a few years the bodies became skeletons, that's where the movie's title came from and there are a few screenshots below of the skeletons. Now it's present day or 1968, what's not too common in Japan are Western(Baptist) churches but that's where our heroine Saeko(Kikko) lives and works though it's not a Nunnery. Also there is her mentor Father Akashi and at the end of the film we learn his real name is Tanuma. We also learned that Akashi coerced Saeko to move from Chiba to the church which seemed to be south of Yokohama. There's one more central figure who is a man named Mochizuki who is about Saeko's age, he runs a small restaurant and bar. He's crazy about Saeko but their relationship has remained platonic but for how much longer(?), Mochizuki is patient but wants to wed his love Saeko much sooner than later!
This was an eighty minute movie which didn't have a lot of horror but was quite creepy. During a date the pair of lovebirds went scuba diving and below is what they discovered, skeletons which appeared to be living but of course they weren't.... or were they? Saeko thought so and the next evening she returned to that location where of all things she found the liner her sister Yoriko died on along with forty others. Saeko was alone and found the captain's log, his final entry was that he was very suspicious of five on board who may want to steal that gold bullion which I mentioned had happened. This 'ship' was real at one time but Saeko was in some hypnotic state which is how she imagined being on the ship but in a way she truly was on the ship and know it sounds confusing. What happened then and more so after this 'dream' sequence ended was that Yoriko's spirit had entered the body of Saeko. The pair were identical twins and Saeko truly believed that made them one person in each of their minds. Through Yoriko's mind Saeko discovered her twin sister had been raped by five men before being killed, the names were imprinted in Saeko's mind as her next task will to get revenge for her murdered and raped sister! There were six men involved in the heist of that gold, they sold it in Hong Kong and each received 500,000 yen. Three years later life was going decent enough for the men though one had disappeared and we never knew what happened to him. One by one the semi-possessed Saeko began her revenge spree on the five and three of the killings are below.
First to be killed was the oldish man Ejiri while taking a shower, two days later Ono was killed on a diving expedition and that was by after those floating skeletons! Third to be killed was Tsuji and from Saeko trailing him we saw that she was actually the ghost of her sister Yoriko! With about twenty minutes to go we learned such a massive surprise which was that the holy Father Akashi was actually the ringleader of the gang and his real name was Tanuma! At his church Tanuma appeared to kill Saeko and put her body into a suit of armor but was she really dead? Perhaps not for after that Tanuma met up with the fifth gang member Suetsugu and against all reasoning the pair's encounter was on the sunken ship! In another huge twist on the ship was the doctor Nishizato who was presumed dead but for three years has been living on the ship conducting experiments to resurrect his wife Yoriko. But looking back on it Nishizato truly was dead as this was a ghost ship so that brings up the question how are Tanuma and Suetsugu on it? The latter died by falling into a puddle of acid, that was courtesy of Nishizato and soon after the leader Tanuma met his fate by the ghost of Yoriko. Justice won out but it was no happy ending, the film concluded with Tanuma's death and I was wondering if somehow Saeko may have survived being strangled by Tanuma at the church. I think she did and that it was the ghost of her twin sister Yoriko who had been killed and perhaps a possible sequel was planned? Bit of a confusing end but mainly writing it up, watching the movie things did fall into place but can't describe every detail in three paragraphs. But all in all this was a compelling movie and being filmed in B&W did help, if you're a fan of older horror flicks such as me then would give this a recommendation. Coming up soon will be the movie mentioned in the first paragraph "Black Rose Mansion" which came out the following year and also starred Kikko Matsuoka. After the screenshots is a trailer for this film followed by this post's final movie review.
That bottom photo is one you see often for this movie and is quite a fabulous picture! However it was just a promo pic and wasn't from a scene in the movie though Barbara Shelley did look quite ravishing. After this mini review will end the post off with another segment for this film but just featuring her. A name I've rarely mentioned in these movie posts is Christopher Lee and you'll be seeing his name quite often in future posts. I've seen him in about a dozen movies but that's just the tip of the iceberg! Have gotten five older Dracula films he starred in and am looking forward to them all as this first one was quite terrific and so much better than I expected. I should have a few of these posts devoted to British horror flicks as there were so many eerie ones from 1955 to the early seventies. Lee starred in at least four more of these Dracula movies that came out between 1970-72, I have them all plus a few other of his films which is why I should have a post or two with British Horror as the theme. On to this film which was released on January 9, 1966 and by the opening four minutes thinking this may have been a slight continuation of another Dracula film. I never give the film's title early enough and often have to come back to add it in, this film has the title of "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" and though Lee had the top billing two others had more screentime, perhaps even three for Lee as Dracula didn't appear until halfway through this 90 minute film. Barbara Shelley had the lead female role playing Helen Kent, she was married to a man named Alan Kent(Charles Tingwell).
The film opened with a very short scene that happened ten years earlier in 1885, the main story will take place in 1895. This short scene showed Count Dracula(Lee) being attacked by Dr Van Helsing, it was a cameo appearance for Peter Cushing. Dracula was destroyed and only his ashes remained but hadn't been cleaned away, more on those later. Now it's 1895 and the setting is the fictional town of Karlsbad which I presume was in Germany. Mentioned the Kent married couple above, also with them was Alan's brother Charles Kent and his adorable wife Diana. The stereotyping of how stuffy the English were(are?) was true here as none of the four were fun to be around and but remember this did take place 130 years ago. The foursome were thinking of visiting the tourist town of Karlsbad and had mentioned that to a priest named Sandor who had entered the pub they were imbibing at. He pleaded with the English visitors to stay away from Karlsbad, especially the castle and instead spend their night(s) at his monastery in Kleinburg. It being a movie the foursome did travel to Karlsbad but their stagecoach driver wouldn't bring them all the way due to the town's curses, as fate would they were dropped near the haunted castle. Of all things five minutes later an empty stage coach passed by and was a life saver as how could they have carried their luggage to wherever? That wherever turned out to be the castle as the horses went there as if they were hypnotized and after dropping the quartet of Kents off..... Helen, Alan, Charles and Diana.... the coach took off with their luggage but an hour later it had been dropped off in their castle rooms and that was the first of many mysteries.
Another was that the table was prepared for four people to dine at, how could anyone know this group would be arriving at the castle? Of course this had to be an elaborate plan though we only saw the main man behind it, his name was Klove and he gave the guests quite a jolt with his appearance. Klove is the mean looking man in the middle below, a few screenshots below that he's holding a knife. He told the quartet of English visitors he always leaves the table set in case unexpected guests arrive such as the Kents. They asked where his master was and Klove replied he had died ten years ago but had left instructions to keep the castle in tip-top shape. Klove told the guests his master's name had been Count Dracula, coming from England they had no clue who this German was and think the actual setting was in Bavaria. After a savory meal the tired tourists were told they could spend as many nights as they pleased at the castle, all soon retired for the night. However Helen was awakened in the middle of the night by an eerie voice that kept repeating her name, she sent her husband Alan to check it out. He made his way to the castle's cellar(dungeon) and that was a massive mistake as following him was Klove who stabbed Alan to death, he never noticed the servant following him. Quickly Klove dragged Alan into a chamber, cut into some of his veins and then strung the corpse up to allow the blood to seep into a stone coffin! When opened it just contained ashes and those were the ones mentioned in the beginning of the review. When Dracula had been killed a decade earlier Klove gathered up those ashes for such an occasion as this night and there's two screenshots below of what happened. When Alan's human blood mixed with the ashes of a Vampire slowly the ashes began to turn into a body, the once deceased Count Dracula has been resurrected! Klove's next duty was to trick Alan's wife Helen to come into the dungeon, when she did Helen became the first new victim of Dracula and she was also the only human he turned into a Vampire.
Final bit and Dracula(Lee) never uttered one word in this movie, with his brother Alan and his wife Helen gone Charles was frantic with worry and drove his wife Diana far from the castle. Charles returned and entered the cellar crypt, he was able to figure out what took place and rushed to the pastor Sandor's monastery in Kleinburg for help on how to defeat the resurrected Dracula. Meanwhile Klove had tricked Diana into coming back to the castle and it wasn't to just turn her into a Vampire but to become Dracula's lifelong mate! Sandor will help Charles but first they must retrieve his wife Diana and the search led them back to the castle. It was now a two Vampire tag-team as besides Dracula Helen(Barbara) was also in the fight and this proved to be her only one. She had attacked Diana but the Cross around her neck thwarted the attack, in the next segment you'll see how Helen was killed. But it did give time for Dracula to escape and with the help of Klove kidnapped Diana, drugged her and put her in a coffin. It was daylight so of course Dracula couldn't be out in the Sun so remained in his coffin, first there was a skirmish near Sandor's monastery and then the final showdown took place miles away at an abandoned castle. It was Winter and Dracula's coffin had fell out of the stagecoach Klove was driving and slid down on a patch of ice. As we've learned Crosses and the Sun are dangers to a Vampire, so isn't running Water and while Charles was grappling with Dracula on the ice the pastor Sandor began firing his rifle. That cut into the ice and before long Dracula slowly descended into the rushing water, that's in the final screenshots and it's also how the movie ended. I did have to rush through the ending as much more did take place though sure with the screenshots you can get a good idea of what else may have taken place. All in all I didn't expect much even though the cast featured many of my fave British actor but this did turn out to be such an eerie movie and the ninety minutes flew right by which is often a good sign of an interesting and enjoyable film. Which was released by the Hammer Studios, they were England's largest studio for horror films and released so many from 1955 until the early 1970's. Though not overly frightening I think the British horror movies were the best from any country in that period of time and you'll be seeing many more of them here in the future.
Gulp, wish I was Lee's hand in that third photo, sigh..... This is the third Barbara Shelley movie I reviewed and in all of them have also had a brief tribute section for her. She died five years ago but was 88 years old and may have been England's first 'Scream Queen' as she starred in so many horror films from 1957 to 1967, she was 33 in age when this movie was filmed. Barbara is close to being my ultimate woman and why are so many I adore to no end so old or deceased? Most are actresses and the ones prior to 1980 had some sort of magnetic 'aura' about them, they possessed so much classiness plus are nothing like the spoiled actresses Hollywood has these days. Plus not many could top Barbara's stunning looks which weren't so noticeable in an obvious way if that makes sense. Will be having at least four more upcoming films with Barbara who always had the lead female role in her films. Coming up will be "Village of the Damned" from 1960 which could be her most known movie. Also to be reviewed will be "The Gorgon" which also features Lee and Cushing, then "Quartermass" from 1967 plus I may add in her appearance from a "Man From Uncle" episode from it's first season which was such a terrific show.
Above are some promo photos for this 1966 movie "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" though none of the pictures were from a scene in the movie. Below are some of Barbara's lobby cards for the movie with the first being from the film's set and after that are many screenshots of her character Helen Kent who was married to a stuffy man named Alan. The setting of the movie was 1895 Bavaria which is why she was dressed that way but in those bottom screenshots Barbara truly made my blood boil! She ended up being the only human Dracula turned into a Vampire and just realized the entire movie happened in about a 24 hour period. Helen was defeated by a Cross which is an effective weapon against a Vampire, then Helen was held down and with about a dozen minutes to go in the film Helen's role ended when a stake was pounded into her heart! After the screenshots is a short video of Barbara as Helen from the movie and I highly recommend viewing it, what a forgotten sizzling woman Barbara was.
