The Terrifying Appetite of Spanish Vampires

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The Terrifying Appetite of Spanish Vampires

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Dreams of the Projected Night

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@putmynameontheinternet8133 Ай бұрын

Am I the only one whose initial reaction was “ok we get it. Close your mouths and stop weezing so much.”

@dreamsofprojectedlight Ай бұрын

I thought the wheezing was part of the charm of the whole thing.

@pierremercier4724 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for these most than desirable discoveries. I didn't know these movies. As you put it so aptly, Spain was a real fertile ground for vampires movies in the 1970's. But, sadly, probably for distribution and budget issues, a lot of these movies are unknown for a large audience of vampire movies goers. What I like in Spanish vampire movies of this era is the liberty movie directors took with classic themes in this kind of content. In many vampire movies made before, it was almost a man's world. Female characters being most often reduced to mere assistants to their master. In the excerpts you offer us in your video, the female characters occupy a full place. They act with much more freedom and define their own attack strategies when the time comes to feed. I also really like the dreamlike and surreal sequences of these films. They allow the viewer to enter a completely different world, fertile ground for all fantasies. And, in my opinion, this «extra-human» dimension is one of the sources of «the disturbing strangeness» (dixit Freud) and the seduction-repulsion relationship that invades us deliciously at the sight of these delirious scenes. So many journeys to the unreal that make us forget, at least temporarily, the heavy monotony of our daily life that sometimes assails us. These movies could be seen as «a dream within a dream», as Edgar Allan Poe would say.

@dreamsofprojectedlight Ай бұрын

Thank you. That is very eloquently put and sums up many of the things I also feel about this genre. I must confess that, in general, the most powerful figure in many of the Spanish horror films of this period is the male figure (usually played by Paul Naschy) and I might have hidden this by choosing clips that don't show that male figure at all. The sequences with the female vampires always seem more dreamlike and beautiful because they exist in a world where physical strength seems secondary to seductive and magical feminine forces. I also like the reference you make to Freud's essay on the 'unheimlich' (the only work of Freud's I ever read in full as I'm not much of an intellectual but I do love horror stories), that uncanny sense of something just a little off from our sense of what reality should be. As you say, it provides a counterpoint, a release from the concerns of our waking lives. It also connects us to a mythic world that modernity has detached us from. Something terrible and wonderful that our logical mind resists but which some deeper part of our psyche yearns for.

@pierremercier4724 Ай бұрын

@@dreamsofprojectedlight In turn, let me thank you for answering me with such insight and depth. It is rather rare for video creators to bother. I see that you are a fine connoisseur of horror films in addition to having a solid general culture. It’s as much a pleasure to read you as it is to watch your videos. I look forward to watching your next content. Excellent day.

@hoibsh21 Ай бұрын

My favorite movies, excellent choices, great music !

@dreamsofprojectedlight Ай бұрын

They are wonderful movies to sit back and find yourself a little lost in.

@hoibsh21 Ай бұрын

@@dreamsofprojectedlight Also thx for cleaning up the prints !

@rogercroft3218 Ай бұрын

A lovely dreamlike sequence.

@dreamsofprojectedlight Ай бұрын

Thanks. These films all have these amazing sequences that make you feel you might have dreamt them.

@robstanton4630 Ай бұрын

Thanks for this, very creepy! Some of these are on Tubi.

@dreamsofprojectedlight Ай бұрын

Interesting to know. I had no idea what Tubi is until your comment. Thanks.

@STR123able Ай бұрын

Well done. Bravo!

@dreamsofprojectedlight Ай бұрын

Thank you.

@apdarkness3027 20 күн бұрын

You left out the *Tombs of the Blind Dead,* I know they had more in common with zombies or revenants, but they did rise form their graves at night to feed on blood and, in the first movie at least, their victims would rise from the dead at night as they do, so the Knights Templar of Berzano _could_ be considered vampires.

@dreamsofprojectedlight 20 күн бұрын

You are right. I love those films. They were covered in all those books on vampire cinema I grew up with. There would be an interesting mash up between the blind dead and the Seven Golden Vampires as they have a similar look.

@michaelnewton5873 Ай бұрын

Actually have bottom fangs 🎉 So many don't think cat or dog teeth.

@JoseRoberto-bf6to Ай бұрын

Name Of the movie ?

@dreamsofprojectedlight Ай бұрын

@@JoseRoberto-bf6to Three movies. Full titles in the description but the English titles are... Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman, Hannah Queen of Vampires and Count Dracula's Great Love