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 My Son the Vampire (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 1952 / Director: John Gilling / Actors: Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi, Dora Bryan, ... more  My Son the Vampire (DVD) ... Philip Leaver, Richard Wattis ... / DVD released 2000-08-15 at Image Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSCNewest Review: ... building robots, and trying to discover the location of a uranium mine. He has decided to use the alias 'Riley'. Can you ... more ... guess what happens? (Actually no, you can't. But you almost did. Well done.)
This is a very, very peculiar film. On the one hand we have a bizarre parody of a 40s mad scientist plot, of which Lugosi had made dozens already. On the other, we have a vehicle for the Mrs Riley character. The plot crams an awful lot in, and at least manages to get everyone in the right places at the right times, but it's too busy, and there are too many incidental characters (Lugosi's entourage contains a hoodlum, a suave foreign henchman,...more |
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My Son the Vampire (DVD): The drag queen and the druggie (1009 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 02.05.08 (Very useful, 61 readings)
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A review of just the film. This is in the public domain and inexpensive DVDs are not hard to come by. This was a British quota quickie made in 1954. (In the olden days there was a law that a certain percentage of films screened in Britain had to be made in Britain, hence the 'quota quickies', low budget films churned out to play in double bills with much better films.) It's one of the most famous quota quickies, mainly because it stars a slumming Bela Lugosi, formerly the star of Universal's Dracula, but now in his Ed Wood, morphine addict days. As such it has a car-crash fascination for fans of classic horror. This was originally released as ...
