Tony Curtis establishes contact with supernatural forces to escape a straitjacket in the 1950s biopic HOUDINI, produced by George Pal.
out-of-register. Stepping through the feature also reveals a surplus of unsteady frames. The audio also has a few blemished areas with bumps, scuffs and a strange persistent hissing during the moment of Mrs. Houdini’s arrival in Europe. The 2m 16s trailer is assembled from unused takes and angles.
THE INSATIABLE
2006, Th!nkFilm, DD-5.1/MA/ 16:9/+, $27.98, 102m 39s, DVD-1 By Kim Newman
In a neighborhood plagued by decapitation murders, Harry Balbo (DEMON HUNTER’s Sean Patrick Flanery), an office drone at American Flange, catches sight of a homeless guy having his neck bitten out by Tatiana
(THE THIRST’s Charlotte Ayanna), a sultry but feral vampire. Harry hooks up with paraplegic Viet- nam veteran Strickland (GRIND- HOUSE’s Michael Biehn), who barely survived an encounter with the undead in-country and now runs a vampire-slaying website. Strickland happens to have an apartment in the build- ing where Harry lives and works as an unpaid super—which is put down to “fate,” not script conve- nience. Strickland coaches Harry in vampire-hunting tactics, but the nervous disciple can’t bring himself to stake Tatiana, and in- stead lures her into a steel cage rigged up in the basement. Thereafter, the film turns on a COLLECTOR-style relationship as Harry becomes more fixated on the leggy predator. Things
continually get out of Harry’s con- trol as Tatiana resists attempts to wean her off a diet of human blood (“You want to feed a rab- bit to something, buy a snake”) and begins to plead with him, Audrey II-style, for fresh blood, especially when she learns he is bullied at work by obnoxious stud Javier (Jon Huertas). Meanwhile, the police—who wrote Harry off as obviously inoffensive, rather than tagged him as a suspect— pick up more clues that lead to the basement, and Harry’s neighbor (Amanda Noret) keeps offering him meals. As DEMON UNDER GLASS
and DRACULA II: ASCENSION show, a vampire in captivity can be no less dangerous than one at large—those, however, deal with scientific projects, while the
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