ANDY MILLIGAN !

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feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:07:05 GMT

See how we get off topic when talking about Jess Franco!

Yeah, I've read the Jimmy McDonough Milligan bio but not the Meyer bio. Milligan certainly seems like an abusive person who was also an artist who made personal Z films for the totally undiscriminating. He's fascinating and repulsive at the same time, like his films. He had a horrible life and victimized many people. But you can't help feel some sympathy for him at the end. A great bio, for sure.

I still...

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feeds@yuku.com (DouglasWaltz) — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:39:33 GMT

Boy, didn't take long for this Milligan thread to derail, did it :0)
By the way, I'm reading the guy who wrote Milligan's bio, can't remember his name off hand and am too lazy to look it up, his Russ Meyer bio. So far it is amazing the similarities between Milligan and Meyer. It's odd how each man externalized their domineering mother situation. Fascinating stuff.

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feeds@yuku.com (Nzoog Wahrlfhehen) — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:59:33 GMT

I'll tell you in a few days' time (plus the Miguel Madrid info; sorry, my mobility has been limited of late).

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feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:28:01 GMT

There is at least one scene in the extras rather than in the assembly, it's from the Spanish version. How long is the Spanish DVD?

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feeds@yuku.com (Nzoog Wahrlfhehen) — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:29:13 GMT

I don't remember. I've just seen this film through successive rentals and was intending to eventually settle for the BU. This is cut?

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feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:52:21 GMT

Does EL PROCESCO ... version w the Nicolai cues heard have scenes not included in the BU DVD? Like the scene where she's found in the water?

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feeds@yuku.com (Nzoog Wahrlfhehen) — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:14:02 GMT

I saw it in 1987. I don't have it but I may be able to find it. The credits were different, with men on horseback. There were nude shots of Maria Rohm on the hay, which I hadn't seen in the Spanish version. Also, in EL PROCESO DE LAS BRUJAS, Lee would play original pieces by Nicolai on the organ, whereas here there were some dubbed Bach cues (composed after the time of Judge Jeffreys).

The recent Divisa release of EL PROCESO DE LAS BRUJAS, by the way, seems to me to be...

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feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:03:17 GMT

Do you have the Spanish one of THRONE OF FIRE with the Dennis Price credit? That sounds like a rarity. How long is it?

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feeds@yuku.com (Nzoog Wahrlfhehen) — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:20:56 GMT

They were never theatrically shown in Spain but they made it to VHS in the late 80s. I remember this weird self-contained subplot in CARNAGE about a woman in a bathrobe who's talking about the failure of her marriage. A great video store chain (now defunct) had this kind of stuff and the Brownrigg films, plus THE BLOODY JUDGE (in two different versions, with different titles,- THE TRIAL OF THE WITCHES and THE THRONE OF FIRE- Spanish dubbing, even music, one with an apocryphal credit to...

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feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:02:29 GMT

Mob outfit you mention the Peraino company?

Yes, the Butch Peraino Mob who took over DEEP THROAT at gunpoint reportedly. They bought Milligan's BLOOD. In fact DEEP THROAT's HARRY REEMS stars in FLESHPOT... Did these play in Spain?! Where did you see CARNAGE?

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feeds@yuku.com (Nzoog Wahrlfhehen) — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:49:07 GMT

I have vague memories of BLOOD, but I certainly remember CARNAGE, my only other Milligan. I saw those on VHS along with some S.F. Brownrigg films back in the late 80s.
I enjoyed the FLESHPOT scene on You-Tube; those two looked like professional actors (which I presume they were) and the aesthetics are unique, a bit like early seventies underground. Is that Mob outfit you mention the Peraino company?

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feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:22:36 GMT

Regina (Hope Stansbury) the daughter of Dracula, stranded in 19th Century America, prepares to bite
a rival for the affections of Dr. Olofski, the son of Larry Talbot (you all know who Larry was) in Milligan's 1973 Staten Island monster rally.

Shot in 35mm instead of his usual 16mm single system, this $20,000 was Milligan's most expensive production to date and...

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feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:48:23 GMT

Great bio, I agree. I've read it several times. I have the video kart DVD Milligan double bills.

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feeds@yuku.com (DouglasWaltz) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:53:07 GMT

Any true fan of Milligan needs to read his biography. Fascinating stuff. And the Somethign Weird DVD of The Ghastly Ones has the most extras I've ever seen for one of his flicks. A definite must have.

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feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:48:37 GMT

I still haven't seen Tim Burton's version. Which, obviously, cost a LOT more to make, which is a disadvantage in my view. Did Burton see the Milligan film?

ANDY MILLIGAN !

feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:27:17 GMT

Favorite Milligans:
BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHERS (1970): Did Tim Burton see this UK lensed SWEENEY TODD?
THE RATS ARE COMING, THE WEREWOLVES ARE HERE (1971): Can't beat that title.
THE BODY BENEATH (1970): Terrible title; atmospheric UK lensed Vampire film!
BLOOD (1974): Staten Island lensed Milligan Monster Rally!

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