Der Schwarze Abt
Producer Preben Philipsen wasn’t the first filmmaker to realize the big screen potential of Edgar Wallace’s mystery novels but he was the only one to make that enterprise an industry… Read more »
Tag: Klaus Kinski
Le orme
Alice (Florinda Bolkan), a translator, awakes in her apartment from a dream of a half forgotten old movie about a sinister scientist (Klaus Kinski) who strands an astronaut on the… Read more »
Woyzeck
Werner Herzog’s Woyzeck (1979) adapts Georg Büchner’s nineteenth century play as an excruciatingly close-up look at a man’s psychological deterioration. Herzog shot the film immediately after wrapping Nosferatu Phantom der… Read more »
Venom
Instead of appearing in Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) Klaus Kinski chose to star in Venom (1981) which offered more money and, according to Kinski, a superior script. The… Read more »
Lifespan
Dr. Linden (Eric Schneider) has been experimenting on human beings at a retirement home in an effort to unlock the secret to immortality when he hangs himself. Dr. Land (Hiram… Read more »
Venus In Furs
Jesús Franco’s Venus In Furs (1969) opens with Jimmy Logan (James Darren) discovering the body of Wanda Reed (Maria Rohm) washed up on a beach. This striking image, as well… Read more »
Nosferatu The Vampyre
When Werner Herzog remade F.W. Murnau’s masterpiece in 1979 with Klaus Kinski in the titular role he essentially bridged the gap between pre-Nazi German cinema and the determinedly nationalistic New… Read more »
Crawlspace
My friend Neal and I are both avid cinephiles. Last week we were directing our snobbery to a film I can’t even remember anymore, but I think Tom Cruise was… Read more »
The Great Silence
“If only he had realized all his ideas, he could have become one of the greatest.”-Sergio Leone Sergio Corbucci has long-lived in the shadow of Sergio Leone. One cannot read… Read more »
