Web of the Spider (1971)
(★★★)
The high point of Web of the Spider is, of course, Klaus Kinski as Edgar Allen Poe! Klaus’ unique sense of drama is pleasing overdone here in the beginning as Poe traipses through a graveyard and then entertains a group with his dramatic retellings! It then becomes a much different movie as one of the members of his audience, Lord Blackwood, challenges a skeptical American journalist to spend All Soul’s Eve in his abandoned castle, a task which, he claims, no one has ever survived. The movies loses some of its fun as we move from the entertainingness of Kinski to the journalist attempting to manage the castle, as he wavers between skepticism and confusion. But that segment is pretty entertaining anyway.
The Invisible Man (2020)
(★★★★)
I admit I hadn’t heard of this and so I somewhat assumed it would be a remake of The Invisible Man but, nope.
Instead we have the story of Ceceila, whose boyfriend is violent and controlling however, also much respected as a wealthy technology genius. One night she drugs him to make her big escape. But, even when removed from him, she still always feels like she is being watched. Then she hears that he has committed suicide. However, rather than feeling more free, she feels even more trapped.
It’s actually more similar to Gaslight than to The Invisible Man and I thought it was very engaging. Elizabeth Moss was, of course, great and I was on edge the entire time with the tension and the mystery of what the heck was actually going on.
Sorceress
(★★)
Well, this got off to a good start, then got kinda boring and never really picked up.
Another in the standard Swords and Sorcery “evil lord is pursuing a child he needs, but child is concealed from them and grows up to seek revenge” story. A bit of a switch here from the norm as the child isn’t a boy, rather is twin girls. But the movie ends up being not that interesting. And not sure at all why is it called Sorceress.
Highlights are the Catacomb scenes and the character Baldar, who I quite liked.
Unnoted: also, as part of the Catamount Horror series, I watched The Fly. For the fourth time, but the first time since its initial run in ’86. And rewatched Electric Dragon 80,000v… I really liked it the last time I watched it on 2007, but this time is just seemed kinda boring.
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