Here in London, someone is resurrecting corpses, creating zombies.
Zombies?
I only have a vague idea about this.
Perhaps you can tell me just what is this voodoo.
This sandwich tastes as dry as hell.
Hello and welcome to Hello This is the Doomed Show, I am Richard.
Folks, I am the capital of this podcast in that I have lots of little government buildings on my body, but more importantly, I'm here with Katie of the Night.
Katie, welcome.
Thank you for having me.
So folks, Katie was very kindly asked me to be on her wonderful YouTube channel.
Talk about Giallo Meltdown 2.
Oh, it hadn't come out yet.
No, we talked about Giallo Meltdown 1.
You're talking about the future when I have you on again.
Spoilers.
And I very much wanted to have you on Hello, This is the Doom Show, mainly to record your regret of being on Hello, This is the Doom Show.
And here it is.
Yay.
Yay, regret.
So Katie, you picked Vengeance of the Zombies from 1973.
Yes, I did.
We had an accidental blind spot with Paul Naschy for many years because the podcast that inspired this show, the show that without which we wouldn't exist called The Naschy Cast with Rod Barnett and Troy Gwynn.
They had a show.
They still get together, I believe, but the Naschy Cast is retired because they covered every one of Naschy's films so far as I know.
And so we didn't want to do any Naschy like that's their thing.
They did an episode on Vengeance of the Zombies in 2011, so I think it's OK.
I see.
Yeah, plenty of time has passed.
Yeah, it's our time now.
Yeah, they won't sue.
They won't sue.
No, but yes, shout out to them.
Shout out to the bloody pit of Rod that is still ongoing.
It's a great fricking show.
This is directed by León Klimovsky, a wonderful Argentinian who worked in Spain directing things like Dr.
Jekyll versus the werewolf, the werewolf versus the vampire woman and a ton of other Paul Naschy vehicles.
Love, love, love this guy's work.
This was written by Paul Naschy himself, Mr.
Jacinto Molina.
I sent you just real brief in the videos.
It's an old zine that you can find on the archive.org.
I know you kids are into that shit.
There's a great interview with him where he's like talking about Vengeance of the Zombies.
It's a demented film.
You wrote it.
Were you demented?
But I have a trailer for the film.
I'm going to drop it right here.
I order you, Gloria Irving.
I order you to arise and obey me.
Obey me.
Have you ever heard of voodoo?
Of the resurrection of corpses to serve Satan.
The corpses that have disappeared.
Boodoo.
Hawkins, here in London, someone is resurrecting corpses, creating zombies.
Yes, zombies to wreak vengeance.
Zombies which murder, which torment, which kill.
Vengeance of the Zombies will initiate you in the darkest secrets of Hindu Conjury.
You will witness the unknown rites of voodoo.
In an orgy of blood and horror.
Vengeance of the Zombies, with Paul Naschy in a dual creation, and the presentation of Romy, Myrta Miller, and Vic Winner as Lawrence.
A fascinating drama of ancestral and ancient rites.
In today's modern world of London.
Vengeance of the Zombies.
Okay, now that we've concluded the trailer portion of the show, the most natural thing for me to do now is to read from the VHS tape, which I don't own, sadly.
This is the All Seasons Entertainment VHS.
The picture on the back is from a different film.
They've got a zombie on the back from Horror Rises from the Tomb, another Paul Naschy film.
The tagline is, A modern day gothic tale of horror and fear.
And the plot synopsis from the back of this VHS says, Scotland Yard begins an investigation that is so terrifying in its outcome, it nearly brings the venerable organization to its knees.
It begins with the inquiry into the murder of a young girl, but this is no ordinary murder.
The police discover it is the work of zombies, dead and decaying corpses brought back to life by a madman bent on revenge for a long-forgotten crime.
The police have only hours to catch this maniac.
Every minute he works, another cadaver reawakens, and the graves are full of dead bodies...
eager for a chance to return.
It kind of sounds like the person who wrote that didn't watch the movie.
Hey, they wrote good copy, and who cares what it's about?
Oh boy, oh boy.
So, folks, this is your spoiler warning.
We're going to talk about this whole movie, except for the parts we skipped, because it's too long.
We have some wonderful cast and crew here.
I'm going to go through this quickly, but there's a lot of people in this movie.
Of course, we got Paul Naschy.
He's literally a triple threat in this, playing the good guy, Krishna, the bad guy, Kuntaka, his twin brother.
Spoiler alert.
Paul Naschy also plays Satan, the Satan, not a character named Satan.
Romi, she plays Elvira or Elvira.
This actress was in The Killer with a Thousand Eyes, which is a Spanish giallo I've seen and don't remember.
Next up is Murta Miller.
She plays Kala.
She is Krishna's somewhat faithful servant.
This is Murta Miller from Frickin Eyeball.
Took me a minute to recognize her when I first watched this, but I was like...
Well, we've got a certain element here.
These actors decided to go and get deep into their characters, which were, you know, from India.
So they decided to put on some brown face, did not age well, whatever.
I think they actually tried to be respectful, but it didn't work.
It's a loaded topic.
Boy, howdy.
Paul Naschy playing a combination of like Indian and Sikh and Buddhist and Voodoo and like all these elements.
It's like a freaking car crash of cultural appropriation in one character.
So his eyes, his eyes, I don't know what his eyes were doing.
They were bulging.
They were definitely bulging.
His heart was almost in the right place.
God bless him.
Moving on, we've got Aurora de Alba.
She plays Olivia and struggling to remember who that character is.
I feel like she's one of the zombies, maybe.
Yes, I'm going to go with yes, because you're right.
Hopefully we're both right.
She was in The Hanging Woman, which I've been wanting to rewatch for a while.
Another creaky little Spanish horror film.
Luis Seguez, that's how I'm pronouncing it.
He plays MacMurdo, the train station guy.
Yes.
My name is MacMurdo.
Hello.
This guy was in The Vampire's Night Orgy, and the aforementioned Horror Rises from the Tomb.
Pierre Bissari, who plays Ty.
This is the black character in the movie, and they actually found a black person to play him.
His name is T-Zackery.
T-Zack.
It's all one word.
Yes.
He was only in one other movie.
He was in, I believe it's a crimy called Carpet of Horror, but I don't think I've ever seen that.
He was a decent, I mean, he seemed to be a decent actor.
He brought it, and I love it.
We got Antonio Pica.
He plays Superintendent Hawkins, the cop in this.
This guy was in Hunchback of the Morgue, or the movie where Paul Naschy sets a bunch of rats on fire, whichever you call it.
We got Elsa Zabala as Susan, that she is the servant of Krishna.
Very, very distinct lady.
She was one of the satanic ceremony people in Tragic Ceremony, which I just rewatched recently.
And it gets better every time I watch it.
Oh my God.
She was also in the Dracula Saga, which when I watched the Dracula Saga as a younger person, I was like, this is boring.
And now I'm like, I shouldn't have sold that DVD because now it's worth 70 bucks.
Short-sightedness is my best feature.
And then we got Victor Barrera or Vic Winter.
He was in tons of stuff like Naked Girl Murdered in the Park and In the Folds of the Flesh, which boy howdy, I'm overdue for a rewatch of that.
I just want to have a friend over who's never seen a giallo and act like In the Folds of the Flesh is what they're all like, and just watch their brains melt out of their ears with the dialogue comes out.
I haven't seen it.
Oh my God.
I know.
You are in for such a treat.
But the title kind of grosses me out.
Oh, it has nothing to do with anything.
It has nothing to do with anything that happens on screen at all.
There is there might be a tepid love scene in it.
I don't even remember.
But dude, it's so insane.
And make sure you watch the English dub because it's great.
It is it is like my favorite English dub of all time, I think.
Next to, of course, the mighty blade in the dark.
Is this all the whiskey you possess?
Most of that episode when Jeffrey and I covered it, it's just clips from the dialogue like every few minutes.
We barely talked in that episode.
It's just the whole movie.
Anyway, Vic Winter plays Dr.
Lawrence Radcliffe.
He's the good guy in this, except he doesn't do a whole lot.
My question was like, is he in a relationship with Elvira?
He's trying.
Or is he just her friend?
Oh, he he gets friend zoned like early in the movie.
He's being Mr.
Patient and then he meets Elsie and that shit's over.
But yeah, because he hits her with his car.
So, yeah, we have a lot of more characters.
I'm going to skip some of these people.
But it starts with two grave robbers who are, you know, grave robbing.
This pair is, well, the guy's trying to go straight.
He's trying to stop.
But the woman wants to level up.
She's like, August, August, we must do this.
And I thought she was going to tempt him with sex.
But then she kind of doesn't.
I'm like, well, that would have worked better, Gloria.
At least, you know, he would have been happy.
You look miserable.
Did you watch this in English or was it sometimes?
Okay, good.
Oh, yes.
I can never resist an old dub.
It's pretty bad.
I'm loving it.
I'm living La Vida.
Love it.
Let's do it, August.
You know what I can do.
I only want to help.
You don't want me to leave you forever, do you, August?
So they go grave robbing and they get locked in the tomb by a mysterious character who's wearing the worst mask.
I think it's supposed to be a black person, this mask, and luckily we don't have to look at it through the whole movie because it's not great.
It's not the worst stereotypical thing I've seen.
There's a Jess Franco movie, one of his early movies that someone wears a mask like that and it'll rip your soul out.
It's so bad.
But these masks will change.
Fear not, we're going to have a whole series of masks.
They all went to the dime store, spent 90 cents for nine masks.
I didn't count the masks.
So once they're locked in there, they're freaking out, and they're begging whoever locked them in there to let them out.
And this person is practicing some voodoo out there, and the woman who just died, Gloria was the corpse, wasn't it?
Yes, Gloria was the corpse who was just killed, and she raises up from the dead, and totally murders these two assholes.
In slow motion.
Man.
Gently.
León Klimovsky, he loves slow motion ladies.
Be they vampires or zombies, he don't care.
Put him in something that you can kind of see through, and have him move real much.
Real much?
I don't know.
That was from the Spanish.
That was a direct quote from him.
So I messed it up.
The poor translations are affecting your own speech.
That's right.
And then the music kicks in.
I wrote, play that funky music, Spanish boy.
Man, I'll tell you what, the music is so good.
We get to meet good old Krishna.
This is Paul Naschy as Krishna, and he's giving a mystical kind of a group meeting with a lot of people who are interested in his metaphysical arts, which include him going into a trance and getting stabbed by Kala with things, and having hot coals put in his hands, while Vic Winter sits there and looks skeptical when he's sitting there with Elvi.
We're like, this really isn't for me.
Even though he studies it, so what is he talking about?
His character, I'm glad they ditch him, and he's not the hero.
It's so weird.
He's useless.
So, meanwhile, Krishna has like what looks like either an ocelot or a serval, one of those really strange wildcats just hanging out on the table.
And I don't know why I thought this was important, but it looked really thirsty.
You know, these are some hot lights, man.
Give that thing a fricking bowl of water.
Duh.
How do animals work?
I don't know.
I hope that cat's doing well.
Exactly.
That night, our pal, Elvira, who's been plagued by nightmares ever since her pal Gloria was murdered.
She has what we think is a dream, but it's her father and one of the servants in her house getting fricking murdered.
So, she's going to go traveling to get away from it all.
And that's when we see her totally friend zoning Vic Winter.
It's perfect.
He puts his hand over hers and she's like, puts his hand carefully back on his own lap.
I forgot about that.
That's how you know it's not happening.
Katie, tell me about Gloria's wonderful visit to the train station.
Okay.
So, I would like to backtrack a little bit and talk about things that I noticed about Elvira.
This girl does not open doors and she does not touch her own bag.
She will sit there until someone shows up and opens that door for her.
When she arrives at the train station, there's nobody there but she stands there with her bags until a man miraculously shows up and carries her bags for her.
I honestly, I respect that.
She has standards and even if there's no other human around, she's not touching those bags.
She's accustomed to a certain lifestyle and God bless her.
I mean, you see it a lot in these Euro films, but it really stood out in this movie for some reason.
But when, what's the train guy's name again?
My name is McMurdle.
When McMurdle shows up, he takes her into his office and he tells her, this place is evil.
Oh, yeah.
And your friend, the house he moved into is the house of the devil.
And that's when I was like, this movie is going to be great.
Oh, man.
This sounds like it's right up my alley.
The greatest throwaway bit ever is they talk about the curse of the Watleys, this evil family who had black masses and they were like the evil house and they were killed and all this stuff.
And the only reason it comes up is because we'll find out later that voodoo rituals have to take place in a haunted house.
And then it's never like touched on.
This movie just has everything, even if it's throwaway.
Hey, I'll take it.
I'll take it.
So next up, she meets up with Krishna.
We meet Ty Zachary.
He's he's the the the servant.
Excuse me.
He's the driver of Mr.
Krishna, and he's covered with these horrible burns and takes her to the house where this vibe of like, hey, I'm really glad you're here, Elvira.
I'm definitely not going to hook up with you later.
I promise.
Does Paul Naschy ever hook up with a female actor in his movies?
No way, bro.
And Kala is already like, this sucks.
I know where this is going.
She's not dumb, but they tell her, you're going to sleep great tonight.
It's going to be awesome.
Go to bed.
So what happens when she has a dream?
What is this dream about?
I am a bit underwhelmed by this house.
I really like the house in London, but now we're in like a less impressive house.
But in this dream, we're in what appears to be a basement and people from that house, like the staff and Kala, they're all in there for some sort of ritual.
Paul Naschy is a goat man or Satan, and he looks so good.
It's awesome.
In this ritual, I don't remember all the little details, but they stab Elvira in the neck to get her blood into a goblet.
It was pretty cool.
It's pretty brutal.
I love it because it's one of my favorite movie mistakes, like a lot of bad one, but a little goof where you can see the blood tube running through the wrist, along the wrist of the person wielding the knife to get that blood spurting.
Wow.
I didn't notice that.
I love it.
It's even in the promotional pictures for the movie.
It's like, oh, the little tube is probably important.
But I love the bones on the floor.
So funny because Ty, he carries her from her bed, and this poor actor is carrying a grown ass woman across the floor, and he's walking on these bones they've scattered all over the place.
He's walking very carefully, stepping up and down real high so it doesn't fall.
I was like, man, what a freaking career.
It was an interesting setup because they didn't want to do the conventional Satanism thing.
They've got some like folk magic incorporated, I guess, pulling from movie voodoo.
But it's kind of interesting that it's not just straight Satan.
They're trying to mix things up a little bit.
She wakes up from this, and of course she's safe.
But we cut to Krishna telling her his life story, and how much he suffered to become the guru that he is today.
And then we cut to who I thought was the coroner, but it was a random butcher who lives in the town, who his mistress has showed up at the old meat depot, because that's the hot place to hook up.
She completely gets naked in his office, and he's like, well, now I don't care if anyone sees this, because you're hot.
They both get killed by this mysterious character who's been killing everyone, and the bass player on the soundtrack has gone completely batshit crazy.
It sounds like he's trying to melt his bass strings by playing as fast as humanly possible.
Then the butcher is hanging up along the rows of meat in his butcher shop or in his meat depot.
And I wrote, huh, that guy sure is hung.
Come on.
That's a real zinger.
So these bodies of these murdered people have to go somewhere, Katie, and they go to a morgue worker doing my favorite movie thing.
What is it?
He's eating a sandwich amidst all the dead bodies.
Oh, my God.
It's such a trope.
I mean, I love how that is a trope all the way back in the early 70s.
It's hilarious, especially when the sandwich is kind of floppy and there's like stuff falling out of it.
Hey, I'm a very death positive person.
I know that, you know, corpses are just as dirty as people were.
In life, as they are in death, you can have a sandwich in front of a living person.
You can have a sandwich in front of a dead person.
Or maybe you shouldn't.
I just feel like it would be kind of smelly in there.
Yeah.
Well, you know, formaldehyde is basically a sauce.
So when this morgue guy is having his little lunch break, the killer is back and the killer has started raising how many bodies is he raising in there?
Anyway, one zombie comes up off the table.
She walks, she slow motion floats over to this morgue worker.
And I swear this was a can of soda, like a regular Coke can.
Yes, it's a beer can.
And somehow between her grabbing it and her stabbing him with it, it like looses its top.
So it's like someone took a can opener to it.
So now it has a raw edge.
Yes.
So she kills him with the Coke can in the neck.
Really digs it in there too.
I just love how bizarre that is.
I love it.
Another key scene of this movie is a doctor.
I keep calling him Vic Winter.
He has a name in the movie is Dr.
Lawrence Radcliffe.
He is explaining the voodoo to the cops because he suspects that there's this voodoo rituals behind all this stuff.
And he says one of Paul Naschy's favorite words.
Whenever Paul Naschy writes a screenplay, his favorite word to sneak in is propitious or propitious.
In this case, sometimes he says propitious.
And in this case, it's when all is propitious, you can do the voodoo ritual and it's very confusing.
Can you define propitious for us?
It just means like the time is right.
It's all it means.
It is totally just a fancy thesaurus word you could bust out.
But I've heard it in at least three of his films.
It's great.
But they're so confused about what voodoo is.
It's not even worth going into.
It's so insane.
That scene is so long.
Yes.
And weirdly enough, it's not as annoying as the one from the werewolf versus the vampire woman, where in the Spanish version, I think it might even be Vic Winter as the same type of character.
Like, you don't understand what these backcountry people are like.
Why are they so ignorant about the world?
And the other person's like, this is a superstitious place.
And it's the longest bullshit scene This is a miracle compared to that one.
This is fine.
Oh boy.
We have a scene where Krishna is telling Kala not to be jealous over Elvira.
It's like, nah, dude, this is not going to work out for you.
I've taken lovers before you didn't care.
And she's like, I hate you, I'm gonna freaking destroy you.
So shit starts happening.
More and more murders start happening.
And then in the middle of the night, our bud Elvira wakes up or she's just running.
And I can never remember what in the world starts this scene.
Who cares what she's doing?
She goes to seek Susan for help.
What happens when she goes to see Susan in the middle of the night?
Oh, yeah.
So Susan sneaks up behind Elvira at dinner and she's like, you need to leave here.
And she's like, meet me in the shed later and I'll tell you all about it.
When does that ever work out?
Never.
It never works out in like Giallo movies, it never works out in British mystery shows.
Like Agatha Christie like invented that shit probably.
Like, I can't tell you here, there might be people like, no, tell me now because you're going to be a corpse in three minutes.
So Elvira goes into the shed and Susan is standing there and Elvira is like, hey girl, like, what's going on?
And Susan doesn't say anything.
So Elvira goes up to her and like touches her shoulder or something.
And Susan has been beheaded and her head has just been placed on top of her body.
So when Elvira touches her, the head just rolls off.
Man, it is so good.
They did such a good job.
You know, these 70s movies where you get what you get with the severed heads, there's a little movie called The Blood Sucker Leads the Dance, where the killer's speciality is cutting heads off.
And aside from when they bury an actor or actress in the ground and have their real head and they stick their tongue out like, they made these paper mache heads to look like the person.
And I would be so mad at the special effects guy.
Like, you think I look like that?
I hate you so much right now.
That's what I look like to you.
It's so hurtful.
So her head looks awesome.
They got the fricking jaw.
They got the lines.
It just looks, it looks just like her.
But then the head just goes whoop and falls right off.
It's beautiful.
But we can't forget what happens next.
It's T Zachary comes out from the shadows with a scythe.
Is that what that thing's called?
That's what they call them.
And then Krishna runs in and suddenly they get into a pitchfork fight.
I don't know when he changed from the scythe to the pitchfork.
They're interchangeable.
The pitchfork fight was great.
Man, I'm telling you that that's better than a rake fight.
I love it.
It's just such a great scene.
This movie's got so much going for it.
Later, we've got Elvira freaking out about all this insanity, tells Christian to call the cops, and he's like, Whoa, whoa, we are not calling the cops.
No cops.
He looks visibly shaken by her suggestion.
It's so good.
We have some grumbling cops who get killed by the smiling zombies.
These zombies are so happy to kill.
Yeah, it's so good.
They're they're they're happy to be in their panties.
Most of them are in black panties, but one lady didn't get the memo and she's got her like flesh colored, like tan panties on.
And León is like, why is she wearing those?
And I'm like, I got nothing.
I got nothing.
They're topless.
What more do we want?
Literally nothing.
Kala then curses Elvira.
It's so good.
I love her finally just being like, I curse you, bitch.
And then they immediately have to work together again.
Whoops, awkward.
It's fine.
You know, hey, ladies, you have to work with people you don't like all the time.
That's true.
So there's a ritual.
This is when the chicken violence happens.
And it makes me sad because like, it's a movie.
It's called movie magic.
You get yourself a fake ass chicken or just get a dead one and just be like, I just cut this head off and then shake it.
It's disturbing to watch.
It ain't right.
I am.
Zach was watching it with me last night and I was like, don't look, don't look.
They're going to kill a chicken because he doesn't like when things get killed.
Of course not.
He won't even kill a bug.
So I was like, don't look, they're going to kill a chicken.
He was like, so?
I eat chicken.
See, I eat chicken too, but I don't get to kill it or watch someone kill it for me.
Not on the polite society.
I have to go to the back alleys for that.
His reactions to animal violence in these movies is fascinating.
There's one movie, I won't say the title of it, but we see a seal get killed.
And I kept telling Zach, like, don't look.
I'm trying to protect him, you know?
I'm like, I'll tell you when it's over.
I'll tell you when it's over.
And he's like, it's just a seal.
I was like, what?
Does he eat seal?
What are we talking about?
That is baffling.
I get upset at Dead or Alive when a motherfucker sets a spider on fire.
I'm like, it's spider and a family, you son of a bitch.
I can't.
I can't with that.
I don't I like I didn't rescue a beetle that found its way into an elevator the other day at work, and it's been haunting me.
I should have gotten that beetle out of there.
He needed my help.
I saved a beetle today.
Weird.
And thank you.
I chose not to because I was in a bad mood.
No, I'll always regret that poor beetle.
We just lost half the audience.
I'm glad you saved you saved one.
So that means the audience came back in.
They're like, fuck this show.
Fuck it.
Beetle Hayden.
Fucking asshole.
Richard Glenn shit.
So now Ty has his he's mad at Krishna and he's got some shit to say.
He's like, Christian, you need to stop this.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm talking to Kentucky, the evil, the villain.
Oh, yeah.
We barely even talked about Kuntaka.
Kuntaka is the twin brother of Krishna.
He raped this lady and accidentally murdered her.
It sounded the description of what he did sounded like he just raped her to death.
That is exactly what it sounded like.
That's not good.
Care to explain?
Her family and the other families in the area.
This was in India.
The other British families gathered around and set fire to the house and they severely burned Ty, but they really severely burned good old Kuntaka and he's getting revenge on all these families.
That's why all this is happening.
Ty is like, no, we've gone too far.
This is crazy.
And so he immediately is murdered by the zombies.
Kala decides to stand up for herself finally.
And my favorite is Kuntaka just pushes her down on the floor.
Get down.
And then she's like, did you just push me?
This motherfucker just pushed me.
Did anyone else see this?
Oh, you're all zombies.
Krishna tells Avair the whole sad story, which, hey, I just told you the whole sad story.
And then the doctor, our would be hero, is suddenly distracted by Elsie nearly getting run over by his car.
So he was almost our hero, but she's like, hey, guy, Elsie, if we haven't mentioned, because I don't think we have, she's this like other servant in the house.
Yeah, she has kind of like milkmaid vibes.
Yeah.
And she was on her way with the groceries and nearly gets killed.
And now her and Vic Winter have like just like a sweet little love scene.
It's so funny because I was watching the scene where they were kissing.
And I was like, wait, like, how do they know each other?
And then I was like, oh, yeah, he hit her with his car.
Nice.
So now we're, you know, Elvira has been kidnapped by Kentaka.
She and Kala because Kala betrayed him.
They're both chained to the ceiling and Krishna is now under the control of Kentaka, who he straight up like Krishna straight up murders Kala.
He just slices her throat and they definitely saved money on that scene because she just kind of like leans over like, I'm dead.
Not much bloodshed.
No.
And then when he goes to do the same to Elvira, she's like, it's me, Elvira.
And he's like, oh, oh, I love you.
I won't do it.
So then he finally stands up to his asshole brother.
The final ritual for immortality is what this is all about here because, you know, it hasn't just been about revenge for Kentaka.
It's also about becoming immortal, maybe growing his hair back over the burned part of his scalp.
I don't know.
But something happens to Kentaka that I did not see coming.
And this is my third viewing.
I did not remember this.
What happens to Kentaka?
Elsie reveals herself as a voodoo spy from Voodoo International Headquarters.
Oh my god, a double agent, a double agent!
And she has been sent to monitor Kentaka's activity.
Okay, hold on.
And then what happens?
I'm trying to remember now.
So she kills Kentaka, and she's about to kill Elvira, and the cops shooter?
Yes, that's when the cops bust in just in the nick of time and just start shooting, which I love that so many movies end like that.
It's hilarious.
For some reason, I have this huge relief when these cops swoop in and just shoot and ask questions later, but it saves the day.
So many movies end that way, but I can't name them cause spoilers.
Exactly.
And then everyone gets packed up in the cars and we're out of there.
And more funky music.
I mean, we skipped some stuff.
Is there any other scene that you were like, oh my God, why didn't we talk about that?
Or have we pretty much gotten this thing out of our system?
Another scene I enjoyed was, what's the train man's name again?
My name is McMurdo.
McMurdo, when he gets voodoo controlled to stab himself in the neck.
Oh my God, I forgot, yes.
Oh, it's too bad he didn't have a beer can.
Right.
There's a moment with him too, where he's trying to tell Elvira some shit's up.
He sneaks over to the house and he's like, hey, hey, over here.
That's when he sees Elsie in the window and goes, oh, got to go.
Elsie teleports from inside the house to the grounds, like right outside where Elvira is standing.
I was very impressed by her psychic power there.
She said, Elvira, lunch is ready.
Then Elvira was like, should I follow McMurtle or should I go get lunch?
Then she just decides to get lunch.
There's time to find out what that guy wanted.
Maybe he's got a train station pamphlet update.
I don't know.
It could be anything.
It could be literally anything.
But yeah, that's the movie.
So, executive producers are Ricardo Muñoz-Suei and JA.
Perez-Geinor.
Normally, don't go down the producer route on this show, but Mr.
Geinor, executive producer on 11 Paul Naschy films.
11 freaking nuts.
All classics, too, just one after another, so great.
The music's by Juan Carlos Calderon, and the music in this movie.
It's the other thing Paul Naschy talked about.
He did not like the music in this movie.
Oh, I love it.
Exactly.
There's no accounting for taste, Mr.
Naschy.
You are wrong.
He says in the interview, he's like, I really would love to go back and add new music, but hey, these films are what they are.
I'm like, damn right, they are what they are.
And this music is great.
It was so, the music is so much fun.
If you're like not paying attention to this movie, the music will slap you in the face and be like, look at me.
Exactly.
Look at me.
And get ready to have a fun time.
Damn it.
You like funk?
I can't hear you.
I'm being too funky.
So yeah, he also did the music for Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, which means he's done music scores on two horrific scenes of animal violence.
Oh.
Cinematography by Francisco Sanchez, who shot such wonderful things as the Mummy's Revenge, The Curse of the Devil.
Oh my God.
And the aforementioned Dracula Saga.
I have a little trivia before we talk about if we like this one or not.
I have a little trivia too.
Oh snap.
What have you got?
I will let you go first.
OK.
It's not a big thing.
But on the Blu-ray I have, they had some alternate scenes.
And I was like, what are these alternate scenes going to be?
So I watched them.
And they're basically all reshoots of scenes that are in the movie.
But all the topless scenes now have coverage.
Yep.
So I guess they just shoot.
I don't know if that's how often they do that, but I guess they just shoot.
That is back up in case the movie is.
Banned somewhere.
Spain, they had so much heavy censorship.
Two things they would always do.
One is the horrific things would never be set in Spain.
Like, you know, a lot of Italian films are set in England.
Yeah.
Spain had to do that because of censorship.
You couldn't portray bad things happening in Spain.
So because the government would censor your movie.
So that's why so many Spanish horror films are set anywhere but Spain.
Wow.
I didn't know that.
And the other thing was is they did not want any nudity in Spanish films.
So the British market, the Italian market, the Japanese market, they would get all the uncut nude scenes.
And then poor Spain would get the clothed sequences.
That's why those are in there.
That's why so many Spanish horror DVDs, blu-rays have those clothed sequences.
Like, have you ever seen Seven Murders for Scotland Yard?
No.
That's Paul and Ashy Giallo.
That one, so far as I know, the uncensored, like the version for other markets doesn't exist.
So every time there's about to be nudity, it's weirdly like, whoa, there's no nudity here.
Like this lady is a prostitute is about to get murdered by a Giallo villain in her bedroom, and she's fully clothed.
I'm going to shower with my bra.
And let's do it.
I've got this wonderful bit of trivia here.
So Walk of the Dead is one of the alternate titles of this movie.
And this version had a shock notice where every time something spooky and scary was about to happen, a siren would go off and a red font would go on an all black screen that goes shock notice, shock notice, shock notice.
And then it would go back to the zombies killing somebody.
Wow.
It's almost like trigger warning.
Exactly.
And one VHS company actually had pulled a print of it with the shock notices.
And you can kind of see them.
They're on YouTube with this movie.
This is like shock notice, but it's like somebody taking an old VHS camera and just like filming the screen of their TV.
It doesn't look very good, but you can see that actually was a thing.
This was a double bill with the Dracula Saga.
So you could go see a pair of Spanish horror films at the Drive-In back in the day.
And when this got re-released in 1980, because of like good old Dawn of the Dead, everybody had to re-release these old clunker zombie movies.
And Ebert reviewed it.
He said it was the dog of the week.
What does that even mean?
It means it's a piece of shit.
Because Ebert didn't like any horror movies.
Not entirely true, but you know.
Ebert is like, every time I read or hear him talking about a horror movie I love, he's always shitting on it.
Like his personal beef with a dead dude.
I'll get you, Ebert!
Just you wait!
Alternate titles for this.
We got one of the titles was Vengeance of the Female Zombies.
Oh, not regular zombies, but female zombies.
Female zombies, very important distinction because, I mean, that's just true.
Not all women are zombies.
I mean, they're all zombies in this movie.
This also was called Zombie Five Vengeance.
Oh, gosh, no.
I'm, I love it.
Let me tell you what I would call this movie.
I thought about it.
Oh, what would you call it?
I think it should be called Voodoo Vengeance.
Oh, because it shouldn't be called Vengeance of the Zombies because they don't want Vengeance.
No, they don't care.
They're just tools.
And they're happy.
Yeah.
They're smiling.
So I would say Voodoo Vengeance.
Note to distributors, Katie is going to retitle your movie.
It's coming for you.
So how do you like this one, dude?
You picked it.
How do you like it?
I love it.
Yes.
I've only seen a few Naschy films so far, but this is definitely my favorite.
So far.
Oh, man, that's awesome.
I love the absurdity.
I love that it's overstuffed with way too many themes.
It's got this crazy funky music and it's just really silly.
I like the spooky Halloween appropriate atmosphere.
Very much so.
What about you?
Yeah, I love this.
This is probably could be my fourth viewing, but I think it might be my third.
I was very disappointed the first time.
It was back when I had these really high expectations for what I wanted a Spanish horror film to be like.
And I had seen a lot of Naschy up until this point.
And so I just had this idea in my head of what, oh, this is going to be a zombie one.
And it just did not live up to those expectations.
And then I revisited it later and I was like, oh, I like this.
And now, yeah, this is the Spanish horror vibes are strong.
I would like it to be a tiny bit more atmospheric.
Maybe the sets could be a little better.
Like I do like that stark gray weird and white, like at the morgue.
Yeah, it looks like a train station.
It looks like the weirdest morgue ever.
I think they shot there because they had so much natural light coming in.
But Krishna's house at the beginning was just gorgeous.
And then I hate that we just left and went to a boring house.
I like how this flirts with Gothic a little bit with the whole Cursed Families.
Like obviously the Watleys was a red herring for this haunted house that wasn't really haunted.
But I like that the movie kind of like has a lord even if it's there to mislead you.
I can't excuse the cultural mashup insanity.
Whatever, whatever, Paul Naschy is in fine form.
I love Mr.
Bodybuilder Guy.
He just looks so great.
It's I feel bad for him because I'm my body is exactly his but hotter.
Oh, poor Paul.
Poor guy.
I feel bad.
He needs to get more of that like deflated marshmallow thing I got going on.
That's hot.
But never a dull moment in this movie ever.
It just never lets up.
Even the conversations that are just boring were stupid enough to keep me entertained.
And yeah, that's how I feel about freaking Vengeance of the Zombies.
I was shocked there wasn't more trivia about this.
I'm hoping that one day I'll get one of those Paul Naschy books.
Because I know his son has a book, and I think it's like a coffee table book.
And Paul Naschy has his like, autobiography, but I've never seen it out in the wild.
I probably missed my chance to pick that up.
And hopefully it's translated into English.
It'll be nice.
So before I let you run out of here screaming, Katie, every guest co-host, I ask them for something important, which is a recently seen and loved film.
It could be an old favorite.
It can be something unseen to you until you saw it or that's it.
Yeah, there's no or.
It's just one of those.
Oh, any genre.
It could be any genre.
What do you got?
Okay.
Well, I wouldn't even say I love this, but it was very impactful and it definitely stands out amongst everything else I've watched this month.
And that is Just Franco's Eugénie, aka Eugenie.
Oh, yeah.
From 1970.
Have you seen this?
I have a long time ago, back when I was doing Franco Friday.
Oh, fun.
Well, it's a kind of dark sexploitation inspired by the works of Marquis de Sade.
It was impactful.
That's just the word I keep using.
You know, if you want to look at it deeper, dig deep into the symbolism behind the film.
I think there's a lot going on there.
There's a lot to be said.
And it was beautiful, honestly.
Yeah, I'm looking at my old review, trying to jog my memory.
I love the setup of the girl reading the book.
She's reading the I'm pretty sure there's two Eugenie films.
I'm I don't think there's three.
I think there's two or she's reading the first one.
Yeah.
Christopher Lee's in it, right?
Yeah.
OK.
Yes.
I do like that one.
What did I say about it, though?
I said this film is pure cruelty mixed with style and feverish desire.
Highly recommended.
Oh, and the soundtrack.
Oh, I've listened to it on repeat.
I don't even really listen to movie soundtracks recreationally.
But like this.
Yeah.
Over and over.
Now it plays in my head nicely.
Nice.
Yeah.
I watched that 11 years ago.
You should check it out again.
Cruelty is a perfect way to describe it.
I really love Eugenie de Sade.
That's my favorite of the two Eugenie films.
OK.
And that has somebody else.
That's Paul Mueller and Soledad Miranda.
Oh, her.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was like, another Franco girl.
Yeah, that that movie's.
Oh, that's my favorite.
I don't know if that's my favorite Franco, but probably at top three.
It was just, oh, man, it's a great one.
Cool.
Once you start doing the Franco, man, it's over.
You're going to be you're going to be in Franco hell forever.
I've seen like 50 of his movies.
It's I've gotten many warnings.
Yeah.
Just, just, you know, sometimes I, I did dip my toe into some of his more erotic content.
And occasionally I saw some fun movies where I was like, well, here's 20 minutes of a vagina.
Okay.
All right.
How did I get here?
I got here because I'm so desperate for Euro horror that I'm just going to watch porn.
It's fine.
Whatever.
There's a fine line sometimes.
And there it is.
So my recently seen and loved is even sicker than that and more just like messed up.
It's probably the most disturbing film that's ever been talked about on.
Hello, this is the Doom show.
And that is My Neighbor Totoro from 1988.
I revisited My Neighbor Totoro with Lietta.
We foolishly, I was going to replace my old DVD of it with a Blu-ray.
And I never bought the Blu-ray like a goof.
So we had to rent it.
So Papa Bezos got my money or I give it to Papa Google.
I gave it to one of these assholes.
So I've rented My Neighbor Totoro and just, oh, man, it's so good.
I forgot just how wistful and wonderful it is, where like the the biggest conflict in the movie is like a miscommunication.
It's just the stakes are so low, but it's all magic.
I love it.
So I apologize to all you freaking gore hounds out there for bringing up-
No, anime!
The sickest movie ever.
Shit, dude, this definitely anime is all on in this house.
Oh, my God.
I'd be lost without it.
So, Katie, before I really let you go, why don't you tell people listening if we haven't driven them away with me mentioning a Studio Ghibli movie owned by Disney?
How can they find you on the Internet?
Where are you?
You can find me on YouTube, Kate of the Night.
And that's K-A-T-I-E.
Yeah, if you search me, I should pop up pretty easily.
I actually just reviewed Oogeny, so you can check out my video review of that.
And my links to everything else can be found on my YouTube, but that's like the main place I'm at.
And folks, I highly recommend Katie's channel because it has been quite a journey.
Once you started on that Giallo journey, you were like, there's no going back now.
It changed my channel forever.
I found my home.
Yes.
It is absolutely great.
And you let me poison it with my face.
And we talked about the aforementioned Giallo Meltdown.
It was so much fun.
I like the moment when you flashed the copy of Giallo Meltdown with approximately 180 sticky notes in it.
I was like, okay, this is going to be good.
I was like, oh shit.
All right, here we go.
We are journeying into the depths of cinema.
Oh man, I get to talk about me?
What a change.
I'm going to have you back for Richard Glenn Schmidt, part two, The Return.
Well, if you want to continue your Paul Naschy journey, just let me know.
We'll do another one.
We'll find another one where they cut the head off a chicken for Zack to watch.
It's just a chicken.
I'm getting hungry.
All right, bye folks.
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