#adrian hoven

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Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält (1970)

AKA Mark of the Devil

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Mark of the Devil (1970) dir. Adrian Hoven & Michael Armstrong

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Adrian Hoven was born on 18 May 1922 in Wöllersdorf, Lower Austria, Austria. He was an actor and producer, known for Der Mörder mit dem Seidenschal (1966), World on a Wire (1973) and Castle of the Creeping Flesh (1968). He died on 8 April 1981 in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany. (Source: IMDB)

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Adrian Hoven, May 18, 1922 – April 28, 1981.

With Margit Carstensen and Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of Martha (1974). Photo by Michael Friedel.

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MARK OF THE DEVIL PART 2 also known as THE WITCHES

Germany/Austria

1972

Directed by Adrian Hoven

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CAVE OF THE LIVING DEAD Reviews and free on Dailymotion and YouTube

‘Beyond the black mouth of the cursed cave lurk the unfleshed…’ Cave of the Living Dead is a 1964 horror film about a mad scientist and his bevy of vampires terrorising a European village. An American detective and a local witch joins forces to defeat them. Produced and directed by veteran Ákos Ráthonyi [as Akos von Ratony] (Take Off Your Clothes, Doll; The Devil’s Daffodil) from a screenplay…

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Despair (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

3/7/23

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKoM6zVSpUQ

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FEAR OF FEAR/ ANGST VON DER ANGST (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany, 1975)

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MARK OF THE DEVIL (1970) – Episode 217 – Decades Of Horror 1970s

“She’s the one who had intercourse with the Devil on Goat’s Mountain! He took her to his den in the disguise of a little donkey and then they fornicated all night long! She’s the witch! She’s the witch!” A little donkey, eh? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – as they try to get their arms around another infamous film. This time it is Mark of the Devil (1970).

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 217 – Mark of the Devil (1970)

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In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter’s apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, injustice, falsehood, torture, and arbitrary killing that go with the job.

Directed by: Michael Armstrong; Adrian Hoven (uncredited)

Writing Credits: Michael Armstrong (as Sergio Casstner) & Adrian Hoven (as Percy Parker) (original story and screenplay) 

Producer: Adrian Hoven

Music by: Michael Holm

Selected Cast:

Herbert Lom as Lord Cumberland

Udo Kier as Count Christian von Meruh

Olivera Katarina as Vanessa Benedikt (as Olivera Vuco)

Reggie Nalder as Albino

Herbert Fux as Jeff Wilkens – Executioner

Johannes Buzalski as Advocato

Michael Maien as Baron Daumer

Gaby Fuchs as Deidre von Bergenstein

Ingeborg Schöner as Nobleman’s Wife

Adrian Hoven as Walter – the Nobleman

Günter Clemens as Friedrich

Doris von Danwitz as Elisabeth

Dorothea Carrera as Young Lover

Percy Hoven as Christopher (uncredited)

Friedrich Schoenfelder as Narrator (uncredited)

Emile Stemmler as Monk (uncredited)

Get your barf bags ready! The Grue-Crew is reviewing the 1970 witch-hunter gore-fest Mark of the Devil (1970). The film features Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, and Reggie Nalder. While the special effects may be tame compared to modern films, their impact on early Seventies audiences is unmistakable. They’re graphic, disturbing, and often difficult to watch. Does this film still earn the reputation of requiring a barf bag to enter the theater? Perhaps not, but the film is surprisingly well made with a strong cast and, quite honestly, shouldn’t be missed by horror fans and Seventies cinema aficionados.

At the time of this writing, Mark of the Devil (1978) is available to stream from Amazon Prime and Tubi and is available on physical media as a 4K Ultra HD 3-disc Set from Vinegar Syndrome

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Doc, will be Vengeance of the Zombies (1973), a Paul Naschy (or if you prefer, Jacinto Molina Álvarez) flick. This one is sans Waldermar Daninsky, Naschy’s frequent role, but gives you an Indian mystic and women zombies. Yay!

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com.

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World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)

Cast: Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Wolfgang Schenck, Günther Lamprecht, Uili Lommel, Adrian Hoven, Ivan Desny, Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John. Screenplay: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fritz Müller-Scherz, based on a novel by Daniel F. Galouye. Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus, Ulrich Prinz. Production design: Horst Giese, Walter Koch, Kurt Raab. Film editing: Ursula Elles, Marie Anne Gerhardt. Music: Gottfried Hüngsberg.

What we call "reality" is, as we all know, a construct, the product of the limitations of our senses. But what if we, too, are part of the construct, put here by some other entity and blinded to the reality that lies beyond the senses? That way lies religion -- "Now we see through a glass darkly...." -- and metaphysics -- now largely dismissed as "asking unanswerable questions" -- but also science fiction. Witness the popularity of a film like The Matrix (Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, 1999) and its sequels. In fact, Rainer Werner Fassbinder got there more than two decades before the Wachowskis. In 1973 he created a two-part television series, World on a Wire, that aired in Germany, and then became a kind of cult hit via file-sharing on the internet before being restored in 2010 and screened at the Berlin Film Festival. In it, a German research institute has created a simulated world in its supercomputer. The inhabitants of this world have been given consciousness, but only one of them has knowledge of the world outside the computer. He serves as a contact between the programmers and the simulated beings. But then the sudden death of the head of the program puts his second-in-command, Stiller (Klaus Löwitsch), in charge of investigating not only the death of his predecessor but also the suicide of one of the simulated beings. Stranger and stranger things begin to happen, until Stiller learns that he is also a simulation in his own simulated world. He also learns that the institute's simulated world is being used for commercial purposes, something that violates its agreement with the government funding it. As he comes to terms with this knowledge, his increasingly erratic behavior makes him a target for assassins, and his one hope is to find the contact with the level above that's simulating him. Got that? The head-spinning premise of the film comes from a novel, Simulacron-3, by the American writer Daniel F. Galouye, adapted by Fassbinder and Fritz Müller-Scherz. Fassbinder gives it a good deal of his characteristic style in the adaptation: The women in Stiller's world, for example, always wear cocktail dresses, even at work, and rooms are filled with mirrors to suggest the layers of reflected reality in the three levels. It was filmed in 16 mm for television, which means there's some graininess and focus problems in parts of the restored film, but the cinematography is by Fassbinder's frequent collaborator Michael Ballhaus, along with Ulrich Prinz. Löwitsch is very good as Stiller, taking on a kind of James Bondian role, and the paranoid atmosphere prevails even when the plot gets a bit snarled in its own premise.

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Ingeborg Schöner in Mark of the Devil (Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält, 1970)

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Fox and His Friends (1975)

Starring: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Bohm, Adrian Hoven and Christiane Maybach

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Christian Hohoff

"A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends."-IMDb

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Adrian Hoven

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Martha (1974)