#fangs of the living dead

[uspiria]

Fangs of the Living Dead (1969) dir. Amando de Ossorio

[weirdlookindog]

Malenka (1969) - French poster

AKA Fangs of the Living Dead; Malenka the Niece of the Vampire; Malenka the Vampire; The Vampire's Niece

[bitter69uk]

Died on this day ten years ago: voluptuous mid-20th century actress and pin-up Anita Ekberg (29 September 1931 - 11 January 2015). In the fifties, the statuesque Swedish sex goddess reigned alongside peers Mamie Van Doren, Jayne Mansfield and Diana Dors as one Hollywood’s preeminent glamour queens. By the early sixties, Ekberg was triumphing in Europe, cavorting in the Trevi fountain beside Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini’s visionary masterpiece La Dolce Vita (1960). Fellini and Ekberg memorably reunited for Boccaccio ’70 (1962). (He was definitely the director who knew best how to utilize her charms). But as a connoisseur of cinematic perversity, I love Ekberg at her gloriously wooden best in the serial killer shocker Screaming Mimi (1958) and later bargain basement Eurotrash horror movies Fangs of the Living Dead (1969) and Killer Nun (1979). Even in these indignities, as author Sam Staggs puts it, Ekberg “can steal any scene just by standing still.” In 1999 the BBC made a documentary about Ekberg, capturing her craggy temperamental monstre sacrée later years. She relished trashing her contemporaries. (Asked about Sophia Loren: “Who is that?” On Brigitte Bardot: “she was pretty. You can’t say beautiful. She was – how you say? – very “Barbie.””). After gossip columnist extraordinaire Michael Musto��experienced her diva’s wrath in 1999, he rechristened her “Anita Yecch-berg.” (From his 2007 book La Dolce Musto: “All I could hear was Ekberg yelling, “Why do they keep letting Sophia Loren into the country? She was in jail for a month for tax evasion!” Between courses, other arresting pronouncements came fast and furiously: “Frank Sinatra was not a good lover!”; “If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people chewing gum. It’s like cows out to pasture!”; and “Not being able to smoke in restaurants is against the Constitution!”). Still, you can’t help but love her – Anita Ekberg made the world a more glamorous place. Pictured: portrait of Ekberg by Helmut Newton for Vanity Fair magazine, 1988.

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Malenka la nipote del vampiro, Seq. 1 | Carlo Savina | 1969

[the-news-you-use]

Bloody Wedding on The Horizon

The date for the wedding of Asa of the House of Vidja and Malenka Walbrooke has finally been set. The nosferatu couple announced via Walbrooke's twitter.

The announcement of a wedding between two of Europe's most infamous vampires comes as a surprise to many in the general public. Walbrooke, a social media influencer broke the news of her engagement to Moldavian princess and recluse Asa Vidja this morning.

No word has come from the princess's twitter, but that should come as no surprise as she hasn't used it since she first created her account. New York Journalists have been in contact with her public relations team have confirmed that the wedding is reall. It will begin when the sun sets on Walpurgisnacht, but a venue has yet to be determined. Likely out of the lack of major satanic temples in the continent.

The relationship between the pair has however been a matter of public debate among followers of Walbrooke who was believed to send contridictory incoded messages in her TikTok videos.

Vidja's public relations team says that an official guest list will be released later this week. I'm sure our eagle eyed readers will come to find some of their favorite celebrities listed.

[moviesandmania]

FANGS OF THE LIVING DEAD Reviews - trailer - free on Plex, Tubi, YouTube

Fangs of the Living Dead is a 1969 horror film written and directed by Amando de Ossorio (Demon Witch Child; The Loreley’s Grasp; the Blind Dead series). The movie stars Anita Ekberg, Rossana Yanni and Julian Ugarte (All the Colours of the Dark; The Mark of the Wolfman). The film is also known as Malenka, the Niece of the Vampire; Malenka la vampire, Malenka: la nipote del vampiro, Malenka: la…

[mx-myth]

Li Lianhua isn't so much haunted or loved by the narrative as he IS the narrative. He's the young hero he's the cyptic mentor he's the disappearing lover. The story revolves around his life until it doesn't. At the end we're left with the same question that Fang Duobing and Di Feisheng have to ask: what happens to the rest of the story when the narrative is gone?

[rhymaes]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook, special // Gabriela Mistral // Madeline Miller // Richard Siken // Margarita Karapanou // Andrés Cerpa

[stairstothe7th]

Genuinely shaking with excitement I’m about to watch taking lives I can’t wait to look at Ethan hawke for 103 minutes 😻

[omgpurplefattie]

These are the stories of some people, all more or less queer, that live their lives in the City, are all interconnected (either as friends or as rivals) and go through both fun and difficult times together.

This modern AU for several historical and/or wuxia c-dramas is set in some large globalised city adjacent to the Sinosphere, or at least with a very sizeable Chinese diaspora. I don't know enough about Taipeh, and Singapore is out of the question for reasons, so I'm just calling it The City and shall leave it at that. It has everything a city needs -- a university, high-rises, an IKEA, internet cafés, a gay scene, corruption in the building sector, an airport, and young edgy artists. It's hot there in the summer, very rainy in autumn (think typhoons, the way they tend to interrupt life in Japan) and temperate in winter. In this place, characters from

Word of Honor

The Untamed

A League of Nobleman

Mysterious Lotus Casebook

Sleuth of Ming Dynasty

and some more that are a bit blink-and-you-miss it,

are living their modern, non-magical lives which I am following along in this series.

The main parts are "A Matter of Priorities" (Rong Changqing/Ye Baiyi from Word of Honor / Tian Ya Ke) and "Detoxify" (Li Lianhua/Di Feisheng/Fang Duobing from Mysterious Lotus Casebook), but everybody gets their moment in the limelight. Even Mo Xuanyu.-

Re-post of this self-promo inspired by @fealiniel's recent post. Thanks to @busarewski for cheering me on while writing, and helping me pick the banner.

[graaid]

IT'S PARTY TIME

[uspiria]

Fangs of the Living Dead (1969) dir. Amando de Ossorio

[weirdlookindog]

Diana Lorys in Malenka (1969)

[bitter69uk]

Born on this day 93 years ago: voluptuous mid-20th century actress and pin-up Anita Ekberg (29 September 1931 - 11 January 2015). In the fifties, the statuesque Swedish sex goddess reigned alongside peers Mamie Van Doren, Jayne Mansfield and Diana Dors as one Hollywood’s preeminent glamour queens. By the early sixties, Ekberg was triumphing in Europe, cavorting in the Trevi fountain beside Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini’s visionary masterpiece La Dolce Vita (1960). Fellini and Ekberg memorably reunited for Boccaccio ’70 (1962). (He was definitely the director who knew best how to utilize her charms). But as a connoisseur of cinematic perversity, I love Ekberg at her gloriously wooden best in the serial killer shocker Screaming Mimi (1958) and later bargain basement Eurotrash horror movies Fangs of the Living Dead (1969) and Killer Nun (1979). Even in these indignities, as author Sam Staggs puts it, Ekberg “can steal any scene just by standing still.” In 1999 the BBC made a documentary about Ekberg, capturing her craggy temperamental monstre sacré later years. She relished trashing her contemporaries. (Asked about Sophia Loren: “Who is that?” On Brigitte Bardot: “she was pretty. You can’t say beautiful. She was – how you say? – very “Barbie.””). After gossip columnist extraordinaire Michael Musto experienced her diva’s wrath in 1999, he rechristened her “Anita Yecch-berg.” (From his 2007 book La Dolce Musto: “All I could hear was Ekberg yelling, “Why do they keep letting Sophia Loren into the country? She was in jail for a month for tax evasion!” Between courses, other arresting pronouncements came fast and furiously: “Frank Sinatra was not a good lover!”; “If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people chewing gum. It’s like cows out to pasture!”; and “Not being able to smoke in restaurants is against the Constitution!”). Still, you can’t help but love her – Anita Ekberg made the world a more glamorous place. Pictured: Ekberg by Helmut Newton, 1988.

[gruftine-vampire]

Gianni Medici - ♥️🖤

Fangs of the Living Dead | 1969

[betterbooksandthings]

"2024 has been a dramatic year for fantasy. The bedrock of the genre is, as always, ever-shifting over past versions of itself. So, it is unsurprising that the best fantasy of 2024 is quite unique.

Although these fantasy genre trends have been on the rise for longer than the last year, the prominence of cozy fantasy and romantasy books in 2024 is undeniable. Many conversations are still being had about what defines each subgenre as readers, writers, and publishers come to a public consensus.

Also, 2024 has seen more sprayed edges and special editions than previously thought possible. Sprayed edges, detailed dust jackets, embossed covers, and customized endpapers have upgraded many fantasy releases into special edition territory.

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