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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Mark of the Vampire
rbddsl-1 — 18 years ago(November 20, 2007 11:13 AM)
This is my favorite "classic" vampire movie. In my opinion, it was very well done and has a great twist in the end. Barrymore was excellent in his role, by the way. Very atmospheric and errie. Highly recommended..
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paintedplates — 18 years ago(November 26, 2007 03:36 AM)
I saw the movie for the first time yesterday. I think the ending is terrible! Back then they would give rational endings to supernatural quality stories which were anti-supernatural, really, because what they are saying is any supernatural event is not what it seems, it has a rational explanation, and people are fools for believing otherwise It's an underhanded trick and it never pleases me.
It's a little murder mystery stretched out by countless of scenes of people walking very slowly in the fog, lots of scenes of frightened people mugging for the camera lotta redundancy
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varus — 18 years ago(November 27, 2007 07:40 PM)
I saw this movie many years ago, and I confess that at first I found the ending rather disappointing. However, I've developed the ability to enjoy the movie for what it appears to be, and to 'zone' out the ending as it were. That might sound odd, but I'm eager to acquire a copy of this classic once again (my ancient VHS recording disintegrated years ago).
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paintedplates — 18 years ago(December 01, 2007 11:45 AM)
Sure, you can still enjoy it. I have a copy . uhm ya, the ending is botched, no doubt about that, and rushed, too, cuz when they switch over to show Legosi and Borland taking their makeup off, it's a quick scene. Apparently Legosi pleaded with Browning to allow them to be real vampires masquerading as actors, or something along those lines (which woulda been dumb too, really), but Browning stuck to his anti-vampire finale.
I wonder about endings and Browning, I mean, Dracula 1931 ended infamously too, in that Dracula was skewered off-camera
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jaloquisimo — 18 years ago(December 17, 2007 06:27 PM)
Who is "Legosi"?
The point about Browning's endings is reasonable one could make the same point about "Freaks" it's an entertaining film, if hardly earth-shattering, but LUGOSI and Carroll Borland have visually unforgettable parts and Lugosi's speech at the end should have been engraved on his tombstone: "I gave all of me. I was greater than any real vampire." -
paintedplates — 18 years ago(December 19, 2007 07:34 PM)
Lugosi Lugosi. I spelt it right before in another message, I dunno what happened this time.
I dunno, the movie is very flawed, and that's apart from the ending, which by itself was an insult to vampire movies. It's a little mystery with Dracula kinda pasted on
Too many character actors mugging scared for the camera, inbetween shots of Carol Borland wandering aimlessly and Bela doing his Count Morphine schtick Bad choice Bela if you were hoping to be her rich agent .
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paintedplates — 18 years ago(February 20, 2008 04:25 AM)
Oh, I thought it was funny . but it was flippant to be sure. Yer rush to judgement is breathtaking, though.
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