Castle Of The Creeping Flesh 1968 Written by Adrian Hoven and Eric Martin Schnitzler with an uncredited Jesús Franco, directed by Adrian Hoven. A West German film called Im Schloß der blutigen Begierde. We watched the Severin Blu-ray which looked fine.
A Baron hosts some people at his castle. They ride in the woods. A woman falls while riding alone and is found by a servant of the Count. It's set in modern day but the Count decorates his house like he's in living a couple of hundred years in the past. The Baron and his guests visit the Count and he couldn't be happier.
The Count just happens to need some body parts for the experimentation he's conducting. He's trying to restore his just murdered daughter back to life with those body parts. He's successful but the organ donor dies. It's a common enough sort of plot device but the movie ruins it for me with scene after scene of some sort of open heart surgery. We were thinking that it might have been a pig that was being operated on. It didn't seem like a human operation. Some of that got fast forwarded through, not something that happens very often.
On average the story is barely average and with all the surgery stuff, I sure wouldn't bother seeing it again.
The Tale Of Tsar Saltan 1967 Based on an 1831 story by Alexander Pushkin, screenplay by Aleksandr Ptushko and Igor Gelein, directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. A Russian film by the same director who directed Sadko and Sampo.
The Tsar marries a young woman and her mother and two sisters are upset. The young woman goes to live with the Tsar and the mother comes along. The Tsar offers the sisters jobs and they come live in the castle. The Tsar goes off to war. Mom and the sisters scheme against the young woman, they kidnap her and her just born son, seal them in a barrel and throw them into the sea.
The young woman and son wash up on the shore of a small island, he rescues a swan who turns out to be an enchanted princess. She magics up a city and makes the son a Prince. Eventually the Tsar comes to visit and finds his wife. The mom and sisters aren't punished enough for my liking.
It was interesting enough but not as entertaining as Sampo and Sadko. I enjoyed it but wouldn't need to pick up a copy for myself.
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