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In Reply to: Another Horror flic posted by edta on March 21, 2000 at 13:26:47:
Yes, that's right! So Polanski has done five horror films altogether: Fearless Vampire Killers, Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion, The Tenant, and The Ninth Gate. Polanski directed all of them and appeared in two, FVK and The Tenant. I think he'd have made a good actor for the lead role in Ninth Gate if he were the right age (or at least the age of that character in the book). Ironic that Depp appeared in The Astronaut's Wife, which owes so much to Rosemary's Baby.
I'm wondering now if there is a common theme in all of the above movies,or is he only examining evil's different manifestations?I'm tempted to rent them now to compare. Perhaps going along with evil, might be the theme in some of them--Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant.
Was the Fearless Vampire Killers any good?
Oh yes, what about Knife in the Water, what category would that one fall into?
I'm thinking of Polanski along with Jerzy Kosinski as artists who were deeply scarred by the Nazi years. Perhaps he is going over the material of his life to try to make some sense of it all.
> > I'm tempted to rent them now to compare. Perhaps going along with evil, might be the theme in some of them--Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant. < <A Roman Polanski horror film fest? That would be fun and interesting.
> > Was the Fearless Vampire Killers any good? < <
Yes, absolutely, especially if you grew up on Hammer horror films the way I did. FVK is a sendup of the Hammer horror films of the 60s which manages despite itself to be genuinely creepy in moments. Roger Ebert has his head up his ass when he calls FVK Polanski's worst film. Speaking of film fests, a good couple of films would be Polanski's Fearless Vampire Killers and ...: you would see Ferdy Mayne on both sides of the vampire fence, as a vampire and as a vampire hunter.
Evil triumphs in all of Polanski's horror films, including FVK (in which Sharon Tate becomes a vampire -- the film ends with her preparing to bite Polanski). Here's what one reviewer says about the cut U.S. version of the film: "The altered cut tries unsuccessfully to maintain a slapstick comedy tone, and blunts Polanski's clear message: the ineffectualness of virtue in the face of organized Evil. It is a theme shared byROSEMARY'S BABY and CHINATOWN, and present to some degree in Polanski's entire filmography."
> > Oh yes, what about Knife in the Water, what category would that one fall into? < <
I'm deeply ashamed as a self-professed Polanski fan that I haven't seen this one. I shall rent it immediately. For an interesting discussion of the horror genre, read Stephen King's Danse Macabre.
> > I'm thinking of Polanski along with Jerzy Kosinski as artists who were deeply scarred by the Nazi years. Perhaps he is going over the material of his life to try to make some sense of it all.> >
One would also have to figure into the equation the manner in which Polanski's pregnant wife met her death.
I forgot to mention the name of the Hammer horror with Ferdy Mayne as a vampire hunter. Anyone know? Is it Captain Kronos?
To me, Noah Cross (John Huston) in "Chinatown" embodied evil better than characters in any of Polanski's horror films.
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