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Edgar Allen Poe's ultimate orgy! (tag line stolen from imdb)
The 1968 film - Histoires extraordinaires ("Spirits of the Dead") is a treat. Three great European directors: Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Frederico Fellini direct three segments, based on Poe writings.
As one reviwer put it:
"Ironically, the great American writer Edgar Allan Poe titled his own collection of weird stories 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination,' but that was too quaintly prim for the American movie audience by the 60s, and the more lurid 'Spirits of the Dead' was chosen to entice the masses into the theater, with the Brits retaining the original title. Have we come full circle or what? The U.S. version employs Vincent Price as a voice-over; he's not to be seen or heard in the European original. The first two tales are interpreted effectively if surprisingly unimaginatively by the Frenchmen Roger Vadim and Louis Malle; the real treat is Federico Fellini's wildly inauthentic but much more entertaining grand finale in Italian."
An interesting discovery. Part of Nino Rota score for the Fellini's segment sounds incredibly like that haunting one-note piano in EWS... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
Way too close for a coincidence.
Ah, yes, the movie... recommended? Well, the mini-Fellini is more that worth the time, the rest was OK by the tough Euro standards.

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Topic - Welcome to an orgy! - Victor Khomenko 07:39:25 04/24/03 (4)

Re: Welcome to an orgy! - fredgarvin 15:50:11 04/24/03 (3)

Sodomanie ? nt - patrickU 04:57:53 04/25/03 (2)

With the name like that... it HAD to be good... (nt) - Victor Khomenko 14:04:16 04/27/03 (1)

Yep, it goes deep down... nt - patrickU 09:06:45 04/28/03 (0)

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