Month Monks of the Living Dead
Three young people find themselves stranded in the Monastery of Silence, where one of the monks just won’t stay buried. Mexico’s second horror film, El Fantasma del convento (The Ghost of the Monastery, 1934) is a true rarity: not only because it’s so difficult to find & see, but also because it still packs a punch after three-quarters of a century. The Living Dead in this film are not the kind you’re used to… and what’s more, this is one of the few horror films of the era that tries to be realistic in depicting death and bodily decay.
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Comments
Comment from Braineater
Time: October 21, 2007, 10:18 pm
I wish I had any power at all to influence the DVD Gods. It’s true, when I was a kid I had the uncanny ability to guess what monster movies would be on TV the week before they aired, but that power has long since left me. In fact, I’m usually either WAY far behind the times, or else I miss things by that much.
But I do want to see this movie get more attention, and if I can help gain that attention.. well, cool. Let’s get the write-in campaign started!
Comment from HP
Time: October 21, 2007, 9:51 pm
Wil, usually the reviews of yours I like the most are those of movies I’ve seen — you capture all the things I see in a movie, and then give me more to chew on. This review of a movie I haven’t seen seems tailor-made to trigger all my desires.
Man, oh, man, I must see this film. Surely if you can help bring Zinda Laash to DVD, you can get all us proles a nice, restored, subtitled DVD of Ghost of the Monastery?
Your fans know your powers are unlimited, even if you don’t realize it yet.
FWIW, I’ve lately been catching up on the Averoigne stories by Clark Ashton Smith, and the monastery of Perigon. Smith’s Averoigne stories are roughly contemporaneous with El fantasmo del convento, and similar in character, although they tend to the Lovecraftian.
I dearly love this stuff.