{"id":7720,"date":"2012-06-25T23:14:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T03:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7720"},"modified":"2014-10-22T16:04:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:04:40","slug":"mansion-of-madness-1973-juan-lopez-moctezuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7720","title":{"rendered":"Mansion of Madness (1973, Juan Lopez Moctezuma)"},"content":{"rendered":"

White-hatted Gaston is visiting Dr. Maillard’s psychiatric hospital when they’re met at the gate by a loony-acting guard, and I suddenly realized this was based on the same Poe story as Svankmajer’s Sileni<\/a><\/em>, and is going to suffer in comparison. Gaston is welcomed into the asylum, led by the swirly-robed man on the DVD cover, while his red-hatted friend (Martin LaSalle, star of Pickpocke<\/a>t<\/em>) is attacked in the woods and his woman raped. It just isn’t a bad 1970’s movie unless a woman gets raped.<\/p>\n

The guy from the DVD cover:<\/em>
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The girl from Alucarda’s DVD cover – what’s she doing here?<\/em>
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The movie’s in English, which the actors are having trouble getting used to – some words are pronounced differently each time they’re spoken. Gaston’s straight Rod Serling line delivery conflicts badly with Maillard’s strangely-accented rapid-fire drama. It wants to look like Vadim’s Spirits of the Dead<\/a><\/em> segment with the careful posing of actors and scenery before the camera. One of those euro-art films, but from Mexico. Moctezuma also made the Satan-in-a-convent movie Alucarda<\/em>, which I saw but can’t much remember.<\/p>\n

White hat and red hat:<\/em>
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Lunacy:<\/em>
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This one is more masculine than Sileni<\/em>, less interested in the daughter\/prisoner character Eugenie than in Gaston and Maillard (Claudio Brook – Simon of the Desert<\/a><\/em> himself), but really it doesn’t seem too interested in any of them. There are some half-hearted pursuits and mysteries, and even the tarred\/feathered “real doctors” in the basement scenes have little explanation (and nothing like the terribly doomed finale of Svankmajer’s version). The “hero” never does a thing; the prisoners escape on their own. It’s a series of crazy scenes, signifying nothing.<\/p>\n

Claudio having an epic shout:<\/em>
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Eugenie’s revenge:<\/em>
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