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6 October 2009 1:14 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

In Paul Morrissey’s eccentric and utterly unhinged 1974 Eurotrash classic Blood For Dracula (often erroneously credited as the brainchild NYC art guru Andy Warhol), the opening imagery of Dracula (played by iconic German weirdo Udo Kier) painting his face kabuki white has always haunted me.  The sequence is the spine and soul of the picture, showing the good Count as a tired, lonely showman who has long been forgotten by time and by the audience he once terrified.

And as eerily gorgeous as that bit of credit crawling business is, it’s the delicate piano waltz playing in the background that truly sells it.

Like Morrissey’s 3D companion film Flesh For Frankenstein the music for Blood was composed by Italian musician Claudio Gizzi. It’s orchestral, elegant, full of melancholy mourning and sadness. And truthfully it’s that dichotomy between the excessive gore, sex and general insanity on screen with Gizzi’s sophisticated, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)

12 February 2009 1:27 AM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Joe Dallesandro, unquestionably artist Andy Warhol's biggest male film star in the late 60s and early 70's (Flesh, Trash, Heat, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein) told a news conference at the Berlin Film Festival today (Thursday) that he was mystified by the notoriety those films initially received -- and by their durability. "They're shown in museums to this day," he marveled. Appearing in Berlin to promote a documentary about him, Little Joe, that premiered at the festival, Dallesandro ascribed his early films' success on the art-theater circuit to the fact that "Andy was the maestro of publicity." Warhol, he said, never said more than two words to him during all the time he worked at his "factory." Asked how he thought Warhol, who died in 1987, would have reacted to the documentary, he replied, "He would have said, 'Good luck.'" »

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