{"id":7535,"date":"2014-02-02T15:08:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T20:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=4671"},"modified":"2014-02-02T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T20:08:42","slug":"the-return-of-the-power-1984-plus-the-kindred-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7535","title":{"rendered":"The Return of The Power (1984), plus The Kindred (1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A great poster. Period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What began as a short camera test video has kind of morphed into a promo piece and test video \u2013 a test for the GBC CTC-5X Vidicon tube camera, and a promo piece for the kind of video art I started to pursue a year ago, and voice work, because apparently I don\u2019t sound half-bad in podcasts and short-shorts like The Magic Beta Case<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In any event, the original concept \u2013 a camera test video \u2013 was supposed to be tied to the film review of jOBS<\/strong> (2013), the feature film starring Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.<\/p>\n

I know \u2013 Why review the film? And what does a 1976 video camera have to do with it? \u2013 but I\u2019ll explain in the next blog on Tuesday, when reviews of jOBS<\/strong> and the 2008 documentary Welcome to Macintosh <\/strong>are up, alongside the related video and a sort-of bonus short piece.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here\u2019s the first two of three horror reviews that were intended to follow the aforementioned reviews but were held back because sound design and picky editing took longer than expected.<\/p>\n

Back in the fall of 2013, Synapse released The Dorm That Dripped Blood<\/a><\/strong> (1982), a legendary Video Nasty which also had a confusing release history because of assorted re-titling (like Pranks<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Christopher Young made his debut as composer with new filmmakers Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter, although it\u2019s a score Young would rather forget for rather obvious reasons when you see the Dorm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The three returned with The Power<\/a><\/strong> (1984), another film that similarly vanished from home video distribution, but whose soundtrack circulated on LP and inarguably helped Young\u2019s profile as a skilled composer.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve waited more than 25 years<\/em> to see this movie because Young\u2019s score is very effective, beautifully orchestrated, and nicely performed. I grabbed the old Cerberus LP from Sam the Record Man when I was still in high school, and it\u2019s still a score yet to appear on CD. If anyone does aim for a proper (legit) release, please go for a full score, not the half-hour\u2019s worth in the LP master.<\/p>\n

Scorpion Releasing\u2019s already put out a few films from the Film Ventures catalogue, once owned by infamous producer Edward L. Montoro, and while the DVD is very sparse on extras, at least the film\u2019s been given an proper (and legit) release.<\/p>\n

Paired with The Power<\/strong> is a review of Obrow and Carpenter\u2019s third and final film as co-directors, The Kindred<\/a><\/strong> (1987) \u2013 an underrated and fun B-movie that has yet to receive a proper (and legit) DVD release.<\/p>\n

Coming Monday:<\/em> Dario Argento\u2019s Dracula 3D<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com <\/strong>( Main Site<\/a> \/ Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As finishing touches are being added to a short camera test video tied to the upcoming reviews of jOBS (2013) and Welcome to Macintosh (2008), here are two reviews tied to filmmakers Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter: The Power (1984), new on DVD from Scorpion Releasing, and the still-unavailable The Kindred (1987).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[304,467,468,2482,2481],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1Xx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7599,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7535\/revisions\/7599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}