{"id":7800,"date":"2014-02-03T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2014-02-03T07:00:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T12:00:30","slug":"dario-argentos-dracula-3d-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7800","title":{"rendered":"Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yes, Dario Argento made a new movie, but Dracula 3D<\/a><\/strong> comes to home video from MPI \/ IFC after a typically long, delayed release schedule.<\/p>\n

After the first sneak peek trailer was released, word of mouth wasn\u2019t especially kind \u2013 the aim went beyond the CG effects, and targeted the film\u2019s tone and potentially weak performances \u2013 and as usual, it failed to get any substantive theatrical play since no one\u2019s cared to give any of his films even minimal screenings. (If one did in fact happen, it must have been a blink-fast and it\u2019s gone situation.)<\/p>\n

The good news is Synapse Films is prepping Argento\u2019s masterwork \u2013 Suspiria<\/strong> (1978) – for a proper Blu-ray release, but what the director\u2019s fans have had to settle for lately are big disappointments. Dracula 3D <\/strong>is especially shocking because it was photographed by Suspiria<\/strong>\u2019s Luciano Tovoli. The only pluses are the film inspired composer Claudio Simonetti to write one of his best scores in years, and a poster campaign very evocative of classic bloody \/ bawdy Hammer horror flicks of the sixties.<\/p>\n

For some context (and perhaps a chronology of the director’s sliding scale of qualitative work), I’ve added reviews of his last two duds – Giallo <\/a><\/strong>(2009) and Mother of Tears<\/a><\/strong> (2007) – to the mobile database.<\/p>\n

Moving on.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow\u2019s slate of reviews will include jOBS<\/strong> (2013) and Welcome to Macintosh<\/strong>, a 2008 documentary on Apple\u2019s founding and early products made while Apple\u2019s co-founder Steve Jobs was still alive, and had just launched their latest product \u2013 something called an iPhone.<\/p>\n

Not long after the film\u2019s release, three vintage video cameras used in the production went up for sale on eBay, and their prices were very, very low, and I jumped on one because I\u2019d never heard of GBC before. I\u2019ll have more info on the camera Tuesday in a related blog at Big Head Amusements, because I recently shot a camera test with this very blue monster which appears in jOBS<\/strong> during Apple\u2019s launch at an electronics convention.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the camera:<\/p>\n

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A GBC CTC-5X colour vidicon tube video camera, minted in 1976. Blue, isn't?<\/p><\/div>\n

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And a snapshot from the trippy test \u2013 dubbed Flesh Tones<\/strong> – that\u2019s dissected in the video:<\/p>\n

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Yes, there are 'tones' which accompany this 'fleshy' footage.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cheers,<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<\/p>\n

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

As promised, I’ve uploaded a review of Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D (MPI \/ IFC), and added reviews of the director’s last two films, Giallo (2009) and Mother of Tears (2007), from the old site. Also in today’s blog: some teaser images of a camera test using a rare video camera that appears as a prop in the meh biopic jOBS (2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[2283,480,2493,2494],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-21O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}