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I Must Take You Into My Confidence and Warn You!

Friday, 30. October 2009, 20:44:42

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Just one more Hammer Horror offering before Halloween, then I think i'll let them rest in peace for a while, todays score is Carlo Martelli's music from The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb.
Treading more Mummy cliches than most Curse is slow paced even by the standards of 60's horror movies and suffers from a truly shabby Mummy that I'm sure no Egyptian ruler alive or dead would own up to being responsible for. Of course it's not all bad, some of the murders are effectively staged and Fred Clark and George Pastell offer splendid performances to offset the lack of horror provided by our cloth wrapped assassin.



Track Listing

1. Opening Credits/Professor Dubois Is Murdered (03:40)
2. Annette's Horror (00:52)
3. Fate Of The Nightwatchman (01:08)
4. John And Annette (00:42)
5. Menace On The Boat (01:08)
6. The Legend Of Ra And Be (01:02)
7. The Story Continues... (01:41)
Composed by Franz Reizenstein
8. Alexander King Presents (00:47)
9. Adam And Annette (00:27)
10. The Acient Medallion (01:44)
11. Theft Of The Medallion (01:07)
12. King RefusesHashmi Bey's Offer (01:40)
13. The Slide Show (01:01)
14. Flashback To The Tomb (02:28)
15. "The Mummy Of The Royal Prince Ra Antef..." (01:05)
16. The Empty Sarcophagus (00:16)
17. "The Mummy Brought Back To Life - Wouldn't That Be Something?" (01:48)
18. King's Terror (00:21)
19. John Searches Hashmi Bey's Room (00:20)
20. The Mummy Kills Sir Giles (00:31)
21. Suspicions/Adam And Annette (03:47)
22. Adam And Annette Are Threatened (02:07)
23. The Trap/Ra's Revenge (03:04)
24. Adam - Brother Of Ra (01:56)
25. "Awake Ra, Prince Of The Desert..." (01:16)
26. Ra Kills Adam (01:09)
27. Finale And End Credits (01:17)
28. The Belly Dance (02:30)
Bonus Track Composed by Kenny Graham
29. Music On The Boat (00:47)
Bonus Track
30. Music On The Boat (01:42)
Bonus Track
31. Music On The Boat (02:17)
Bonus Track


There Is A Curse!

Happy Halloween!!

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The Angel of Death was summoned. He cannot return empty-handed.

Monday, 26. October 2009, 19:58:09

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It's Hammer time again! 1968 saw Hammer studios adapt Dennis Wheatley's novel The Devil Rides Out with Christopher Lee and Charles Gray as opposing forces and the combined talents of director Terence Fisher and writer Richard Matheson behind the camera. A hell for leather pace a surreal appearance by the devil himself

and the undoubtable talents of it's leads help iron out some of the more questionable moments (the not so special effects for one) and of course there is an amazing score by James Bernard
Over the years Wheatley seems to have become something of a forgotten figure in horror fiction, despite his works being among the best sellers in the 1960's, it's a shame, as there are far less deserving writers who recieve the credit Wheatley does not. Christopher Lee has often stated that he would love to see someone remake The Devil Rides Out, i'm no fan of remakes but i think i would gladly pay to see someone take a crack at this one.

Track Listing

1. Opening Credits (01:39)
2. Concerned Friends (00:25)
3. Investigating the Observatory (01:06)
4. Hidden Sacrifice (00:17)
5. Protecting Simon (02:04)
6. Balance of Power (01:04)
7. The Duc and Rex Follow Simon (02:53)
8. Uninvited Guests (01:23)
9. The Spirit in the Observatory (01:32)
10. The Eve of Mayday (00:32)
11. Mocata's Presence (00:21)
12. Pursuing Tanith (02:56)
13. The Baptism Begins (02:13)
14. Orgy of Evil (01:58)
15. "The Goat of Mendes - The Devil himself!" (02:05)
16. Rescuing Simon and Tanith (00:44)
17. Mocata Visits the Eatons (00:27)
18. Tanith Controls Rex/Inside the Circle (02:57)
19. Visions of Terror (05:12)
20. The Angel of Death (03:27)
21. The Battle is Lost (01:20)
22. The Power of Mocata (00:27)
23. An Unstained Child (05:39)
24. Finale and End Credits (02:38)
25. Shot 130 - Take 6 (01:47)
Bonus Track
26. Wildtrack B - Take 2 (01:24)
Bonus Track
27. The Spirit in the Observatory - Alternate Version (01:31)
Bonus Track
28. Christopher Lee talks to Marcus Hearn about "The Devil Rides Out" (11:25)

With this knife, do I draw out the blood, which is thy life.

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They Have Destroyed My Servant

Tuesday, 20. October 2009, 17:32:47

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I've been watching way too many Hammer Horrors lately, so The Green Inferno is likely to see quite a lot of Hammer music over the next couple of weeks.
Todays offering is Taste the Blood of Dracula, my own personal favourite of the follow ups to The Horror of Dracula, it's got Christopher Lee, lashings of blood, some barbed criticism of Victorian values and Linda Hayden


It also features a quite magnificent score by James Bernard, full of all the usual crashing sounds the series is known for but also some beautiful lyrical pieces.

Track Listing

1. Weller in Trouble (01:52)
2. Dracula's Blood (02:41)
3. Opening Credits (02:32)
4. Snake Dance - Enter Lord Courtley (02:07)
5. The Young Lovers (02:32)
6. A Dangerous Proposition (01:38)
7. An Unholy Alliance (03:13)
8. The Ceremony Begins (03:29)
9. Taste the Blood (00:42)
10. Courtley is Beaten to Death (00:29)
11. Dracula Reincarnated (01:47)
12. The Lord of the Undead (00:32)
13. Alice and Paul (01:06)
14. Hargood Pays the Price (03:24)
15. Dracula's Presence (00:34)
16. Alice and Lucy (01:34)
17. Lucy Succumbs (01:42)
18. An Impossible Choice (02:49)
19. Paxton Pays the Price (01:04)
20. Lucy Bites Jeremy (00:32)
21. Secker Pays the Price/Dracula Kills Lucy (01:35)
22. Dracula and Alice (00:38)
23. Paul Searches for Alice (03:04)
24. Dracula's Menace (uncut version) (01:46)
25. The Power of light (00:44)
26. The Evil is Vanquished (01:29)
27. Finale and End Credits (01:51)
28. The Evil is Vanquished (01:12)
unused alternate take...
29. Hargood, Paxton & Secker Arrive in the East End (00:53)
barrel organ music...

They Must Be Destroyed

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