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CAPTAIN GEORGE |
The following Hallowe'en bulletin comes courtesy of CBC-FM Radio:
Hallowe'en is the time when ghoulies and ghosties and other creatures of the dark come out for a night's fling. Joining them this year is that fiend incarnate--the human vampire, Dracula, the most blood-curdling horror story of all time, is resurrected on CBC-FM's Stereo Theatre, Sunday, Oct, 31 at 10:03 p.m.
This BBC production of Dracula, prepared for CBC Radio by Peter Donkin, is a spine-chilling dramatization of the story that immortalized the legend of the bloodsucking vampire in human form, Since Bram Stoker's novel was published in 1897, it has never been out of print. It has seen almost 50 film versions, ranging from Bela Lugosi's impersonation in 1931, to Andy Warhol's 1975 production, It has also been re-created on stage, There are at least two Count Dracula Societies, one in the States and one in Canada,
Undeniably, there is a cult interest in Dracula, Why? A spate of books on the subject, including two biographies of Dracula's Irish-born author, attempt to sort out the psychological complexities of this Gothic novel, its sexual undercurrents, the consequence of the nightmarish experiences of a sickly child (Stoker), an unhealthy interest in sadomasochism and death,
Whatever the reason behind it, Stoker was certainly aware of the vampire superstition in Slavic mythology which held that the soul of a criminal left its grave at night, assumed the shape of a bat, and searched out the blood of humans for his evening meal...
Dracula was adapted for the BBC by Eric Macdonald and stars David March in the title role. Howling wolves, creaking doors and agonized shrieks help build up the growing horror as Jonathan Harker, along with his wife Mina, follow the Count from Transylvania to England, where more diabolical deeds are committed, and back to Castle Dracula where its master is finally impaled through the heart in his coffin,
So when Hallowe'en night arrives, the moon is full and chill autumn winds are howling, turn down the lights, turn up your radio, and listen to Dracula, It's a bloody good show!
DON MILLER continued from page 2
Silent Movie should have been the standout but wasn't, primarily because Mel Brooks is not a physical comedian, He's also not much of a director unless you're assured he can do no wrong, Otherwise, Blazing Saddles increasingly appears a fluke, a raunchily funny dirty joke of a movie, Silent Movie must have been a real knee-slapper on paper, all those jokesters doing a whole shtick minus dialogue, But too many gags just hang there, and even the good ones suffer because they're either not worked out completely or paced wrong,
Maybe all these efforts are sidesplitters and I'm just having a bad day. Pardon me while I go out and kick some little children,