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leslie megahey’s “duke bluebeard’s castle”, (1988) .

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“You’re the most perfect person I ever met.” 3 WOMEN (1977) dir. Robert Altman

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Le altre (1969)  

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Director: Renzo Maietto / Alessandro Fallay

Cinematographer: Giuseppe Pinori

Performers:  Erna Schurer & Monica Strebel

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Rear Window (1954)

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Young people in love are very seldom hungry. It Happened One Night (1934) dir. Frank Capra

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FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

Directed by Charles Sturridge

Cinematography by Michael Coulter

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not nearly enough movies about women slowly turning into a monster/demon or just straight up rotting

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My Julian Sands Story

My first job in LA was as a Production Assistant on the low-budget horror film, Warlock: The Armageddon starring Julian Sands. Assigned to a second unit that didn’t want to spend money for body doubles, various parts of my body got valuable screen time. That's my hand over-enthusiastically pointing to druidic spells in an ancient tome and my skinny torso soaked in red karo syrup being whipped by rubber vines. And when a pulsing amniotic sac shoots from the nether regions of a bloody stuntwoman and blooms into a fully-formed naked Julian Sands, that's my nose bursting through the silicon gel-drenched latex womb. After "acting" in shots like these, I had to wipe myself off with paper towels and get the crew complicated coffee orders.

While I may have been Julian Sands's part-time body double, I’d never spoken directly to him. Then one day, after being hoisted around in a special effect flying harness until my inner thighs wanted to explode, I got my chance. The Assistant Director tasked me with getting Julian from his trailer. Why? No one else would do it because he was being an “asshole.” He pissed the crew off so much, the Wardrobe Assistant was showing off Polaroids of his dirty underpants.

Julian had a big black trailer with a satellite dish fit for a Warlock. I went up the steps a bit nervously and knocked at the door. Nothing. I knocked one more time, and heard him scream, “I SAID, COME IN!!!”

It's dark in the trailer. Julian’s lying down on the couch all the way in the back dressed in his black velvet suit and looks over the rim of a hardcover book. He silently stares at me.

“Uh. Hey, Julian. They, uh - need you for the flying stuff...”

He continues to look at me. Unmoving.

“Uh…”

I realize I’m at a loss for words - and I’m never at a loss for words. His expression remains blank. I don’t even know if he heard or understood what I was saying.

I did the only thing I could think of and started doing a little jig and shouted, “JULIAN SANDS! YOU'RE THE NEXT ACTOR ON STAGE 14! SO, COME ON DOWN!”

As I dance around and hum the theme to The Price Is Right, I hear him start to laugh, slowly at first. Not a human laugh, but a scary full-throated supervillain laugh that echoes from his trailer as I flew back to the sound stage - heart racing.

In an interview with Sands on Vestron Video's Warlock Collection Blu-ray (Recommended - The first film is a banger!) he kind of apologizes for being a dick on the set. Apparently, he was utilizing the “Method” to become the Son of Satan both inside and out, which extended to the crew, making a lot of people miserable. Honestly, the film needed more of the kind of sinister energy he brought to the screen, but hearing him say, decades later, that his working method should not come at the expense of those busting their asses for you was heartening. Now I feel lucky enough to fly in Julian Sands' harness for a short time and make him laugh, at least ONCE.

#wow I hadn't heard about this... #requiescat in pace

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Norma Shearer as Florence Banning and Molly Helmer in Lady of the Night (1925) dir. Monta Bell

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#the cat's return #a favorite movie

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Dracula’s Daughter (1936)

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Hellraiser (1987)

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

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The Fly (1986)

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Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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‘鬼婆’ ONIBABA 1964 | dir. Kaneto Shindō