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Party to Oblivion

In Swinging London, from around 1965 to around 1974, the world shifted just a little bit. It seemed just a little bit different from all the other times the world had shifted before. Call it freedom. That's what the young people of the time called it. I was way too young to be free. But I still feel it like a nostalgic tug. But with every night of parties and freedom, there is a morning after. A sickly sensation of the death and the end of everything. That sense slips into the way young people enjoying their lives was depicted in horror films. Sometimes clumsily and sometimes critically, but it always fed into the notion of chaos and destruction. In the Christopher Wicking scripted, Gordon Hessler directed, 'Scream and Scream Again' we had a catalogue of terrors. A totalitarian state in God-knows-where land where a thug politician murders his way to the top. A jogger who keeps waking up with another limb missing. Vincent Price playing Frankenstein and Christopher Lee playing the cold hearted minister that author, Sean Hogan, suggested might be the same character he played a few years later in 'Death Line'. But the real scene stealer was Michael Gothard as the psychotic vampire Keith. His scenes have an edge and a quality which, once seen, is rarely forgotten. His tall gaunt physique and his powerful low voice luring young girls with his offer to take them for a drive. 'Dracula AD1972' is one of those films endlessly ridiculed for its tone-deaf depiction of hip young kids looking for kicks. Strange hoe well this film has aged. Now, it's easy to see that these particular entitled little bright young things really have a Dracula attack coming. They are rolling in cash. They live in swanky apartments. They hang out in Chelsea bars. And yet, when their favourite band plays for some rich kid, they think nothing of a bit of home invasion. It's hard not to be on the side of Caroline Munro and co. But this was never meant to be the aren't-kids-now-cool type of film as much as aren't-kids-now-selfish-and-self-important-and-kind-of-dumb. Critics kept talking about how out of touch the film-makers were because the slang is off... True... But these kids aren't at the cutting edge of culture and I never think they are supposed to be. The party scenes of 'Curse of the Crimson Altar' offer a strange tableaux of body painting, fighting and drinking to insensibility that never quite connects with the spirit of the times. I'm a huge fan of Vernon Sewell and this film, but we see it from a complete outsider's viewpoint like Peter Cushing's view of the party in Robert Hartford-Davis's 'Corruption'. Michael Reeves has a few moments in 'The Sorcerers' where we feel a sense of ennui rather than real enjoyment. That he was a very young film-maker at the time gives a closer insight into how things might have felt to someone in the late sixties. Parties feeling like they might be fun but dancing always being a little unnatural and forced. In fact, I feel that this is the takeaway from all five of these films set in Swinging Britain. It reminds me of those 'Top of the Pops' sessions where you would see the professional dancers on stage giving it everything but all the other people in the studio shuffling awkwardly from one foot to the other looking anything but glamorous. Music: Corporation Road by Unicorn Heads Contents 0:00 - 'Scream and Scream Again' eyes meeting across a crowded night club 0:44 - 'Curse of the Crimson Altar' the correct way to serve champagne 1:03 - 'Scream and Scream Again' undercover policewoman out to trap the vampire killer 1:12 - 'Curse of the Crimson Altar' paint fight 1:33 - 'Scream and Scream Again' the romance of imminent death 2:47 - 'The Sorcerers' dancing to a different tune 2:57 - 'Curse of the Crimson Altar' laid back man 3:04 - 'Scream and Scream Again' how about coming for a ride 3:20 - 'Curse of the Crimson Altar' more champagne 3:27 - 'Dracula AD 1972' home invasion 4:28 - 'Scream and Scream Again' a ride 4:43 - 'Curse of the Crimson Altar' kaleidoscope and Lavinia's chamber of horrors 5:13 - 'Scream and Scream Again' faking it to stay alive 5:20 - 'Corruption' antics 5:44 - 'Scream and Scream Again' brutal attack 5:53 - 'Dracula AD 1972' Laura unhappy vampirism is not cool 6:06 - Titles the ghosts of another time #britishhorror #carolinemunro #barbarasteele #horrofilms #vampires #witches #dracula #michaelgothard #petercushing #stephaniebeecham #60scinema #70scinema #hammerfilms #amicus #nightclubs