8mm Forum: Return Of The Vampire 200' (Subtitled Version)

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Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on April 04, 2012, 11:25 PM:

A nice little goodie with some good scenes from the movie. It opens with Bela biting the young girl and then being disposed of prior to WWII. The bombs strike London and up comes Bela's hand from the dirt only to rise again (I have the RCA/Columbia VHS version of this movie and it actually doesn't have this scene in it. In my VHS copy Bela is resurrected when Billy Bevan yanks the spike from his chest). He looks to exact his revenge and is eventually brought to his end in the sunlight by Andreas. The editing is actually capably done. However, this title definitely suffers from having no audio. The subtitles are often lengthy as a result of Columbia trying hard to explain the plot and are not on the screen for very long. Often you end up not being able to read all the type on the screen and I purposely projected it at 18fps to see if it made a difference and it didn't. Funny note... At one point the subtitles are superimposed directly over Bela's open mouth which always makes me giggle. The editing is done well, but, how I wish Columbia had released it in a sound edition. It definitely needs its audio.

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