The curse of the green eyes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The curse of the green eyes |
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| Country of production |
Federal Republic of Germany , Yugoslavia |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ákos of Ráthonyi |
| script | CV rock |
| production | Ákos Ráthonyi for Lens Film (Germany), Triglav (Yugoslavia) |
| music | Herbert Jarczyk |
| camera | Saric Hrvoj |
| cut | Klaus Dudenhöfer |
| occupation | |
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The Curse of the Green Eyes is a 1963 German horror and vampire film with Adrian Hoven and Wolfgang Preiss in the leading roles.
action
Seven women murders leave the local police in a sleepy mountain village in the Balkans pretty perplexed. Therefore, Interpol is asked to send an expert. His name is Inspector Frank Doren and he is American. Doren notes that every time a girl dies when the power goes out in the village. Then the corpses disappear. As soon as it has arrived, the power goes out again; even Doren's car doesn't start anymore. This time Maria is the victim, the cook of the inn where he is staying. Despite his attempt to disguise himself as a tourist, the entire village community soon knows that Doren was sent by Interpol, which does not make his work easier.
Doren continues his research, several more or less bizarre residents make themselves suspicious: for example, the landlord who tried to make Maria submissive the night before the last murder, or the opaque village doctor who, after every coronary examination, despite clear bite wounds stereotypically insists on his diagnosis of “heart failure” on the throats of young women. Even the deaf, dumb Thomas is inappropriately nocturnal, and an old fortune teller rants about alleged vampires who are supposed to make this area unsafe. They all have one thing in common: They are afraid of an ominous grotto near the village.
The village community is also very afraid of the mysterious Professor von Adelsberg, who is said to be working on a scientific study on the subject of "blood" in his high castle. The young, pretty assistant Karin Schumann is at his service. It doesn't take Frank Doren long to find out that the cultured nobleman with the aura of the uncanny has to be behind the mysterious processes. Doren quickly takes a liking to the professor's assistant, and they both fall in love. He soon realizes that Karin is in great danger, as her boss is the vampire he is looking for, who has the dead women on his conscience. With the help of Adelsberg's black servant John, they can locate the vampire's coffin in the stalactite cave below the castle. There he made the seven allegedly murdered women submissive as undead vampires. Before the undead monster can rise to another bloody deed, Doren stakes him with a wooden stake. Adelsberg's crumbling body goes up in flames in a small explosion.
Production notes
The curse of the green eyes was filmed in Yugoslavia in 1963. The German premiere was on April 10, 1964. Sometimes the flick is also carried under the lurid secondary title “Blutrausch der Vampire”.
Reviews
"Mixture of crime and horror stories, in which belief and superstition are merged in a clumsy way."
Paimann's film lists summed up: "This naive-creepy fable is conventionally processed with actors who remain on the surface".
"Lively horror film"
"In any case, the whole thing is not very exciting, hardly more exciting than an episode of" Der Kommissar ". The film has something hopelessly out of date, especially when you consider what Hammer or Mario Bava had presented in previous years, the German Wallace and Mabuse films were also much faster then. The script is chatty and clumsy, the direction sluggish and clumsy. The entire film seems a little bloodless. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ The curse of the green eyes in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
