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Topic	31 Women of Horror Cinema (Appreciation Topic)
So_Hajile 10/08/20 10:20:23 AM #29:	#8 Caroline Munro Its 1977. Some tiny little flick called Star Wars is making a sensation in America and the rest of the world is chomping its collective bit to see this. Its not just a movie; its an experience never before felt. You are a little-known Italian director charged with the task of cashing in on this monumental juggernaut of celluloid. Theres just one problem---you havent seen Star Wars. What do you do? You watch the trailer a few times, jot down a few notes involving laser swords and spaceships that go PEW PEW along with a young David Hasselhoff and an ominous villain dressed in black that you dont want to meet in a darkened space alley. Thats not enough material to fill an entire feature length film so you also toss in homages to Jason and the Argonauts. What if it needs that last little oomph? That little missing element that reaches out and grabs the viewers of 1978 by their untrimmed balls? You cast the lead character with a former Bond girl and have her dressed in a bikini---correction, a space bikini. And thus the recipe of success known as Starcrash is born to limited box office. Because it's Italian. I would say this is where British actress Caroline Munro makes her debut, but by 1978 shes already got her genre resume in order. Where did she get her start? Like many beautiful English actors, with Hammer Studios. Munro was vamping it up with as much sexuality as the next buxom lady as a victim of Dracula in the psychedelic Dracula A.D. 1972 along with Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter and later with a more subdued and supporting role in I Dont Want to Live. It has one of the most memorable posters with a creature that is part fetus part hand clutching a pair of scissors. Now thats an abortion topic! My first exposure to Munro is like two sides of the same coin all in one evening. I had watched the adventure film The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in which she just oozes sex appeal and not in a sleazy way. Theres nothing dark or dreary about Sinbad so to follow it up with 1980s Maniac was quite a filthy surprise. Munro plays the innocent girl so its not as if her image became tarnished. Its that Maniac is one of those I need to shower experiences. Its a fantastic, low-budget psycho-sexual invitation to the disturbed filled with grime and sweat. I havent even talked about some of Tom Savinis greatest gore effects that explode onto the screen. Because this ties into Caroline Munro as she stars in it, Im going to take this moment to briefly mention Slaughter High. Its a British take on the American slasher complete with what England thinks Murica high schools were like. Class reunions held on dilapidated rundown boarding houses that substitute as a high school in the middle of nowhere, foreign accents changing to some bizarro version of where-the-hell-USA, and a very obvious 37-year-old Caroline Munro portrays a senior high schooler. That doesnt even tackle the facilities within the school or the British assuming America has the same custom about April Fools Day ending at noon. There are so many baffling choices. It must be how other countries feel when Hollywood make-believes their customs and traditions and gets it all wrong. Selected Horror Filmography: I Dont Want to Live Dracula A.D. 1972 Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter Maniac (1980) Slaughter High Dont Open Till Christmas Faceless --- Reading up on the Bat-Family: https://bit.ly/2Us5RhG <cite>So_Hajile posted [p:945604643] in 31 Women o... [t:79013423]...</cite> <quote>#8 Caroline Munro Its 1977. Some tiny little flick called Star Wars is making a sensation in America and the rest of the world is chomping its collective bit to see this. Its not just a movie; its an experience never before felt. You are a little-known Italian director charged with the task of cashing in on this monumental juggernaut of celluloid. Theres just one problem---you havent seen Star Wars. What do you do? You watch the trailer a few times, jot down a few notes involving laser swords and spaceships that go PEW PEW along with a young David Hasselhoff and an ominous villain dressed in black that you dont want to meet in a darkened space alley. Thats not enough material to fill an entire feature length film so you also toss in homages to Jason and the Argonauts. What if it needs that last little oomph? That little missing element that reaches out and grabs the viewers of 1978 by their untrimmed balls? You cast the lead character with a former Bond girl and have her dressed in a bikini---correction, a space bikini. And thus the recipe of success known as Starcrash is born to limited box office. Because it's Italian. I would say this is where British actress Caroline Munro makes her debut, but by 1978 shes already got her genre resume in order. Where did she get her start? Like many beautiful English actors, with Hammer Studios. Munro was vamping it up with as much sexuality as the next buxom lady as a victim of Dracula in the psychedelic Dracula A.D. 1972 along with Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter and later with a more subdued and supporting role in I Dont Want to Live. It has one of the most memorable posters with a creature that is part fetus part hand clutching a pair of scissors. Now thats an abortion topic! My first exposure to Munro is like two sides of the same coin all in one evening. I had watched the adventure film The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in which she just oozes sex appeal and not in a sleazy way. Theres nothing dark or dreary about Sinbad so to follow it up with 1980s Maniac was quite a filthy surprise. Munro plays the innocent girl so its not as if her image became tarnished. Its that Maniac is one of those I need to shower experiences. Its a fantastic, low-budget psycho-sexual invitation to the disturbed filled with grime and sweat. I havent even talked about some of Tom Savinis greatest gore effects that explode onto the screen. Because this ties into Caroline Munro as she stars in it, Im going to take this moment to briefly mention Slaughter High. Its a British take on the American slasher complete with what England thinks Murica high schools were like. Class reunions held on dilapidated rundown boarding houses that substitute as a high school in the middle of nowhere, foreign accents changing to some bizarro version of where-the-hell-USA, and a very obvious 37-year-old Caroline Munro portrays a senior high schooler. That doesnt even tackle the facilities within the school or the British assuming America has the same custom about April Fools Day ending at noon. There are so many baffling choices. It must be how other countries feel when Hollywood make-believes their customs and traditions and gets it all wrong. Selected Horror Filmography: I Dont Want to Live Dracula A.D. 1972 Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter Maniac (1980) Slaughter High Dont Open Till Christmas Faceless --- Reading up on the Bat-Family: https://bit.ly/2Us5RhG</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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