Aka Sunday 28th October
Today I binged watched season’s one and two of ‘Castlevania’,
I had seen Season One before, but it’s just four half hour episodes, so I could
easily watch it and catch up with the characters before watching the brand-new Season Two.
Season One is almost like a prologue or starter, it introduces
us to all the main characters, their backgrounds and motivations, before we get
to the main course of Season Two. In Season Two we get a greater understanding
of the bad guys motives - Dracula wants to take revenge for the murder of his
wife, but he’s also world-weary and has had enough of man and wants to wipe out
mankind, while the two most vocal members of his war council have their own plans,
Carmilla wants power and to replace Dracula, while Godbrand wants to kill and ravage
his way through the country. Like the first season, Season Two is beautiful animated
and voiced and chock full of classic Ellis-isms, but with more action and
fights and we get to see our heroes, Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades and Alucard,
become a team, almost a family, as they fight against Dracula and his armies. 8/10.
…I also re-watched ‘The Beast Must Die’, which is probably
my favourite werewolf film. I first saw it when I was about 12 and it scared the
life out of me, now that I’m much older it’s not as scary, for example, it’s very
obvious that the werewolf is just a dog with added hair!, and they are some “plot
holes”, for example, when the werewolf is killed, it changes back into human
shape and as it changes back its clothes come back too! But, it’s got a really
good, funky soundtrack, a great story idea (hunter organises a werewolf hunt, it's almost like a horror version of a 'The Avengers' episode),
great actors, a good script with a touch of tongue-in-check and it’s got the
werewolf break – a thirty second break in the film where you have to decide/deduce
who the werewolf is. Classic British seventies horror. 8/10.
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