With Halloween coming up,I started looking round for off-beat Horror movies that I could give to a friend as a gift.Talking to a DVD seller,I was happily caught by surprise,when he revealed that he had recently tracked down the only title to be filmed in "Signscope",which turned out to be a Horror film for the deaf! Which led to me getting ready to listen closely to Deafula.
The plot:
Being unable to catch a serial killer who has murdered 30 people,the local police force decide to hire an expert in catching serial killers from the UK.Looking at the evidence gathered,the cop notices that all of the victims have bite marks,despite Dracula having been killed years ago.As the cops continue to search for the killer, Steve Adams begins to focus on his childhood,and starts to place the fragments of his childhood memories together,which leads to Adams discover that his preacher dad may have given him an earful of vampirism.
View on the film: Filmed in fuzzy black & white,writer/director and lead actor Peter Wolf gives the movie a wonderfully peculiar atmosphere,by splashing voices interrupting the sign language over the screen,which gives the film a fascinating disembodied appearance.Along with the waves of dubbed vocals,Wolf gives the movie a smooth touch of stylish weirdness,which go from basking Deafula in elegant light,to using deep dark lights to turn the characters into Gothic monsters.
Despite the name of the film nodding to Dracula,the screenplay by Wolf takes the movie into a rambling Melodrama direction with a hazy religious bite.Whilst the title largely stays on the Melodrama side,Wolf does allow some Horror fangs to sink into the film,with the screenplays uncovering of Deafula's half faded memories giving the film a strikingly chilling vibe,whilst Deafula's attacks on his "silent" victims gives the film a strong, eerie,surprisingly unsettling sting.
Final view on the film:
A fascinatingly strange film that everyone should hear.
The plot:
Being unable to catch a serial killer who has murdered 30 people,the local police force decide to hire an expert in catching serial killers from the UK.Looking at the evidence gathered,the cop notices that all of the victims have bite marks,despite Dracula having been killed years ago.As the cops continue to search for the killer, Steve Adams begins to focus on his childhood,and starts to place the fragments of his childhood memories together,which leads to Adams discover that his preacher dad may have given him an earful of vampirism.
View on the film: Filmed in fuzzy black & white,writer/director and lead actor Peter Wolf gives the movie a wonderfully peculiar atmosphere,by splashing voices interrupting the sign language over the screen,which gives the film a fascinating disembodied appearance.Along with the waves of dubbed vocals,Wolf gives the movie a smooth touch of stylish weirdness,which go from basking Deafula in elegant light,to using deep dark lights to turn the characters into Gothic monsters.
Despite the name of the film nodding to Dracula,the screenplay by Wolf takes the movie into a rambling Melodrama direction with a hazy religious bite.Whilst the title largely stays on the Melodrama side,Wolf does allow some Horror fangs to sink into the film,with the screenplays uncovering of Deafula's half faded memories giving the film a strikingly chilling vibe,whilst Deafula's attacks on his "silent" victims gives the film a strong, eerie,surprisingly unsettling sting.
Final view on the film:
A fascinatingly strange film that everyone should hear.