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Lancelot du Lac (1974)
worst performance by a horse ?
Words fail me about this film. I don't wish to repeat what others have said, beyond the fact that I thought utterly dire and only works as a parody of an art film.
I don't think it's particularly beautiful to watch. I got sick of white walls, white tents, basically any excuse to have no scenery.
Even the horses performances are awful. The same neighing sound effect is heard hundreds of times ("Frau Blucher!"), a jousting scene only shows the horses legs, and at the films "climax" a horse with an arrow in it's head seems quite happy and clearly wants another sugar lump.
It was neither as accurate as Monty Python and the Holy Grail , nor as funny as Excalibur .
The emperor has no clothes on ( or maybe just some tights )
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
An odd one
I recently watched this as part of an 8 movie Hammer DVD collection and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It does not really fit with the other hammer Frankenstein films and has some pretty glaring plot holes.
The strangest parts for me were the rather naturalistic scenes of the Town Circus and of the locals at play . These looked like a home movie made on set, and I have not noticed such camera work in a hammer film until the 1970's.
I liked the rather Bond-like quip Cushing makes to the Burgermeisters wife when he swings out of the room while making his escape. Rather dashing I thought.
The Monsters makeup is very odd, and and in his grey he resembles the mythical Golem of Jewish folklore (not the Tolkien character)