The latest vehicle for Spanish horror legend Paul Naschy (a.k.a. Jacinto Molina) started shooting recently in Galicia, Spain, and marks yet another departure in his varied four-decade career. It sees him receiving the same treatment as another international horror icon, Boris Karloff in Mad Monster Party?—namely, being transformed into a stop-motion puppet.
The Apostle (O APÓSTOLO) is an animated feature-length film combining “terror, humor and fantasy” in the Gothic style of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, though the producers tell Fango that visually, the production is taking inspiration from the likes of Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers and Burton’s Sleepy Hollow. The plot concerns an escaped convict and his attempts to recover loot which he hid years before in a decrepit house in an isolated, fog-bound village. Murderous old yokels, strange disappearances, ghosts, a weird priest, the shadow of bubonic plague, a sinister old...
The Apostle (O APÓSTOLO) is an animated feature-length film combining “terror, humor and fantasy” in the Gothic style of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, though the producers tell Fango that visually, the production is taking inspiration from the likes of Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers and Burton’s Sleepy Hollow. The plot concerns an escaped convict and his attempts to recover loot which he hid years before in a decrepit house in an isolated, fog-bound village. Murderous old yokels, strange disappearances, ghosts, a weird priest, the shadow of bubonic plague, a sinister old...
- 11/17/2008
- Fangoria
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