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Unenlightening "making of" filler
Frank Woodward is a self-appointed expert about genre filmmakers, but judging by the weak results of END OF THE ROAD he hasn't done his homework about either film history or what constitutes a minimally adequate documentary. He would be unemployed, save for the ultra-low bar set by the DVD industry of the past decade or so.
This "extra" included with the DVD issue of two versions of Mario Bava's experimental film RABID DOGS (and its re-jigger KIDNAPPED version) is mainly equal-time interviews with Bava's son Lamberto, his erstwhile producer Alfred Leone and RABID DOGS' leading lady Lea Lander. They give okay recollections, but as is usual with this DVD filler, the viewer is left head-scratching. Who is giving us the honest truth? Whose memory can be trusted? Who is merely self-serving? Damned if I know.
What I do know beyond a shadow of a doubt (I chose that cliché purposefully) is that Bava Fils and schlockmeister Leone decided to mess up the senior Bava's movie in the usual "we know better" manner of latter-day philistines. The original's content, pacing and music track are so superior to the crap these 2 added it isn't funny. All you have to do is watch the two versions to decide, and it is so obvious one wonders what self-delusion pills these boys have been taking. Lamberto's new shoots and insertions of a "young mom phoning it in" are pure garbage and an insult to the audience.
Lander is to be honored for having worked hard, without hope of success, at getting somebody to back her up in getting a shelved movie out of the can after 25 years of oblivion.
This "extra" included with the DVD issue of two versions of Mario Bava's experimental film RABID DOGS (and its re-jigger KIDNAPPED version) is mainly equal-time interviews with Bava's son Lamberto, his erstwhile producer Alfred Leone and RABID DOGS' leading lady Lea Lander. They give okay recollections, but as is usual with this DVD filler, the viewer is left head-scratching. Who is giving us the honest truth? Whose memory can be trusted? Who is merely self-serving? Damned if I know.
What I do know beyond a shadow of a doubt (I chose that cliché purposefully) is that Bava Fils and schlockmeister Leone decided to mess up the senior Bava's movie in the usual "we know better" manner of latter-day philistines. The original's content, pacing and music track are so superior to the crap these 2 added it isn't funny. All you have to do is watch the two versions to decide, and it is so obvious one wonders what self-delusion pills these boys have been taking. Lamberto's new shoots and insertions of a "young mom phoning it in" are pure garbage and an insult to the audience.
Lander is to be honored for having worked hard, without hope of success, at getting somebody to back her up in getting a shelved movie out of the can after 25 years of oblivion.
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- Oct 21, 2010
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