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Jennie Blake Getting Staked

posted 15 years ago by Raysand
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I saw this movie on TV years ago when I was around 7 years old. I remember really being freaked out by the rather graphic scene in which Jennie Blake has a stake driven through her heart. To me that was the highlight of the movie: gory scene with plenty of blood spurting out in an otherwise low-keyed, but aptly moody film. Remember this was at a time when there was practically no gore in the movies.

Perhaps if I see it again after all of these years, I won't like it, but I do remember this movie fondly and I did enjoy it.

[–] vpilutis 14 years ago

Why they even take the time to stake the vamp as in most films one takes it out and the Vampire comes back.

Better to burn the body like the female vamp in "Son of Dracula"

[–] layton59 14 years ago

I just now watched the last 15 minutes of THE RETURN OF DRACULA (1958) in the USA on the network "THIS" and it had the 3 second color footage.

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[–] Woodyanders 14 years ago

Yeah, that color shot of Jennie having a stake driven into her heart was quite startling.

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[–] vpilutis 14 years ago

I saw the film in the theaters only twice and a few times on Black & White
TVs.

Funny thing about color and local stations back then in that you always didn't get a color print of certain films.

I recall as recent as 1975 or 6 I was looking forward to seeing the 1959
"Hound of the Baskervilles" once again, when the station here in NYC which is now
the local "CW" broadcast a Black & White print.

When the later EPs of "the Adventures of Superman" which were in color, it was many years before all stations had color equipment to show them as such and many times the color was off.

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[–] Thebobo. 12 years ago

[–] vpilutis 12 years ago

I thought about this when I saw this film. Many folks years ago did not see the color scene even on a color TV. For those old to remember: remember when watching a B&W movie on a color TV and the commercial would come on. for a brief moment the commercial was in B&W until it switched to color.

Years back there was a device called the black box or something like that.
This unit was good for taping B&W films as it would pulse the VCR during a color
commercial and of course un-pulse when the color went away (commercial breaks were shorted back then) only problem was sometimes the color signal was still on for a while when the movie started again. So you still missed a bit.

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[–] Thebobo. 12 years ago

I do remember that! Early 80's if I recall. A very limited device since a lot of movies I wanted to tape was in color. One of those inventions that meant well but never could take off.

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[–] vpilutis 12 years ago

Just remembered later on they had a like device that would pulse when the screen would fade to black between the show and ads, and then un-pulse when the fade to black took place as the show started up again. Only one problem:
What if there was more then two fades to black?

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[–] Hey_Sweden 12 years ago

It's a great visual treat in the movie, I think.

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