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One Of The Best Horror Movies Ever.


I remember watching this 20 years ago. On Creature Feature Saturday night. And those eyes still haunt me. I must see for Horror fans. Lee and Cushing ruled.

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I agree 100%. The mad monk was esp. good- and of course Peter Cushing was excellent. The music was haunting, too.

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Yeah, wow. This is like a Lovecraftian idea, totally atmospheric and creepy. These old films are like *beep* gold compared to the current audience-friendly ass-shat.

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Totally Agree 110%. This Movie Rocks, I Think It's The Best Non Hammer Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee Film. All Horror Film Fans Should See This Movie. It's A Classic.

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i got this at walmart for 88 cents... ;)

its a cool movie, from what i saw! i feel asleep tho, so i need to finish it! :)

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I remember watching this at about 7 years old and its the sawed heads that have always stayed with me.

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WHAT?!?!?!?! 88 CENTS??? I got mine with 2 other movies in a vintage classics unspeakable horror thing for $8 from blockbuster

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I agree with you on this one. This was one hell of a good movie.
The acting was good and the cast is hard to beat with Peter Cushing,Telly SAvalas and whoever it was who played that mad crazy monk (reminds me of Rasputin).
The story is great and I consider this a real classic.

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I thought Telly stole the show, for the short time he was in it.

Taking nothing away from this one, it was great, but Argento's "Four Flies on Grey Velvet" beat it to the punch, re: visual imprint in a dead eye.

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"Argento's "Four Flies on Grey Velvet" beat it to the punch, re: visual imprint in a dead eye."

This concept of optography can be traced all the way back to the 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography

Optography is the process of viewing or retrieving an optogram, an image on the retina of the eye. A belief that the eye "recorded" the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a frequent plot device in fiction of the time, to the extent that police photographed the victims' eyes in several real-life murder investigations, in case the theory was true. The concept has been repeatedly debunked as a forensic method.

Much of the scientific work on optography was performed by the German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne. Inspired by Franz Christian Boll's discovery of rhodopsin (or "visual purple")—a photosensitive pigment present in the rods of the retina—Kühne discovered that, under ideal circumstances, the rhodopsin could be "fixed" like a photographic negative.

Kühne experimented on numerous animals to refine the process and determine the chemicals used to fix the image on the retina. His most successful optogram was obtained from an albino rabbit, with its head fastened to face a barred window. The rabbit's head was covered for several minutes to allow rhodopsin to accumulate on the retina. It was then uncovered for three minutes to expose it to the light, then decapitated and its eyeball sliced from top to bottom. The rear half of the eye was placed in an alum solution to enable fixation of the bleached rhodopsin, which resulted in a distinct image of the barred windows.

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I wholeheartedly agree. This along with Mute Witness are my favorite films of all time and probably the greatest in the history of mankind and the universe. Telly Savalas as Captain Kazan was perfect!

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This movie is definately one of the better horror movies of the 70's. I thought the red eyes in the dark bit was pretty damn scary. Its ashame I didnt get to see this at the movies when it came out. I would have been aboout 8 years old and this would have scared the crap out of me!

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I loved watching this as a kid on Saturdays when they played this on TV during the 70s. The monk with the red eyes freaked me out the most as he looked like an evil Jesus.

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