Saturday, June 30, 2012

Stripping through the Graveyard: The Orgy of the Dead Mega Review, Part 5

What is this?  Read this: Simon Bar "Cinema": Orgy of the Dead

05: The Slave Girl Dance


Black Ghoul Criswell Introduction

It will please me very much to see the slave girl with her tortures!
Torture, torture, it pleasures me!

Note: The delivery of this line is something to behold.  Criswell is really either into the lines or the barbiturates, or possible both.  One also can't discount the possibility of a grand mal seizure.  Either way, it's only a single step below "damn dirty apes."

Ed Wood Crazy Talk Grade: A+

Sexiness

Criswell nods approvingly throughout the dance, and who's to argue with a man for whom the future is an open book and the present is an open bar?  Not me!

Rubber Werewolf™ and Grimy-Gause Mummy™ also seem very interested.

Black Ghoul is wondering if she'll get paid when this is all over.

Grace

As you can see, I'm stretching hard to make fun of this dancer.  She's actually very graceful and seems to be trained.  How did Ed Wood score this dancer?  His magnetic personality?  Her desire to actually have some money to afford a meal in LA?

Her name is Nadejda Dobrev, was Bulgarian, and is still very pretty: An over-dubbed 2012 interview.  Maybe she'll stumble over this and be embarrassed all over again!  Nadejda Dobrev, whatever you went through for this, you're appreciated by the 2 or 3 people who mistakenly stumble upon this site while drunk-googling.

Closeness to Theme

Orange, the color of slavery and pumpkins.  

Music

Sub-Disney cartoon drum/muted trumpet middle-eastern music.  It's cut and pasted a number of times, and suddenly dissolves into a strange warm-up orchestra piece when Old-Poodle Werewolf™ and Left-Over-Medical-Waste Mummy™ appear to drain every bit of interest the scene might have garnered.

Length of Act

6 minutes, interrupted numerous times by a rouges gallery of goofs.

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