“Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring.” Exploring the Gothic sensibility and mood in art, literature and media.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
The Return of Count Yorga
I am constantly amazed how many horror films of the Seventies lift Gothic conventions (capes, castles, decadent and deranged aristocrats) and plump them squarely in the middle of contemporary America. None of this should work for an instant ... but, insanely, it does.
Wonder if Mariette Hartley gets many questions of this Count Yorga these days....
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