{"id":34526,"date":"2015-06-15T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=34526"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:18:00","slug":"atom-age-vampire-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=34526","title":{"rendered":"Atom Age Vampire (1960)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt of it! Yes, she&#8217;s disfigured forever! Like a cancer that&#8217;s beyond control &#8212; like leprosy!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Poster-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-34528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Poster-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Poster.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nDistraught that her boyfriend (Sergio Fantoni) is leaving her because she won&#8217;t give up her job as a nightclub dancer, a woman (Susanne Loret) crashes her car and is facially disfigured. She is discovered by a scientist (Albert Lupo) and his loyal assistant (Franca Parisi), who are determined to utilize an experimental new skin cure on her; but when the treatment proves to be temporary, Lupo &#8212; who has fallen hopelessly in love with Loret &#8212; resorts to monstrous means to keep her looking beautiful.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disfigured Faces<\/li>\n<li>Horror Films<\/li>\n<li>Mad Doctors and Scientists<\/li>\n<li>Obsessive Love<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that this &#8220;sleazy, dubbed horror film&#8221; is an &#8220;awful picture&#8221; but &#8220;fun to watch&#8221;, and points out how &#8220;perversely exciting&#8221; it was for him as a young boy to see &#8220;scarred Loret displaying her stacked body in skimpy underwear&#8221;. Naturally, my own take on this mash-up of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2939\"><em>Eyes Without a Face<\/em> (1960)<\/a> and <em>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<\/em> lacks Peary&#8217;s fond memories of it as &#8220;one of the first horror films to really exploit sex&#8221;. While it is indeed sleazy, terribly dubbed, poorly acted, and somewhat schizophrenic in its many (cliched) narrative strands, I don&#8217;t agree with Peary that it&#8217;s AWFUL; it&#8217;s often creatively shot (see stills below) and reasonably suspenseful for a low-budget thriller, with plenty of campy dialogue. Most humorous of all is how gorgeous Loret &#8212; evoking Veronica Lake with her peekaboo blonde wave of hair &#8212; survives a near-fatal car crash with facial scarring conveniently on just <u>one<\/u> side of her face, and no other obvious impairments; her suicidal distress feels somewhat out of proportion. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some creative direction<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Direction.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Direction.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Direction.png 480w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Direction-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Direction-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Atmospheric cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Cinematography.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Cinematography.png 480w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Cinematography-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Atom-Age-Vampire-Cinematography-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s worth a look simply for its cult\/camp appeal. Available as a public domain video <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/AtomAgeVampire\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0054285\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moria.co.nz\/horror\/atom-age-vampire-1960.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt of it! Yes, she&#8217;s disfigured forever! Like a cancer that&#8217;s beyond control &#8212; like leprosy!&#8221; Synopsis: Distraught that her boyfriend (Sergio Fantoni) is leaving her because she won&#8217;t give up her job as a nightclub dancer, a woman (Susanne Loret) crashes her car and is facially disfigured. She is discovered by a scientist (Albert Lupo) and his loyal assistant (Franca Parisi), who are determined to utilize an experimental new skin cure on her; but when the treatment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=34526\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34526"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68903,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34526\/revisions\/68903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}