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- One of the most important clandestine productions in Spanish cinema, "Cuadecuc, Vampir is an Arthouse documentary film shot on the set of Count Dracula while Jesus Franco was making it.
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Cuadecuc, vampir is a 1970 Spanish experimental feature film written, produced, and directed by Pere Portabella. It stars Christopher Lee , Herbert Lom , Soledad Miranda , and Jack Taylor . The film tells an abbreviated version of the Dracula story using behind-the-scenes footage from the Jesús Franco film Count Dracula .
Cuadecuc, vampir: Directed by Pere Portabella. With Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Soledad Miranda, Jack Taylor. An analysis of the construction mechanism for the magic in dominant narrative cinema though the filming of Count Dracula (1970), a commercial film by Jesús Franco.
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- Documentary, Horror
- Pere Portabella
- 1972-05-05
Vampir-Cuadecuc is a 1970 experimental feature film by Spanish filmmaker Pere Portabella. The entire film is photographed on high contrast black & white film stock, which gives it the appearance of a degraded film print, evoking early Expressionist horror films such as F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu or Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr.
- Pere Portabella
Vampir-Cuadecuc is possibly a key film in understanding the transition in the Spanish film world from the period of the “new cinemas” (permitted by the Franco government) towards the ilegal, clandestine or openly antagonistic practices against the Franco regime.
Sep 14, 2015 · Vampir-Cuadecuc. Reviewed by: Rebecca Naughten. "Portabella's repurposing and reimagining of the elements at Franco's disposal creates something genuinely (and appropriately) otherworldly." Tweet. Vampir-Cuadecuc was made in and around the shooting of Jesús "Jess" Franco's Count Dracula in 1970.
Oct 15, 2020 · It’s a little misleading to call Cuadecuc, vampir (1970), directed by Spanish filmmaker Pere Portabella, a making-of documentary. That’s only about half of what it is — if that — for one thing.
Shot in Spain in 1970 during the last phase of Franco's dictatorship, Cuadecuc Vampir (caudecuc meaning "worm's tail" and the unexposed footage at the end of film reels) recalls classics such Dreyer's Vampyr and Nosferatu.
