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Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
(Vampire) 6******skulls
*Blood**Violent* *No Strong language* *Sexual Situations* *Nudity* *Gory *
1976/Color/95 Min./Continental Video & Summit International Pictures & Black Lion & Cinema Management, Inc. & Translor Films & PROA films, S.A./Spanish (dubbed)/Rated R
Director.............Juan Lopez (To Kill a Stranger)
Screenplay.......Malcolm Marmorstein
Music................Tom Bahler
Producers.........Robert Yamin & Henri Bollinger
Director of Photography..
Executive Producers......Jaime Jimnez Pons
Based on the Story by Don Rico & Don Henderson
Dramatis Personae
Mary.....................Christina Ferrare
Ben.......................David Young
Greta.....................Helena Fojo
The man................John Carradine
Cosgrove...............Arthur Hansel
Pons......................Enrique Lucero
Girl........................Susana Kamini
Carlos....................Jos‚ Angel Espino
Doctor....................Ramon Armengod
Arnold...................Carlos Riqueline
Howard Miller........Roger Cundey
Morgue Attendant..Jorge H. Robli
Critique: Carradine's mad ravings about his inability to reason and the blood crushing his brain are surprisingly good. He does a particularly good craze job at the end. Of course there is no avoiding the over-exposed freeze frame it being a foreign affair. The additional blood drinder unnecessarily complicates things. Why is it always this way in European films. One monster is never enough. Not particularly good film quality.
At the beach a man is pulled form the surf with shark bite, and his friends kill the shark,
Plot Summary: A VW bus suffers engine trouble on a dark lonely road. The lone female driver, Mary Gilmore, hurries through the rain and enters what looks like an abandoned castle. There is someone else there in the dark with her. It turns out to be Ben Rider who is hitchhiking to Mexico. They have a few worrisome moments, but a truce is struck. We get a flashback in which Mary slips a computer guy a Micky as he looks at her artwork. When the mickey is foiled, and the sexual situation gets into gear, Mary pulls out a hair pin and starts drinking. Back at the abandoned house, it looks like Ben's the one in danger. An American inspector is looking into the death of the expatriot computer guy. The cops are confused by the lack of blood. Whatever could be the cause? The next morning, Ben helps Mary out with the van and they're off to the beach. Mary sets up her easel to do some painting, slipping a mickey into Ben's thermos as a matter of course. She swaps a cup of the juiced coffee for a fish with a local. Lunchtime for Mary is not fish. When they get to Mary's place, a portrait of her father catches Ben's eye. Mary drains a morgue worker along the way. Mary shows Ben and Owl God "eat and be eaten". Greta a client of Mary's and lesbian aspirant schemes to get rid of Ben. Greta and Mary are soon at Mary place and the seduction begins however it doesn't end a she had planned. The Mexican lt. Pons and Inspector Cosmo of the FBI show up and question Ben about Greta. Ben had been drunk the night before and his movements can't be accounted for. Later a hitchhiker is picked up by a black-clad killer. Mary is surprised to read in the paper that someone was drained of blood and she had nothing to do with it. Black-clad stranger show up in Mary's house and is intrigued by the painting of Mary's father. Who could he be. When Mary arrives, she senses that something is wrong. She gets a call from someone who just says her name. The next day a driver runs over her easel on the road side. Ben takes off after him and the man comes back and finds Mary alone. Black-clad points at her and approaches. Later Mary tries to get Ben to forget about the whole thing. The Black-clad stranger takes a victim at the carnival and dons his costume coming after Mary. When he stabs sa local a mob comes after him but he escapes. The cops still think its Ben but can't prove anything. As she ponders the owl mural, Mary tosses and turns. On a stakeout, Pons has a run in with the masked man. Mary and Ben are followed by Cosmo. Will Cosmo stop the masked man and Mary before they get to Ben. It appears the father's disease is hers as well.
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