Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (luisj40) — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:24:06 GMT

DrLing wrote:
Yerye (aka Jorge) Beirute (1928-1972) was born in Costa Rica, according to Emilio Garcia Riera's "Historia documental del cine mexicano."

Thanks for the info I like Mirek thought he may have come from the Middle East too.

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (DrLing) — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:52:45 GMT

There is very significant Lebanese-Mexican representation in Mexican entertainment and it is very possible Beirute (just look at his name!) was part of this. Others include Capulina (Gaspar Henaine), Antonio Badu, Mauricio Garces (Mauricio Ferez Yazbeck), Miguel Zacarias (and, since his sister was Rene Cardona's wife and the mother of Rene Cardona Jr., Rene Jr. was half-Lebanese), Alfredo (Demonoid) Zacarias, Salma Hayek, producer Antonio Matouk, and many more.

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (Latarnia) — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:19:56 GMT

DrLing wrote:
Yerye (aka Jorge) Beirute (1928-1972) was born in Costa Rica

And, of course, we all know that Costa Rica is in the Middle East!

I must be thinking of someone else who is from, probably, Lebanon.

Mirek

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (DrLing) — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:14:36 GMT

Yerye (aka Jorge) Beirute (1928-1972) was born in Costa Rica, according to Emilio Garcia Riera's "Historia documental del cine mexicano." His last credited work (again according to EGR) was "El increible Profesor Zovek," shot October 1971.

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (Latarnia) — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:12:12 GMT

Damn, I know where Beirute is from, but can't remember at the moment. From the Middle East somewhere, I believe.

Mirek

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (luisj40) — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:21:56 GMT

So I got to watch the Spanish language version of this Boris Karloff film under the title INVASION SINIESTRA and man this film still sinks I had previously seen it in English under ALIEN TERROR but the silver lining for me here is seeing Karloff with his younger look-a-like Yerye Beirute, damn when I was a kid I thought Karloff had fathered a child in Mexico. Which raised the...

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (Squonkamatic) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:30:29 GMT

The more of these versions of SNAKE PEOPLE that I see the more I start to agree with the sentiment that the 91 minute versions on these PD DVDs probably represents the complete English version. There's probably a slightly longer Spanish language version that we just haven't seen yet, but I doubt that it has much additional material in the way of graphic lurid content.

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (bgart13) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:11:30 GMT

As these appear to be floundering in unofficial capacities, I'm going to post the following link for a torrent I found last night. Screenshots are present too. Wondering what you "experts" have to say about the content described in this one. Curious, but I don't see any source info, either.

THE SNAKE PEOPLE: cinemageddon.org/details.php?id=10088

There's also...

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (luisj40) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:39:14 GMT

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Quite probably all of these DVDs are just as good or bad,

Sure seems like it and too bad would be nice to finally see these films restored but with all the boots out there will probably never happen.

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (Squonkamatic) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:21:22 GMT

Just looking over SNAKE PEOPLE from Brentwood's "Killer Snakes" collection and like the Mill Creek version it's better than I expected, the color is a bit browned out but OK, picture quality sharper than I remember and minimal surface noise. Quite probably all of these DVDs are just as good or bad, I guess it just depends on which non-licensed commercial reburner outfit one feels comfortable buying product from.

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (luisj40) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:23:52 GMT

Watched HOUSE OF EVIL from the Retromedia's BLOOD FLOOD Set and boy my memories of this film were way too kind and perhaps it didn't help that this print looked awful just way too dark for my taste but saying that the film has a definite charm to it and kind feels like a 1960's Italian film and was expecting for Barbara Steele to make an appearance at any moment. On a big plus side for this film is seeing Boris Karloff hamming up near the end of his career still exhibiting class which so...

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (Lorne Marshall) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:57:37 GMT

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Does anyone know where to get the longer version of SINISTER INVASION?? I watched that one the other evening and liked it more, would enjoy seeing the whole thing.

Squonk, if by "longer" you mean longer than ALIEN TERROR, Sinister Cinema does still carry it:

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (Lorne Marshall) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:51:42 GMT

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These differences of 1mn 25sec you're talking about, are you sure that both prints do have the same credits? I tell that because if you take the Unicorn releases, the credits are not superimposed on moving images. If you take the abridged versions known as "The Torture Zone", "Cult of the Dead", "Dance of Death" and "Alien Terror", they are much abridged, but the new credits are...

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (luisj40) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:43:29 GMT

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It's actually 1 minute and 25 seconds, Luis. Even better.

Oh Damn I better find that disc...

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (Squonkamatic) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:52:42 GMT

Excellent informations! I guess I know why the Elite DVD of FEAR CHAMBER only cost $2.98, glad I got an old library copy instead of a new one, now I can justify having the Retromedia DVD as well ;]

It also makes sense to hear that Sinister's HOUSE OF EVILL and the one from "Blood Flood" are identical, I recall reading somewhere in maybe 2006 that they had "partnered" on sharing some transfers or something to that extent. Until I get to know the movie better I'm...

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (todmichel) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:12:07 GMT

These differences of 1mn 25sec you're talking about, are you sure that both prints do have the same credits ?
I tell that because if you take the Unicorn releases, the credits are not superimposed on moving images. If you take the abridged versions known as "The Torture Zone", "Cult of the Dead", "Dance of Death" and "Alien Terror", they are much abridged, but the new credits are printed on the first scenes of each movie. What I mean, EVEN if these...

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (Lorne Marshall) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:54:28 GMT

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I have the Retromedia release somewhere in my I guess I better look for it to finally break it open as I've never seen those important 25 seconds.

It's actually 1 minute and 25 seconds, Luis. Even better.

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (Lorne Marshall) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:50:34 GMT

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I think that you didn't noticed differences as you just comparized the same version (the language is NOT the case; the Unicorn tapes, in Spanish or in English, have the same running time). Now, if you take "The Snake People" or "La camara del terror", and if you make a comparizon with the RETITLED version, CULT OF THE DEAD, the difference is... 17mns 30secs. So, it's by far the more abridged of the...

Re: Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (todmichel) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:42:23 GMT

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In addition, I do have the Spanish language VHS version of SNAKE PEOPLE, LA MUERTE VIVIENTE, put out by Unicorn Video. Unfortunately I must report there is virtually no difference with the English language rendition. I compared it with the Brentwood DVD in the Killer Snakes collection. The disc is 1:30:52, while the tape is 1:30:59, which I believe is a result of longer end credits.

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Finally, last year I did a side-by-side comparison of the Retromedia and Elite releases of FEAR CHAMBER, whose running times are 1:27:19 and 1:26:05, respectively. The reason for the shorter length of Elites is the missing 1min-25sec portion of the strip tease during which the model is nude.

I have the Retromedia release somewhere in my I guess I better look for it to finally break...

Boris Karloff's Mexican Quartet

feeds@yuku.com (Squonkamatic) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:26:19 GMT

So if I understand the cycle correctly, before his death Karloff agreed to participate in a series of films produced & co-directed by Jack Hill that are usually associated with Mexican made horror, though according to the scant documentation on the work I've been able to find he actually was so ill at the time that he was unable to travel to Mexico and performed all of his scenes at a soundstage in Malibu near a hospital where he was undergoing treatment for the emphysema that eventually...