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My name is Martin. I'm eighty
four years old. People think I'm crazy

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when I tell them how old I
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I just have a sickness. The
only way I can survive is by drinking

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blood. It's not easy living the
way I do. I have to be

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careful all the time. I'm pretty
good at it. I think as I

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get older, I get better.
I haven't been caught yet, Martin.

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Another kind of terror. I see
people don't understand what's wrong. They think

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that I'm a monster. I think
i'm a van higher People don't realize that

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those things I see in the movies
are not really I don't have a whole

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lot of women. It's nice to
watch them. I watch them a lot

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all the time. I have to
to be sure that nothing goes wrong.

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I follow them, I plan.
I'm very careful. I have needles now.

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I can use them. I can
put them to sleep and it doesn't

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hurt Martin. Another kind of terror. I would like to be like everyone

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else. I have to do things
that I don't necessarily like that. I

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want to stay alive. I do
need blood. From the director of Night

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of the Living Dead, nos Feratu
Dracula, night walkers, or vampires.

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No matter the verbiage, these creatures
have been a major part of horror cinema.

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The argument could even be made that
it is what brought horror to film.

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Many horror artists have put their own
spin on the blood sucking lore that

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includes the man of Honor for Classic
film Reviews the month of September George A.

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Romero, released in nineteen seventy seven. Martin follows the titular young man.

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This is the debut role of frequent
Romero contributor John Amplus, who believes

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himself to be a vampire due to
his thirst for blood and an old,

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outdated family myth. This causes him
to travel to stay with his cousin,

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who does believe him to be an
old world vampire. Complicating the situation is

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when Martin falls for a lonely housewife
in the small town. When one looks

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at the career of Romero, you
can find many amazing works. A common

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question of filmmakers is what is their
favorite film or their favorite work. For

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Romero, he has said many times
it is this film. Our first brief

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flip is Romero explaining why and how
this film began is much longer than the

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ninety minutes that was brought to the
screen. And then we will hear from

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horror film effects king Tom Savini.
This was his first collaboration with Romero of

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many more he would do, and
also this was his first time doing more

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than just basic makeup. He did
the effects in the film. He was

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a stunt man and he also had
his first theatrical role. It's still my

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favorite of my movies. You know, I think the cast and crew,

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I think number fifteen in total.
Everybody just put out one hundred twenty percent.

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We just had a great time.
It was originally a lot longer over.

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I had a lot more narration,
and you know, I was back

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in the cutting room that we decided, well we don't need this, we

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don't need that. But it's still
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what my original idea was, you
know what was originally under page and now

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Tom Selene. I was in college. I heard that George was doing another

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movie, a vampire movie. I
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I wanted to be Martin the Vampire. I went down there and he was

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already cast during Anthless of course,
but I had my portfolio. So I

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remember following George around flipping page if
he was so busy, I was following

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around flipping pages to my portfolio.
Hey, yeah, we'll use your hearing

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new makeup effects. And Martin is
the first film I've ever done, fair

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George, And it was the first
time that I had to think of makeup.

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See before Martin, makeup was putting
makeup on it for characters for age.

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It was the first time I thought
of makeup and a special makeup effects,

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special effects involving makeup. This is
before this bladder craze, you know,

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after Dawn of the Dead and Friday
to the Thirteenth where all the movies

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sort of became to see. Tom
and I had met years before when we

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were the first film that we were
going to try to make, and we

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needed two young people, and so
we went around and looked their high school

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plays and I met Tom. He
was in a high school play. That

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movie never happened. And then Tom
went off into his own world and came

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back having done a couple of things
and came to visit one day and said,

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Hey, I'm doing effects now and
I'd like to do some acting.

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It was the beginning of something that
just stood fast for the whole All the

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rest of the movies, I was
doing the makeup effects on but he cast

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me in a role. I wound
up doing stunts as well, and he

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had his typical enthusiasm, and you
know, I said, great man,

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you're just in time. We got
this project gone, and it was the

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first time we got to work together. The main darkly comedic elements of this

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film is that of Martin and his
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Kuda will only refer to Martin as
Nosferatu. When Martin first comes into

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the home of Kuda, they have
a confrontation when Kuda tells him the rules

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that Martin must abide. Lost in
this being audio is the religious imagery that

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surrounds Kuda. There is garlic on
his door to protect him from Martin In,

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a cross within arm's reach in many
areas of his room. This aspect

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of dark comedy is one of the
major ways this film defies being a specific

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genre. You may come and go, but you will not take people from

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the city. If I hear it
a single time, I will destroy you

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without sounvation. You may not enter
my room when I wish to speak with

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you. I will. My granddaughter
stays with me. You will not enter

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her room. I have told her
not to speak with you, but she

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will. You will not answer tomorrow. You may rest next day you work

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in my shop. I've been told
you are imbecil. Can you speak?

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Speaks so I can hear your voice? Speak? Does Ferrato my great eggs

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form is eat aim with stars?
He resists you. You will learn in

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my room. You will listen.
That is your person, Justice north Fell,

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I fool nord Fella. I am
your cousin. I am your cousin,

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Martin. You see you see,
you see you see. It isn't

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magic that I know that it isn't
magic. Throughout this month long analysis of

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Romero's work, we have found that
most of his films have an underlying or

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in your face social commentary. One
would think in a film like this it

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would be hard to add one.
However, that is a part of Romero's

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genius. Even in a genre bending
film like this, he is still able

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to put in that commentary. The
commentary of this film is old world beliefs

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and traditions versus new world ideas.
That is evident in the scenes of Kuda

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and his family. In our last
clip, we hear an argument between him

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and his granddaughter Christine. He goes
to old family lore to explain his belief

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in Martin being a vampire and even
defends it. Then we hear Christine take

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the modern approach to Martin's issues,
that he simply needs psychiatric help. It's

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crazy. I can't believe this is
happening. It's a nightmare for you and

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him. Your father was, that's
from my part of the world. Your

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mother knew, she believed. If
she did, then thank god I was

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too little to know her. Martin
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Grandfather. He is just a boy. Look at the book, Christina.

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We had the books of the family. Did you ever look? Of

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course the books. The books will
show it. Those damn books. They

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shall be burned. That's where you
get your horble ideas asked the boy himself.

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As he will tell you. He's
unbalanced, he's mad, and you

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and those books have driven him to
it. He is not fat. He

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was born to Ardini Buessa and the
Rudy Matthias in the Old Country in the

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eighteen ninety two. He is young
from Nos Ferrato. There have been nine

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such a person in the family.
There are three still alive. Martin is

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wife Caldamaldoli is the eldest in the
family. Now from the whole country.

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He sends the letters telling who will
take the plump blame to their house?

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Will obey first for the family's shame, and again because to defy the evil

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ones is for being a curse upon
oneself. I will not shame the family,

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but the devil. You devil can
take my soul. I would have

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destroyed the children the moment there's old
designs, and then the good lesson took

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her own life instead. Now Martin
comes to me. People cannot come to

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other people's beliefs. It's hard for
you. I know it's hard for anyone

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young. Do you believe that God's
whole world runs by the launch of the

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few scientists we have been able to
discover, Oh the Augustina, that is

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more. People are satisfying. They
know so much, they think they know

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all, and that makes it easy
for those facts. That makes it easy

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for to all the devils. I
will say this review was not an easy.

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One reason being is this film doesn't
really have a genre. A major

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following and is mostly unknown even to
Romero fans, but to those that have

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seen it, it truly is a
memorable film, and once you do see

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it, it is easy to see
why it is Romero's favorite film. I

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feel that is because it's just like
Romero. It defies conventions and norms.

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It takes what people feel works best
and throws it to the wayside and allows

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the creator to have their own vision. It marches to its own b It's

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comedic, gory, scary, and
thought provoking. This film serves as the

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perfect example of a Romero film and
what makes Romero films great. And if

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you are a fan of his work
or merely just being introduced, it makes

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for a great twist on an ages
old legend. I hope you join me

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this Friday when we conclude our month
long tribute to George A. Romero by

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looking at his first film, the
groundbreaking, trendsetting, all time great horror

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film classic, the original Night of
the Living Dead. For WMNH and Matt

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Connerton Unleashed, this has been a
classic film review with Eric Pilcher