Cuadecuc, vampir Reviews

Curious experimental film fruit of collaboration between the filmmaker Pere Portabella and poet Joan Brossa. This is an interpretation, a "visual poem", another black and white version, taking the leitmotif the filming of "El conde Drácula" directed by Jesus Franco in 1970.

The movie hardly has anything making-off, although also present in some back room of the shooting sequences. It is an interesting conceptual translation and interpreting psychological, "Cuadecuc, vampir" vampirizes "El conde Drácula", the original film, feeds the heart, blood thereof, along the whole movie: a film is fed, engulfs the other.

"Cuadecuc, vampir" explores formal issues of the vampire genre and its clichés, using techniques close to the German Expressionist film: black and white frames with high contrast and the absence of dialogue. For sound there is only one current music hits with images and voice recordings to play very slow. This gives the film an unsettling atmosphere, higher than the actual visual feedback, will clearly reflect a cutting edge.

Note: "Cuadecuc" is the Catalan word remains to define the unexposed film roll left over in the shootings.