So, the Yorga films were a blindspot for me. I heard of them years ago, but never saw them. I knew (thanks to Brian) that the Dracula painting on the Remco 9" box is based on Yorga. I knew the film started in development as a softcore porno, but that was about it.
So, I really have to say, I liked the first movie! Quarray's Yorga is just deliciously urbane, until he goes bat-crap and runs at you with his shark teeth! I recognized Michael Murphy from Batman Returns and Roger Perry from the Trek episode, "Tomorrow is Yesterday". And that ending...WOW! The beginning of the bleak endings in horror film? Well, this and Night of the Living Dead, I suppose. But this was pretty early.
The Return of Count Yorga SHOULD have been better. Better cast with Marriette Hartley and a very young Craig T. Nelson (in his first screen role). Perry is back as another character, and hey...Michael Pataki! Lots of Trek alums in these flicks.
But I found they relied too much on the once-shocking bit of Yorga running right at the camera. He did that like 4 times. I did like the nonchalant way he disposed of the priest, and some of his dialog was even better than the first. I expected the shock ending this time. Still, a lot of fun, and that opening with the vampire women is CHILLING. I had seen that clip before.
So, I guess that's it for Yorga? I've heard some sources claim Quarry plays Yorga in the 2nd Dr. Phibes film, but I don't think that's true.
Chris
So, I really have to say, I liked the first movie! Quarray's Yorga is just deliciously urbane, until he goes bat-crap and runs at you with his shark teeth! I recognized Michael Murphy from Batman Returns and Roger Perry from the Trek episode, "Tomorrow is Yesterday". And that ending...WOW! The beginning of the bleak endings in horror film? Well, this and Night of the Living Dead, I suppose. But this was pretty early.
The Return of Count Yorga SHOULD have been better. Better cast with Marriette Hartley and a very young Craig T. Nelson (in his first screen role). Perry is back as another character, and hey...Michael Pataki! Lots of Trek alums in these flicks.
But I found they relied too much on the once-shocking bit of Yorga running right at the camera. He did that like 4 times. I did like the nonchalant way he disposed of the priest, and some of his dialog was even better than the first. I expected the shock ending this time. Still, a lot of fun, and that opening with the vampire women is CHILLING. I had seen that clip before.
So, I guess that's it for Yorga? I've heard some sources claim Quarry plays Yorga in the 2nd Dr. Phibes film, but I don't think that's true.
Chris
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