Lucifer Valentine Videos : Horror Hotel (The City of the Dead): Christopher Lee and Valentine Dyall (1960)

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Horror Hotel (The City of the Dead): Christopher Lee and Valentine Dyall (1960)

DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com The City of the Dead (US title: Horror Hotel) is a 1960 film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Christopher Lee and Valentine Dyall. Produced in England but set in America, the British actors were required to speak with American accents throughout. Production began on October 12, 1959 at Shepperton Studios with a budget of £45000. Milton Subotsky was an uncredited producer of the film. Officially, it was produced by Vulcan Productions. On the recommendation of her professor (Christopher Lee), a young female student (played by Venetia Stevenson) travels to the fictional Massachusetts town of Whitewood to do some research into witchcraft. She finds the town occupied by the reincarnation of an infamous witch (played by Patricia Jessel) burned at the stake in the 17th century; in order to sustain her immortality, Virgins must be sacrificed to her every year--and this year, the student has been the chosen victim. This film has been compared to Psycho due to some structural similarities. Both films begin by establishing an attractive young blonde woman as the viewpoint character, leading the audience to assume that she will be the protagonist through the rest of the story. In both films, the blonde travels to a remote location and checks into a hotel or motel run by an eccentric manager. In both cases, the audience's expectations are shattered before the midpoint of the story when the young blonde is abruptly stabbed ...

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