Bud Brewster
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 Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:47 pm Post subject: Flesh Feast (1970) |
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Fans of 1940s movies will remember the lovely Veronica Lake, whose famous hair style was copied by Roger Rabbit's stacked wife, Jessica. During World War II thousands of female defense plant workers were banned from imitating Ms. Lake's low-hanging hair style because it tended to get caught in the machinery.
Ms. Lake's last major role was in "Stronghold" (1952), after which she was not seen on screen again until "Footsteps in the Dark", an obscure 1966 production.
"Flesh Feast" was her very last role, an unfortunate choice as a farewell performance. She co-produced and starred in this lurid tale of a lady scientist who hates Nazis because her mother died in a concentration camp.
As a scientist, Lake develops a very unorthodox rejuvenation process which grows new skin on the face of aging patients . . . after the old, wrinkled skin has been eaten away by maggots.
Real maggots were used during the production (yuck!), with rice as a filler in some scenes to increase their apparent number.
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One of Lake's patients turns out to Adolf Hitler incognito! In the gruesome climax, Lake allows the maggots to do him in (with unpleasant close-ups).
Then Veronica addresses the audience directly, pleading with American's everywhere to be on the lookout for Nazis. All in all, not a well-recommended movie. Directed, co-produced, and co-written by Brad Ginter.
Ironically, there actually is a medical procedure used today which utilizes maggots to eat away the dead skin around an injury. The maggots leave the living, healthy tissue alone!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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