Movie Details
| Title: | Anyab | |
| Director: | Mohammed Shebl | |
| Year: | 1981 | |
| Genre: | Musical | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.26.17 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (0)
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.26.17 | Alamo South Lamar | This Screening is part of event: FantasticFest 2017 AKA Fangs. This is an Egyptian film that's basically a beat-for-beat remake of Rocky Horror Picture Show, except it trades the sexual dynamics of the original for vampires and social commentary on circa 1980-Egyptian society. I liked this. -There's a great disco/funk tune that I guess is analogous to the timewarp in the original film? I dunno, it's this instrumental disco jam where these partygoers in masks are doing a dance and the main vampire (named Dracula) rises from his grave. Oh man I love that bass guitar part. -What seems like the whole second act is the professor character going on a tangent to demonstrate how there are vampires in real life, giving example after example of real life situations where the Brad and Janet characters are price gouged or cheated in some way. Each scenario involves some unseen person that perpetrates the injustice such as a mechanic or real estate agent or doctor or merchant who revealed to be Dracula (with terrible fake vampire teeth, like the kind that come with kids' halloween costumes) and this crazy music cue (often completely stolen, like the Jaws theme, music from A Clockwork Orange, the James Bond theme, the Pink Panther theme, Ennio Morricone) then followed by the professor character laughing into camera. What makes this crazy is that it happens like 8 times in a row before the professor says "ok that's enough, back to the story") So yeah, I really loved parts of this. |
