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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie - Dementia 13 (1963)



Movie – Dementia 13 (1963)

Score : 5/10  
Year :1963
Country: USA
Language: English 
Duration: 1h15

Writers: Francis Ford Coppola & Jack Hill (second unit writer) 
When my wife suggested watching this today, I thought to suffer through it. Instead, I had a somewhat entertaining 75 minutes in an interesting atmospheric movie - albeit a bit predictable for me.  Indeed, I had guessed a revelation over half an hour before it came. 

This doesn't take everything away from enjoying this b-movie from 1963, with its adequate soundtrack and cinematography. (one would wish a good quality transfer, though). 

 The story starts in what seems a bit boring at first : a woman follows her husband into a rowboat, and they argue... But, soon enough, something happens and the plot develops. 


 There are some sickly obsessive interests some characters have... creepy or just abnormal? I'll let you decide... 

 The acting was overall ok, though I had trouble understanding certain passages (maybe because of thick Irish accent).

 There's a rather well done underwater scene that I bet wasn't easy to make back in 63... 
There are a few interesting shots with unusual imagery, which make Dementia 13 a very different feel than most low budget b-movies of its period, but aren't enough to raise my overall appreciation for this medium movie. 

 The editing was at moments tough to follow, with flashbacks thrown in the mix of abrupt cuts. 

The sound and image transfer on a cheapo' dvd were rather awful, but what can one expect for such a low budget b-movie? 

 A word of caution : this is a horror thriller, not to show to the most fragile and young minds. I found that at moments, I had to look a bit elsewhere than straight on the screen because of certain slightly graphic, gruesome scenes.
Second word for my fellow veg readers : towards the end, a quick scene has an animal corpse on a hook. I didn't like that for evident reasons, but luckily it's very quick (a few seconds), and in a very dark room (in a black & white movie).  

 This movie mildly entertained me, but I don't plan watching it again, hence 5/10 score. 

 On a totally unrelated matter,  I noted the presence of William Campbell, who'd later appear on Star Trek as Trelane, and Koloth, roles that I enjoyed watching a lot. 

 Also starring: 
Luana Anders, Bart Patton, Mary Mitchel, et al. 
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