tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post7447131076502376578..comments2024-01-09T04:01:00.672+00:00Comments on Breakfast In The Ruins: Franco Files: Lorna the Exorcist (1974)Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14951955227326548340noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-43530423325653707922014-05-03T21:10:56.218+01:002014-05-03T21:10:56.218+01:00This is Franco's most disturbing film due most...This is Franco's most disturbing film due mostly, in my opinion, to Pamela Stafford's look and performance, a blend of mental illness and icy-cool, supernatural maliciousness as well as Lina's waifish sexual delirium. Lorna's repulsive-looking. There's an atmosphere of creeping revulsion and disgust that permeates the film. As you point out, the "city of the future" location work adds a very different dimension since most of Franco's locations are either Gothic or tropical. It has the same textural feel as The Tenth Victim that used areas in Rome that looked atypical. Franco predates Cronenberg in his use of venereal horror with Lorna as the agent of infection and disease that destroys the family.Elliot Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964519903027517480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-17180234826935084342014-04-25T10:54:57.760+01:002014-04-25T10:54:57.760+01:00Great, great piece! (And another disc sold to Mond...Great, great piece! (And another disc sold to Mondo Macabro!)Soukesianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11536727398720861777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-46430812752694341272014-04-21T19:24:12.489+01:002014-04-21T19:24:12.489+01:00Bravo! This is singularly the best appreciation of...Bravo! This is singularly the best appreciation of a Franco film I have yet read. Neil Fulwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14686296295535235988noreply@blogger.com