Flesh Feast (1970)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 2013
SYNOPSIS: Flesh Feast is Veronica Lake's final movie, and she probably shouldn't have bothered. She already had celluloid immortality, and I don't think this one is how she wants to be remembered -- sprinkling flesh-eating maggots onto a geriatric Hitler.
Veronica Lake is the mad scientist who has developed a maggot-based rejuvenation technique, but in the end it's all a scheme to get her revenge on Der Führer.
The director has an unfortunate tendency to shoot people in longshot, and to frame his shots so that the actors are consistently in the lower half of the frame. Early on, a crusading reporter is on the phone in the lower-left quarter of the frame for about a minute before his assistant walks into the room, filling out the right half of the screen. Because apparently they didn't have Camera-Tilt Technology in 1970.
Veronica Lake is the mad scientist who has developed a maggot-based rejuvenation technique, but in the end it's all a scheme to get her revenge on Der Führer.
The director has an unfortunate tendency to shoot people in longshot, and to frame his shots so that the actors are consistently in the lower half of the frame. Early on, a crusading reporter is on the phone in the lower-left quarter of the frame for about a minute before his assistant walks into the room, filling out the right half of the screen. Because apparently they didn't have Camera-Tilt Technology in 1970.
Kevin Hogan