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In 1985 movie Howling II. Actress Sybil Danning and Marsha Hunt plays as villainess Stirba and Mariana.
This is a movie I watch for the first time, for Sybil Danning, I hope it's fun...
The movie starts with what I think an introduction of our villainess? Like Stefan played by Christopher Lee saying "The inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with her blood." Like is he talking about Sekhmet or Jesus Christ? Because Jesus is the reverse of Sekhmet artistically, Sekhmet the one that was thirsty for human blood, and was offered wine to trick her, while Jesus offered his blood to humans, Sekhmet was sent to punish humans, Jesus was sent to save them, Jesus Christ is The Great Sphinx, the reverse and the opposite of Sekhmet, he is the guardian of the dead, like The Sphinx was for the pharaohs, so he was basically the manifestation of Sekhmet and her reverse in the other life, Christianity rejected the worldly gods, the goddess of science, art, and music, and only kept The Heavenly Father, Yeah, the sun circle around both the head of Jesus Christ and Sekhmet isn't a random coincidence, In my opinion it's possible that Christianity evolved from such philosophy, basically, if Sekhmet is the worldly goddess and her reverse is the heavenly god, maybe we should reject the worldly goddess and disobey her in order to please the heavenly god, which resulted in the idea of Satan, the idea that humans should either suffer in the worldly realm or suffer in the heavenly realm, which explain monasticism..
The acting in this movie is so funny, minutes ago, you have Christopher Lee, a very serious actor with a very serious performance, then just after him the movie go to the night club when someone says "Hey, what's with you, man? Can't you see she's a lady?" in the most fake way possible..
Around 9 minutes mark, Mariana took a group of people, and holy shit, that was bloody, and the practical effects are insane, the concept of werewolves in this movie is basically like vampires, only they can be in the light..
Watching movies from the 80s is insane, you are watching something took place 40 years ago, it's like travelling in time, it's priceless, especially if it's a good movie, you have never seen..
Watching the movie around 15 minutes thinking that Christopher Lee will break the fourth wall and look to me seriously saying "I know I'm too good for this movie" LOL..
Poor Erle died around 25 minutes..
We see Mariana around 28 minutes, and it's insane, You basically just saw brutally devouring multiple people, and she looks absolutely gorgeous, should you love her or hate her, run away from her or towards her, a character with godly power, the eye of Ra, you both attracted to her and repulsed by her, the way earth attracted and repulsed to the sun..
The villains started their evil rituals around 32 minutes, this is a well-made scene, the scene contain frames with Saturn Devouring His Son painting, this is extremely artistic..
We then see the gorgeous Stirba around 33 minutes..
This scene is so beautiful I'm gonna cry, the way she undress her robe to show how beautiful she is, is like a butterfly coming out from chrysalis, to show that she got another life and rebirth..
You basically are watching Stirba a very hot scene with Mariana then suddenly the scene is cut and you see Stefan in front of you, with his seriousness, it give you "Your father entered the room as you are watching the scene", that's a great jump scare LOL!!
Stefan would be a great comedy character, it can inspire a great comedy characters on the like of Dr. Rumack in Airplane!
It's hard to decide which Sybil Danning's movie I like more is it Hercules or this one, because I'm having fun watching both and the two are completely different characters..
We see Stirba again around 48 minutes having some werewolfy fun..
We see her again around 52 minutes with this insanely attractive outfit, the way she sits on the chair elegantly is very interesting..
I don't know, if a 10 thousand year old goddess exist in real life, I would probably worship her, I would absolutely worship Stirba if she actually existed, if not because she's so gorgeous, she probably more trustworthy to follow from billions of people who don't have as much knowledge of the world as her..
Around 56 minutes Mariana said "Let me kill him" and I burst out laughing..
I love Sybil Danning, whenever she plays a villainess, she's always awesome and I love this movie..
Around 1 hour, a petty villain was assaulting a poor girl, and Stirba kind of saved her, and maybe her men ate him, then she uses her to lure the hero..
The werewolves having another wild party around 1 hour 8 minutes, and the heroes are gonna ruin it now LOL..
There's absolutely no woman in the world as beautiful as Stirba, I would do anything to be with her.. How come someone watch this movie and give it anything but 10/10 score, like, have you seen anyone as beautiful as Stirba?!
It's like when Nizar Qabbani was expressing his love and the contradictory nature of love, he was describing her when he said:
"I hate her... and yet I long for her.
And I love my hatred for her..
I love the malice in her eyes, and the falsehood in her words.
Her eyes, like a wolf's, are deceitful.
The devil has taken up residence in her pupils,
And lust has extinguished her reason.
If she hugs me, she breaks my ribs,
And pour her venom upon my mouth."
what the poet is describing here is so being in love that the word love can't describe the intensity of the feeling, that's why he trying to describe his lover as a villainess that whenever she hugs him, he became helpless as if ribs became broken and losing every ability on resistance, and that's how Stirba, you know she's a villainess, you know you should hate her, but because how gorgeous she is, the mixture of feelings of attraction and repulsion create a higher intense feeling of not just being attracted to her, you are passionate about her, that you would even die to be with her, that's how great such character is..
The practical effects around 1 hour 18 minutes is insanely good, I don't care if it looks like a dummy, but I would prefer this every time over CGI..
I think the final confrontation around 1 hour 20 minutes..
Stirba says "Finally, we met again", if I were there all I would be thinking about "I'm so in love with you, I would be a werewolf to be with you" LOL..
There are some awesome 80s movies, that was fun..
I consider being able to like villains is the ultimate measurement of any free society, and also that characters like Stirba is the highest form of art, and without it, you are headed towards a dark age, where not only art, but science and religious freedom become at risk as well in a multicultural society which Egypt was, and it sustained a system that lasted for thousands of years, till Christianity came and it turned it into a lifeless empire that can only run by coercion, which ended with it imploding under the unsolved contradictions, villains also important to replace the unsolved contradictions only in a fictional space not a real one, that's what escapism is, replacing the real contradictions the empires faced historically with fictional contradictions, and even the leaders can share their followers such fictional contradictions, this can't be replaced with AI, I never experienced any contradictions with anything made with AI, and even when using the AI to create stories, you will never experience a contradiction with a story made..
Why this movie isn't one of the greatest movies of all time? And why Sybil Danning isn't the greatest actress of all time? It's full of contradictions and still being able to achieve escapism and immersion, the contradiction that the hero isn't like Rambo so you automatically admire, the villainess is insanely beautiful, the contradiction between the seriousness Christopher Lee and the absurdity of some other scenes, it's very rare to find movie like that, let alone how it basically an early movie towards the vampire genre, it also has some elements that led to Salma Hayek in From Dusk Till Dawn, so I don't care, Sybil Danning is one of the greatest actresses of all time.
Let me tell another thing about how great this movie is, you have multiple villains, Mariana and Vlad, who once they met put their medals together as if they are in love, then ended in love afterwards, you have Stirba, who is absolutely breathtaking, you also feel bad for Erle, only one villain doesn't have contradictions, and it's Tondo, Tondo's character is made, and a character that have no contradictions is always be a character you end up hating or at least have apathy towards it, you would never want to watch this character again, it's one of the worst characters ever..
There are two things that I wouldn't trade them with any other hobbies, movies and reading, not into games, if I ever played a game, it would be probably chess, other than that, it's very rare for me to play a game, movies for me are unreplaceable, movies with mythology, villains and escapism are absolutely awesome.. I don't know how to watch a movie if not for the villains, maybe if it's comedy, maybe if I would watch something tragic and very dark, then it's the reverse of a villainess, Frankenstein, just below that if an actress played a villainess then had her own movie, because I would want to see her on screen for the longest time possible, and that would make me want to watch a movie starring her, even if I wouldn't watch the movie otherwise..













