The Flowers of Vice is also known as Bloodbath and The Sky Is Falling. It reunited Dennis Hopper and Carroll Baker 18 years after Giant. He plays a drugged out of his mind painter and poet named Chicken and she's a washed up alcoholic actress who people call Treasure who have both come to a small Spanish town. There's also a retired British Air Corps captain called Terence (Richard Todd) and his constantly drunk wife Heather (Faith Brook) and a gay man who has seen it all, Allen (Wim Wells, the director's long-time partner).
Filmed in Mojacar, Almeria, Spain - a small seaside village of Spaniards, British and American expatriates - this movie is filled with menace from the beginning. The town just seems strange, Hopper and his friends feel more dead than alive and there's a group of hippies that may be gorgeous but who worship the killings of the Manson Family. It's not like the village was any less strange what with all the animal sacrifices - this may as well be Italian - taking place on Easter weekend. Soon, the foreigners begin to die, one by one, killed by the young people who seemingly will replace them. Maybe, who can say, because this movie feels as if it doesn't want to tell you any answers and I feel as if I am trying to explain it all by what I have written. It may destroy your patience but I am a huge Hopper and Baker fan, so I was excited to see a movie they did that for so long was impossible to get.
Directed by Silvio Narizzano (Die! Die! My Darling!) and written by Gonzalo Suárez, this ends with - spoiler warning - the villagers trampling a small boy to death. He was the son of Americans who lived in the village. They ran El Saloon and had grown close to the director and crew, so they got their son a role getting killed at the end of an art film.
Filmed in Mojacar, Almeria, Spain - a small seaside village of Spaniards, British and American expatriates - this movie is filled with menace from the beginning. The town just seems strange, Hopper and his friends feel more dead than alive and there's a group of hippies that may be gorgeous but who worship the killings of the Manson Family. It's not like the village was any less strange what with all the animal sacrifices - this may as well be Italian - taking place on Easter weekend. Soon, the foreigners begin to die, one by one, killed by the young people who seemingly will replace them. Maybe, who can say, because this movie feels as if it doesn't want to tell you any answers and I feel as if I am trying to explain it all by what I have written. It may destroy your patience but I am a huge Hopper and Baker fan, so I was excited to see a movie they did that for so long was impossible to get.
Directed by Silvio Narizzano (Die! Die! My Darling!) and written by Gonzalo Suárez, this ends with - spoiler warning - the villagers trampling a small boy to death. He was the son of Americans who lived in the village. They ran El Saloon and had grown close to the director and crew, so they got their son a role getting killed at the end of an art film.