{"id":2473,"date":"2019-08-29T09:40:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2019-08-29T09:40:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:40:34","slug":"hercules-against-the-moon-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=2473","title":{"rendered":"Hercules Against The Moon Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2474\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hercules-against-the-moon-men-1964-giacomo-gentilomo-dir-001-BJM1B0-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hercules-against-the-moon-men-1964-giacomo-gentilomo-dir-001-BJM1B0-300x246.jpg 300w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hercules-against-the-moon-men-1964-giacomo-gentilomo-dir-001-BJM1B0-768x630.jpg 768w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hercules-against-the-moon-men-1964-giacomo-gentilomo-dir-001-BJM1B0-1024x840.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hercules-against-the-moon-men-1964-giacomo-gentilomo-dir-001-BJM1B0.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just happened to catch this flick on Channels, the cheap archive of Wierd Movies you can subscribe to on Apple TV for a couple of bucks. It was OK, an evil Queen, an Italian Hercules, a cene where Hercules is caught in these giant Jaws of Death for what seems like an eternity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2475\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hqdefault.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I left it on while I was brushing my teeth and putting on my socks. I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for Hercules type movies, made in Rome in the 60&#8217;s, usually some crazy monster appears. Anyway I was sort of watching it when a sequence began, it took place in a huge cavern in the Mountain of Death, A Moon Man, looking like a futuristic Tin Woodsman crossed with an owl, was coducting a ceremony to bring the evil Queen back to life with the blodd of an innocent girl.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2476\" src=\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/moon-man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Suddenly there was an image of incomparable beauty, a throbbing purple orb slowly turning above their heards, then the moon appears in an opening in the roof of the cavern, it&#8217;s obscured by clouds but it comes closer through the mist. I immediately thought of Mario Bava, it had his fingerprints all over it. The film was made at Cinecitta, Bava&#8217;s hangout. I heard Bava would work on the Special Effects of other peoples films when he wasn&#8217;t busy on his own films, along with his father, a talented sculptor. Then I read that Tim Lucas, the Bava guru said he thought Bava worked on this film as well. So watch it for yourself and decide. The sequence I&#8217;m referring to is towards the end of the film.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2irJTVj49BA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just happened to catch this flick on Channels, the cheap archive of Wierd Movies you can subscribe to on Apple TV for a couple of bucks. It was OK, an evil Queen, an Italian Hercules, a cene where Hercules is caught in these giant Jaws of Death for what seems like an eternity. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}