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You can do anything in Hollywood and be forgiven, anything except grow old...
It’s the 1930s and cinema stands at the dawn of a new age, the silent era is all but dead, talkies are here and Technicolor is on its way.
The whole world loves movie icons Frank Nayland and Elizabeth Sasdy, lapping up each new picture and following their romantic life story both on and off the screen. But all is not as perfect as it appears.
Not only has the advent of talkies meant torturous sessions with a vocal coach to try and remove Sasdy’s Hungarian accent but she’s starting to spot the first few grey hairs, and the lines on her face get deeper every day. If she loses her looks she’ll lose everything, but even a woman as powerful as Elizabeth Sasdy can’t fight nature. Can she?
A chance accident reveals the solution. But just how far is the Queen of Hollywood prepared to go to stay beautiful forever?
- Sales Rank: #2232556 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-07
- Released on: 2013-02-07
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Hammer have been reinventing themselves as a publisher of original fiction and novels inspired by their back catalogue of movie classics. This time it's the turn of Countess Dracula . . . and they've found just the man for the job in Guy Adams." —Starburst Magazine
"Guy Adams clearly knows his Hammer . . . a great read . . . If Hammer can keep up this standard we should have a lot to look forward to from future releases." —Geek Planet Online
About the Author
Guy Adams' books include a Torchwood novel, The House that Jack Built; the Heaven's Gate series, which includes The Good, the Bad, and the Infernal; and a pair of original Sherlock Holmes novels, The Breath of God and The Army of Doctor Moreau.
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"...he wanted nothing more than to...climb inside that mouth. to lie back on her soft tongue and feel her hot breath..."
By Mark Louis Baumgart
We start off in 1971 as the tourist oriented "The Golden Hollywood Tour" bus tour led by Leo, and driven by Roland are informed by one of their customers, Gary Holdaway, that they should stop their bus, and with a little prodding tells the story of Elizabeth Sazdy, a nearly-forgotten silent film star.
And as Holdaway tells his story we, the audience, flash back to the thirties, and we witness a marriage of convenience in trouble. And it's fairly obvious as to why, as we witness the narcissistic Elizabeth being banged by two studs while her disgusted husband watches and suffers. This is because the Hollywood has-been Frank Nayland has had the misfortune of falling in love with her.
It's 1934, silent are dying, and though both Frank and Elizabeth's careers are in their nadir, it's Elizabeth whose accent is keeping her from getting new acting jobs, and who is also refusing to accept reality of her age. Both her biological, and the new talky age.
Her anger and volatility is always seen in full-throttle, and in one of her rages she injures a young maid, and in doing so, finds that the blood from the young woman that has spilled on her has rejuvenated her looks. And so, the maid has to go, the first of many to sacrifice their lives for Elizabeth and her career. And so, as one thing leads to another, you can pretty much predict where the plot will go.
I remember seeing the original movie "Countess Dracula" back when I was a child, and I was curious how the movie would read as it is updated in this novelization to the Hollywood of the thirties. What I didn't anticipate was that I would be occupying my time with a novel full of nothing but unpleasant and unlikable people. This would include, what should have been Frank and Elizabeth's counterpoint, Detective Scott Harrison, Tinseltown police detective, and all-around bore; a man who hates movies, actors, and everything associated with them.
So in the end, it would have been nice to find SOMEBODY to like, somebody to identify with, or at least to empathize with, but it's just an impossible effort as EVERYBODY here are just hateful and petty turds.
So, despite this being a short novel, marked by large type, lots of white space, and wide margins, this novelization took several days of spare time to get through as it's hard to spend any substantial time with people you find so repugnant, and there are no decent characters to empathize with to counterbalance the bad ones.
Another problem is that even though this is a story that is being told as a narrated flashback, Guy Adams presents this novel as a series of silent movie reels with cue cards and intermissions, contradicting the whole narrated flashback framing device. Being told as a flashback, or stylistically as a silent movie, might work individually to tell Elizabeth's story, but both really don't work together. Adams also decides to give us one of those dopey movie endings which so many bad movies were fond of. I can't tell you what it is, that would be too much of a spoiler, but it's a drop dead guarantee that it will cause you to want to throw the book across the room.
All in all, this book has a great cover, and then promptly goes downhill from there. Not the worst book that I ever read, after all, I finished it, but it wasn't very good either, and it had little to actually do with the original movel. This is the second of the modern Hammer Films reimagining novelizations of their old movies, that I read, and so far I haven't been impressed. I can certainly see why they never caught on, they don't work as novelizations of classic and cult movies, and they're not very good as stand-alones. While the premise of this reimagining held promise, its mediocrity doesn't bode well for the quality of the others that I have, and have yet to read. I fear that I may have wasted my money on those, as I have wasted my time and money on this one.
On the other hand, this book has a two-page Foreword by Peter Sasdy, the director of the original Hammer movie in which he tells how the move came to be. Two pages, and yet, it was more interesting that Guy Adams whole novel.
For this site I have reviewed these other novelizations:
"Barb Wire": Novelisation by Neal Barrett, Jr.
The Condemned (WWE) by Rob Hedden.
The Frighteners: A Novel by Michael Jahn.
Ju-On by Kei Ohishi (trans.: Joe Swift)
Godzilla - The Official Movie Novelization by Greg Cox.
Mutant Chronicles by Matt Forbeck.
O'Shaughnessy's Boy by Lebbeus Mitchell.
Plasmid by Robert Knight.
Reptilicus by Dean Owen.
X the Unknown by Shaun Hutson.
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Competent reworking of the old movie.
By F. J. Harvey
Guy Adams stuck very closely to the source movie when writing his first book under the "Hammer " imprint ,"Kronos". He kept the original plot,period and character names from "Captain Kronos -Vampire Hunter". For this ,his second "Hammer "book he retains only the basic subject matter of the Hammer movie of the same name -an aging woman rejuvenated by drinking the blood of much younger females.The setting is relocated from medieval Hungary to Hollywood in the early thirties and the equivalent figure to the historical character of Elizabeth Bathory depicted in the movie, is now "a fading legend of the silent screen "Elizabeth Sasdy.The surname is an act of homage to Peter Sasdy ,who directed the source movie.The advent of talkies has destroyed her career,revealing her impenetrable Hungarian accent .Her fading looks are another problem for her..She now lives with her husband ,the English actor "and former matinee idol "Frank Nayland". She discovers the restorative power of human blood ,especially that from younger woman .The results are spectacular but increasingly short lived .The problem is that she needs a constant supply of blood and does not scruple to murder to obtain it .,involving her increasingly reluctant husband as an accomplice..Her victims include servants and prostitutes.and the dogged cop "Harris" sets out to uncover the truth.
Adams deploys a framing device whereby the tale is recounted to a party of tourists taking a low rent bus tour of stars homes and the device is useful in adding some mild comedy and padding out what is quite a thin narrative.The switch to the twentieth century permits some lid swipes at the cult of celebrity and those attracted to it but does not really work .The book is a brisk read and hard core Hammer fans might find it mildly diverting but while an OK read it will not linger long in the mind.
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