Synopsis
There's just one problem with Genevieve's funeral - SHE'S NOT DEAD!
A woman finds herself possessed by the soul of another woman trapped inside a painting. Based on a work by Edgar Allan Poe, aka The Oval Portrait.
One Minute Before Death
1972 Directed by Rogelio A. González
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Alternative Titles
The Oval Portrait, El Retrato Ovalado
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14 Jun 1972
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But this world is not for you….
To The melodramatic music to the hallucinatory beauty. You’ll definitely feel this atmospheric jewel!
This early 70s film is the essence of a gloomy romance occurring during the American Civil War. It has it all, the ghostly components and some daring ones too!!
The plot focuses on an exquisite portrait of a lovely young woman and it’s captured more than her image. It is a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story of the same name. I wish someone would step up and restore this film. The 70s genre has much to offer us. This is just a classic ghost story, and you can’t get anymore classic than this. -
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Discoverable on Amazon Prime with much more fitting artwork and the much better title of "The Oval Portrait," "One Minute Before Death" is a serviceable gothic chiller. Based on an Edgar Allan Poe tale, the film finds a young visitor entranced by the portrait of dead woman while staying at the deceased's manse. The time-hopping story is heavy and the gothic romance and necrophilia but light on the supernatural chills, and the cinema is both overwrought and limited. The results rate as a watchable genre curiosity.
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Look at that cover. Does that look like a movie that was made in 1972? It didn't to me, either. But that's what it is, one of those plodding gothic thrillers that take place on an estate, where wealthy people go through some kind of family drama highlighted by some kind of wrongful death. If this movie had been anything like what the VHS cover art implied, it would have been a much more entertaining movie, of this I am certain.
The most interesting thing about this movie to me is that the information about it on IMDb is all wrong, and for an uncommon reason. The record indicates that the movie is based on an Edgar Allen Poe story…
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Kinda hard to follow, I wish this story was made in the 60s as a poe hammer film. But it's enjoyable enough, mostly the backstory part of it. Joseph takes the cake for "fastest someone ever reported to grave robbing" dude ran in there 2 minutes after she was buried and took her out
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The acting is pretty bad but not completely terrible. The dialogue however is terrible and makes the acting seem worse than it actually was. This felt like it was a TV film. The score really plays up each scene to its upmost and even over powers the scenes on occasion. Everything is just so intense and over the top it had me rolling my eyes so much that I got a headache.
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Wow, this film is a mess. It looks as if it were shot on someone’s old flip phone rather than a proper camera. What really sucks is that it has the perfect score! The music throughout is dark and eerie, but even that couldn’t save this movie. Perhaps if the acting was a little more convincing I would rate it higher, even. Alas, this movie was simply a chore to get through.
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it’s that kind of bad that is kinda good?? i enjoyed the theatrics and overacting in this, idc.
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As long as Edgard Allan Poe's adaptations go this is the bottom of the barrel. I'll quote the crow from Poe's famous short story after watching "One Minute Before Death" once: - Never More ! - Never More !
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Lumpy Mexican/Canadian costume horror with grand dialogue/giant wigs/windswept acting. Poor Wanda Hendrix becomes spiritually entangled by a cursed painting. Sort of. Fans of Andy Milligan will love it. Fans of EA Poe will not. Recommended.