City of the Dead (1960)
aka Horror Hotel
Britannia Films / Vulcan Film Productions
Dir. John MoxeyChristopher Lee as Professor Alan Driscoll
The Art of Darkness
1 The Sisters Of Mercy– This Corrosion
2 Killing Joke– Love Like Blood
3 Gene Loves Jezebel– Desire (Come And Get It)
4 Ministry– Everyday Is Halloween
5 The Cult– Rain
6 The Mission– Tower Of Strength
7 Peter Murphy– All Night Long
8 Marilyn Manson– Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
9 Skinny Puppy– Dig It
10 Nine Inch Nails– Closer
11 Fields Of The Nephilim– Moonchild
12 Love And Rockets– Haunted When The Minutes Drag
13 Bauhaus– Bela Lugosi Is Dead (Live)
On this day, 23 January 1909, the so-called “Tottenham outrage” took place in London when Latvian Jewish revolutionaries the rubber factory where they worked, leading to a legendary chase and shootout.
Jacob Lepidus (25) and Paul Helfeld (21), who were armed, stole £80 in cash from a company driver at the factory gates, which was immediately opposite Tottenham police station. They made off down Chestnut Road, with two police officers, the driver and several members of the public, one of whom was also armed, in hot pursuit. Gunfire was exchanged which put the car out of action, and then hit a 10 year old bread delivery boy, Ralph Joselyne, killing him.
One of the police officers, William Tyler, caught up with the robbers, who then shot him in the head. After running for 3 miles, Lepidus and Helfeld then used a hijacked tram, a milk float then a horse and cart as getaway vehicles, while police commandeered another tram to pursue them, as well as a horse and cart, until Helfeld shot the horse.
The pair eventually reached a fence by the River Ching. Lepidus climbed over, but Helfeld was unable to, and so shot himself to prevent capture. Lepidus ran towards Epping Forest, and, almost six miles from the site of the robbery, shut himself in a house on Oak Hill. Police burst in, shooting, and found Lepidus dead, reportedly by suicide.
In total, four people were killed during the incident and 25 injured. In the aftermath, the media drummed up anti-immigrant sentiment against Jewish migrants, many of whom had been forced to flee antisemitic pogroms in the Russian Empire. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2193016560883482/?type=3
“In such an intense physical act like murder, between the victim and the murderer there is something sensual, something erotic deep down. There is something, of course it is not developed all the way, but there is something that ties together the two acts, that is the erotic and the bloody one. The knife for example is phallic, which we all know, and therefore the link between the two orgasms. The death orgasm and the sexual one.”
- Dario Argento
