A question about "The Number of the Beast" music video...

Discussion in 'The Number Of The Beast' started by Anonymous, Oct 13, 2006.

  1. Anonymous Guest

    Could someone tell me the titles of all the movie/film clips shown in Maiden's music video for "The Number of the Beast"?!? Thanks!
  2. Raven Prowler

    :blink:

    Okay, the clip of Godzilla during Bruce's scream is taken from the Japanese movie 'Gojira'.

    There's something about a goat, too.  Goatman II, perhaps? :D
  3. SneakySneaky Prowler

    At some point a skull appears.  It's taken from a film called "The Screaming Skull".  Cute film...
  4. Eclipse Prowler

    the Bald Headed ugly bloke at the start is from the 1922 silent film 'Nosferatu' who also appears in Queens video - Under Pressure, and the giant zombie on stage at the end is called Eddie or Edward the Head and he is the mascot to the well known English Heavy Metal Band known as Iron Maiden  :p :smartarse:
  5. Anonymous Guest

    The footage from the intro is from the 1942 (I believe) classic horror film "The Wolf Man" with Lon Chaney Jr.
  6. SneakySneaky Prowler

    It isn't.  I have that film.
  7. Anonymous Guest

    OK, but I'm pretty sure it's one of that series, in any case. Chaney played that role five times.
  8. SneakySneaky Prowler

    You might be right,  but I'm not sure.  The footage we're talking about seems quite old,  maybe older than the first Wolf Man film with Lon Chaney Jr.
  9. Forostar There's more to it than meets the eye...

    Found it !!

    Together with my wife Marta (also a film geek) we did some research. First we checked the intro a couple of times and saw that the ears of the werewolf were notably different from Chaney's character.

    Then we decided to focus on the words, written on the board/stone: "Priory Cemetery".
    After googling: "priory cemetery" werewolf

    ..we got here: http://p219.ezboard.com/fscarletstreetc ... =159.topic

    On this forum someone says:

    "I'd go with The Return of the Vampire as well. Priory Cemetery is, IMO, the second best movie graveyard ever (the best, I'd have to go with Lanwelly Cemetery from FMTWM)"

    Then we checked the film title The Return of the Vampire in the database and found this:

    http://imdb.com/title/tt0037219/

    Then we still weren't sure, but when we clicked on the poster and checked the movie still (and looked at the ears ;) ) we knew it !

    Check this link, where you see the guy standing with master Bela Lugosi.

    http://imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1303/3913_ ... 7219&seq=2

    So, according to our research the intro footage is from the film:
    The Return of the Vampire (1944) - Here more photos:

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    Read more about the film:
    http://www.scifilm.org/reviews3/returnofthevampire.html
  10. gor Prowler

    prolific thread! Although I cannot seem to find a movie called goatman, let alone goatman ii! Any help from anyone?
  11. Raven Prowler

    I was taking the piss.  The task set before us was pretty ridiculous, so I responded with a bit of (poor) humour. :D  But the Godzilla is from Gojira! :p
  12. Forostar There's more to it than meets the eye...

    I finally saw this film and I quite enjoyed it. Pretty funny to see a piece of NOTB in a film as well. :)


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