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Mar 26, 2019 · Balladeer's Blog kicks off a multi-part examination of the neglected 1800s folk figure called the Fool Killer. I will cover the various stories featuring the Fool Killer and the different ways the character was used by the authors.
May 29, 2024 · Those tales presented the Milton Chronicle‘s Fool Killer from the late 1840s or early 1850s on through the late 1870s or possibly as late as 1880. That figure slew fools with his club/ walking stick/ cudgel and his set of Bowie knives, each blade inscribed with the words “Fool Killer.”.
After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful “Fool Killer” of folklore. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres.
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- Landau, Allied Artists, Producciones Yanco
- Servando González
The Fool Killer is an enduring figure in Appalachian folklore and oral narratives. Defined as an imaginary or legendary person, the Fool Killer is an archetypal character whose business is destroying fools.
- Edward Francisco
- The Fool Killer
- The Champagne Murders
- Crimes of Passion
- Destroyer
- Edge of Sanity
Five years after his first outing as Bates, Perkins took the titular role in Servando González’s Mexican produced Western, The Fool Killer. Far from being the monstrous 8-foot butcher of fools found in American folklore, Perkins’ Milo Bogardus is a stoic and philosophising young man shrouded in mystery. Taking the 12-year-old runaway George Mellish...
After the international success of Psycho, it would be eight years until Perkins made another movie in Hollywood. Fluent in French, the actor took on many projects in Europe during this time, one of which being Claude Chabrol’s bubbly thriller, The Champagne Murders. Perkins plays Christopher Belling, a gigolo who’s married his way into a wealthy c...
The 1980s was the decade that saw Perkins fully embrace his post-Psycho typecasting, reprising his most famous role in Psycho II (1983) and Psycho III (1986). Lodged in between the actor’s return to the Bates Motel, Perkins took on the role of another nutjob as “Reverend” Peter Shayne in Ken Russell’s Crimes of Passion. The sex-crazed preacher obse...
A Perkins role that flies under the radar is that of an exploitation film director in Robert Kirk’s prison slasher Destroyer. Perkins helms a lacklustre crew shooting a smutty women-in-prison flick in a seemingly abandoned jail. Things get worse for the already frustrated director when a thought-to-be-dead serial killer Ivan Moser begins wreaking b...
In one of the last great performances of his career, Perkins took on the roles of Dr Henry Jekyll and Mr Jack Hyde in Gérard Kikoïne’s Edge of Sanity. A mash-up of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 19th-century novella and the real-life Jack the Ripper murders, the film sees Perkins embody the brilliant Dr Jekyll by day and the dastardly Mr Hyde at night. T...
After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful "Fool Killer" of folklore.
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After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful "Fool Killer" of folklore.
