Saturday, July 04, 2026
Very Important Addendum on the Title of "The Hour of the Star"
Still on The Hour of the Star, a "last but not least"-type note.
One curiously humorous effect that film had was that it consisted on a kind of involuntary joke on a 1980s Brazilian mass cultural phenomenon, that of "The Hour of..."-retitled films, almost exclusively comprising horror ones. So, it is hilarious to contrast this film with the completely opposite kind of product that abounded on Brazilian screens, such as A hora do pesadelo ("The Hour of the Nightmare", for A Nightmare on Elm Street), A hora do espanto ("The Hour of Fright", for Fright Night), A hora dos mortos-vivos ("The Hour of the Living Dead", for Re-Animator), A hora do lobisomem ("The Hour of the Werewolf", for Silver Bullet), etc.
