Comments on: Profiling the Duppie http://www.cryptomundo.com/folklore/profiling-the-duppie/ for Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and More Wed, 22 May 2013 02:59:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Shelley http://www.cryptomundo.com/folklore/profiling-the-duppie/comment-page-1/#comment-81104 Shelley Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:13:32 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=57765#comment-81104 I’m not good cutting and pasting pictures, but the Blacksnake duppie is to be seen here.

Your duppie looks kind of cute, except maybe for all those teeth. He does look like a shaved version of the monster in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, which Prowse had played a few years before. Easy to make a big suit and stick a big man in it, I guess. Not so much fun for the one stuck in the suit though.

]]> By: gridbug http://www.cryptomundo.com/folklore/profiling-the-duppie/comment-page-1/#comment-81101 gridbug Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:50:38 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=57765#comment-81101 There was a great episode of Amazing Stories called “The Sitter” that featured The Duppie!

]]> By: Shelley http://www.cryptomundo.com/folklore/profiling-the-duppie/comment-page-1/#comment-81100 Shelley Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:49:26 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=57765#comment-81100 There’s a bad old movie from 1974 that encorporates a character called a duppie. Blacksnake is one of the few movies written and produced by the late Russ Meyer that is not preoccupied with women with big–okay, gigantic–chests. It was filmed on Barbados and is set in a slave plantation there ca. 1800. The duppie in this instance is just a man who the lead character wants to punish, and he is castrated, has his tongue cut out and has lost his mind. Although he appears as a huge man with long hair and beard, wearing only mud and torn clothing, he actually was meant to be a monster of some kind, since the role was specifically cast with the most recent actor to have played Frankenstein’s monster, David Prowse. I’ve never seen the movie–it’s hard to get in US format–but he doesn’t appear to do much other than roar and attack people, and he is killed with a shotgun blast. [This info from Prowse's recent autobiography.]

Sounds like Meyer or someone did tap into this legend. Since the movie did not have many unclothed women and was very bad and ultra violent, it was Meyer’s least lucrative film. Kind of the opposite, I guess, since it takes a man with a big chest, and arms, etc. and objectifies him. ;-)

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