Nightmare in Blood

Starring:Mark Anger, Justin Bishop, Dan Caldwell, John Cochran, Drew Eshelman, Ray K. Goman, Mike Hitchcock, Bela Lugosi, Kerwin Mathews, Jennifer Miro, Charles Murphy (II), Hy Pyke, Kathleen Quinlan, Stan Ritchie, Erika Stanley, Morgan Upton, Jerry Walter, Yvonne Young, Barrie Youngfellow
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Description

Guilty for a drunken one-night stand with a stranger, Anne proposes a romantic escape to the mountains with her boyfriend Michael. The fresh air and scenic beauty do wonders for the couple as they sail down the bike trails of the exotic mountain range...until the stranger from that night reappears...killing Michael and beginning his deadly pursuit.

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Meh...not that great.......2007-05-14

First of all, I have to say that the only reason this got two stars is because I thought the premise was very interesting (althought not well executed) and the cinematogrophy (that is defintely spelled wrong) was fantastic. Other than that, was boring....almost fast forwarded to the end, but was worried that maybe I would miss something profound.....no such luck. Was very disappointed...

HORROR/THRILLER AT IT'S BEST!.......2007-04-23

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DIRECT-TO-DVD MOVIES THAT I'VE SEEN IN QUITE SOME TIME! WELL WORTHY OF THEATRICAL EXHIBITION AND A LOT BETTER THAN MOST OF THE MOVIES RELEASED THEATRICALLY!
IF YOU LIKE MOVIES ABOUT OBSESSED SERIAL KILLERS..THEN CHECK THIS ONE OUT!
I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT AND FANS OF THE SLASHER GENRE SHOULD ENJOY IT AS WELL!!

Training Wheels.......2007-04-03

Shot in a harsh mini-DV format with an oversaturation of colors, "Blood Trails" is, aesthetically, a visually arresting pic. Its raw lens is focused mainly on a bike messenger named Anne, whose relationship with her boyfriend, Michael, is on the rocks. In a weak moment, she agrees to a one-night stand with a steady-eyed bicycle cop (Chris), and immediately regrets it, as Chris gets a little ... weird. Rueful and ashamed, she tries, the next day, to patch things up with Michael via a nice, quiet bike ride in the woods.

The daytrip turns out to be neither nice nor quiet. Chris has followed them into the mountainside forests and demands complete possession of Anne, which starts with him dispatching of Michael in a ludicrous and altogether laughable fashion. The "horror" that follows Anne for the rest of this tepid film is, we are meant to realize, the repercusions of her single, adulterous mistake.

The problem is that Anne, like most Slasher Pic Sirens, continues to make mistakes in her attempts to find safety and freedom. In fact, of the many, many, many horror/killer films I've seen, Anne has got to be, hands-down, the absolute stupidest heroine I have ever had the misfortune to watch. I wondered, as the film progressed, how any clear-thinking director could expect an audience to find Anne sympathetic, her actions understandable, or her position terrifying.

Not that our villain is any more relatable. In addition to possessing a humbling silence common for most malicious men, Chris is also, apparantly, an expert tracker with something like superhuman strength and agility. Neither he nor Anne seem very real until the final scene. This last burst of full-flowered action is a welcome change of pace, but it is also short and truncated. One gets the impression that almost the entire movie was made on the basis of this inspired conclusion.

Almost. It was also (rather obviously) built upon an allegory of self-discovery and sexuality, and this is why -- I believe -- the film fails so fully. Instead of trying to tell an engaging story of escape and fear, our director and writer (Robert Krause) has lifted a maudlin metaphor out of the cheesiest of self-help books for women and has tried to give it animus and color. Anne, you see, is running from herself. Chris, you see, is her unlikely mentor, here to teach her all about the grisly corners of the human soul. This is why her actions are all so inane -- they are no more or less ridiculous than the rationalizations we use for the most common of human decisions (staying with the abusive spouse, smoking that cigarette, drinking and driving). In this case, Anne is running not from Chris, but from what she likes about Chris. Her fear is not that Chris will kill her, but that he WON'T. Don't you get it? It's all one. Big. Symbol.

It's also one big trainwreck of a film, deeper meanings notwithstanding. Metaphors and allegories are NO substitute for a good story, I don't care how profound or true the underlying message is. Krause has got the pacing down. He knows how to knit together a scene with crisp and crass chromatics. He even frames his moments rather well. But if a runner is going nowhere, pacing doesn't matter. If there is nothing interesting to see, color makes no difference. And if your Big Message is transmitted by symbols that are hollow and mundane, no amount of clever framing will make them seem anything other than dull.

Ride, Scream, Kill, Repeat.......2007-04-01

Blood Trails; the story of a woman who - in guilt - gets away from life with boyfriend - who she just cheated on - to attempt to make things better. Too bad for her, her guilt isn't the only thing that follows her into the woods.

I feel Blood Trails had a lot more potential than it showcased. With what it did show, I didn't particularly enjoy. It was a repeated showcase. After we see the set-up of the cheating, the break-up, the getting back together, and the getting to the cabin woods - we have our leading lady witness a murder, ride on her bike, scream a lot, witness another murder (of a random man in the woods), ride on her bike, scream a lot, witness yet another mother of another random man in the woods, actually get the chance to confront the murderer as to why he's following her, then start riding on her bike and screaming some more.

I understand that we are led to believe that the chick is helpless and distraught after seeing so much grisly going on. But why not go the helpless gal route, and turn around and go the way you came and find your way to safety instead of riding around and screaming? It became tiring after a while, and eventually bored me to closing my eyes a few times. Only to open them at the sound of chick riding and screaming again.

There are some little shining moments in this mess, though. The visuals are pretty great. The colors and landscapes all were full and very mood setting. Rebecca Palmer, the lead, finally stopped getting on my nerves when it came to the conclusion in the cabin, and especially when it came to the final shot of the movie. Our resident madman, Tom Frederic, was the only actor to stay strong throughout the entire film. His facial expressions and his eyes did most of the work for him, and that was okay. And there's a nifty "that would never happen in real life" kind of kill that I wish was capitalized a little more.

In the end ... well, that's all I really enjoyed about Blood Trails, was the end. And I mean the end by the last 15 minutes or so. It could have been just a 20 minute short film and it would have been amazing.

A total waste of time and money.......2007-03-19

Very bad acting, unreal scenario already seen again and again.
Save your money and time and try something else.

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Blood of the Virgins
Starring: Mariela Albano , Ricardo Bauleo , Susana Beltrán , Walter Kliche , and Graciela Mancuso
Director: Emilio Vieyra
Manufacturer: Mondo Macabre
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Satan's Blood

ASIN: B0001DMWPC
Release Date: 2004-03-16

Description

A potent combination of Latin spice, Hammer-style horror and topless go-go dancing, this vampire movie from south of the border is a wild and untamed slice of raw cinema. A group of young swingers are on holiday in the mountains when their van breaks down. Seeking shelter in an abandoned lodge, they end up having a night none of them will soon forget…as they fall prey to a pair of love-hungry vampires.

Customer Reviews:

Language options are unclear..........2004-10-11

Might be of interest to note what languages/subtitle options are on this disc-- I haven't bought it yet, but Amazon doesn't mention the subject at all, someone's asleep at the wheel-- the best I can tell from the Mondo Macabro site (the publisher) it's in Spanish and there are English subtitles.

Glorious!.......2004-10-04

Argentinean movie director Emilio Vieyra immediately fires up his 1967 horror/sex send up Blood of the Virgins with the acute notion that most have given the legend of vampirism at least a cursory glance. Very little dramatic build up leads to even less character development, and then we're out of the gates and plowing down the home stretch. Amenities and blouses be gone! We only have 77 minutes to settle this sucker! Bring on the bare breasts and blood! And that's precisely what Vieyra does.

In short, a group of swingers are touring the vamp's area when their hippie van collapses, leaving them to spend an unforgettable and seemingly unlivable evening at the Count's lodge. The Count has kept an unwilling yet equally undead bride in his clutches, and not surprisingly, a sing-song "vampire" romp ensues. However, at least Emilio Vieyra was at the helm to save us from that tired fodder as boobies quickly begin to flow from the females' brasiers as fluently as blood from their fang-punctured wounds.

Thematically there is an interesting twist as the Count's vamped bride not only exterminates her captor with the dreaded silver dagger but then turns the damnable instrument upon herself. Cinematically we're treated to numerous topless Go-Go dancers who wiggle wildly to cool-school jazz while inserts of sea gulls double for vampire bats. Weird.

Emilio Vieyra is Argentina's answer to Brazil's Coffin Joe, Spain's Jesus Franco and France's Jean Rollin. Vieyra haphazardly stumbled upon the horror/sex combo and immediately submitted three very bizarre entries into the cycle. In fact all three were released between 1967 and 1970. Vieyra's genre credits include; The Deadly Organ (a.k.a.: Feast of Flesh), the mind/crotch-blowing Curious Dr. Hummp and of course Blood of the Virgins.

This DVD from Mondo Macabro features a fantastic documentary on Argentinian exploitation film making as well as production notes, a still gallery and alternate subtitles.

By: C. Curry

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Blood of the Virgins
Starring: Ricardo Bauleo
Director: Emilio Vieyra
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ASIN: B0002V7SV6
Release Date: 2004-03-16

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Language options are unclear..........2004-10-11

Glorious!.......2004-10-04

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Taxing to watch
A lot of fun!
Nightmare in Blood - sucks!
GREAT TITLE FOR LOW-BUDGET CURIO....

Nightmare in Blood
Starring: Mark Anger , Justin Bishop , Dan Caldwell , John Cochran , and Drew Eshelman
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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ASIN: B00016XNO8
Release Date: 2004-02-17

Description

The streets of San Francisco run red when a horror convention comes to town, bringing with it a most unusual guest of honor: Malakai, a mysterious cult actor who#s also a real life bloodsucker! With his two henchmen, the reincarnations of bodysnatchers Burke and Hare, the fanged menace perplexes Bay Area police, leaving all hope in the hands of mystery novelist Seabrook, amateur sleuth Scotty, fashion designer Cindy, comic book expert Gary, and Nazi hunter Ben-Halik. The intrepid vampire hunters track the fiend to his secret lair beneath a movie theater, where diabolical experiments have enabled Malakai to tamper with life and death itself! Featuring Kerwin Mathews (7th Voyage of Sinbad) and directed by horror guru John Stanley, this tongue- in-cheek monster mash will have you clutching your armrests in fright!

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Taxing to watch.......2004-12-19

If you've ever wondered what a horror movie made by a fan boy would look like, you need go no further than John Stanley's "Nightmare in Blood." Films made by diehard fans of the genre aren't entirely rare by any means. I suspect that every other cheap, straight to video slasher flick coming out today has a fan boy behind the camera. I know for a fact that the Z grade, micro budget, shot on video dreck distributed by companies like Sub Rosa definitely owe much to guys who grew up under the influence of horror films. It's not surprising fans eventually get behind the camera. After you've watched as many of these cheesy films as I have, you quickly start to think, "I can do better than that," or something similar. But as anyone familiar with fan made horror films can attest, it isn't quite so easy to make any film let alone a horror film. Not only do you have to worry about film, cameras, actors, set pieces, and all the other minutiae central to the production process, you also have to worry about special effects. If you're going to make a horror movie, you MUST have special effects. It's a federal law, I think.

Well, "Nightmare in Blood" contains plenty of special effects work, some that work quite well considering the budget, but the film fails in nearly every other aspect except standing out as probably the most blatant fan boy production ever. Made in San Francisco during the early 1970s but not released until the end of the decade, "Nightmare in Blood" tells the story of a series of most unusual incidents unfolding against the backdrop of a horror convention. Successful author and horror fan Professor Seabrook (Dan Caldwell), a Sherlock Holmes aficionado named Scotty (John Cochran), and a convention organizer called Cindy (Barrie Youngfellow) express great excitement about bringing a horror convention to town, and they express even more enthusiasm over getting a big star to show up for the fans. This celebrity is Malakai (Jerry Walter), a man who has made numerous vampire films in the past few years. We even see a clip of Malakai's latest film, involving his vampire character battling the guy who played Sinbad years ago, at the beginning of "Nightmare in Blood." Problems soon emerge when our heroes discover that Malakai is an odd duck. He insists on staying in character at all times, meaning that he sleeps in a coffin and only roams around at night. Hmmm.

Even worse, Malakai brings with him two creepy individuals, Harris (Hy Pike) and B.B. (Ray K. Gorman), explaining that they are his "publicists." Yeah, right. To make a long, long story short, people start perishing under mysterious circumstances soon after Malakai arrives on the scene. Yep, you guessed it: Malakai is actually a living (no pun intended), breathing vampire. And his publicists? Turns out both men are actually the notorious nineteenth century ghouls Burke and Hare, kept alive through frequent infusions of some weird elixir invented by the crazed Malakai. These three evil souls put pictures of potential victims on the wall and then choose who is next by throwing sharp objects at them in some bizarro version of darts. When an obnoxious film critic shows up at a panel discussion to blast Malakai's films as cheap dreck, he goes in a particular unpleasant way. The same thing happens to another chap whose only indiscretion consists of supporting horror movie censorship (I thought that's what we had ratings for, even in the 1970s.). Others give up the ghost in rapid succession until Ben Halik (Mark Anger) walks on stage. He's been hunting Malakai since World War II, and he convinces our heroes to join in the fight. Toss in the kooky owner of a comic book store, Gary (Drew Eshelman), as another aide in the fight against Malakai, and the game is afoot.

I never knew this film existed until I stumbled over it on a rental expedition and thought I would give it a shot. I generally try to avoid vampire films, something I seem to be less and less successful at in the last few months. After watching this extraordinarily cheap film, I can't really recommend it. I did like a few things in "Nightmare in Blood," including the hilariously deadpan Gary character and the even more hilarious scene showing Malakai's cheesy laboratory, but everything else is strictly low budget humdrum. The acting ability of nearly every character in the film is laughable, the picture moves slower than a snail caught in a pool of molasses, and the dialogue will melt your eardrums. Moreover, the lighting is so uniformly poor that you'll spend most of the film squinting at the screen trying to make out what is going on. I also discovered quite early on that the blatant fan boy mentality on display everywhere hindered the viewing experience. Yeah, I complain about things like the heavy-handed censorship of horror pictures too, but that doesn't mean I want to hear about it every five minutes in a movie. Maybe this issue was more relevant in the 1970s when truly disturbing films were coming out every other day, but now it seems out of place in an age when you just wait for a company to release the uncut version on DVD.

Speaking of DVD versions, the "Nightmare in Blood" disc receives a surprisingly good treatment. Extras include a commentary track with director John Stanley and writer Kenn Davis, stills, and several clips from Stanley's San Francisco "Creature Feature" television program. In two segments, he interviews Leonard Maltin and an author who wrote a book about the heyday of RKO studios. Two additional clips feature a lame martial arts demonstration (!) and a cheesy skit called "Bad Seed." Even fans of schlock cinema will have a tough time with "Nightmare in Blood."

A lot of fun!.......2004-06-09

If you're a fan of classic and contemporary horror films, Nightmare in Blood (1978) can be a lot of fun. That's not to say this cheaply made feature is actually good, but it's clearly ambitious. Its creative team obviously tried making the best film they could given their inexperience and the project's budgetary limitations, and to its credit Nightmare in Blood has a respect for and understanding of its audience. The picture has a lot of good ideas (and a few bad ones), and is more polished than other horror movies with similarly low budgets.
The picture was apparently shot in and around the San Francisco-Oakland area over several years, from roughly 1973-75, and wasn't actually released until 1978. The story takes place at an old movie palace (filmed at the long-gone Fox Theater in Oakland), several days before a horror convention is to take place. As the convention committee -- writer Professor Seabrook (Dan Caldwell), pert ingenue Cindy (Barrie Youngfellow), and mystery fan Scotty (John Cochran) -- whip the theater into shape, the show's Guest of Honor arrives. He is movie vampire Malakai (Jerry Walter), a Hollywood eccentric who believes in living the part, right down to sleeping in a coffin and shooting his pictures only at night. In tow are Malakai's creepy publicists: B.B. (Ray K. Goman) and Harris (Hy Pyke).

Not at all surprisingly, Malakai turns out to be a real, undead vampire. What's more, the Burke and Hare-like B.B. and Harris really are Burke and Hare, kept alive with Frankensteinian equipment smuggled into the theater's basement. As the trio arbitrarily begins choosing victims and draining their blood, and as our three heroes (joined by eccentric comic book dealer Gary) begin to unravel the mystery behind the killings, a Van Helsing-like vampire hunter Ben-Halik (Irving Israel) shows up to fill in the blanks and pass out stakes.

The few who have written about this extremely obscure picture often refer to it as tongue-in-cheek, suggesting something similar to the campy monster movie segments in The House That Dripped Blood (1970) and The Uncanny (1977). Actually, Nightmare in Blood is much more along the lines of The Projectionist (1971) or My Lovely Monster (1990), movies made by movie buffs with a genuine affection for the horror/fantasy genre. The film has several interesting concepts, such as making Ben-Halik a Jew who had originally pursued Malakai as a Nazi-era war criminal; only later did he determine Malakai also happened to be a vampire. (In a grievous misstep though, the filmmakers use stock footage of real Holocaust victims being bulldozed into mass graves, an out-of-place image in Saturday matinee material like this.)

The film abounds with references to both horror movies and their stars, from Lon Chaney to Christopher Lee, to comic books like Vault of Horror and Plop!. Indeed, there's even a nice scene that's practically a love poem to the influence of comic books. In the theater, there are posters hung everywhere worth pennies then and thousands now. (Oddly, one of these is for The Fighting Rats of Tobruk, a 1944 British war movie!) A major subplot involves a condescending local horror movie host, George Wilson (Morgan Upton), and a censorship advocate, Dr. Karl Unsworth (Justine Bishop), both shrewdly calculated to piss off the very audience that Nightmare in Blood was targeted at. Guess what happens to them?

There are several movies within the movie, one of which offers a fleeting glimpse at a very young Kathleen Quinlan. The most prominent of these faux films though is "The Zaroff Doom," notable in that it features Kerwin Mathews battling Malakai but more obviously referencing Mathews's Sinbad persona. Watching his scenes (and how well Mathews aged), leaves one wishing the actor had continued in the Sinbad role through the 1970s Harryhausen pictures.

As for Nightmare in Blood, the film is at once more polished than you'd expect yet still overwhelmingly cheap and generally routine in its horror elements. The film was shot in Techniscope, and cinematographers Kenn Davis (who co-wrote and co-produced) and Charles Rudnick manage some decent compositions, and the movie's score is pretty good for such a low budget film.

Outside of Mathews and Quinlan, the cast consisted of local talent, many of whom had small parts in Hollywood productions filmed in the Bay Area, such as the Dirty Harry movies and the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The acting is uneven, with several performers shamelessly hammy, but most, yet again, are better than usual for such cheap films.

Video & Audio

Happily, Nightmare in Blood is presented here in its original Techniscope aspect ratio in a 16:9 anamorphic transfer. It appears a 35mm theatrical print was used, judging by the long scratches and missing frames here and there. Considering the obscurity of this title and that at its peak probably no more than a half-dozen prints were ever struck, one should be thankful the film exists at all. The mono soundtrack also seems derived from the same print source and is fair at best; there are no subtitles.

Extras

The DVD has a pretty nice selection of extras, several having nothing to do with the movie, but amusing in their own way. First and foremost is an audio commentary track, one of the most entertaining this reviewer has heard in a long while, featuring director/co-producer/co-writer John Stanley and the aforementioned Kenn Davis. In sharp contrast to the superficial big studio commentary, the pair are nostalgic but forthright about the problems they endured getting the picture made and distributed, saying up front that theirs is both a "how-to" and "how-not" to make such a picture. They offer up a lot of interesting tidbits, pointing out future director Fred Dekker (then 13 years old) as a mask-wearing extra, and how actor Jerry Walter went on to loop innumerable stormtrooper voices in Star Wars.

Next is a nine-minute Interview with Leonard Maltin about his annual TV Movies and a seven minute interview with writer Richard P. Jewell (now an Associate Dean at the USC School of Cinema-Television) about his book The RKO Story. What does this have to do with Nightmare in Blood? Nothing, but director Stanley, for those not living in San Francisco during the late-1970s/early-1980s, also hosted a local horror movie show, Creature Features, from whence these segments are derived. Both pieces seem to date from about 1983, and both use scads of film clips that, despite their extremely poor quality, may inadvertently turn this DVD into a collector's item. Two other Creature Feature segments, one spoofing The Bad Seed the other, of all things, a Tae Kwon Do demonstration featuring an extremely nervous and dry-mouthed martial artist/instructor, will appeal only to nostalgic San Franciscans who want to remember the show. A photo gallery rounds out the batch.

Nightmare in Blood - sucks!.......2004-04-13

What a terrible movie! It is funny that the film was about a convention in San Francisco when the movie was actually shot in Downtown Oakland at the Fox Oakland Theatre before the theatre was ravaged by a fire and the seats were torn out. Here it is 30 years later, the Fox Oakland is still there and vacant, (not gone as stated by another writer)and so is this movie! As a native from Oakland, and a projectionist for many years, the scene of the Avenue Theatre just brought back so many memories. Warren Lubich on the organ! It is now a church.

I was an employee of the Fox Oakland. During the narration of the movie, it was stated that it felt like there was a spirit of somekind there. There is. Wierd, wierd, things used to happen in there. On each side of the stage there were two buddahs, holding pots. Dry ice would be dropped in it and it would explode with smoke. The right buddah used to light up all by itself and it had eyes that looked like it followed you everywhere. The left buddah would spout smoke when the mechanical device that ran it wasn't even connected. Pictures of the buddahs are at www.foxoakland.org. The curtains on the stage would close and reopen by itself. One time when the movie started and the curtains started to open, the screen started to move upward and eventually the movie was showing on the bare wall! The projectionist tried to stop it but couldn't cause there was no switch!. In the row of seats in front of the projection booth in the balcony, when you looked up you would see a old lady sitting there all by herself, she would look at you and smile and slowly disappear. Frances, the evening usher, saw her when the Fox was closing for the evening, she fainted. She quit the next day. When the Fox Oakland was ravaged by not one but two fires, the seats were removed. There was a pleasure faire there and several employees saw the old lady in the projection booth, scared the heck out of a lot of people. The Fox Oakland is under renovation - and is haunted, no doubt.

The producers of this film picked a perfect place.

When I first saw the film, it played at the York Theatre in San Francisco. A quarter of the people walked out. Sad, but true!

GREAT TITLE FOR LOW-BUDGET CURIO...........2004-02-19

"Nightmare in Blood" has a lot going for it but is hampered by a very low budget, amateurish production values and a very dark DVD print. It concerns a "Horrorcon"---horror film convention---in San Francisco where the guest of honor, vampire star Malakai, turns out to be the real thing. He's accompanied by the rejuvenated corpse snatchers Burke and Hare. They start conducting their rejuvination experiments in the basement of the theater where the convention is being held. Victims soon start being dissected and organs stolen. A Jewish vampire hunter is hot on Malakai's trail because Malakai was a disciple of Hitler! But the intrepid cast band together with the hunter to stop the carnage. And there is carnage. There's violence and gore and some of it appears to have been trimmed because there's a choppiness to it that gets annoying. Cast features Barrie Youngfellow (of the 70's sitcom "It's a Living") as Cindy and Kathleen Quinlan (billed as "Kathy") can be seen screaming in a brief scene. The film has lots of references to old horror films as well as clips and posters used as props. Much discussion about horror films' effects on society and children is used throughout as well. Overall, "Nightmare in Blood" is an odd, drive-in style film that suffers from some problems. The acting ranges from good to downright bad and I wish the print wasn't so dark. But some may like it and if you're curious it's worth a look. It has some interesting, if not entirely successful, points.

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