WATCHknownThe Old Dark House
1932 · USA · 70m
James Whale between the two Frankensteins, having a wonderful time, and Karloff is the least of it.
8 films
Horror films of the 1930s
goreledger catalogues 8 horror films from the 1930s, released between 1931 and 1935. By country of origin: USA (7), Germany (1) and France (1). The most common subgenres here are gothic (6), body horror (2), vampire (2) and creature feature (1). The best-documented entries are King Kong (1933), Frankenstein (1931) and Dracula (1931).
The films
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WATCHknownVampyr
1932 · France/Germany · 75m
Dreyer shooting through gauze at a plot that barely exists. Closer to a bad dream than a film.
WATCHknownWhite Zombie
1932 · USA · 69m
The first zombie film, made independently, with Lugosi controlling the dead on a Haitian sugar plantation.
WATCHcanonFreaks
1932 · USA · 64m
Tod Browning cast real sideshow performers, MGM cut a third of it, and it ended his career.
WATCHcanonBride of Frankenstein
1935 · USA · 78m
The Universal cycle's best film. Whale is openly funny and openly on the monster's side.
Goreledger 9/10
WATCHcanonDracula
1931 · USA · 75m
Stagey, slow, and it has no score at all. Lugosi's face is the entire reason it survives.
Goreledger 6/10
WATCHcanonFrankenstein
1931 · USA · 71m
Karloff in Jack Pierce's makeup, and the flat head is a copyrighted design rather than anything from the novel.
WATCHcanonKing Kong
1933 · USA · 100m
The first great monster film, and Willis O'Brien's animation still has more personality than anything rendered.
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