The Old Dark House
James Whale between the two Frankensteins, having a wonderful time, and Karloff is the least of it.
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James Whale between the two Frankensteins, having a wonderful time, and Karloff is the least of it.
Dreyer shooting through gauze at a plot that barely exists. Closer to a bad dream than a film.
The first zombie film, made independently, with Lugosi controlling the dead on a Haitian sugar plantation.
Tod Browning cast real sideshow performers, MGM cut a third of it, and it ended his career.
The Universal cycle's best film. Whale is openly funny and openly on the monster's side.
Stagey, slow, and it has no score at all. Lugosi's face is the entire reason it survives.
Karloff in Jack Pierce's makeup, and the flat head is a copyrighted design rather than anything from the novel.
The first great monster film, and Willis O'Brien's animation still has more personality than anything rendered.