Atmospheric mystery set in a fogbound London. Marvellously moody thrills with economic style to burn and wonderfully strong female leads. 1946.
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lol. That, alas, is not new.
The Dirty Dozen (1967) Directed by Robert Aldrich
A really good issue, the sort of story I've come to think of as a DeFalco special, and DeFalco's run on the title (with Wilson, who drew a lot of that book's overall run) was really good too. An example of taking what could have been a thankless assignment and making some gold of it.
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Robert Redford in, Jeremiah Johnson (1972) Directed by Sydney Pollack
That's interesting! Don't do it as fanfic--go all the way and make a proper tale of it.
Yeah, I was pretty young when I saw it myself and didn't properly appreciate it.
Even the part about having children is about autonomy and a lack of concern for it, though given what Victor and the creature had done to one another up until then, I guess one could understand such concerns.
Have you seen Franc Roddam THE BRIDE (1985)? I recently revisited that one and found it a lot more interesting then when I saw it many years ago.
Whale was very much in on what he was presenting. Edged irony was definitely his language in this. His bride didn't die because she went against the will of her creators though; she died because the creature murdered her for rejecting him in the same way everyone else had. A similar theme.
I like what Kenneth Branaugh did with this in his movie: have the monster want to use the body of Victor's wife to make his own bride.
In the book, she was denied life for a stupid reason--Victor imagining the 2 creatures spawning a race of monsters. Like he's the one making her--couldn't he just make her incapable of having children?
There's a great line of pictures starting with Expressionism in Germany during the silent era, then running directly into horror pictures in the U.S. in the '30s and '40s and continuing through the first film noir cycle. It' great stuff.
Hard to overrate it. It isn't perfect--Una O'Connor is still in it, the Ruby Rhod of the production--but still a great, great movie.
Yeah, one of mine too. My write-up was skimpy but I was trying to get it done in a hurry.
Yes, it really was the high-point of that remarkable run of horrors.
The 4th one was going to be called HOUSE OF RE-ANIMATOR and from what I recall, it was going to be a satire about a George Bush Jr.-type President (played by William H. Macy) who dies in office, then those around him decide to cover it up and bring Herbert and Dan in to bring him back to life.
I thought it was a pretty weak write-up, owing to my not realizing this was the anniversary then having to slap something together before it got too late, but I'll take it, and def go along with raves of Waxman's score.
🎬 "Beyond Re-Animator" had a limited theatrical run in US theatres 23 years ago, on April 23, 2003. The film was, of course, directed by Brian Yuzna and stars Jeffrey Combs, alongside Jason Barry, Elsa Pataky, Santiago Segura & Enrique Arce.
And we're back to those 2000's Photoshop cover artworks!
Ha! They're awful! The one that was on the original DVD release was even worse. A good movie though. I really wish the 4th one--which sounded as if it could have been the best of the sequels, by far--had gotten made. It would maybe be even funnier today.
Whale, long reluctant to make a sequel, jacked up the Expressionism, irony & sardonic humor to 11 and gifted us with one of the greatest horror movies & greatest sequels of all time.
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Returning from the original were Whale, Boris Karloff as the monster and Colin Clive as Frankenstein, with new additions Ernest Thesiger as the delightfully demonic Dr. Septimus Pretorius and the ravishing Elsa Lanchester as both "Frankenstein" author Mary Shelley and the titular Bride.
Released on this day--22 April--in 1935, James Whale's THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.
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It just sort of ends though doesn't it? Sets it up, goes through some data then doesn't really conclude.
The Clintonites' cherished chimera is the "moderate," that mythical mass of conservative voters somewhere out there who, if they could just be mobilized, would allow corrupt donor-driven “Dems” to ignore/replace even more of their party’s progressive base & be even more pro-plutocrat with impunity.
The polar opposite of how the liberal democracy works.
The Thing (1982)
One of the greatest body horror movies of all time. The complete paranoia of who is real and who is the Thing.
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Creepshow (1982) directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King. The ensemble cast includes Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Leslie Nielsen, E. G. Marshall, Viveca Lindfors, Ted Danson and Ed Harris.
Just buy it. Then, you don't have to worry about whether it's available on streaming or to rent.
The numbers varied with time, depending on how the question was asked, but with a few anomalous exceptions (which one always gets in these polls), that was always the big-picture conclusion.