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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2017 16:22:39 GMT -5
For the record, I'm watching Dracula and Dracula's Daughter tonight and forget about Son of Dracula and I did not care for it at all period; it's just not my cup of tea.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 1, 2017 16:26:23 GMT -5
As late as the 1960s, Lon Jr was in that timeless classic Spider-Baby. Yeah I actually posted about Spider-Baby early in the thread. Sig Haig's horror movie debut I think as well.
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Post by Pharozonk on Oct 1, 2017 16:31:07 GMT -5
Chaney Jr seems to have been in quite a bit of entertaining schlock. IIRC Ish Kabbible went through quite a few of them earlier in the thread. As late as the 1960s, Lon Jr was in that timeless classic Spider-Baby. That's probably Jack Hill's weirdest movie. I prefer his more blatant exploitation stuff like Coffy and The Big Bird Cage.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 1, 2017 16:56:31 GMT -5
As late as the 1960s, Lon Jr was in that timeless classic Spider-Baby. That's probably Jack Hill's weirdest movie. I prefer his more blatant exploitation stuff like Coffy and The Big Bird Cage. I used to have a gigantic poster of Switchblade Sisters.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 2, 2017 12:31:10 GMT -5
Dracula’s Daughter (1936) The pacing in this is an improvement over the original and it picks up right after the deaths of Count Dracula and Renfield with Edward Van Sloan reprising his role as Von Helsing. Gloria Holden gives an eerie but also at times sympathetic performance as a vampiress who falls in love with a man that's already engaged. After being rejected she kidnaps his fiancee and escapes back to Transylvania. The build up towards the climax is exciting and I can see why some fans prefer this to the original.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 2, 2017 12:36:29 GMT -5
Son of Dracula (1943) Not nearly good as its predecessors and lacks the same chilling atmosphere but still a bit of cheesy fun. Chaney's performance isn't as creepy as others but he's certainly a formidable villain. There's an unexpected double-cross, the climax is suspenseful and I felt the ending was satisfying.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 13:36:05 GMT -5
I thought Dracula's Daughter wasn't all that good and I recorded the Son of Dracula and planning on watching tonight off of my DVR. I've felt that Dracula's Daughter wasn't your typical vampire movie and I just didn't care the way this movie came out. I seen this 20 years ago and now last night and I've don't really feel like seeing it again because of the angles that this movie had. Gloria Holden as Dracula's Daughter did not impress me at all and her performance isn't all that chilling and suspenseful as you think.
Like you said Jesse, her performance was sympathetic; but not that impressive at all. I just had a very difficult time enjoying it. That's the reason that this movie is my way of crossing it off for future viewing in the future.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 2, 2017 16:58:36 GMT -5
What, they're not showing Dracula's Next Door Neighbor and Second Cousin, Twice Removed, of Dracula? The only Dracula movie you need to see is Old Drac, with David Niven! Just listen to these reviews: "Sheepsberg, Romania has never laughed so much!" "Does for Dracula what Hoover did for vacuums!" And, from the Times, "Seriously, David Niven as Dracula? Did he have a big tax bill or something?"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 18:19:48 GMT -5
I just watched Son of Dracula and it's okay; but I just can't accept Lon Chaney as Dracula and felt it's lacks substance and the ending was pretty good and I have to take back what I said earlier. It's better than Dracula's Daughter - but not that much too.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 3, 2017 15:23:20 GMT -5
The Unsuspected (1947) Interesting story that combines elements of mystery, horror and noir. There are some pretty good performances throughout and the thrills are exciting and suspenseful. Claude Rains plays the host of a murder mystery radio program and the film opens with his secretary being murdered then posed as a suicide. When his rich niece who was thought dead in a shipwreck returns alive she doesn't remember the man who claims to be her husband. After the suicide is exposed as murder the killer starts to eliminate anyone who might expose him, eventually planning to murder his own niece in order to solely inherit her fortune.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 21:55:08 GMT -5
Bride of Frankenstein is far more superior than Frankenstein. It's has more of everything and more suspenseful and has that dramatic ending that makes it pure gem. Having seen them back to back ... Frankenstein is a tale of horror - pure and simple. The Bride is scarier, more insightful, powerful, and more evil, and the dramatic ending makes it even all that better.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 3, 2017 22:44:32 GMT -5
Bride informs many takes that followed, including Young Frankenstein and Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
I quite like the Hammer Frankenstein films (what I have seen, which is the Curse of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed). I like the focus on the Baron, himself, as the evil force, rather than on the monster. It helps set it apart from other Frankenstein productions.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 5, 2017 17:37:05 GMT -5
Bride informs many takes that followed, including Young Frankenstein and Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. I quite like the Hammer Frankenstein films (what I have seen, which is the Curse of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed). I like the focus on the Baron, himself, as the evil force, rather than on the monster. It helps set it apart from other Frankenstein productions. I like some of those Hammer Frankenstein movies as well. Especially Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell and Frankenstein Created Women both get a lot of points for being SO WEIRD!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2017 18:47:15 GMT -5
Hoosier X"Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell and Frankenstein Created Women both get a lot of points for being SO WEIRD!"You can have an endless debate of people discussing which one of these being WEIRD, TOTALLY WEIRD!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2017 8:33:39 GMT -5
I recently watched The Marrying Kind with Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray. It wasn't the light comedy I was expecting, however I really enjoyed it. It seemed very ahead of its time. Funny, sad, and romantic--all those elements are there and Holliday and Ray are both awesome.
Also watched Hands Across the Table with Fred MacMurray and Carole Lomard. It was hilarious! The scene where she pretends to be the telephone operator literally had me laughing out loud!
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