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A horror classic with few flaws
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"Based on the Mary Shelley 1817 novel, "Frankenstein" is one of Universal Studio's classic horror monsters, even though "Frankenstein" is actually the creator. Colin Clive plays the "mad scientist" obsessed with creating life with his own hands. However, he is unaware his hunchbacked assistant "Fritz" brings to him a murderous, violent brain to control the body he created from corpses he collected from graves and gallows. Boris Karloff is wonderful as "The Monster". He was very good at making "The Monster" a sympathetic character. Other actors are good at their performances. The only one I did not like was Frederick Kerr's performance as "Baron Frankenstein". He seemed to be dazed and struggling through his lines most of the time. Another minor problem was audio quality. In wide-shots that showed the actors performing in a distance from the camera, they could be barely heard. It is quite obvious that there was no microphone close enough so they could be heard clearly. Another scene ... "
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry. Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem) The Golem series is one of the original horror series, setting up many horror film clichés that are still being used today. It's hard to look at this final and most famous of the three films and not think of (the much more enjoyable) Frankenstein in many thematic ways and in many specific scenes such as when the Golem encounters the young girl. It wasn't too long ago that I saw this movie and I can hardly remember any images from most of it. I guess that's a sign that I found most of it rather boring. The scene where the golem comes to life is one of the most fascinating in the film, but the DVD special features reveal a scene similar to this was
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"Nerds the world over have been juggling feelings of confusion and excitement over the laundry list of projects reportedly attached to their favored son, Guillermo del Toro. The list of films he is rumored (if not confirmed) to direct and/or produce are as follows: The Hobbit, Pinocchio, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Slaughterhouse-Five, At the Mountains of Madness, The Champions, Drood, Frankenstein, Hellboy III, Hater, Crimson Peak,
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"Watch Frankenstein (Edison, 1910) in Entertainment Videos | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com For city-dwelling adults without kids, Halloween can be truly frightening. With the pressure on to outdo ones friends, frenemies and total strangers with a costume that strikes the perfect balance between creative, alluring and topical, the average October 31st night out can be a lot like sixth grade, except with the added toxic influence of alcohol and biological clocks. Plus, this year the streets are expected to be full of Sexy and/or
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"The leaves are turning, the air is crisp, it could only mean one thing: the time is now for the best Simpsons episode of the year, The Treehouse of Horror Halloween Special. They’ve done a good job this year of building buzz, especially around the portion of the episode that spoofs Mad Men. The episode airs Sunday, November 2, and 8 pm on Fox. In the above video we get a glimpse of the segment’s title, How to Get Ahead in Dead-Vertising. This is fantastic news: it means that the piece will be properly ghoulish, and it also means that it may not be only an homage to Mad Men, but also to the classic 1989 advertising satire How to Get Ahead in Advertising. In that film, a successful ad executive suffers from a horrible boil on his neck. One day he wakes to find that the boil has developed into a fa "
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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
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"Frankenstein Meets the Wolf ManI actually found this film to be more enjoyable than the original The Wolf Man, although not as much as the original Frankenstein. Sometimes there is something kind of fun about just coming in knowing where the characters are coming from without too much exposition. Even though the history of horror movies has been filed with sequels that can get rather tired.I find it amusing that although I sometimes think of all these monster "vs." movies as more recent absurdity, this kind of thing has been a staple for a long time.Rating: 07/10 "
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"I love the horror pictures Universal made in the 30's. I don't know why - horror is one of my least favorite genres overall- but I simply cannot resist them. Dracula was, I believe, the first one I saw. It was on late at night (Starting around 11 or 11:30, as I recall), when normal commercials have stopped and commercial breaks are filled with big-boobed women breathlessly reciting phone numbers, and ads for terrible phone ringtones. It made for a nice contrast with the film, which is all about repressed sexuality and hidden desires.There are a few standard tropes in horror, and in this period in the 30's, they were explored one by one for what felt like the first time. Dracula was about the dangers of sex. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was about the duality of man, about the perversity hidden by a thin layer of civilisation. The Wolfman is about our fear of our animal nature,
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"FRANKENSTEIN ... This Movie, along with "Dracula (1931) - Details - Spout", set the standards by which ALL Horror Movies are judged to this day. The most Horrifying events imaginable taking place 'right before your eyes'. (as graphically as was permited, at the time)... Mary Shelley's very dark, disturbing and complex novel is filtered down to it's basic Horror elements for this movie.... To GREAT effect. This movie works on all levels. The story, the sets, the lighting. the cinematography, the direction, The ACTORS... Man, this was great... Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein was incredible! ( "It's Alive... ALIVE!!!" )... and bringing back a couple of the actors from "DRACULA" (Dwight Frye and Edward Van Sloan), "FRANKENSTEIN" instantly became the penultimate Horror Movie... Here is an interesting story... The 1931 Movie Version of "DRACULA" was actually written for the greatest Horror Movie star at that time... Lon Chaney Sr.! It was to be his first 'talki ... "
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