"I'm the sanest man who ever lived!"

Though #Karloff is top-billed, bringing authentic pathos as a regretful, disfigured bank robber, it's #Lugosi's movie, relishing the mania of a retired surgeon / obsessive #Poe collector converting his cellar into a torture museum (complete with active pendulum)...

1/2

I just watched The Sorcerers (Michael Reeves, 1967) and rated it 6/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerers #films #cinema #cinemastodon #TheSorcerers #Karloff #BorisKarloff #MichaelReeves - very silly, rather nasty, but quite fun horror - and lovely to see Karloff on such good form (although Catherine Lacy was the monster!)

#Bales2023FilmChallenge XXDATE: Countdown on #NationalCountdownDay

[SPOILER WARNING BELOW]

#Peace, little girl aka Daisy aka Daisy Girl was the #PoliticalAd campaign to end all ad campaigns. It opens innocently enough with a little blonde girl, picking the petals of an ox-eye #daisy while counting. When the final petal's gone, the tone changes completely*

This deceptively simple #propaganda #film was made in support of Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign by ad agency #DBB and media consultant #TonySchwartz. It was so effective and bleak in is insinuations that the Johnson campaign was forced to pull it after only one screening.

What fascinates me is the similarity with one particular scene from James Whale's Frankenstein (1931). The Monster (#Karloff) meets a little girl who sits on the shore of a lake, picking daisies. He approaches her, and the girl, knowing the creature is a good man at heart, invites him to play a game with her involving them tossing the daisies into the lake. <spoiler>When they run out of daisies, the Monster picks up the girl who to him is as pretty and innocent as a flower, and throws her into the water.</spoiler>.

This scene was cut and considered lost until the 1980s. Could Tony Schwartz have been aware of that scene? He was at the right age to have seen the pre-code, pre-cut version.

*Peace, little girl is deceptively simple and only a minute long. However, do watch it on a sunny day: https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs01185386/?)

#film #cinema #propaganda #elections #LyndonBJohnson #BarryGoldwater #ColdWar #Vietnam #VietnamWar #politics #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

Can a ghoul possibly have too much #Karloff in its life? Watching tonight: Michael Curtiz's The Walking Dead (1936). #precode #film #BorisKarloff

268 Days Until #halloween

#halloweencountdown It may not be my favorite film featuring #karloff and #elsalanchester BUT this version featuring #sting and #jenniferbeals is really good! #vhs #thebride #brideoffrankenstein #frankenstein

FULL FORCE FRIDAY:🆕January 27th Release #52🎧

KARLOFF - Raw Nights🇩🇪🔥Vinyl Repress

Debut mini-album from Oldenburg, German Raw Blackened Punk outfit🔥

BC➡️https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/album/karloff-raw-nights 🔥

#Karloff #RawNights #RawBlackenedPunk #DyingVictimsProductions #FFFJan27 #KMäN

Do you want your Mummy?
If so, I encourage you to listen to the first season of my show, "Monsters by the Minute", where I take a 9 hour deep dive into the creators on both sides of the camera for Universal's 1932 occult classic, "The Mummy", starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann and David Manners.

You can stream all the episodes for free here, or on your phone's Podcast Subscription and Transmission Machine:

https://billmakespodcasts.com/mummy/

#horror
#karloff
#film
#horrorfam
#podcast

THE CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTAR (1968)-#horror #1960s #ChristopherLee #Karloff