Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics DVD

"With a few exceptions," wrote Andrew Sarris in You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet, "The Bride of Frankenstein represented the last gasp of the horror film as a serious genre.  The creeping disease of facetiousness crippled the genre even more distressingly than it had the gangster film.  The dilution of creativity proceeded apace in both genres with anachronistic wise-cracking, farcical reactions, low-brow skepticism, and ‘darky’ caricatures.  Warners even promoted the miscegenation of genres with gangsters and ghouls, electric chairs, and haunted graveyards…" 
If those lines rouse your curiosity as to just what those films from the horror genre’s declining years might have been like, let me direct your attention [...]

by Dan Erdman | October 19, 2009   
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