Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics: Bela Lugosi Disc
Darby Jones, Bela Lugosi in Zombies on Broadway
Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics: Boris Karloff Disc
Matters do not improve much over on Bela Lugosi’s disc. Horror enthusiasts will likely experience a gargantuan case of buyer’s remorse during the first scenes of You’ll Find Out (1940). What they’ll find out is that this movie is a vehicle not for Bela Lugosi, but for comedian/bandleader Kay Kyser and his Kollege of Musical Knowledge band, featuring Ginny Simms, Sully Mason and Ish Kabibble (who appears to have been the visual inspiration for Jim Carrey’s Lloyd character in Dumb and Dumber).
Kyser and company’s style of comedy has, shall we say, not aged well, but this is [...]
by Dan Erdman | October 19, 2009
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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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