Word: dracula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salvador Dali's (TIME, Nov. 26), are amused, bewildered or alarmed. But surrealism has its uses. In I Am Your Brother Author Marlowe has made it work for him, shows through this feverish medium a story distorted into real horror. One reason why such gruesome tales as Dracula are still traditional is because the old-fashioned paraphernalia have not been improved on. Author Marlowe shows a new way to make flesh creep...
...Lloyd's insured famed Playwright John Lloyd Balderston (Berkeley Square, Dracula for $10 per $1,000, he must have impressed some individual underwriter that he was an excellent risk. U. S. rates are based on the combined experiences of many underwriters. Thus, U. S. rates for student pilots are almost uniformly near $35; for experienced non-commercial pilots. $16 to $20. Those rates take into consideration all possible combinations of risks. Lloyd's rates, on the other hand, vary with the judgment of the particular underwriter who takes the case, but are rarely...
...Black Cat in which to appear together for the first time. Between them they have played all of the more awful whatnots and macabre personages of the past few years, Karloff in The Mummy, Frankenstein, The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Old Dark House and The Ghoul; Lugosi in Dracula, White Zombie, Chandu the Magician and Murders in the Rue Morgue...
...attempt to create a super bloodcurdling picture both Dracula's Bela Lugosi and Frankenstein's Boris Karloff have been thrown together that two monsters are better than one does not work out in this instance. Displaying a remarkable lack of originality in terrorizing devices and effects, the picture is hardly one to make children scream and women faint. Even more important, the plot is so complicated and incoherent that all sense of sustained terrifying suspense is virtually lost. Two such master-monsters as Lugosi and Karloff deserve a better vehicle than "The Black Cat" when they meet to match wits...
...remove hat, gleves, coat, and face, and reveal nothing but the wall beyond him is not an entirely new sensation (c.f. Dracula looking into a mirror and seeing nothing); but it is none the less grotesque and even somewhat amusing. The producers of "The Invisible Man" have not taken their creation too seriously, and so they have him do a jig down a country road with nothing but his trousers and an hysterically fugitive old woman to indicate his presence...