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White Zombie (United Artists) is the latest jitter & gooseflesh cinema. Dracula was the first of the current witches' Sabbath of horror pictures (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931), followed by Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue and Freaks. All have been box office successes...
...candle-lit surgery in London, Dr. Jekyll brews broth of Hell, gulps down his potation, and with many a phthisical cough turns into "Mr. 'Ide," the terror of Limehouse. In Germany, Bavarian merrymaking is stilled as Frankenstein's monster stalks abroad. And somewhere in the English countryside, Count Dracula pushes up his mouldering coffin-lid, flicks the gravedirt from his shoulders, and adjusts his cravat for a pleasant evening...
...there is no sleeping of nights in the Rue Morgue. Our scene is at the midway of the Paris Fair of 1845. We enter the tend of Dr. Mirakle (a cognomen which rhymes with "cackle"), and we are face to face with none other than Mr. Bela Lugosi, of "Dracula" memory. The doctor pretends to hold converse with his gorilla, Erik, meanwhile affrighting this pre-Darwinian air with sly allusions to Erik's kinship with his human audience. In this audience, flushed with fairday excitement, are a medical student, Pierre, and his fiancee (Miss Sydney Fox, as well as another...
...crooked bow to Europe. In those days nothing like it had been seen. Devotees of the arts went to marvel, and there was talk of the cinema coming of age. "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" gave the impetus for a brilliant series of European films which included Murneau's "Dracula" (1922) and "Faust," and Eisenstein's "Ten Days That Shook the World" and "Old and New." To the imaginative force of "Caligari," Eisenstein added his technique of film assembly, or "montage," in which short bits of seemingly unrelated scenes are intercut and interposed to produce a visual counterpoint...
...Universal). Mary Wollstonecraft (Mrs. Percy Bysshe Shelley) wrote this story, supposedly to win a bet from her husband and Lord Byron. It is a grisly conceit about a young doctor who, experimenting with synthetic animation, produces a live, dangerous and somewhat human monster. Universal, encouraged by the success of Dracula to produce a series of horrific weirds, in which Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue will be next, entrusted the direction of Frankenstein to James Whale. He did it in the Grand Guignol manner, with as many queer sounds, dark corners, false faces and cellar stairs as could...