Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinema's two outstanding blood-curdlers deserve a better vehicle than The 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...
...Invisible Man (Universal). While other Hollywood producers confine themselves to the humdrum mishaps of prostitutes, millionaires and college footballers, Carl Laemmle Jr's Universal studio specializes darkly in supernatural pasquinades. The hero of The Invisible Man is as nasty a pumpkinhead as Frankenstein's monster or The Mummy. He is a young physician named Griffin, whose love for beauteous Flora Cranley (Gloria Stuart) is not sufficient to prevent him from discovering a drug which not only makes him invisible but turns him simultaneously into a homicidal lunatic...
...better movie than "The Mystery of the Wax Museum," or it would at least have known that the beautiful hues which result from burning film are a lot more fun to watch than a movie which should still be in its pre-natal stage. Nevertheless, those people who enjoyed Frankenstein should not miss this picture; there are several murders, and Lionel Atwill's make-up provokes ladies to titter...
...sort of magazines for sale in the Times Square district. He worked on the theory that the Grub Street products of an age had a distinct place in its literary history. William W. Watt, in his essay on the penny, sixpenny and shilling Gothic stories that persisted long after "Frankenstein" and "The Monk" had passed out of fashion, has proved this unanswerably...