Word: karloff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wurdalak, longest and scariest episode in the picture, represents that hoary old horror, Boris Karloff, as an East European vampire who carries somebody's head around in a canvas sack, and one dark night, while everybody is sleeping, tears the throat out of his four-year-old grandson. Silly stuff, of course, but it's nice to know that a monster emeritus can somehow manage to eeeeeeeeek out a living...
...much of an improvement, but Lorre is grateful, and he informs Wizard Price that his lost love, Lenore, is a prisoner in the castle of Wizard Karloff. Together they rush off to release her, but when they arrive, they discover that Lenore is no longer the "sainted maiden" of literary memory. She is a lusty redhead (Hazel Court) with a cleavage that could comfortably accommodate the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe and a bottle of his favorite booze besides. Price demands her release. Karloff refuses. With Lorre grinning fiendishly in the wings, the two wizards cross wands...
...does seem a shame that three grown men-Price is 51, Lorre is 58, Karloff is 75-can find nothing better to do with their time and talents. But on the other hand, it's fun to see the old horrors all together-sort of like watching an Ugly Contest. Karloff plays an admirable King Leer; Price wears a hairline mustache that looks like a third lip; Lorre at his loveliest suggests a contented tarantula. The real star of the show is Scenarist Richard Matheson, who has written three or four of the hairiest lines of the year...
...just a sappy little parody of a horror picture cutely calculated to make the children scream with terror while their parents scream with glee. The raven, see, isn't really a raven at all. It's Peter Lorre. The poor chap has been enchanted by Boris Karloff, a wicked wizard who lives in a slimy green castle-that one over there on the left side of the screen. The one on the right side of the screen belongs to Hero Price, a good wizard who takes pity on Lorre, and with the help of jellied spiders, dried bats...
Some real names are out of character. Roy Rogers was Leonard Slye. Boris Karloff could not have frightened a soul as William Henry Pratt. Gypsy Rose Lee has done things that Rose Louise Hovick would presumably never do. Other real names seem to be struggling to express themselves. Merry Mickey Rooney was once Joe Yule Jr. Sam Goldwyn was Sam Goldfish. Shelley Winters was Shirley Schrift. Lili St. Cyr was Marie van Shaack. Diana Dors was Diana Fluck...