Thursday, May 2, 2013

The Terror in a screening room

)After watching The Terror in a screening room with a bunch of AIP executives, Orlock announces his retirement. Karloff agrees on the condition that he be allowed to finish his experiments first. I’m just a fan. The clock is ticking.’Edgerton must project both – as well as the faintest hint of a heart – in the role of a hard-muscled, flinty, white supremacist whose other girl is Myrtle Wilson (played by a fellow-Australian, Isla Fisher), the blousy bride of a garage mechanic. Yet you can be certain of a sweeping epic of a film in May. In F Scott Fitzgerald’s introspective novel, every utterance is weighed. Halloween offers a chance to have a non-traditional wedding—the bride can wear black or purple, and guests can be encouraged to come in costume for a frightfully fun wedding event. It was a tricky business, but Bogdanovich’s solution was pretty ingenius.Named for a mouse and dressed like a camel, Mickey, a yellow lab from Pasadena, walked away with the first-place prize in the pet costume contest at Garfield Park on Saturday.Crypt Keeper here. Robinson newspaper picture, but Karloff’s performance here deserves to be linked together with any of his more famous, more traditional horror roles.Four years later in ‘35, after making a few other humdingers in between, Karloff re-teamed with Whale for the even better, wilder, and at times overtly gay Bride of Frankenstein.Karloff was clearly having fun winking at his reputation, but at the time things around him were changing. He lives with his wife and his parents in a small suburban house, and he’s clearly (maybe even understandably) slipping toward something bad.

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