I miss old type horror films

Zappa wrote a song about this topic...Cheepnis.

 

I also recommend the old UK TV series 'Tales Of The Unexpected'. Some really chilling stuff in there

 

Love that song.

 

Sixth Sense

 

I thoroughly enjoyed this recent music clip by Billie EILISH. The director is Michael CHAVES who is the director of The Conjuring 3.

 

We just don't have actors like Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, and John Carradine anymore.

 

What I like about the old Hammer films is that, due to the budgets, they always seem to take place in some remote village or countryside. The feeling of isolation adds to the atmosphere. Most of them have a scene in the local tavern in which the villagers are afraid to discuss the local legends of Dracula or Frankenstein.

 

We do, they just make a lot of other films as well and there aren’t the type of roles (I.e., recurring roles in horror franchise like Frankenstein, Dracula, etc. ). No actor wants to be typecast as it limits your work particularly now where the type of franchise films that they made are no longer in vogue.

Many of the franchise have been turned to TV as well which seems to be where a lot of genre franchise styled material ended up (shows like Supernatural, The X-Files, Grimm, Lucifer, etc.)

There are still the Resident Evil, Underworld styles films (or Hellboy which takes the tropes of the genre and put it into a comic book context) but they are fewer.

 

I'm with you...the old Universal 'monster' flicks with Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman and Karloff's Mummy are the best. I have an extremely sensitive 'squick' threshold and don't even try new films. And aval Lewton. Oh, and the two Cat People films from, I think, the 40s! Talk about atmospheric!

Someone upthread called the old black and whites 'supernatural.' It's a far better term.

 

Growing up on B&W monster movies (besides our TV was B&W), color doesn't do monster/horror movies justice, they way that the original B&W films do.

 

Absolutely - they also always have at least a couple of buxom young maidens in dirndls (pic below) and a bartender and patrons speaking in cockney accents - even though they are all supposed to be in eastern europe.

typical dialogue "aaack...don't you listen to that lot, squire. Bunch of old superstitious nonsense. Too much drink, that's their problem!"

 

I love some of the cheapie horror movies made by Monogram and PRC studios back in the '30s & '40s. All are public domain and are all probably on YouTube. Nowhere near as good as what the major studios made but there was just something about 'em.
Makes you feel like you're 12 again and it's 1:30 Sunday morning and you're still up watching.
Some Lugosis:
The Human Monster (aka Dark Eyes Of London) distributed in US by Monogram.
Return Of the Ape Man...also w/John Carradine
The Corpse Vanishes
The Invisible Ghost
The Ape Man
The Devil Bat

Karloff - The Ape

George Zucco:
The Flying Serpent
Dead Men Walk
The Mad Monster
The Black Raven
Voodoo Man

 

One of the finest "old type" horror films will be out on blu-ray in a couple of days.

Robert Wise's masterpiece The Body Snatcher (1944) produced by Val Lewton.

I found this review:
The Body Snatcher

Buy it on amazon or at all the usual places.

 

Just watched this a few weeks ago on disc (still have the Netflix disc program for gems like this) - Karloff ruled this film.

 

"For those still haunted by the 1989 version, its legend continues."Fans of '89's The Woman In Black, may enjoy reading this column on it.
Still haunted by The Woman in Black: the bone-chilling power of ITV's long-lost horror classic

 

I'm very interested in this film, but ....

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