Our journey through the old movies slowed a bit, but we hit up three more classic-era flicks:
The Bride of Frankenstein was released in 1935, stars Boris Karloff again, and has some interesting moments. There's a second mad doctor, this time Dr. Pretorious, and he's pushy as all hell. He wants to build Frankenstein's creature a wife. There's an extended scene where Pretorious shows off his own creations, each a miniature human being. The Bride herself may be on screen for less than 100 seconds, and wants nothing to do with her male counterpart. This movie, with an extended runtime of nearly 80 minutes, FEELS like a hundred more.
Freaks, from 1932, is a brisk 62 minutes, and is tightly packed tragedy about a-hole normies running a scam on some dignified and united workers of a sideshow. It holds up pretty well, but the ending is a bit forced. We watched this on my DVD, which has alternate ending cuts, and you can see the studio fighting with itself and the endings. It...it was a hard needle to thread, and the last two minutes may not exactly be perfect, but the movie's worth a look.
Werewolf of London was the first Universal Studio werewolf movie, from 1935, and...Cass and Corrie watched it whule I was making dinner and walking with Camille down to the store. I was interested in the Lon Chaney Jr. Wolf Man movie, from 1941, which I thought was the OG cannon wolf movie. That was incorrect, but this seemed kinda fun. The transformation effects were pretty well done for 1935, and the shots in Tibet, or maybe, "Tibet," were interesting and serious. Maybe worth another look by me, but I can't imagine getting back to it anytime soon.
Richard and I watched Creature of the Black Lagoon. The sexism is outstanding, white pointed bra swim suit for the "scientist" lady as if a lady can be a scientist. Lady's are only eye candy. Heck even the creature knows that. Actually all the monster movies are terribly sexist.
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