For those who keep asking me why I didn’t include Freaks. I didn’t think it was much of a horror film other than the final scene. I thought it was more a soap opera set in the sideshow. Now will everyone please stop telling me I didn’t include Freaks!
@@Dick_Z_Normas There was a Creature Feature show here in Philadelphia on the defunct WKBS-TV Channel 48 during the '70's also with Shock Theater (Dr. Shock) on Channel 17..... ;--)
These 1930s movies had a definite "creep" factor that I think most modern films lack. These films were standard fare for the Saturday night "creature features" on our local television stations when I was a kid.
In the "60"s the movie studios released and sold the rights to the horror movies to the networks . Each broadcasting area had Friday or Saturday night showings that revolved around local celebrities that entertain between commercials and movies. Cleveland Ohio WJW channel 8 had Gulari , followed Big Chuck and Houlihan . Then it became Big Chuck and Little John. Their skits became more popular than the movies. It was Vincent Price that scared me the most. One Friday night after watching Vincent Price I slept under the bed.. One of the most famous late night horror host was Elvira mistress of the night. After the release of horror films to the networks ,opened the doors to TV Show the Munsters, The Addams Family,and Boris Karloff hosted a weekly show.
Yes, I remember Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson) on WJW in 1963 when I was in college in Wooster, OH, down the road from Cleveland. Lot of fun takes on grade B B&W scifi/horror flicks. @@josephdennison4890
You may be thinking of Vampira, as Elvira didn't appear until around 1980 I believe. Obviously influenced by Vampires despite what the courts said IMHO.
Claude Rains: “I’ve often wondered why you don’t return to America. I like to think you killed a man. It’s the romantic in me!” (different movie but I wanted to applaud your wonderful taste in classic film actors!) Thank you for developing this list - the lighting effects in The Mummy are just so stunning. So much love and genuine talent went into these masterpieces - I’ve always been a huge fan of the German expressionists during the Silent era but there were some serious sound masterpieces in the short and glorious pre-code moment!! Thank you for honoring these outstanding films.
You are absolutely right on all counts! You left out Bride of Frankenstein, which would have made it my list of 13 all-time masterpieces, but I understand why you did. Great work, Mr. Pultz. I am shocked, shocked! by how few of these movies my innocent wife has seen! I'll soon set THAT right, muahahahah!!
Well, you managed to hit all my favorite horror films, well done. I saw many of these films in the early 1960s, years later I saw the uncut versions of them...huge differences...
Yes, "The Code" not only tamed horror films to make them hardly horror at all, but its 'moral' strictures basically gave the non-horror movie-viewing audience (practically everyone) a somewhat unrealistic view of life in general. In reacting to a few real film excesses, it distorted everything else. Thanks for your take on the matter. Pat, in Chicago
I definitely agree with you on that! I mean, who wants to see a "Horror Movie", with either all, or at least most, of the Horror taken out of it? It's pretentious!
The Frederick March portrayal of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in my opinion is still the best . I once had a book that showed the complete story in still shots , plus how the special FX were done . Most interesting .
The code was constraining, but good horror films continued to be made: The Bride of Frankenstein, The Werewolf of London, The Wolf Man, the Val Lewton films. The pre-code horror films have a special aura, but we still got good horror.
I'm a huge fan of pre code Hollywood, I have several movies at home, it refreshing to know people still watch the classics, in those early sound movies they remade many of the silent movies. Script writers had more material to work with, and that is why the classics still hold up. Thanks for, the excellent movies list. I hope to hear more of your lists,
The incredibly underrated Claude Rains knocks it out of the park as the Invisible Man. I thought he was the highlight of Casablanca. (No disrespect to Bogart and Bergman).
I think you should have made it thirteen and included Edgar G. Ulmer's 1934 masterpiece 'The Black Cat' - murder, necrophilia, incest, ailurophobia, drugs, deadly chess, torture, flaying alive, and Satanism, starring Karloff and Lugosi at the peak of their powers - all in stylish art-deco sets, with a splendid classical score.
It was shot & released prior to the implementation of the code in mid 1934 so technically it is pre code-they'd never allow all that blood in the car crash after 34 crash sequence@@glennmenin7857
From what I've read, the wife of Bram Stoker refused to allow anyone but Bela Lagosi play Dracula. She had seen him on stage in Europe and wanted him because *"...he WAS Dracula!"*
And he WAS Dracula until Hammer Films went did their take of horror with a British sensibility in 1958 which resulted in the ingenious reinterpretation of Stoker’s story thanks to Jimmy Sangster’s screenplay, Terence Fisher’s direction, Peter Cushing as more dare do heroic Van Helsing and of course Christopher Lee as the character and more dynamic Count than Lugosi
Great compilation, a combination of art, style, elegance and horror. I find these films inspiring. The costuming, performances and set dressing are wonderful.
Original 'Werewolf of London', with Henry Hull. One of my favorites. I was totally blown away by it when I saw it when I was a kid, in the late sixties.
All great choices seen them all, recently viewed White Zombie again. The depiction of the beautiful woman held captive by a giant gorilla escaping a burning NYC was also used as anti German propaganda during World War 1. These posters are easily accessible. Did the lesbianic Dracula's Daughter evoke precede controversy?
Many years after the film was released, Boris Karloff was asked what he felt about being remembered for playing the monster in Frankenstein. With all that makeup and everything. He answered simply " When you watched the movie,......did you feel sorry for the monster?" After they said yes. " Even through all the make-up and everything?" "I'd say that was a great performance as an actor."
You want to be scared of the Monster but at the same time, your heart breaks for him because he didn’t ask to be brought into the world. As a person with Autism I could identify with the Monster view of the world and being confused by certain things.
@sspdirect02 Many people can identify as having been "othered" at some point in their life. Everyone should experience it since it tends to brings compassion and empathy.
What always impresses me is that these classic horror films were made with sometimes as few as a dozen crew members. A far cry from today's movies with their scrolling credits list of hundreds, sometimes thousands.
Excellent post. So many of those great silent movies are being overlooked by today's audiences. It is time for those great films to enjoy a massive revival.
This is a great list and I must agree with your enthusiasm for King Kong. I've seen it many times, own it as a DVD and continue to watch it once in a while when I'm in the mood. It was amazing and, as you say, the music is a big part of it's appeal.
The first time I saw King Kong was in 1955 , as a 4 year old....Watching it on TV was scary enough that I didn't see it at a theater until I was in high school , in the 60's....Now , as a 70 year old I am enjoying the restored version on DVD , which has all of the "good parts" added back in!.......Still one of MY favorites , even today!.....Great job on this , video....Thanks!
@@davidschmidt9339 I just posted a similar text,it was all anyone spoke of for weeks(the kids at school atound 6 years old),it awoke something in us that`s still there to this day.
This is a very good video with lots of information and good choice of clips used, thank you for making this available. I understand why all your choices were done and all are still watchable today, but not with the order. Islands of Lost Souls should be in top 10. Dracula and Mystery of the Wax Museum I would put a few notches lower. I would have liked to have seen The Black Cat (1934) at some point on the list.
If you would like to see a really good , true story about Bela lagosie check out the movie " Ed Wood " staring Johnny Depp. Really funny and fact filled movie
Your 12th, "The Island Of Lost Souls" and your 11th, "Murders at the Zoo" were written by Philip Wylie. Wylie was a hugely important author who is now sadly barely remembered. He was a wildly prolific novelist across genres, a provocative essayist and critic, he wrote what the American Library Association chose as the most important book of the first half of the 20th century, introduced Carl Jung's ideas to the English speaking world and was for a decade the foremost interpreter of Jung in English, created the comic book Doc Savage character in his novel The Savage Gentleman and the inspiration (acknowledged) for Superman in his novel Gladiator, wrote one of the first American television series, and his stories about deep sea fishing published in the Saturday Evening Post led to a Florida fishing tournament prize being named after him (as well as to that TV series). He was also a creator of the Atomic Energy Commission, a speech writer by commission for Harry Truman and a founding member of the Lerner Marine Laboratory. For his time he had progressive ideas about sexuality though they wouldn't be modern today. He spent his last years writing for the environmental movement. I could go on. (If that sounds like a lot, he did have some trouble mid-century with amphetamines.) In fact your 6th film, "The Invisible Man," though generally said to be based on the novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, more closely resembles Wylie's "The Murderer Invisible"...
I wasn't aware that Philip Wylie wrote the scripts for "Island of Lost Souls" & "Murders at the Zoo." It's amazing that he's not better remembered today, considering how influential he once was. I think he mostly known today as the author of "When World's Collide," which is probably his most enduring work.
The other screenwriter of Island of Lost Souls was Waldemar Young, who was the grandson of Brigham Young! H.G. Wells dismissed the film but it's generally considered a classic.
@@teastrainer3604 Sharp eye! You're right. But I always thought most of the writing was Philip's, based on themes that would follow his books for the next two decades. He often worked with a partner to handle the business side of things while he focused on the writing, like Edwin Balmer on When Worlds Collide... Nice to meet another who knows PW.
I really like you're thoughts on these films. I've seen all but two and agree with you on the list. Thank you so much for what you do. New subscriber today. 👌🤠👍
Great list, all great movies, there is actually two that I have not seen and will be looking for. I remember as a kid watching the Saturday afternoon horror movies. One of my favorites from the 30's was The Most Dangerous Game, maybe more of a suspense than a horror film but thrilling none the less.
I've enjoyed all of these wonderful movies. Watched them many times. And here we are 2022 delighted to see that you enjoyed them too. Thanks for the great video
Top of my list Sean; THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME! Your video is excellent young man, great work and some amazing clips, especially the tid-bit about Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde... Thanks
I LOVE the Lionel Atwill movies, particularly Dr. X. They're so fun and creepy. The 2-strip technicolor just adds to the creepiness. This is a very good list. I'm a classic film nerd, and this TH-camr is especially knowledgeable. I'm Impressed! I especially enjoy pre- code movies.
EXCELLENT treatment! You made me laugh a few times with your vocal inflections but it’s all good… It was very entertaining and great insights, as well. Bravo!
Bravo ! Your description of all these incredible classic movie gems is so great ! I mean you are spot on with all your extremely interesting information about each film . Iam a bit older guy who has watched several times and most
Cont. Of your movies on your list I've viewed over 50 times ! So I think iam qualified to comment on your presentation. My final comment is , " GREAT JOB ! "
"House of Wax" was playing on channel 8 from Cleveland on July 4 1969 ("Houlihan and Big Chuck Show" the replacement to the "Ghoulardi Show"), I stayed up to see it. But there was a storm and the power went out, so I went to bed. I got up to find out we'd just had the worst flood I would see in my lifetime. A creek that you could jump over in the summer was a raging river that was peeling asphalt off the road and floating cars away. Every road to the village I lived in was washed out. It took me yrs before I'd get another chance to see "House of Wax".
We need to give credit to Universal Studio and the "powers that be" for being willing to film horror films at a time when churches and bishops had a strangle-hold on their scared congregations. It wasn't until the early 40's when these early horror movies became regular fare at the local theater. I remember a triple feature: "Dracula," "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein." Being 8 years old, I was "blown away!"
... WAY, WAY, COOL!!!... I just discovered your channel and I love it!!! The only movie on this list that I have not seen is Doctor X. I plan to watch it soon... Thanks dudeloops!
Some people don't consider it a horror movie, but my favorite is Freaks, directed by the great Tod Browning. The only way I can describe it is truly fascinating from start to finish.
Side Note for "Island of Lost Souls/Island of Dr. Moreau": The 80's Band "Oingo Boingo" headed by the Great "Danny Elfman" did a song called "No Spill Blood" that is a direct reference to Island of Lost Souls/Island of Dr. Moreau. It even mentions "The House of Pain".
I've seen both the Lugosi and the Spanish versions of DRACULA, shot simultaneously, the Lugosi by day, the Spanish version by night. I saw them during a special showing TCM arranged on the big screen, and they were shown one after the other. It would be great if we could splice scenes from each into one better version.
The Laurel and Hardy films shot in a number of languages sometimes improve on the film as they shot each version, even going to new and improvised scenes. A 'merged' version might be easier than Dracula, as the actors were different.
Overall, the Spanish version is a better film, with more interesting camera movement. The only way it suffers is that it doesn't have Bela Lugosi as Dracula.
watch the lugosi Dracula with the Philip Glass soundtrack. It improves the movie to a five star masterpiece. the soundtrack justifies camera movements. It's so good with the soundtrack. It would be incredible to see movies like scarface and Frankenstein with soundtracks.
@@docmalthus Nah it also suffers from the fact the actors for Renfield and Van Helsing are not as good as the ones in the original and the fact it is way too padded and long with scenes that were done quickly in the original being given unnecessary long dialogue that makes it too talky.
Bramwell Fletcher spoke at my high school about 1975. He claimed the story called for him to be killed by the mummy, but that he suggested the character go crazy.
All nicely done, I thought. Many thanks S.P. 👍 As predictable, the disappointees now come at you with their scoldings, for non-included faves! Ain't gratitude just grand? Subscribed!
Enjoyable countdown - I shall have to delve through your library the check out your other works. I've always wondered how, considering we only get around 2 weeks of Summer in the UK how the Griffin would have staved of hypothermia. The alternative being swathed in fur coat, mittens and a balaclava.
@1:15 little clarification. PG-13 came about as the result of outcry over Gremlins and Temple of Doom. They did not have that rating as they had PG. Considered to have too much gore for PG so an intermediate level was made to indicate higher levels of violence. The first movie to carry the PG-13 was Red Dawn in 1984. Dear God, I saw that in a drive in....almost 40 years ago. Ugh..... WOLVERINES!!!!!
Not a loser in the list. I am very fortunate to have seen most of them. As a child I would stay up late on Saturday nights to watch our local "Shock Theater " program which never bothered with censorship because of it airing from midnight until four in the morning. Great video, go treat yourself and your team to something nice...you deserve it.
I saw King Kong when I was about 4 years old. I was transfixed by it. The first meeting with the natives was awesome. I love that movie. I watch it every once in a while even at age 72
In my 60s now,my first meeting with Kong was around 5 or 6 years old,i still remember it like yesterday,and like millions of others nothing was the same from that day on,a great pick,a timeless movie that i hope will have the same effect on young minds and transport them to Kong island the way it did for me and instill a love for the craftsmen and artist who inspired Ray Harryhousen to thrill us in the ensuing decades,the world is a richer place with their legacy.
I remember that once a year at mass we had to stand and take the Legion of Decency pledge. I remember just mouthing the words even though my mom would not let me see any movie nailed by the Legion. This ended when she let me see Goldfinger.
A wonderful video! I learned a lot about some great films, and it was a pleasure to see clips from the beautifully restored versions. An enticement to see the entire films! I think it’s worth noting that in The Old Dark House, the unusual step was taken of casting a woman as a man. The odd, be-whiskered, bedridden Sir Roderick Femm was played by Elspeth Dudgeon. In the credits, John Dudgeon was listed. An innovative and effective touch! I remember when I first saw it, I thought he was a strange man with a voice that didn’t match his face. Creepy. I believe the restored version is available in its entirety free on TH-cam. Lucky us! Thanks again for the well made video. A lot of care and work went into it.
Fabulous video! You may have already answered this question or maybe some of the commenters have addressed this. You made me want to watch every one of these movies. So where can I watch them? I know that question is so rude and I do apologize. P.S. Is that your normal voice? It's great.
"King Kong" and "The Most Dangerous Game" were filmed at the same time. "King Kong during the day" and "The Most Dangerous Game" at night They shared some of the same sets. They also shared actors, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, James Flavin and Noble Johnson. Another good Movie.
Man you picked everyone of the best heart films I've ever seen in love thank you for your list May the living God Jesus Christ bless you and your endeavor to share these great cinematic movies that are not full of Filth and smut like today
Excellent list and commentary, SP! I spent the entire time wondering whose (so familiar!) voice yours sounded like. I ran through the whole gamut in my mind... Matthew Broderick? no,.. River Phoenix? no,... and it finally came to me -- Christian Slater! You could be a voice double for him!!
Great vid. For some reason at 25:05, Hyde reminds me of an insane Jon Cryer from Two and a Half Men in silly makeup who's really impressed with his look.
1) Island of Souls 2) Murders in the Zoo 3) The Old Dark House 4) The Mummy 5) The Mask of Fu Manchu 6) Doctor X 7) The Invisible Man 8) Dracula 9) Frankenstein 10) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hr Hyde 11) Mystery of the Wax Museum 12) King Kong
Amazing review and thank you for posting it. I saw many of my favorites listed (I love the original King Kong!) And have just discovered three new movies to watch! (I never knew there was an earlier movie of the wax museum or a film, looking forward to seeing it.)
A few of these I've never seen or heard of, but most of them were regularly shown as late night movies on TV when I was growing up in the '60s and '70s. It's not that I have a lot of nostalgia for the days when we had, at best, 4 or 5 channels to choose from, but it is a shame that younger people have grown up without ever seeing these classics, or pretty much any black and white movie.
I'll take any old black and white movie with real sets over today's computer movies with all that CGI. One of the most beautiful series of sets is in A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1935. Absolutely gorgeous. They recreated an entire forest!
Glad to see Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde getting some love here. I feel this film doesn't get the recognition it deserves. I hope it will come out on Blu-Ray some day soon.
I went to see The Island of Lost Souls when I was 10 yro at a Saturday Matinee. I was so terrified that I left the theater and walked home, because I could not watch anymore.
Excellent piece. I hope I can find some of these films here on yt. Sure, the quality might not be very great, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice seeing as how my options are so limited.
Great tour of precode fare. Bela Lugosi was in two additional films I sometimes found on Saturday afternoon TV that feel like they, too, could be pre-code: “the Human Monster”, about a sadist that was in charge of a mental hospital (‘nuff said), and “The Invisible Ray”, about a doctor that travels to a remote African jungle to find a recent meteor impact crater, and mines it for radioactive ores, which he installs in a shielded box on a tripod like a camera in reverse, which he used to cure cancer, blindness, etc, but eventually turns into a weapon. Some of those old horror movies could really churn your guts !
Having grown up in the 60's-70's, I saw all of these repeatedly on the local station's "creature feature", usually on Saturday nights. I think the stations bought them in packages for next to nothing, so all advertising was pure profit....and there was a lot of advertising. They were usually so grainy with a constantly warbling sound tracks, and often just flat missing entire sections that it occurred to me (as I watch them on my modern hi-def flat screen) that I have never really seen them even approaching the quality of the original viewing..until now. Have noticed the same phenom watching YT videos of restored quality stills of actresses going back to the silent error. They are almost unrecognizably beautiful compared to the worn out tapes they used to run on low def CRT screens on Saturday afternoons. Gotta love modern video tech.
The effects for "The Invisible Man" and "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" must have been mind-blowing for audiences of the time - they're still impressive and ingenious today. Probably more of an adventure film than horror, but I'd put in a word for "The Most Dangerous Game" starring Fay Wray. I think it was shot back-to-back with King Kong, or perhaps even at the same time. Oh, and I have to give credit to the most recent "House of Wax" for one idea that was original (spoilers follow)...the museum is literally made of wax, so as it burns, the protagonists are sinking knee-deep into the floor and finally claw their way out through the facade. The rest of the movie was awful, but that concept was pretty great.
I think of King Kong as a monster film rather than a horror film, so I would leave it off the list although it's fabulous. Dracula is my favorite horror film (even though it gave me nightmares as a kid) because Bela Lugosi delivered one of the best performances in movie history. The same can be said for Frederic March's Jekyll & Hyde -- a very physical role with March jumping around like an ape when he was Hyde.
4:44 About Island Of Dr. Moreau...darndest thing...I remember reading author Robert Bloch...an article in a 1960's issue of Famous Monsters Of Filmland (a classic fanzine) described the movie as "Charles Laughton hamming it up for dear old Paramount." I was a callow youth. So I thought the movie was no good. Silly me. As an adult I appreciate Laughton for the talent he was. I need to revisit the movie. Btw...the version of Dr. Moreau with Marlon Brando...avoid that one like the plague.
@@1950Grendel Oh fellow geek...with the Ray Harryhausen Cyclops avatar...I raise my hand in beckoning and greet you in the distance as we pass each other like ships on life's ocean. Vaya con Dios. Long Live Mythos. Kindly bear with my penchant for extravagant metaphor. You should see my fanfiction...or perhaps you would just as soon pass up on that opportunity.
@@royjacksonjr.4447 The Burt Lancaster Dr. Moreau...I saw that on the CBS late movie...maybe even in the time before Dave Letterman's late show. Burt always delivered a creditable performance. His Dr. Moreau was a very stern pitiless figure. "What is the law?!" he would demand. And then his hybrid creatures would recite the catechism. You know, you may have jump started the desire to look that movie up again. Without specific reference to physicality, Brando let himself go something awful in his latter years. And his Dr. Moreau...slathered with lotion...wearing an umbrella hat, like Bill Murray wore on the golf course in Space Jam. There's a video somewhere on TH-cam describing in appalling detail the shyte show that was the filming of that movie. Both the docu and the film must be seen to be believed. Any brave soul will find once more than enough.
The actors in the Marlon Brando Island of D.r Moreau wished THEY could have avoided that movie like the plague. I've read behind the scenes stuff that curled my hair.
The Hayes code i know - or thought i did. Were there other codes or did all the stipulations u mention fall under that code? I just studied how the Hayes code pertained to the ultimate fate of tough guys in films during that era - Bogart or not, if the role was that of a criminal, they had to die at the end.
I completely agree with this list. KING KONG is my favourite film of all time, a subject that I explored in an issue of (Scary Monsters) Monster Memories magazine in an article titled ‘How I Met the Real King Kong.’ I’m happy that MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM made this list, as it stands out as the definitive ‘Wax Museum’ film. Though not considered horror, I might also add TARZAN THE APE MAN and TARZAN AND HIS BRIDE to my own personal list of pre-code favourites, as they make for an excellent double-feature! Another interesting film I might add is 1932’s KONGO.
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For those who keep asking me why I didn’t include Freaks. I didn’t think it was much of a horror film other than the final scene. I thought it was more a soap opera set in the sideshow. Now will everyone please stop telling me I didn’t include Freaks!
so ya didn't include Freaks?
@@tzackaria7 Pay attention, will ya!
@@tzackaria7 If you wouldn't of asked,i would of..😂
Also,i agree,freaks is Exploitation flick,not Horror.
@@sspdirect02 Freaks doesn’t belong on the list.
Great list! Watched most of these in the 60s/70s on a horror program called Creature Features.
Yes ! In Memphis the MC was a Dracula looking guy called Sivad that hosted Creature Features. Remember?
@@tinypurplefishesrunlaughin8052 Yeah, and the hand with six fingers coming out of the ground? Probably a graveyard
In Pittsburgh, it was called Chiller Theater. The MC, Bill Cardille, had a bit part in the original Night of the Living Dead.
@@Dick_Z_Normas There was a Creature Feature show here in Philadelphia on the defunct WKBS-TV Channel 48 during the '70's also with Shock Theater (Dr. Shock) on Channel 17..... ;--)
@@kevinogill6726 Actually the six-fingered hand was coming out of a force-perspective red stream, possibly of blood...
These 1930s movies had a definite "creep" factor that I think most modern films lack. These films were standard fare for the Saturday night "creature features" on our local television stations when I was a kid.
In the "60"s the movie studios released and sold the rights to the horror movies to the networks . Each broadcasting area had Friday or Saturday night showings that revolved around local celebrities that entertain between commercials and movies. Cleveland Ohio WJW channel 8 had Gulari , followed Big Chuck and Houlihan . Then it became Big Chuck and Little John. Their skits became more popular than the movies. It was Vincent Price that scared me the most. One Friday night after watching Vincent Price I slept under the bed.. One of the most famous late night horror host was Elvira mistress of the night.
After the release of horror films to the networks ,opened the doors to TV Show the Munsters, The Addams Family,and Boris Karloff hosted a weekly show.
Yes, I remember Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson) on WJW in 1963 when I was in college in Wooster, OH, down the road from Cleveland. Lot of fun takes on grade B B&W scifi/horror flicks. @@josephdennison4890
You may be thinking of Vampira, as Elvira didn't appear until around 1980 I believe. Obviously influenced by Vampires despite what the courts said IMHO.
Excellent list and King Kong is without a doubt one of the most influential (and enjoyable) movies in the history of cinema.
Claude Rains: “I’ve often wondered why you don’t return to America. I like to think you killed a man. It’s the romantic in me!” (different movie but I wanted to applaud your wonderful taste in classic film actors!) Thank you for developing this list - the lighting effects in The Mummy are just so stunning. So much love and genuine talent went into these masterpieces - I’ve always been a huge fan of the German expressionists during the Silent era but there were some serious sound masterpieces in the short and glorious pre-code moment!! Thank you for honoring these outstanding films.
Claude Rains was a god among men.
You are absolutely right on all counts! You left out Bride of Frankenstein, which would have made it my list of 13 all-time masterpieces, but I understand why you did. Great work, Mr. Pultz. I am shocked, shocked! by how few of these movies my innocent wife has seen! I'll soon set THAT right, muahahahah!!
Bride of Frankenstein came out when the Code came into effect.
Well, you managed to hit all my favorite horror films, well done. I saw many of these films in the early 1960s, years later I saw the uncut versions of them...huge differences...
Yes, "The Code" not only tamed horror films to make them hardly horror at all, but its 'moral' strictures basically gave the non-horror movie-viewing audience (practically everyone) a somewhat unrealistic view of life in general. In reacting to a few real film excesses, it distorted everything else. Thanks for your take on the matter.
Pat, in Chicago
I definitely agree with you on that! I mean, who wants to see a "Horror Movie", with either all, or at least most, of the Horror taken out of it? It's pretentious!
The Frederick March portrayal of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in my opinion is still the best . I once had a book that showed the complete story in still shots , plus how the special FX were done . Most interesting .
The code was constraining, but good horror films continued to be made: The Bride of Frankenstein, The Werewolf of London, The Wolf Man, the Val Lewton films. The pre-code horror films have a special aura, but we still got good horror.
I'm a huge fan of pre code Hollywood, I have several movies at home, it refreshing to know people still watch the classics, in those early sound movies they remade many of the silent movies. Script writers had more material to work with, and that is why the classics still hold up. Thanks for, the excellent movies list. I hope to hear more of your lists,
The incredibly underrated Claude Rains knocks it out of the park as the Invisible Man. I thought he was the highlight of Casablanca. (No disrespect to Bogart and Bergman).
I think you should have made it thirteen and included Edgar G. Ulmer's 1934 masterpiece 'The Black Cat' - murder, necrophilia, incest, ailurophobia, drugs, deadly chess, torture, flaying alive, and Satanism, starring Karloff and Lugosi at the peak of their powers - all in stylish art-deco sets, with a splendid classical score.
really disturbing movie
sean putz must be too sensitive to view a movie which is that intense
....actually, 1934 is not considered pre-code; although I agree it's an outrageous and marvelous film.
It was shot & released prior to the implementation of the code in mid 1934 so technically it is pre code-they'd never allow all that blood in the car crash after 34 crash sequence@@glennmenin7857
At the time I made this video, I hadn’t seen it.
I'm sorry this isn't getting more love. An excellent job very well done indeed! Both liked and subscribed.
From what I've read, the wife of Bram Stoker refused to allow anyone but Bela Lagosi play Dracula. She had seen him on stage in Europe and wanted him because *"...he WAS Dracula!"*
And he WAS Dracula until Hammer Films went did their take of horror with a British sensibility in 1958 which resulted in the ingenious reinterpretation of Stoker’s story thanks to Jimmy Sangster’s screenplay, Terence Fisher’s direction, Peter Cushing as more dare do heroic Van Helsing and of course Christopher Lee as the character and more dynamic Count than Lugosi
I was hoping for "Freaks", one of my top 5. Your favs are definitely classics in every way
Great compilation, a combination of art, style, elegance and horror. I find these films inspiring. The costuming, performances and set dressing are wonderful.
Original 'Werewolf of London', with Henry Hull. One of my favorites. I was totally blown away by it when I saw it when I was a kid, in the late sixties.
That was in 1935. The code was in effect.
All great choices seen them all, recently viewed White Zombie again. The depiction of the beautiful woman held captive by a giant gorilla escaping a burning NYC was also used as anti German propaganda during World War 1. These posters are easily accessible. Did the lesbianic Dracula's Daughter evoke precede controversy?
Many years after the film was released, Boris Karloff was asked what he felt about being remembered for playing the monster in Frankenstein. With all that makeup and everything.
He answered simply " When you watched the movie,......did you feel sorry for the monster?"
After they said yes. " Even through all the make-up and everything?" "I'd say that was a great performance as an actor."
You want to be scared of the Monster but at the same time, your heart breaks for him because he didn’t ask to be brought into the world. As a person with Autism I could identify with the Monster view of the world and being confused by certain things.
@sspdirect02 Many people can identify as having been "othered" at some point in their life. Everyone should experience it since it tends to brings compassion and empathy.
What always impresses me is that these classic horror films were made with sometimes as few as a dozen crew members.
A far cry from today's movies with their scrolling credits list of hundreds, sometimes thousands.
Yes, with also listing 10+ Exec producers and 10+ producers. Had to have them to finance the pictures today.😅
Yeah just a single credit card. No long drawn out credits during the prologue and ten minutes afterward.
John Barrymore's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1920) does the transformation with no make-up and is utterly brilliant.
Excellent post.
So many of those great silent movies are being overlooked by today's audiences. It is time for those great films to enjoy a massive revival.
all of my favorites. I am amazed at the atmosphere, and photography
This is a great list and I must agree with your enthusiasm for King Kong. I've seen it many times, own it as a DVD and continue to watch it once in a while when I'm in the mood. It was amazing and, as you say, the music is a big part of it's appeal.
The first time I saw King Kong was in 1955 , as a 4 year old....Watching it on TV was scary enough that I didn't see it at a theater until I was in high school , in the 60's....Now , as a 70 year old I am enjoying the restored version on DVD , which has all of the "good parts" added back in!.......Still one of MY favorites , even today!.....Great job on this , video....Thanks!
Funny I just posted about me as a 4 yearold in the 50s seeing King Kong It was a highlight of my youth
@@davidschmidt9339 I just posted a similar text,it was all anyone spoke of for weeks(the kids at school atound 6 years old),it awoke something in us that`s still there to this day.
This is a very good video with lots of information and good choice of clips used, thank you for making this available. I understand why all your choices were done and all are still watchable today, but not with the order. Islands of Lost Souls should be in top 10. Dracula and Mystery of the Wax Museum I would put a few notches lower. I would have liked to have seen The Black Cat (1934) at some point on the list.
If you would like to see a really good , true story about Bela lagosie check out the movie " Ed Wood " staring Johnny Depp. Really funny and fact filled movie
@@kevinmcdonnell5090 Martin Landau as Lugosi was amazing and worthy of the Oscar.
I agree completely with your mention of "The Black Cat." "I'm going to flay the skin from your body!"
Didn’t realize most of my favorite old movies were precode. The R’s that were rolled in the Invisible Man are a triumph 😆
Your 12th, "The Island Of Lost Souls" and your 11th, "Murders at the Zoo" were written by Philip Wylie.
Wylie was a hugely important author who is now sadly barely remembered. He was a wildly prolific novelist across genres, a provocative essayist and critic, he wrote what the American Library Association chose as the most important book of the first half of the 20th century, introduced Carl Jung's ideas to the English speaking world and was for a decade the foremost interpreter of Jung in English, created the comic book Doc Savage character in his novel The Savage Gentleman and the inspiration (acknowledged) for Superman in his novel Gladiator, wrote one of the first American television series, and his stories about deep sea fishing published in the Saturday Evening Post led to a Florida fishing tournament prize being named after him (as well as to that TV series). He was also a creator of the Atomic Energy Commission, a speech writer by commission for Harry Truman and a founding member of the Lerner Marine Laboratory. For his time he had progressive ideas about sexuality though they wouldn't be modern today. He spent his last years writing for the environmental movement. I could go on. (If that sounds like a lot, he did have some trouble mid-century with amphetamines.)
In fact your 6th film, "The Invisible Man," though generally said to be based on the novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, more closely resembles Wylie's "The Murderer Invisible"...
I wasn't aware that Philip Wylie wrote the scripts for "Island of Lost Souls" & "Murders at the Zoo." It's amazing that he's not better remembered today, considering how influential he once was. I think he mostly known today as the author of "When World's Collide," which is probably his most enduring work.
Thank you for this very informative comment. 👏
The other screenwriter of Island of Lost Souls was Waldemar Young, who was the grandson of Brigham Young! H.G. Wells dismissed the film but it's generally considered a classic.
@@teastrainer3604 Sharp eye! You're right.
But I always thought most of the writing was Philip's, based on themes that would follow his books for the next two decades. He often worked with a partner to handle the business side of things while he focused on the writing, like Edwin Balmer on When Worlds Collide... Nice to meet another who knows PW.
@@Knockface " It's amazing that he's not better remembered today..."
Aye.
I really like you're thoughts on these films. I've seen all but two and agree with you on the list. Thank you so much for what you do. New subscriber today. 👌🤠👍
Great list, all great movies, there is actually two that I have not seen and will be looking for. I remember as a kid watching the Saturday afternoon horror movies. One of my favorites from the 30's was The Most Dangerous Game, maybe more of a suspense than a horror film but thrilling none the less.
Attention Millennials: When referring to an actor who was booked for a role in the past tense, the word is "cast," not "casted." You're welcome.
I've enjoyed all of these wonderful movies. Watched them many times. And here we are 2022 delighted to see that you enjoyed them too. Thanks for the great video
I've seen all of these except The Old Dark House and Murders in the Zoo. Thanks for pointing me toward them.
Must sees !
What a wonderful collection and your commentary was perfect; clear, informative, and hit on all the important points. Thank you!
Top of my list Sean; THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME!
Your video is excellent young man, great work and some amazing clips, especially the tid-bit about Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde... Thanks
I LOVE the Lionel Atwill movies, particularly Dr. X. They're so fun and creepy. The 2-strip technicolor just adds to the creepiness. This is a very good list. I'm a classic film nerd, and this TH-camr is especially knowledgeable. I'm Impressed! I especially enjoy pre- code movies.
not to mention all the pioneering effects and makeup of these early horror had on films even today
EXCELLENT treatment! You made me laugh a few times with your vocal inflections but it’s all good… It was very entertaining and great insights, as well. Bravo!
Bravo ! Your description of all these incredible classic movie gems is so great ! I mean you are spot on with all your extremely interesting information about each film . Iam a bit older guy who has watched several times and most
Cont. Of your movies on your list I've viewed over 50 times ! So I think iam qualified to comment on your presentation. My final comment is , " GREAT JOB ! "
Sean Pultz - that was nothing short of sensational. You made my day. It was entertaining and brilliantly informative.
"House of Wax" was playing on channel 8 from Cleveland on July 4 1969 ("Houlihan and Big Chuck Show" the replacement to the "Ghoulardi Show"), I stayed up to see it. But there was a storm and the power went out, so I went to bed. I got up to find out we'd just had the worst flood I would see in my lifetime. A creek that you could jump over in the summer was a raging river that was peeling asphalt off the road and floating cars away. Every road to the village I lived in was washed out. It took me yrs before I'd get another chance to see "House of Wax".
We need to give credit to Universal Studio and the "powers that be"
for being willing to film horror films at a time when churches and bishops had a strangle-hold on their scared congregations.
It wasn't until the early 40's when these early horror movies became regular fare at the local theater.
I remember a triple feature: "Dracula," "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein."
Being 8 years old, I was "blown away!"
... WAY, WAY, COOL!!!... I just discovered your channel and I love it!!! The only movie on this list that I have not seen is Doctor X. I plan to watch it soon...
Thanks dudeloops!
Awesome list! I have collected all of these in my collection! Thanks
Some people don't consider it a horror movie, but my favorite is Freaks, directed by the great Tod Browning. The only way I can describe it is truly fascinating from start to finish.
YES! A fabulous, original film! (PS, loving your "Blazing Saddles" reference name.)
Yes I agree. I consider it a horror film. All of the films on this list are great, but then the list should have been for 13 movies.
Since you use that as your username, then all I can say is ..
It's twue! It's twue!
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@@kelf114 A wed wose, how womantic.
I agree. The ending gave me chills
Side Note for "Island of Lost Souls/Island of Dr. Moreau": The 80's Band "Oingo Boingo" headed by the Great "Danny Elfman" did a song called "No Spill Blood" that is a direct reference to Island of Lost Souls/Island of Dr. Moreau. It even mentions "The House of Pain".
"Have a potato". Perhaps my all time favorite movie line.
Funny how some of the most simple lines are so memorable
@@majorneptunejr simple lines, simple minds
I've seen both the Lugosi and the Spanish versions of DRACULA, shot simultaneously, the Lugosi by day, the Spanish version by night. I saw them during a special showing TCM arranged on the big screen, and they were shown one after the other. It would be great if we could splice scenes from each into one better version.
The Laurel and Hardy films shot in a number of languages sometimes improve on the film as they shot each version, even going to new and improvised scenes.
A 'merged' version might be easier than Dracula, as the actors were different.
One DVD set has them both. Rip them, and you could do the rest yourself with basic video editing software.
Overall, the Spanish version is a better film, with more interesting camera movement. The only way it suffers is that it doesn't have Bela Lugosi as Dracula.
watch the lugosi Dracula with the Philip Glass soundtrack. It improves the movie to a five star masterpiece. the soundtrack justifies camera movements. It's so good with the soundtrack. It would be incredible to see movies like scarface and Frankenstein with soundtracks.
@@docmalthus Nah it also suffers from the fact the actors for Renfield and Van Helsing are not as good as the ones in the original and the fact it is way too padded and long with scenes that were done quickly in the original being given unnecessary long dialogue that makes it too talky.
Love this video. These are some of my favorites, as well.
One thing, though: the past tense of cast is cast. There is no such word as casted.
Thank You. If one looks up the word "cast" you understand that Actors are indeed "cast" into a role. That aside, I Truly enjoyed this Video.
I appreciate your research and narration. New subscriber. I am looking forward to see more of your channel
You made great choices. These are among my favorite horror films of any era.
Three minutes in and the digression is stunning. Can't wait.
Bramwell Fletcher spoke at my high school about 1975. He claimed the story called for him to be killed by the mummy, but that he suggested the character go crazy.
All nicely done, I thought. Many thanks S.P. 👍
As predictable, the disappointees now come at you with their scoldings, for non-included faves!
Ain't gratitude just grand?
Subscribed!
Indeed.
Very solid films indeed! Watching them late at night kept me up as a youth! Love King Kong it is #1!
Enjoyable countdown - I shall have to delve through your library the check out your other works.
I've always wondered how, considering we only get around 2 weeks of Summer in the UK how the Griffin would have staved of hypothermia. The alternative being swathed in fur coat, mittens and a balaclava.
Solid list. I have a great blu ray of House of Wax '53, that came with "Mystery" '32 as a *bonus* LOL .... best bonus feature ever!
This is a very good documentary style short.
.... I'd recommend this as a good introduction to learning about horror films 1930/33 period.
Thanks!
It’s more of a countdown rather than a documentary. But I appreciate the compliment.
"The guy they cast as Dracula was no Bela Lugosi." - Yeah, but the guy they cast to play Reinfield was f'in amazing!
@1:15 little clarification. PG-13 came about as the result of outcry over Gremlins and Temple of Doom. They did not have that rating as they had PG. Considered to have too much gore for PG so an intermediate level was made to indicate higher levels of violence. The first movie to carry the PG-13 was Red Dawn in 1984. Dear God, I saw that in a drive in....almost 40 years ago. Ugh..... WOLVERINES!!!!!
Great list! I could not argue with any of your choices…especially Kong!
Not a loser in the list. I am very fortunate to have seen most of them. As a child I would stay up late on Saturday nights to watch our local "Shock Theater " program which never bothered with censorship because of it airing from midnight until four in the morning.
Great video, go treat yourself and your team to something nice...you deserve it.
I saw King Kong when I was about 4 years old. I was transfixed by it. The first meeting with the natives was awesome.
I love that movie. I watch it every once in a while even at age 72
In my 60s now,my first meeting with Kong was around 5 or 6 years old,i still remember it like yesterday,and like millions of others nothing was the same from that day on,a great pick,a timeless movie that i hope will have the same effect on young minds and transport them to Kong island the way it did for me and instill a love for the craftsmen and artist who inspired Ray Harryhousen to thrill us in the ensuing decades,the world is a richer place with their legacy.
Well done. Excellent presentation, & your heart is obviously in the right place! ❤
I remember that once a year at mass we had to stand and take the Legion of Decency pledge. I remember just mouthing the words even though my mom would not let me see any movie nailed by the Legion. This ended when she let me see Goldfinger.
Growing up in a Catholic family in the ‘60s we would get The Catholic Standard. I always wanted to see the movies that got the C for Condemned rating.
A wonderful video! I learned a lot about some great films, and it was a pleasure to see clips from the beautifully restored versions. An enticement to see the entire films! I think it’s worth noting that in The Old Dark House, the unusual step was taken of casting a woman as a man. The odd, be-whiskered, bedridden Sir Roderick Femm was played by Elspeth Dudgeon. In the credits, John Dudgeon was listed. An innovative and effective touch! I remember when I first saw it, I thought he was a strange man with a voice that didn’t match his face. Creepy. I believe the restored version is available in its entirety free on TH-cam. Lucky us! Thanks again for the well made video. A lot of care and work went into it.
Fabulous video! You may have already answered this question or maybe some of the commenters have addressed this. You made me want to watch every one of these movies. So where can I watch them? I know that question is so rude and I do apologize.
P.S. Is that your normal voice? It's great.
I've seen and loved all of these movies. Great choices, ending with the GOAT; KING KONG!!!
"King Kong" and "The Most Dangerous Game" were filmed at the same time. "King Kong during the day" and "The Most Dangerous Game" at night They shared some of the same sets.
They also shared actors, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, James Flavin and Noble Johnson. Another good Movie.
Wow. I had no idea. Great work!
Man you picked everyone of the best heart films I've ever seen in love thank you for your list May the living God Jesus Christ bless you and your endeavor to share these great cinematic movies that are not full of Filth and smut like today
Max Steiner's score overshadows king kong, the music alone is a horror classic.
I really enjoyed this compilation. You put a lot of work into it! One complaint: quit saying "casted" instead of "cast".
Does everyone have to remind me?
Excellent list and commentary, SP! I spent the entire time wondering whose (so familiar!) voice yours sounded like. I ran through the whole gamut in my mind... Matthew Broderick? no,.. River Phoenix? no,... and it finally came to me -- Christian Slater! You could be a voice double for him!!
Great vid. For some reason at 25:05, Hyde reminds me of an insane Jon Cryer from Two and a Half Men in silly makeup who's really impressed with his look.
I absolutely 💯% ❤ pre code anything, anytime!! You are the man, man!! Thanks for shedding light, into dark corners.😮
I enjoyed every moment. Well done.
Dr. Moreau is chilling, Laughton is so good!
1) Island of Souls
2) Murders in the Zoo
3) The Old Dark House
4) The Mummy
5) The Mask of Fu Manchu
6) Doctor X
7) The Invisible Man
8) Dracula
9) Frankenstein
10) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hr Hyde
11) Mystery of the Wax Museum
12) King Kong
Thanks! Was hoping someone wrote it out
Amazing review and thank you for posting it. I saw many of my favorites listed (I love the original King Kong!) And have just discovered three new movies to watch! (I never knew there was an earlier movie of the wax museum or a film, looking forward to seeing it.)
used to see these, on late night tv, and sat afternoon, along w/ the bowery boys in the 60s
A few of these I've never seen or heard of, but most of them were regularly shown as late night movies on TV when I was growing up in the '60s and '70s. It's not that I have a lot of nostalgia for the days when we had, at best, 4 or 5 channels to choose from, but it is a shame that younger people have grown up without ever seeing these classics, or pretty much any black and white movie.
I'll take any old black and white movie with real sets over today's computer movies with all that CGI.
One of the most beautiful series of sets is in A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1935. Absolutely gorgeous. They recreated an entire forest!
We knew who Mr. Lugosi was. You can’t mistake that voice.
"WHAT IS THE LAW?"
If you have seen Island of Lost Souls, You know. "Are we not Men!"
Glad to see Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde getting some love here. I feel this film doesn't get the recognition it deserves. I hope it will come out on Blu-Ray some day soon.
Thanks, this took a lot of research and work.
Thanks for the list. I was able to find all but Fu Manchu. This will help bring in the Halloween season nicely 👌
I went to see The Island of Lost Souls when I was 10 yro at a Saturday Matinee. I was so terrified that I left the theater and walked home, because I could not watch anymore.
The Mummy takes the top spot for me.
Excellent piece. I hope I can find some of these films here on yt. Sure, the quality might not be very great, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice seeing as how my options are so limited.
WOW!! Great video!!!
Great video. Thanks.
If only today's films were as good.
Thanks. I hadn't heard of some of these. I'll look 'em up
Great tour of precode fare. Bela Lugosi was in two additional films I sometimes found on Saturday afternoon TV that feel like they, too, could be pre-code: “the Human Monster”, about a sadist that was in charge of a mental hospital (‘nuff said), and “The Invisible Ray”, about a doctor that travels to a remote African jungle to find a recent meteor impact crater, and mines it for radioactive ores, which he installs in a shielded box on a tripod like a camera in reverse, which he used to cure cancer, blindness, etc, but eventually turns into a weapon. Some of those old horror movies could really churn your guts !
Having grown up in the 60's-70's, I saw all of these repeatedly on the local station's "creature feature", usually on Saturday nights. I think the stations bought them in packages for next to nothing, so all advertising was pure profit....and there was a lot of advertising.
They were usually so grainy with a constantly warbling sound tracks, and often just flat missing entire sections that it occurred to me (as I watch them on my modern hi-def flat screen) that I have never really seen them even approaching the quality of the original viewing..until now.
Have noticed the same phenom watching YT videos of restored quality stills of actresses going back to the silent error. They are almost unrecognizably beautiful compared to the worn out tapes they used to run on low def CRT screens on Saturday afternoons.
Gotta love modern video tech.
Same here, a big part of my childhood in the 70's. Quality was terrible no matter what they showed.
Every one of these would probably make my top 12 maybe with one or 2 changes
The effects for "The Invisible Man" and "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" must have been mind-blowing for audiences of the time - they're still impressive and ingenious today.
Probably more of an adventure film than horror, but I'd put in a word for "The Most Dangerous Game" starring Fay Wray. I think it was shot back-to-back with King Kong, or perhaps even at the same time.
Oh, and I have to give credit to the most recent "House of Wax" for one idea that was original (spoilers follow)...the museum is literally made of wax, so as it burns, the protagonists are sinking knee-deep into the floor and finally claw their way out through the facade. The rest of the movie was awful, but that concept was pretty great.
I saw this recently
I think of King Kong as a monster film rather than a horror film, so I would leave it off the list although it's fabulous. Dracula is my favorite horror film (even though it gave me nightmares as a kid) because Bela Lugosi delivered one of the best performances in movie history. The same can be said for Frederic March's Jekyll & Hyde -- a very physical role with March jumping around like an ape when he was Hyde.
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About Island Of Dr. Moreau...darndest thing...I remember reading author Robert Bloch...an article in a 1960's issue of Famous Monsters Of Filmland (a classic fanzine) described the movie as "Charles Laughton hamming it up for dear old Paramount."
I was a callow youth. So I thought the movie was no good. Silly me. As an adult I appreciate Laughton for the talent he was. I need to revisit the movie.
Btw...the version of Dr. Moreau with Marlon Brando...avoid that one like the plague.
Agreed! The Burt Lancaster version is also pretty forgettable.
I remember that quote.
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Oh fellow geek...with the Ray Harryhausen Cyclops avatar...I raise my hand in beckoning and greet you in the distance as we pass each other like ships on life's ocean. Vaya con Dios. Long Live Mythos.
Kindly bear with my penchant for extravagant metaphor. You should see my fanfiction...or perhaps you would just as soon pass up on that opportunity.
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The Burt Lancaster Dr. Moreau...I saw that on the CBS late movie...maybe even in the time before Dave Letterman's late show.
Burt always delivered a creditable performance. His Dr. Moreau was a very stern pitiless figure.
"What is the law?!" he would demand. And then his hybrid creatures would recite the catechism.
You know, you may have jump started the desire to look that movie up again.
Without specific reference to physicality, Brando let himself go something awful in his latter years. And his Dr. Moreau...slathered with lotion...wearing an umbrella hat, like Bill Murray wore on the golf course in Space Jam.
There's a video somewhere on TH-cam describing in appalling detail the shyte show that was the filming of that movie. Both the docu and the film must be seen to be believed. Any brave soul will find once more than enough.
The actors in the Marlon Brando Island of D.r Moreau wished THEY could have avoided that movie like the plague. I've read behind the scenes stuff that curled my hair.
Was wondering if Tod Browning's Freaks might make the cut.
Not to worry. What's on the upload is a marvelous selection.
The Hayes code i know - or thought i did. Were there other codes or did all the stipulations u mention fall under that code?
I just studied how the Hayes code pertained to the ultimate fate of tough guys in films during that era - Bogart or not, if the role was that of a criminal, they had to die at the end.
I never thought of these movies being precise but it explains the creativity and timelessness
I completely agree with this list. KING KONG is my favourite film of all time, a subject that I explored in an issue of (Scary Monsters) Monster Memories magazine in an article titled ‘How I Met the Real King Kong.’ I’m happy that MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM made this list, as it stands out as the definitive ‘Wax Museum’ film.
Though not considered horror, I might also add TARZAN THE APE MAN and TARZAN AND HIS BRIDE to my own personal list of pre-code favourites, as they make for an excellent double-feature! Another interesting film I might add is 1932’s KONGO.