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| 6 70% | The Invisible Man Returns (1940) - Rated 09 Oct 2024
"Even in a flick from the paleolithic era I think the invisibility special effects are still pretty cool!"
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| 3 28% | Son of Frankenstein (1939) - Rated 08 Oct 2024
"An impressively stacked cast (Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi) and some more impressive gothic horror sets here, but overall it didn't suck me in that much. Barely feels like a horror movie at all until near the end - more like some mild mannered chamber drama or something. It's nearly a half hour longer than any previous Universal monster movie and I did feel the length. Karloff's monster is more in the background and shallowly characterized compared to the previous two films."
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| 7 84% | The Penguin (2024) - Rated 07 Oct 2024
"I was a bit lukewarm on Batman 2022 (it was dark, stylish and well-acted but I also remember it being just oppressively long sitting there watching it in the theater) but so far I like this better. No real attempt at sympathetic characters, it’s pretty much just all a nest of violent minded backstabbing villains, but that’s fun sometimes. Farrell and Cristin Miloti are both excellent, some good sudden moments of murder & ownage. Scenes with dementia mom slow things down tho."
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| 4 44% | Dracula's Daughter (1936) - Rated 07 Oct 2024
"Decently established characters and I did like how it took the main dude on a journey from being a scientifically minded upper crust British psychiatrist dude to being in Transylvania having to invade Dracula’s castle. However the movie has one big problem, which is that most of the first hour or so of its 75 minute runtime is very slow and boring!"
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| 2 14% | Werewolf of London (1935) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"Snooooze. Feels like we spend ten times the screen time on boring posh British people posh talking at each other and upper crust garden parties and shit than we actually do with the werewolf. Wolfman effects don't look like much more than fuzzy gloves and a widow's peak and fake teeth; the wolfman effects from Landis's American Werewolf in London this ain't. I did like the kitty cat in the one scene."
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| 6 70% | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Rated 06 Oct 2024
"Franky wanna get his undead dick wet. I know that feel bro. At first the movie feels a bit disjointed but once the creature is hanging out with the blind old man it feels like it finds it focus and does a good job developing the monster while keeping him a bit monstrous and scary at the same time. There's a decent bit of horror, tragedy, even some comedy here, and it's also good they kept Colin Clive as the doctor. We belong dead indeed"
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| 6 70% | The Invisible Man (1933) - Rated 05 Oct 2024
"Well the invisibility special effects may not quite be Verhoeven’s Hollow Man but they are pretty damn impressive for 1933! This dude goin nuts runnin all around town naked killing dudes n derailing trains n shit. They gotta set traps and stuff to get him. If I turned invisible ngl I would try to see soooo many boobs you have no idea"
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| 5 57% | The Mummy (1932) - Rated 03 Oct 2024
"A bit dull compared to Dracula and Frankenstein, though there's some nice horror imagery and good that there was actually some music this time. Plot meandered even with the short runtime though and the Kubrick-face extreme close-ups of Imhotep were ripping off shots of Dracula from that film but less effectively. Zita Johann is by faaar the hottest broad in any of these Universal monster flicks so far though, an unpleasant thing to say about a woman born decades before any of my grandparents lol"
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| 7 84% | Frankenstein (1931) - Rated 03 Oct 2024
"Compares favorably to the Dracula film from the same year – similarly strong set and production design (especially the Frankenstein lab) and iconic central monster performance from Boris Karloff. Perhaps even better though with a darker, more ominous atmosphere and ending that is still somewhat disturbing even a century on. Also like Dracula though it could have used a bit more creepy non-diegetic music here and there."
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| 6 70% | Dracula (1931) - Rated 02 Oct 2024
"Watchin movies from when Herbert Hoover was president. Bela Lugosi’s performance obviously reads as cliche today, but when it INVENTED the cliche you can’t pan it; it’d be like criticizing the original Star Trek as a “generic spaceship show.” Except for the puppeteered bats the special effects most aged well, matte paintings and shit look good; cool sets. Genesis of lots of horror imagery here. A bit too quiet tho, some scenes definitely could have used a pop of spooky music."
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