Your Most OVERRATED and UNDERRATED 1930s Horrors

Re: Your Most OVERRATED and UNDERRATED 1930s Horrors

feeds@yuku.com (Jay Maggio) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:43:19 PST

overated: The Ghoul, not one of Karloff's best. underated: The Black Cat, this movie is very errie, atmospheric, and Bela & Boris 2gether..

Re: Your Most OVERRATED and UNDERRATED 1930s Horrors

feeds@yuku.com (dcwillis9) — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:31:10 PST

atenolol wrote:One movie which has not been mentioned as underrated is the British thriller, THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT. This is a moody, atmospheric noir-horror hybrid starring Emlyn Williams as the typical on the run noir innocent and Ernest Thesiger as an ex...
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feeds@yuku.com (dcwillis9) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:43:17 PST

Now, how did that go?--Lugosi Lives Eternal....

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feeds@yuku.com (CarlDenham) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:26:48 PST

I'm watching THIS-TV as well. I was pleasantly surprised to discover their Universal line-up today! TCM has gone all "Hammer-Time" this year, and AMC...well, ya know! Gone are the days of the old AMC "Monsterfest", which showed practically EVERYTHING, Uni...
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feeds@yuku.com (bela lugosi) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:28:59 PST

Happy Halloween, Carl and all!!! When I find a new post from Carl Denham, I know it's going to be money! Another great one! I, too, love Lugosi...Karloff, Chaney (both dad and son)! And I agree, they do have the power to elevate any film they are i...
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feeds@yuku.com (CarlDenham) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:09:59 PST

It really is a quintessential "Laemmle-era, Universal Horror" flick. It has the look of an old-world, European expressionistic nightmare. It's reputation has suffered, I think, because of all the other great films that were made before and after. Frankens...
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feeds@yuku.com (FrozenGhost) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:09:17 PST

Thank you for placing MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE in the underrated column. I've been defending this movie for years, most of the time feeling like a lonely voice in the wilderness.

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feeds@yuku.com (CarlDenham) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:29:53 PST

I must apologize for the rather peculiar format with which I wrote my last post. That is definately not how I thought it would turn out. My bad.

Re: Your Most OVERRATED and UNDERRATED 1930s Horrors

feeds@yuku.com (CarlDenham) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:26:31 PST

With fresh viewings come even fresher perspectives... Underrated - Dracula's Daughter If there was a second-teir Universal Horror that I would elevate to the higher echelon (sp?), it's this one. Murders in the...
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feeds@yuku.com (dcwillis9) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 06:03:19 PST

Overrated: Mad Love (prefer Peter L in Arsenic & Old Lace), The Invisible Ray (at least The Raven and The Black Cat have character; Ray is just bland), Svengali (Barrymore is better spoofing himself in Twentieth Century), and the Spanish-lang. D...
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feeds@yuku.com (dcwillis9) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:36:02 PST

Ted Newsom wrote:Most Overrated, part 2: BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN Is there ANYTHING really scary about this? That friggn Una O'Connor screeching and fluttering around like Zasu Pitts on crack... Colin Clive spending all his time moaning... a one-dimension...
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feeds@yuku.com (bela lugosi) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:54:49 PST

Monsterpal wrote:THE WALKING DEAD is one of my favorites.Mine too!Not sure what I'd call underrated, as I love them all!Overrated either, for the same reason!

Re: Your Most OVERRATED and UNDERRATED 1930s Horrors

feeds@yuku.com (atenolol) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:54:35 PST

"Not so much, on the 1911!" Well, what's a century here or there. I could cover my tracks and edit it, but I might as well concede I am getting too old to do morning postings.

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feeds@yuku.com (Monsterpal) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:08:46 PST

THE WALKING DEAD is one of my favorites.

Re: Your Most OVERRATED and UNDERRATED 1930s Horrors

feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:40:39 PST

>Could you imagine if a studio had gathered Lugosi, Laughton, Erich von Stroheim, Basil Rathbone and maybe a few other big personalities onto the same soundstage with an intelligent script?Read More

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feeds@yuku.com (atenolol) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:47:35 PST

Looking at it from the perspective of 1911 Most overrated--I don't think any thirties horror film is actually overrated. All the well-known ones have quality. The slow "mood" pieces, THE MUMMY, WHITE ZOMBIE, VAMPYRE, etc, are certainly not everyone's...
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feeds@yuku.com (Camps) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:57:03 PST

True that. Would that Lugosi had been offered more textured roles. Too bad Hollywood was always so limiting that way. Could you imagine if a studio had gathered Lugosi, Laughton, Erich von Stroheim, Basil Rathbone and maybe a few other big personalitie...
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feeds@yuku.com (Joe Karlosi) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:24:50 PST

I guess INVISIBLE RAY is underrated... But what to me is most underrated is Lugosi's performance -- which is unusually underSTATED -- and, as a result, I believe his best performance.I like Lugosi's understated performance in THE INVISIBLE RAY too. But th...
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Re: Your Most OVERRATED and UNDERRATED 1930s Horrors

feeds@yuku.com (Camps) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:36:47 PST

I guess INVISIBLE RAY is underrated... But what to me is most underrated is Lugosi's performance -- which is unusually underSTATED -- and, as a result, I believe his best performance.

Re: Your Most OVERRATED and UNDERRATED 1930s Horrors

feeds@yuku.com (Joe Karlosi) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:49:01 PST

BUMPED UP for newer members to weigh in.

Your Most OVERRATED and UNDERRATED 1930s Horrors

feeds@yuku.com (Joe Karlosi) — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:28:03 PST

I'm going to be doing one of these for the 1930s and a separate thread to cover the 1940s. Which single 1930s Horror film do you feel is OVERRATED and which would you consider UNDERRATED? Please try to tell us WHY! Overrated: VAMPYR (1932) - While I defin...
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