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Island of Lost Souls is probably my favourite horror film of all time and in my opinion is one of the few films from the golden age that even today is still genuinely scary. The atmosphere is just so creepy. The rush of the beastmen towards the camera at the end, that man with the one hoof!! Yuck!!
Many years ago I asked my school's film society to hire the film, I was only 11 years old and only knew it by reputation but was dying to see it. I think they were persuaded by the fact it was based on an H G Wells book (so it was literature) and it was cheap to hire. (If memory serve's me right, it cost £6) Well, the normal film society fair was It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and other family comedies. I spent the week before the film was shown telling any one who'd listen that it had been banned in the UK for 30 years and other facts I'd absorbed from Denis Gifford's and Carlos Clarens' books.
The film was shown, myself and several dozen kiddies nearly crapped ourselves and I was never allowed to choose a film again. I also had a very creepy walk home.
It took me about 30 years to get a video copy which is a terrible print (Laughton's suit is so bright it looks like he could advertise washing powder) but I still love this film. I watch it every Christmas, when my wife's out of the house, she hates it. The final screams of C L at the end are almost unbearable.
For some reason people seemed to be able to conjure up really creepy screams in the 30's. Laughton's just one of them, Karloff at the end of Black Cat springs to mind and of course Fay's little outburst on the way to Skull Island... she really sounds terrified. I remember a Laurel and Hardy short where an escaped convict pulls off Stan and Ollies legs and ties them round their necks. Again I havent seen the film for years but once the boys realise the convict's in the house, there's anothere of those awful ear piercing screams. They really sound like they're frightened. Any one remember the L and H film I'm thinking of? I wouldn't mind tracking it down. Also one where Olly falls into a vat of chemicals and gets turned into a chimp?