Spectacular Attractions (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... These shots (there’s another one I’ve seen of him taking a cup of tea and cigarette break with Colin Clive) demonstrate the totality of his onscreen presence – all it takes is a bit of slouching or an incongruous prop and all of a sudden he’s just some guy again, albeit one with some apparent cranium issues. [Picture sourced from Dr Macro's incomparable gallery of high quality movie...
"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The Story: This is either the best sex scene in horror movie history, or simply the worst first date in horror films. Depends on how deep you want to read it—as allegory or as reality. For the reality, we have this: the child-bride of Dr. Pretorius ( Ernest Thesiger ) and Dr. Henry Frankenstein ( Colin Clive ) is awakened from her lightning birth and immediately rejects her intended,...
Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... as Dracula; Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man; and of course, Boris Karloff as Frankenstein. Watching Colin Clive scream, “It’s alive! It’s alive!” remains one of the most thrilling moments of movie magic ever filmed. Those movies were so creepy because, unlike today’s horror films, they left almost everything to my imagination—and my imagination can...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
USA Feature Film Director: James Whale Writers: William Hurlbut, John Balderston, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Cinematographer: John J. Mescall Composer: Franz Waxman Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Ernest Thesiger, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor Although generally rather silly, Whale’s tongue-in-cheek follow-up to Frankenstein (1931) - in which the titular doctor...
McIlWeb (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
1 - Lon Chaney 2 - Boris Karloff 3 - Bela Lugosi 4 - Vincent Price 5 - Christopher Lee 6 - Peter Cushing 7 - Anthony Hopkins 8 - Donald Pleasance 9 - Anthony Perkins 10 - Elsa Lanchester 11 - Linda Blair 12 - Lon Chaney, Jr. 13 - Colin Clive 14 - Max Schreck 15 - Janet Leigh 16 - Peter Lorre 17 - Robert Englund 18 - Jack Nicholson 19 - Jamie Lee Curtis 20 - Heather O'Rourke
Cinema Styles (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
... creation had life and then recede into the framework while we follow the monster and his doings. Colin Clive played that role and did it well. But this Frankenstein is Cushing and nothing else. The creature is damn near an afterthought. In fact, he could have never succeeded in bringing the creature to life and it wouldn't have hurt the movie. He could have just kept on killing people...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Mad Love is a 1935 horror movie directed by Karl Freund and starring Peter Lorre , Colin Clive and Ted Healy . I enjoy Peter Lorre. Dr. Gogol, played by Peter Lorre, quotes Elizabeth Barrett Browning : The face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul... and “Guess now who holds thee!” — “Death,” I said. But, there,...
