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...
