Love all of the projects keep up the great work, I have a feeling you're going to reach a whole new generation this way and introduce them to classic films
Just starting the video, I'm surprised there'll be so many videos for the 40's. I always believed after the 30s that the 40's were kind of a "dead" decade for horror, and it never really got going again until the Hammer films of the 50's. Glad to be proven wrong, and I'm looking forward to learning a lot about 40's horror. Thanks Josh!
"Burning a wet mule", i'm guessing is an old fashioned term, that fell outta favor? Lol, that's my best guess. I haven't seen any of these, but would love to. Can't wait for you to get to cat people, & curse of the cat people. Also, leopard man, an entertaining horror flick, that doesn't exactly deliver, on what you'd expect from the title, lol. Also, there's another flick, from the early '40s, that's also titled the ape, if i'm not mistaken. Except the plot is about the main character being turned into an apeman. Anyways, can't wait for the rest of the '40s, & the '50s project!
in October Criterion is releasing a 2 film horror set. I Walked with A Zombie and the Seventh Victim, both 1943 Val Lewton (as Producer) classics on 1 Blu-ray.
I might quibble with the low historical significance assigned to Son of Ingagi, but this was another highly enjoyable episode. I learn so much watching these!
Hi, been loving this channel for awhile now. I'll add a caveat...I think Invisible Man Returns cultural sig should have been a five because...anytime a horror film gets nominated for an Oscar...?
Surprised to see that, with how you documented Hitchcock in the 30’s even when it wasn’t horror, you didn’t mention Rebecca in this episode., the only picture of his to win Best Picture.
I've seen parts of doctor Cyclops on the Saturday afternoon movies back when I was a kid. As in the 70s and '80s. I would like to see the Invisible Man returns and I remember seeing parts of the Ape-man starting Boris Karloff but again that was a long time ago.
My favorite is the Kay Kyser movie, I thought it was a lot of fun, and I have searched out a few of the Kyser movies. It has been my favorite one so far
hi! love these series! been watching for awhile love the humour and always great editing! anyway, my top 20: King of the Zombies (1941) Dead of Night (1945) Dr. Cyclops (1940) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) The Black Cat (1941) The Wolf Man (1941) The Invisible Man Returns (1940) The Ghost Breakers (1940) You'll Find Out (1940) The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942) Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Lucky Ghost (1942) Spook Busters (1946) Spooks Run Wild (1941) The Ghost Train (1941) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) The Return of the Vampire (1943) The Cat Creeps (1946)
Some cultural context for you. It used to be really expensive to burn up a wet mule. Thanks to modern technology, basically anyone can do it now. It's like how only rich people used to own cars
I thought The Mummy's Hand was better than The Invisible Man Returns. What you grumbled about, the absence of the mummy for the first 30 minutes, didn't bother me because they added a lot of adventure and humor, making it close in tone to the later Brendan Fraser Mummy movies, making this more of the true original to those rather than the original with Boris Karloff (though the "love across time" plot of that was also handled well in the later films, especially in The Mummy Returns)
I normally love your stuff but I wasn't really able to watch this one. The 'old black and white movie' filter is real intense and the randomly and rapidly varying brightness is painful.
It has one of my favorite Lugosi one liners. As one of the victims slathers on some of the deadly aftershave, he intones, “You’ll never wear anything else.”
Poor Boris Karloff; soooo many clunkers in just one year. But hey, he'd redeem himself in a big way with The Body Snatcher five years later. (Karloff would credit Val Lewton with "saving his soul" by giving him roles actually worthy of his talent.) The Invisible Man Returns is a good choice for #1. This was during the stage of Vincent Price's career when Hollywood couldn't quite figure out what to do with him, but here he gets to play both dashing romantic lead and unhinged horror antihero, and acquits himself well in both modes. Nan Grey's heroine is also a step forward from the perpetually weeping Gloria Stuart in the 1933 film (the weak link in an otherwise brilliant movie).
I bet the wet mule thing means having enough $ to overcome any obstacle because wet things can’t be burned and mules are associated with stubbornness. Haven’t heard it before in context though.
