So...how come people are stumbling around like Boris Karloff today?  And by the way, that film was a classic and James Whale was probably one of the best directors of his time.  Anyone who can get Colin Clive to pull that kind of performance without freezing up and forgetting his lines is a genius.

( filtered to Alucard and the Hellsings; unhackable )

So I guess yesterday there was some kind of curse that made people think they were from the 1920s?  Not too sure about some of the slang people were using.  One of the good things about films back then were that they were silent and you couldn't hear the ridiculous lingo.  Giggle water?  Christ, that's terrible.

Nosferatu came out in 1922, you know ( Read more... )

So there's this opening shot--Orson Welles; Touch of Evil, 1958--and the studio used to roll the credits over it, which was shitty and not the way Welles wanted it at all, 'cause who can really focus on what's going on if you're reading some little captions about the actors or the producer at the bottom at the same time?

But they finally took the ( Read more... )