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Last night we watched The Invisible Ghost (1941) and Ed Wood (1994), and this evening we watched The Devil Bat (1940). One thing Ed Wood really gets right is Lugosi's professionalism, no matter how silly the script -- in the 1940s films he always plays it straight and to the best of his ability, whether he's waving a swab of cotton at a large bat puppet or going into a homicidal fugue state at the sight of his supposedly-dead wife.
Unfortunately for Invisible Ghost, the only person besides Lugosi who brings that level of commitment is Clarence Muse as Evans, the African-American butler who has to cope with the high level of weirdness and mysterious murders in the household he runs; but there are a few nice camera angles too.
Devil Bat has much higher production values and a better plot, even if it has some holes large enough for the titular creature to fly through (also your enjoyment of the story may depend on your tolerance for wise-cracking 1940s reporters, although it's fun to see Arthur Q. Bryant AKA Elmer Fudd as their gruff editor).
I leave you with one of Larry (The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra) Blamire's affectionate, tone-perfect spoofs of old horror movies, a short from his Tales from the Pub Youtube series: The Death Napkin
Unfortunately for Invisible Ghost, the only person besides Lugosi who brings that level of commitment is Clarence Muse as Evans, the African-American butler who has to cope with the high level of weirdness and mysterious murders in the household he runs; but there are a few nice camera angles too.
Devil Bat has much higher production values and a better plot, even if it has some holes large enough for the titular creature to fly through (also your enjoyment of the story may depend on your tolerance for wise-cracking 1940s reporters, although it's fun to see Arthur Q. Bryant AKA Elmer Fudd as their gruff editor).
I leave you with one of Larry (The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra) Blamire's affectionate, tone-perfect spoofs of old horror movies, a short from his Tales from the Pub Youtube series: The Death Napkin