Comments | monsterofmud: Bela rules...

monsterofmud

Bela rules...

Feb 01, 2006 11:37

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1930's, bela lugosi, melodrama, horror, flappers

Comments 3

_the_antihero February 2 2006, 02:12:31 UTC

I like my movies to have rampant social rhetoric.

monsterofmud February 2 2006, 03:12:17 UTC

And so they do!

monsterofmud February 2 2006, 14:38:13 UTC

The Universal films stand staunchly apart from the low-budget junk of the 40's and 50's. PRC, or Poverty Row Corporation, Republic, and many others put out a whole slew of cheapies without much regard to their message. It was a copycat response to the popularity of Universal's smash successes. Still to this day the Universal films are ranked in the IMDB top movies ever made, largely due to their universal (no pun intended) appeal. Something like Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) stands miles apart from the dreck like The Brain that Wouldn't Die (1962 ( ... )