|
The Body Snatcher and I Walked With a Zombie are really good, but the rest of Val Lewton's stuff I don't really care for. His movies are a bit of a tease. There's a lot of build up, but there's never a payoff.
Watched The Invisible Man 1933 the other night. IMO,it has to be one of the most underrated and overlooked movies of that era. Claude Rains is pretty astounding when you take into consideration he wasn't able to use his face as a form of expression. BUt just from the sound of his voice he was able to emote feelings of frustration, rage, paranoia and psychosis.
The effects are really amazing when you consider it was made in the early 30's.
Two things that made me cringe are:
- That old irish harpie chick (the obnoxious maid from Bride of Frankenstein with the super annoying voice). Her excessive screaming and over acting was killing me.
- The stereotypical bobby with the big walrus moustache. Just a god awful actor in a really decent movie. Now that I"m thinking about it, his performance was sort of funny. I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, so I guess there's only one thing that made me cringe
__________________
"God told me to skin you alive!"
|