Last Seen pre-1970 Classic/Vintage Horror Movie?

[shloggs]

Originally Posted by roshiq

The Mummy (1932)



The most intriguing Mummy film ever made. This classic possesses a dark- romantic, dreamlike quality that lingers in mind long after the film is over. Less a typical horror film than a Gothic romance with a remarkable Egyptian setting considering at the time the movie made. The versatile talented horror icon Boris Karloff undoubtedly portrayed the best Mummy on the screen. Dry-looking make-up, a blank deadly stare, and that masterful-morbid voiceover at the flashback sequences stimulates the imagination and giving this classic version a depth and eternal feelings that cannot be matched by those more recent adaptations that rely heavily on "special" effects and contrived "action" sequences.

>>: A-

Well put! Karloff is unreal in that film. His delicate, measured movements coupled with that amazing Jack Pierce makeup give one the impression he will fall apart and blow away at any moment.

[The_Return]

Black Sunday / La Maschera del Demonio (1960)

Mario Bava...one of the classiest, coolest and most stylish directors ever to bless the horror genre. This has the be one of his absolute best: Barbara Steele in her most iconic role in a moody, bloody and all-around spooky vampiric period piece. Loved every second of it.

[roshiq]

Witchfinder General (1968)



I'm not sure whether this sorts of barbarism still exits or not but many years back I read several reports in our local newspapers regarding this type of "practices" at some very rural parts of our country. Some 'Huzur' (so called literate teacher of Islamic studies & knowledge) used to torture women & children in the villages who had been possessed by Saytan (Devil) or brought a shame into their community by acting in a non-Islamic manner and so they first dig a hole or kinda small grave in the ground and put woman or young girls into it and ordered the people surround them to throw stones on them till to their death (locally known as "Dorra")...! Mathew Hopkins reminded me of those Huzurs and such a way this film has a strong universal & historic value that represents one of the dark sides of our civilization.
Price portrayed brilliantly and as accurately as possible the role of the Withcfinder which was sinisterly cold & evil and definitely one of his best.

>>: A

[phantomstranger]

Dracula (1931)
Dracula's Daughter
Son Of Dracula

A night of Universal Classics

[The_Return]

Son of Dracula is way too overlooked...one of the best Universal sequels in my opinion, but you never really hear much about it. Chaney Jr. does a great job, the effects are spectacular, and it actually has a worthwhile story to tell (which, sadly, cannot be said of all Universal sequels...). Really too bad it doesn't get more attention.

[phantomstranger]

Originally Posted by The_Return

Son of Dracula is way too overlooked...one of the best Universal sequels in my opinion, but you never really hear much about it. Chaney Jr. does a great job, the effects are spectacular, and it actually has a worthwhile story to tell (which, sadly, cannot be said of all Universal sequels...). Really too bad it doesn't get more attention.

Agreed. "Son Of Dracula" is one of the best. The scene were Dracula's coffin rises out of the swamp and then Dracula as a mist floats out of it is one of the greatest scene in horror movie history.

Originally Posted by phantomstranger

Agreed. "Son Of Dracula" is one of the best. The scene were Dracula's coffin rises out of the swamp and then Dracula as a mist floats out of it is one of the greatest scene in horror movie history.

Couldn't agree with that one any more, that was a great scene.

The last horror classic I saw was last night, Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH, hosted and narrated by Boris Karloff, who has a nice little role in one of the film's short stories, where he plays a vampire called a "Wurdulak."

The scariest of the short stories was "A Drop Of Water", about a dead witch, a ring, and a nice lesson about not taking what isn't yours. Anyone who has seen that one know's that witch's face is still one of the freakiest images in horror history.

[roshiq]

Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

>>: C+

[phantomstranger]

"The Canterville Ghost" (1944)
-Charles Laughton, Robert Young


Plot: IMDB

In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding and dooms him to life as a ghost until one of his descendants performs a brave deed. Simon believes he may be saved when he meets Cuffy Williams, an American kinsman stationed with a troop of soldiers at the castle in 1943. Will this blood relative save the family honor, or will his blood be as yellow as the rest of the Cantervilles?

Phantom's Review: Very entertaining and silly Haunted Castle story. Well acted with a great cast. As they used to say...fun for the whole family.

[roshiq]

The Screaming Skull (1958)

Way better than IMDB ratings & modern day usual horror craps. At least there were some decent efforts to create a reasonable haunting atmosphere & few scares for its best.

>>: C+