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fanofspooky · 5 months ago
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Horror movies of the 1940s
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goryhorroor · 3 months ago
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“there are several reasons why the horror genre declined – in both quality and popularity – at the tail end of the 1930s & into the 40s. firstly, the narrative conventions became so well established that they appeared formulaic and predictable, especially when the same-old same-old monsters were put into rotation time and time again. then, political strife curtailed a lot of european filmmaking. thirdly, movies with supernatural, violent, science fiction or fantasy elements became a target for literal-minded censors, who were concerned that the masses might believe or, still worse, imitate the horrors they witnessed on the silver screen.”
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ilovemesomevincentprice · 1 month ago
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Vincent Price as The Invisible Man -
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
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weirdlookindog · 1 month ago
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Danse Macabre (1922)
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atomic-chronoscaph · 2 months ago
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Jane Randolph and Glenn Strange on the set of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
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moviesmoodboards · 3 months ago
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Cat People 1942 dir.Jacques Tourneur
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thedivinecomedy0 · 11 months ago
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Part 1.
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horror-aesthete · 1 year ago
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Black Narcissus, 1947, dirs. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
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bumblingbabooshka · 1 year ago
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'Message in a Bottle' is so funny because imagine you're Starfleet and you just set loose a brand-new state of the art ship. You lose contact with it and send someone to investigate. When they come back they tell you that the ship fired at them, literally every single Starfleet officer aboard was killed, there are unconscious bodies of Romulans littering the floor and in the middle of this carnage there's an outdated model of a medical hologram which is acting uncannily human and claiming that it has a message from the long-lost USS Voyager: "We're still alive." Voyager really earns its rep as a doom harbinger.
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arcadebroke · 18 days ago
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driveintheaterofthemind · 14 days ago
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The Majestic Theatre in Springfield Ohio, promoting Basil Rathbone in The Black Cat and Bela Lugosi in the Invisible Ghost in June of 1941. "2 first run features! Recommended by The Horror Club!"
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fanofspooky · 2 years ago
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365 horror movies day 215:
Cat People (1942)
“You can fool everybody, but landie, dearie me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.”
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goryhorroor · 10 months ago
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the wolf man (1941) directed by george waggner
"The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Your suffering is over, Bela my son. Now you will find peace."
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ilovemesomevincentprice · 20 days ago
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Vincent Price - Song of Bernadette (1943)
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weirdlookindog · 1 month ago
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Danse Macabre (1922)
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atomic-chronoscaph · 18 days ago
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The Wolf Man (1941)
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