#Brember Wills

[moviesludge]

if you don't hold still I can't show you my patented BRAIN BISECT move. I mean you can kind of get it but you don't get the whole experience. Giive me the knife back

[gnome-adjacent-vagabond]

It's a shame the Grisbanes and the Femms weren't living in Wales at the same time because I would have paid to see the neighborly sitcom that situation could have generated.

Two old, rich families with a psychotic son locked up on the top floor?? A pious sister and a nervous brother?? Two pairs of unsuspecting travelers forced to spend time with them? Amazing.

And the two movies spawned from two different books!

Rebecca and Victoria would be such a duo. I love them both and firmly believe Rebecca is a repressed lesbian. Horace and Sebastian could bond over their anxiety. Lord Grisbane could sleep in the armchair next to Sir Roderick's bed. Roderick G, Lionel, and Saul could just be weird and horrible together. Morgan could just...chill and sleep I guess. Dude needs a break.

The possibilities are endless, listen. Listen I know they're niche films but god they're like peanut butter and jelly.

[notesonfilm1]

Eavesdropping at the Movies: 379 – The Old Dark House

Eavesdropping at the Movies: 379 – The Old Dark House

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, or Spotify. If you’re tempted to explore this cult classic, the restored DVD and Blu-Ray of The Old Dark House is available as part of Eureka Entertainment’s Masters of Cinema series. José gave an introduction to the MAC’s screening of The Old Dark House, a 1932 comedy horror directed by James Whale, focusing on queerness.…

[big-bad-shorty-king]

I’m bored so here’s some of my jackets IG, pretty much all of these were jackets that I got on sale super cheap or that I was given.

The purple jacket is my newest and still very much a work in progress, (all of them are escrow the Donnie Darko one actually, purple is jsut the newest) and I need to redo the back patch (Polkas Not Dead by The Dreadnoughts, fave album by my fave band) next to it is my other main jacket which has a Danger Days back design. “Do Good Recklessly” is a saying that has resonated with me a lot so I figured it would be cool to have it there. I got a Reel Big Fish patch coming in the mail soon and I wanna get a Ska Dream patch for it, trying to decide if I wanna add some colored/patterned panels to it bc that night look cool. Gotta figure out what other bands I wanna put on it but it’s kinda hard to find colorful patches lmao

The gray jacket actually started off as a cosplay item for a Killjoys OC that I never got around to doing. I consider this my first jacket even tho there was a really shitty vest that I wore one singular time before I got this one. My boyfriend actually made a few of the patches that are on the gray jacket (Days N Daze and Polkas Not Dead above the spider) as birthday gifts when we first met, I don’t put a ton of patches on that jacket and it’s all bands that are v important to me for various reasons, the Frank Turner one was from the first show I went to with my boyfriend and he has one on one of his jackets too. Mischief Brew is one of my fave bands and their music means a lot to me, LS Dunes (the pyramid) has a really cool community surrounding it so I thought it would be cool to put that there. It also has zippered sleeves which makes it really nice for year round use!! Also has a Billy Idol pin because I grew up listening to Generation X and I still adore that debut album. Im immunocompromised and have a kidney transplant so I decided to add the pins to represent that because they are a big part of who I am.

On the bottom two pics, the left jacket is my queer horror inspired jacket. I am at some point gonna get a backpatch of The Old Dark House of a scene at the end of the movie with Morgan (Boris Karloff) holding Saul’s body (Brember Wills.) It also has a few Rocky Horror related items on it such as the “creature of the night” patch coming from the song Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me as well as the iconic lips and Frank-N-Furtor. Also have a The Lost Boys pin and the Babadook as well as a Beetlejuice pin. The Elm St. pin is specifically for Nightmare 2 and Gene Co is from Repo the Genetic Opera, a movie with a bisexual face stealer. It’s a fun time. Frankenstein and the Bride are classic queer coded cinema and James Whales was an openly gay man who directed both (as well as The Old Dark House) in the 1930s.

The last jacket is my Donnie Darko jacket. Donnie Darko is one of my fave movies, everting except the pins were done by hand. The pins are all artists who are actually featured in the soundtrack of the movie.

[doraemonmon]

The Old Dark House - Boris Karloff with Brember Wills

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

[moviemosaics]

The Old Dark House

directed by James Whale, 1932

[acidbathpuppy]

Cinematic parallels:

"The Old Dark House" (1932) dir. James Whale // "Ivan The Terrible and His Son Ivan" (1883-5) Ilya Repin //

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[moviesludge]

good thing the stone floor was there to break our fall

I think I might have liquefied my pelvis

[ozu-teapot]

The Old Dark House | James Whale | 1932

[frankenpagie]

10.23.17

[mpregjamesdiamond]

Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan by Ilya Repin (1581)

Breaking Bad 2.13

The Old Dark House - Boris Karloff with Brember Wills

[byneddiedingo]

The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932) Cast: Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas, Boris Karloff, Ernest Thesinger, Eva Moore, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Elspeth Dudgeon, Brember Wills. Screenplay: Benn W. Levy, based on a novel by J.B. Priestley. Cinematography: Arthur Edeson. Art direction: Charles D. Hall. Film editing: Clarence Kolster. The title itself has an air of gleefully giving away what you're about to see. It's an old dark house and it's the only refuge from a storm that has Philip and Margaret Waverton (Raymond Massey and Gloria Stuart) and their friend Penderel (a slightly pudgy Melvyn Douglas) seeking shelter for the night. And when the disfigured butler Morgan (Boris Karloff, who else?) answers the door, you settle in for an evening of mostly tongue-in-cheek scary moments. The travelers are reluctantly invited in by Horace Femm (Ernest Thesiger) and his sister, Rebecca (Eva Moore), and just as reluctantly given dinner. Their meal of roast beef and potatoes -- the line "Have a potato" has never been funnier -- is interrupted by another pair of shelter seekers, Sir William Porterhouse (Charles Laughton) and his companion Gladys (Lilian Bond). They're an odd couple but not a spooky one: He's an uncouth industrialist who earned his knighthood and she's a chorus girl. But she's not his mistress, she explains to Penderel as the two of them start to hit it off together. She and Porterhouse just like one another's company, she says, and he likes to appear "gay" -- in the older meaning of the word, though you can be sure that director James Whale knew the current meaning, since he and Laughton and Thesinger were. There's also a centenarian in the attic and a madman in a locked room, and of course the lights go out and everyone finds themselves in some kind of peril. The Old Dark House was thought to be lost for a long time, but it was discovered and restored, for which we all should be glad. 

[senso1954]

hi this is not rhi this is an anonymous person would you please tell me your favorite horror/halloween movies

hello anonymous person i don't know. here are some movies i've picked out for all my many followers who are asking similar questions anonymously:

the old dark house (1932) dir. james whale is underrated... it's not particularly exciting by modern standards but it's fun and suspenseful and brember wills gives the performance of a LIFETIME!

a page of madness (1926) dir. teinosuke kinugasa. NOW LISTEN some of this is lost but the rest is on youtube. probably best to read a summary too. images!

cat people (1942), dir. jacques tourneur. duh it's cat people

penda's fen (1974) dir. alan clarke. classic folk horror made for tv movie with a lovely early gay character. it's on youtube & very enchanting

flesh for frankenstein (1973), dir. paul morrissey. okay if you've seen blood for dracula and hated it you probably won't like this but it is LEAGUES better than blood for dracula. i mean in rhi's words "raph will watch movies i didnt even know god could make" but if you like silly gore and gay sex symbols doing crass things it is for you. i could talk about it longer but not here

nightbreed (1990), dir. clive barker. the other rocks! david cronenberg is in this movie. fun masks and makeups

the moth diaries (2011), dir. mary harron. boarding school camille movie with lily cole. it's profound?

the fall of the house of usher (1942) and usher (2000), dir. curtis harrington these are curtis harrington's first and last movies, the first he made as a teenager. i obviously reccomend watching his inbetween efforts too, i liked night tide, wormwood star, and how awful about alan (with anthony perkins!), but these are so sweet and belong together as bookends! they're both shorts, 10 mins and 37.

thirst (2009), dir. park chan-wook. the original post-2000 if a priest was a vampire would that be fucked up or what

santa sangre (1989), dir. alejandro jodorowsky. there is a lot going on here... circus things. animal things. coming of age. romance? jodorowsky sucks obviously but he will die soon.

the lair of the white worm (1988), dir. ken russell who was simply leagues ahead. this one has everything! snakes are quite phallic.

the company of wolves (1984), dir. neil jordan. anthology-esque angela carter adaptation =^_^=

trouble every day (2001), dir. claire denis. this is not a halloweeny film by any stretch of the imagination but it is a horror movie that i like a lot. it's very troubling indeed i wouldn't say it's for a fun time

a tale of two sisters (2003), dir. kim jee-woon. scary!

the black cat (1937), dir. edgar ulmer is like. camp. 30s. torture. cats

it chapter 2 (2019), dir. andy muschietti. have you heard of this one?