Universal Horror Collection: Vol. 1
Blu ray
Shout! Factory
1934, ’35, ’36, ’40 / 1.33 : 1 / 66 / 61 / 79 / 70 min.
Starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
Cinematography by John J. Mescall, Charles Stumar, George Robinson, Elwood Bredell
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, Lew Landers, Lambert Hillyer, Arthur Lubin
Like the cat who swallowed the canary, Boris Karloff made for a serenely sinister antagonist. Even when portraying bloodthirsty devils like the vampire Gorca in The Three Faces of Fear or a debauched satanist looking for trouble in The Black Cat, “Dear Boris” was the very model of a well-mannered monster.
Bela Lugosi, Karloff’s unofficial rival on the Universal lot, showed similar restraint in his star-making turn as Dracula – but the same halting, imperious manner that gave otherworldly dignity to the Count would typecast Lugosi as a kind of oddball antihero – the cultivated eccentric driven to madness or worse. He approached each of those roles with a manic intensity that might net...
Blu ray
Shout! Factory
1934, ’35, ’36, ’40 / 1.33 : 1 / 66 / 61 / 79 / 70 min.
Starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
Cinematography by John J. Mescall, Charles Stumar, George Robinson, Elwood Bredell
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, Lew Landers, Lambert Hillyer, Arthur Lubin
Like the cat who swallowed the canary, Boris Karloff made for a serenely sinister antagonist. Even when portraying bloodthirsty devils like the vampire Gorca in The Three Faces of Fear or a debauched satanist looking for trouble in The Black Cat, “Dear Boris” was the very model of a well-mannered monster.
Bela Lugosi, Karloff’s unofficial rival on the Universal lot, showed similar restraint in his star-making turn as Dracula – but the same halting, imperious manner that gave otherworldly dignity to the Count would typecast Lugosi as a kind of oddball antihero – the cultivated eccentric driven to madness or worse. He approached each of those roles with a manic intensity that might net...
- 6/22/2019
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