02 May '15 22:34>
I wish I owned cat. Do you wish you owned a cat?
Originally posted by Great King RatWell it did in Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman actually, but only in that film.
Exactly. It actually never did that IRL.
Originally posted by dominuslatrunculorumIn line with the way of the C21st world, and having cherished cats back in the 1970s to the point of making them feel complacent and loved like family members, I now have a more austere and results-driven regime involving something akin to zero-hour contracts with several cats by which they undertake to catch rats for me and eat them during the night hours. What do they get from the deal? Well, technically speaking the rats they eat ~ i.e. their sustenance ~ belong to me: not only do I provide them with work but I also provide them with food and shelter. One could say I'm offering them no chance of career development of course, but then again it's not my fault that they're cats.
I wish I owned cat. Do you wish you owned a cat?
Originally posted by divegeesterSee this is why I come back to this website every now and then.
Well it did in Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman actually, but only in that film.
After Karloff dropped the role in 1938 on completion of The Son of Frankenstein, Lon Chaney jnr stepped in for Ghost of Frankenstein. In the plot the monster gets a brain transplant with one of the other dudes in the movie but there is problem with tissue typing or somethin ...[text shortened]... ted the Lugosi pose but for no apparent plot reason. The look stayed.
And there you have it.
Originally posted by Great King RatI have copies of Frankenstein 1931 and Son of Frankenstein 1938. The Bride of Frankenstein 1933 was cinematically perfect imo, but I don't like what James Whale (director) did with the monster character and the pathos was just too thick for my horror taste. However the photography, and screen direction is beautiful and there is lots to add to essays on the orginal book with the overt crucifixion symbolism in the scene where the monster is bound to huge stake and the Elsa Lanchester is superb in the final scenes with the Lightning hair and the hissing hate. I preferred The Son of Frankenstein 1938; Rathbone is superb as usual as the 2nd Son of Henrick Von Frankenstein, but for Karloff is tremulous and should have got an Oscar nomination for this or the original in 1931. The return to the mute, maelevelent, huge murdering creature is welcome after the slushy Bride and a bonus is Lugosi's sneering Igor.
Now I have a hankering for Hammer films.