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A deft blend of well-chosen ingredients, The Old Dark House is a delightfully scary horror comedy that benefits from James Whale's suspenseful direction. Driving through a brutal thunderstorm...
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Jul 23, 2020 · The Old Dark House is a Gothic horror treat full of lasting imagery, camp and black comic humour and a pervasive sense of menace. Where the more colourful characters easily outshine the conventional Hollywood heroes and heroines, nothing overshadows the way this deliciously dark tale is told.
The Old Dark House review: James Whale’s 1932 comedy-horror classic is wonderfully subversive. Combines some genuinely grisly elements with scenes that could have slipped out of a PG...
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Five motorists are trapped in the wilds of Wales during a horrific storm and are forced to seek shelter at, of course, an old dark house... but their unwilling hosts are a neurotic Ernest Thesiger, his religious fanatic sister Eva Moore, and their hulking, deformed, and mute butler Boris Karloff.
May 22, 2018 · May 22, 2018. Take a group of weary travellers, a spooky mansion, a madman on the loose, a cast made up of some cinema greats, and one of the era’s most notable directors – and what you get is pure gold.
The Old Dark House is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy horror film directed by James Whale. Based on the 1927 novel Benighted by J.B. Priestley, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Raymond Massey and Eva Moore.
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