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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 (1932) - Made by the same people who filmed Frankenstein (1931) and nearly lost forever, this is THE Boris Karloff movie that inspired many different horror tropes. Stormy nights, old dark houses, power outages...
Oct 20, 2009 · The Old Dark House is a house-as-head movie that examines repression, fear, and the role of the new, constructed with the adeptness one would expect from the great James Whale. Three travelers - a married couple, Philip and Margaret Waverton, and their friend Roger Penderel -- have been caught in a torrential storm and, seeking shelter, find ...
The Old Dark House was previewed in early July 1932. In the United States, Variety and The Hollywood Filmograph gave the film negative reviews, with Variety calling it a "somewhat inane picture". All nine of the New York City dailies gave the film positive reviews.
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Oct 22, 2020 · The Old Dark House is filled with eccentricities and class consciousness that could be seen as a character piece, a satire of ‘dark house’ pictures, and a horror thriller all wrapped into one. Traveling through the damp British highlands, a trio finds themselves stranded at a spooky old mansion after a landslide.
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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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 Wodehouse...
