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The Man with a Cloak: Directed by Fletcher Markle. With Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern, Leslie Caron. In 1848 NYC, a Frenchwoman visits exiled former French Marshal Thevenet to ask for his financial help in behalf of his French grandson but Thevenet's house staff schemes to kill him and take his fortune.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Fletcher Markle
- 1952-05-14
The best asset of The Man with a Cloak is its cast, and its biggest shortcoming is how that cast is used. As the fortune-hunting housekeeper, suspiciously named Lorna Bounty, the marvelous Barbara Stanwyck does her best to blend wily charm with thinly veiled menace in the manner of, say, her Double Indemnity (1944) performance a few years earlier.
- Fletcher Markle, Jerry Thorpe
- Joseph Cotten
- Subspecies
- Fright Night
- Underworld
- Horror of Dracula
- Dracula
- The Company of Wolves
- Black Sabbath
- Salem’s Lot
- Lost Boys
- Curse of The Werewolf
This is the first film on the list to draw inspiration from the vampire in the 1922 "Nosferatu," with long fingers, monstrous facial features and the ability to move in shadows. “Subspecies” is a film by Full Moon, a studio that produced many low-budget exploitation monster movies (known for featuring stop-motion animation) which went straight to v...
Charley’s new neighbor is a vampire. Desperate for help, he visits fictional vampire movie icon Peter Vincent (a parody of actors Peter Cushing and Vincent Price) to try to get him to help him dispatch his neighbor. Vincent isn’t convinced, but later in the film, he sees that Charley’s neighbor gives no reflection in a mirror. Horrified, Vincent fl...
“Underworld” mixes the martial arts-heavy vamp action of “Blade” with massive werewolves and tells a story of a centuries-old war between the tribes. A lot of silver bullets fly and we get an answer to the question of what happens when you're bitten by both a werewolf and a vampire. The 2006 sequel delivers more comic book action and the pinnacle o...
It was Christopher Lee’s first outing as Dracula and the first time the novel was adapted in color. This version diverges from the plot of the novel with Jonathan Harker coming to Castle Dracula under the guise of serving as a librarian but with the secret agenda to kill Dracula while he sleeps in his crypt. Harker fails and is turned into a vampir...
The most iconic portrayal of Count Dracula will always be Bela Lugosi’s version of the bat-man. His tightly swept back, jet black hair and long, gothic cape have been emulated in numerous versions of the character over the years, from the costume and hair design of Christopher Lee in the role in Hammer’s movies to blaxploitation spoof “Blacula.” Lu...
This anthology film is a collection of fairy tales about werewolves told within a dream (so it’s a story within a story within a story). The dream is set in an 18th-century European forest and centers around a teen girl who is dressed in a red cloak with a hood sewn by her grandmother. The story is an adaptation of “Red Riding Hood,” expanded with ...
Boris Karloff joins his peer Lugosi on the list with the anthology film “Black Sabbath” whose final story tells of a traveler who lodges in the home of strangers for the night when a vampire comes home. The patriarch of the house, played by Karloff, is suspected to be dead, but returns late, disheveled and with a distant, angry stare. He has been t...
Based on the Stephen King novel of the same title, the television adaptation of “Salem’s Lot” followed the theme of foreign invasion from “Dracula” with a foreign vampire moving into a small, American town. The mundanely named, Mr. Barlow, is the runaway champion for the scariest looking vampire in all of film, with a bald head, yellow eyes, blue s...
The movie is about a single mom and her two sons who move back to her coastal California hometown which is infested with vampires. This is Corey Haim’s first film on the list, and it was his first teaming with the actor he would become inseparable from in his acting career, Corey Feldman. The youngest son, played by Haim, befriends two teens, one o...
The lone Hammer werewolf film and the oldest wolf on the list, “Curse of the Werewolf” is loosely based on Guy Endore’s 1933 novel “The Werewolf of Paris.” The werewolf doesn’t transform until an hour into the film and we don’t see the makeup until the final act, but it’s worth the wait. Oliver Reed’s intense eyes and the unique makeup make this a ...
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Mar 21, 2023 · Very well scripted. Sharp, tightly written dialog. One example: Madeline Minot (Caron) asks her dying host's (Louis Calhern) butler, "What is causing his death?"
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