starting to reblog most of the likes I have had over the years on this site (many of which several years old). Sorry, if it fills up notifications. Hope to actually post my own soon
Trying to separate old and new with #reminisce tag
[Expect a lot of Phantom of the Opera and Universal Monster stuff...]
Old ish drawing of Erik that I love and never got around to uploading.
Daroga appreciation post
I really think people should know that the 1924 stage play of Dracula changed Dracula's character to be more suave and seductive partly due to emphasize the charisma of Bela Lugosi in what was his first English-speaking role, and this performance is most likely what all the inaccurate film adaptations are inspired by
TRIGGER WARNINGS: Physical abuse mention, blood mention, bleeding mention, vore mention, screaming mention, cannibalism mention, coercion mention, piercing/stabbing mention, possible rape implications, and heavily implied death mention
like why do all jekyll and hyde adaptations gotta be about Murder and Sex why can’t they be about utterson following hyde around very lawyerly, whispering puns. utterson getting caught in the middle of jekyll/lanyon drama, once-an-episode gag with teeny tiny hyde running someone over like a goddamn asshole. why do i gotta have gritty drama adaptations.
This.
Incidentally, why do Phantom of the Opera adaptations have to be about Oedipus-complex and devil-summoning and suggestive themes why can’t they be about Erik being a weird nerd trolling the managers in their office and the persian following him around like a police dog while christine just face-palms at the level of awkward at her first kidnapping that confused raoul is too busy to believe because he is running around looking for christine, why do i have to have gritty phantom adaptations?
October can’t come soon enough
IT IS AUGUST
This has been in my likes since last year. It is time.
This is the 21st night of September skeleton. He only appears once a year.
“If I am the Phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made me so. If I shall be saved, it will be because your love redeems me.” The Phantom of the Opera (1925) dir. Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney
I was not a fan of the ending of the Kyle Walker play adaptation of Phantom, but it had some great scenes.
In this clip, we see Christine and Erik interact in the lair, and we finally get to see her call him out on everything. Great stuff.
Dracula/Bela Lugosi collector envelope, 1931.
Only day you can rb this
i cannot get over the fact they used mcr in the renfield movie my life is ruined i
Randomly found this article about two of Bela Lugosi's dogs that went missing
Does anyone know if his dogs were eventually found? I hope so :(
The newspaper article also claims he owned Balto?! Never heard that bit of information before
Nothing has disappointed me more than when that first trailer for I Am Renfield dropped as one of tumblrs new ads and the opening scenes are this gorgeous, beautiful recreation of the old silver screen black and white style
And it filled me with this overwhelming feeling of hope and excitement for this new nick cage movie doing something unique and original in a day and age full of nothing but the same movies copied over and over again using the same formula and cloning things over and over until they are nothing but an incestuous blob of creative birth defects, thinking we're gonna get this new subversion of the classic Dracula formula and then they flash this title card
And the beautiful unique looking black and white film I had become so excited for disappeared for this movie instead
no the fuck it is not
I just watched 'The Son of Frankenstein' and holy shit Ygor (Bela Lugosi) and the Creature(Boris Karloff) were totally fucking ASDSGHSJSKSI
Can someone please watch it and tell me that I'm right? I need validation, no one is gonna believe me
Ha, there is something there! 😏 Reminded me of something I read or heard in a documentary somewhere that Lugosi’s line as Ygor: “He... does things for me...’ made everyone chuckle on set due to the double entendre. Had to look it up to remember. Took a good search, and there is a quotation from Boris Karloff:
“In the scene where Bela slowly tells Basil, ‘He does things for me,’ and there I am, all stretched out on this dais -- well, we all doubled up, including everyone else on the set, the entire cast, crew, and even Rowland...”
It’s on p. 352 in the Gregory Mank book, ‘Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration’ which is really cool for behind-the-scenes stuff on their movies together.
Well, it's February 12th once again. For me, this means an annual (sort of) watch of one of my favorite films: Universal's Dracula. I love this dated, creaky, creepy little movie, warts and all. One day I'll do a more in-depth post, but for now enjoy a bit of Lugosi's lovely performance.
(Fun fact: it premiered in NY on the 12th, but to the whole US on the 14th, a vampire for Valentines'!; Billed: "The strangest passion the world has ever known"; For shame, no real vampire romance here.)
Reblog time, yet again
Wish I would do this with more films
