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Although the horror films Universal Pictures of the 1930s and the 1940s were popularized A series of current monsters1931 Frankenstein He also followed his Gothic new material to explain that sometimes a real offense is not committed by a terrible creature of the night. Sometimes this is the work of a doctor who has gone crazy from the Got-scientific power. Two horror films that are not universal horrors create a particularly interesting double function for fans of monsters and/or crazy science: Doctor x Since 1932 and Crazy love Since 1935.
Doctor x -To gets a drop in the choir Screening rock horror shipsIntroductory number – He collected several large Hollywood names before they did their most famous work. Lionel Atwill became regular in the films “Frankenstein” Universal. Fei Ray appears here two years before she became one of the most screaming queens King CongThe field and their director Michael Curtis, who continued Adventures Robin HoodIN Mildred PierceAnd no less than CasablancaAmong other films.
Doctor x Not as cool as Curtis's canonized classics, but transgression is magnificent: this film was shot in front of MPAA and in front of production codes that were prohibited by such subjects as cannibalism, sexual voyeurism, the disposal of the flesh, and brain utilization. It was also produced in the Technicolor process with two stripes, an early form of color cinematography, which gives the film the otherworldly greenish and pinkish shades that offer such a world as ours, but increased and turned off.
And I saw today, after decades of Universal wolves, invisible men and so on, Doctor xThe plot of the killer murder plays even more as a smart monster monti-fiction. A series of terrible cannibalistic murders taking place under the full moon sounds like the work of a terrible monster. But suspects, led by Dr. Xavier (Atwill), nevertheless, are collected for investigation, including perverted reconstruction of the scenes of murders.
Crazy love Less a mystery: any film with Peter Lorre in the main role allows you to easily guess who the guilty party can be. When the protagonist Stephen Orlac (Colin Clive) loses his hands in an accident, he turns to Dr. Gogol (Lorre), who, unfortunately, becomes obsessed with his wife Stefan Ivonn (Francis Drake). Gogol performs a handle of hands to the poor Stefan, giving him the mittens of a maniac throwing a knife in the hope of strengthening Ivonnu.
Crazy love not as manic as he snapped Evil dead 2But he has part of this devilish oddity that can benefit from a huge number of scenes to Lorre. Both of these films are stranger and creepy than the majority Frankenstein Continuation, and they succeed in the same area as the best universal notes of monsters: blurring the line between the monster and a person, in these cases with a medical degree added to the mixture.
Where to look: Both films are available for rent or purchase through Amazon or AppleField Crazy love Available for a free stream in FAWESOME, but Bewaaaaaarrrrre, suppressed, incorrect ratio of parties!
