In honour of the Boris Karloff blogathon which will celebrate across the blogosphere what would have been Karloff the Uncanny's 122nd birthday. |
Boris Karloff was the most versatile of the great stars of classic horror, always working and never disappointing even when the films he appeared in sometimes did. Fournier's project to recognise his life and work with a loud and widely heard voice is a fascinating one and as I have a stack of Karloff as yet unwatched I'll chime in with a few new Karloff reviews during the 23rd to 29th November period.
To whet your appetite here are links to what's already here at Apocalypse Later marked with a big ? for Uncanny, with some older reviews from my far less substantial blog at Hal and Dee at the Movies and links to the IMDb pages for each film.
Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic
Reviews at Apocalypse Later | |||||
Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
The Criminal Code | 1931 | 5 | 6 | Howard Hawks | IMDB |
Dirigible | 1931 | 6 | 6 | Frank Capra | IMDB |
Cracked Nuts | 1931 | 3 | Edward Cline | IMDB | |
The Guilty Generation | 1931 | 6 | Rowland V Lee | IMDB | |
Frankenstein | 1931 | 7 | 7 | James Whale | IMDB |
Behind the Mask | 1932 | 3 | 3 | John Francis Dillon | IMDB |
The Old Dark House | 1932 | 5 | 5 | James Whale | IMDB |
Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | 7 | 7 | James Whale | IMDB |
The Black Room | 1935 | 5 | 5 | R William Neill | IMDB |
Charlie Chan at the Opera | 1936 | 5 | 5 | H Bruce Humberstone | IMDB |
The Man They Could Not Hang | 1939 | 5 | 5 | Nick Grinde | IMDB |
The Man with Nine Lives | 1940 | 6 | 6 | Nick Grinde | IMDB |
The Ape | 1940 | 4 | 4 | Wiliam Nigh | IMDB |
The Devil Commands | 1941 | 4 | 4 | Edward Dmytryk | IMDB |
The Boogie Man Will Get You | 1942 | 5 | 6 | Lew Landers | IMDB |
Voodoo Island | 1957 | 2 | 2 | Reginald Le Borg | IMDB |
Bikini Beach | 1964 | 3 | William Asher | IMDB | |
Die, Monster, Die! | 1965 | 4 | 4 | Daniel Haller | IMDB |
Targets | 1968 | 5 | 5 | Peter Bogdanovich | IMDB |
Old Reviews at Hal and Dee at the Movies | |||||
Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
Two Arabian Nights | 1927 | 7 | 7 | Lewis Milestone | IMDB |
The Unholy Night | 1929 | 6 | 6 | Lionel Barrymore | IMDB |
The Public Defender | 1931 | 5 | 5 | J Walter Ruben | IMDB |
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation | 1932 | 6 | 5 | Howard Hawks | IMDB |
The Lost Patrol | 1934 | 5 | 5 | John Ford | IMDB |
The Invisible Ray | 1936 | 2 | 3 | Lambert Hillyer | IMDB |
Tower of London | 1939 | 5 | 6 | Rowland V Lee | IMDB |
Doomed to Die | 1940 | 5 | William Nigh | IMDB | |
You'll Find Out | 1940 | 4 | 5 | David Butler | IMDB |
Rated Not Reviewed | |||||
Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
The Sea Bat | 1930 | 3 | Lionel Barrymore & Wesley Ruggles | IMDB | |
Smart Money | 1931 | 6 | 6 | Alfred E Green | IMDB |
Five Star Final | 1931 | 5 | 5 | Mervyn LeRoy | IMDB |
The Mask of Fu Manchu | 1932 | 4 | 4 | Charles Brabin | IMDB |
The Mummy | 1932 | 7 | 7 | Karl Freund | IMDB |
The Ghoul | 1933 | 5 | T Hayes Hunter | IMDB | |
The Black Cat | 1934 | 5 | Edgar G Ulmer | IMDB | |
The Walking Dead | 1936 | 5 | 5 | Michael Curtiz | IMDB |
West of Shanghai | 1937 | 5 | John Farrow | IMDB | |
The Invisible Menace | 1938 | 4 | 4 | John Farrow | IMDB |
Mr Wong, Detective | 1938 | 6 | William Nigh | IMDB | |
Devil's Island | 1939 | 6 | 6 | William Clemens | IMDB |
Son of Frankenstein | 1939 | 5 | 5 | Rowland V Lee | IMDB |
The Fatal Hour | 1940 | 4 | William Nigh | IMDB | |
British Intelligence | 1940 | 6 | Terry Morse | IMDB | |
The Body Snatcher | 1945 | 6 | 6 | Robert Wise | IMDB |
Isle of the Dead | 1945 | 6 | 6 | Mark Robson | IMDB |
Bedlam | 1946 | 7 | 7 | Mark Robson | IMDB |
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome | 1947 | 4 | John Rawlins | IMDB | |
The Raven | 1963 | 6 | 7 | Roger Corman | IMDB |
The Terror | 1963 | 4 | Roger Corman | IMDB | |
The Comedy of Terrors | 1964 | 7 | 7 | Jacques Tourneur | IMDB |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | 1966 | 7 | Chuck Jones & Ben Washam | IMDB | |
The Venetian Affair | 1967 | 4 | Jerry Thorpe | IMDB | |
Snake People | 1971 | 3 | Juan Ibanez & Jack Hill | IMDB |
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