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     John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.130 |
Spent part of this bloody awful rainy weekend finishing watching my three pack of John Brahm movies. The only stuff of his I've seen otherwise is his TZ episodes, but the three movies here show him to be a confident visual stylist. THE UNDYING MONSTER is a crap werewolf story, but a very atmospheric movie - with a terrifically atmospheric old dark house perched on a cliff top and some of the best gothic interiors I've seen in films of this period. Plot & acting are very ordinary indeed and the werewolf at the end has been stapled on but it's worth a watch. However it doesn't compare to THE LODGER 1944 Jack the Ripper picture starring the quite amazing Laird Cregar in the title role, who effortlessly eclipses co-stars George Sanders & Merle Oberon. It was a big success for Fox and led to what I think is the best of the bunch: HANGOVER SQUARE Marvellous. Just marvellous. Laird Cregar is a composer who becomes a murderous psychopath when he hears discordant sounds. Another great central performance, brilliant music by Bernard Herrmann, and a couple of John Brahm orchestrated set-pieces (the bonfire, the terrifically shot finale) completely blew me away. Hard to believe it was made so long ago. Anyone else seen these? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.91.38 |
Oh yes! I was lent a VHS tape of HANGOVER SQUARE many years ago and it was wonderful; I must buy the DVD though. Is it the Fox Horror set? Saw THE LODGER years back too, on't 'big' screen at the NFT. I recall it wasn't a very good copy but a good film. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Yep. Great films, those last two. I must also buy this set. |