tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post2630352961426278834..comments2024-03-25T21:59:05.113-07:00Comments on 13: THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN / Hammer Film Productions - 1957Eegah!! and Tabonga!http://www.blogger.com/profile/05260131201716267229noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-50701227558659685802013-10-25T20:24:26.177-07:002013-10-25T20:24:26.177-07:00This was the first horror movie Da-da saw as a kid...This was the first horror movie Da-da saw as a kid where he really felt sorry for the monster; Christopher Lee does an *awesome* acting job with no lines, a testament to his talent. A Man Called Da-dahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16718013250836535692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-83119138178578480622013-10-24T07:52:27.752-07:002013-10-24T07:52:27.752-07:00I have to agree with Zillagord, because for a movi...I have to agree with Zillagord, because for a movie so many of us are very attached to, it does have a lot of "plot holes" (we just don't seem to care).<br />One of my problems isn't actually a plot hole, but I've never liked the cold way the priest talks to Victor. Maybe he isn't actually a prison chaplain and isn't used to sitting in cells with convicts, but I always wish he HAD been like one of those "warm" prison chaplains you see in a lot of other movies.Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603892208775996594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-33608471086799073432013-10-21T19:42:33.272-07:002013-10-21T19:42:33.272-07:00What always gets me about Frankenstein pushing the...What always gets me about Frankenstein pushing the professor off a balcony is that he does it to steal his brilliant brain for the monster. You'd think, if the brain was what he wanted, that he'd have tried a method of murder not involving massive brain damage. Suffocation? Strangulation? Stabbing through the heart? But no, he bashed in his brain. Later, when the monster turns out to be brain damaged, he blames his assistant for smashing the glass jar it was in and getting glass slivers into the brain. "That's <i>your</i> handiwork, Paul." I'm sure the glass slivers didn't do the brain any good, but that brain was useless as soon as it crashed head-first into a marble floor and got smushed.<br /><br />And then there's this: He's telling the story to try to prove he's innocent and shouldn't have his head chopped off. (Another better way to kill someone whose brain you want to steal.) But his story includes him confessing to murdering the professor. As exculpatory evidence, it's a woeful farce. <br /><br />"I didn't kill the maid I knocked up. I killed the professor. Get a clue, Father. I merely locked Justine in a room with a homicidal monster so it would kill her for me and get the bitch off my case. (Probably after it raped her.) Is killing an inconveniently pregnant girl friend a crime now too? Oh. It is? Oops. Okay, Chop off my head."Douglas McEwannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-39490757548170934492013-10-21T17:44:05.814-07:002013-10-21T17:44:05.814-07:00more cushing for the pushing!more cushing for the pushing!zillagordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16346511540964140675noreply@blogger.com