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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu 1922

    ★★★★ Rewatched 31 Dec 2024

    Beware that his shadow doth not burden your dreams with horrible fears.

    Amazing how th8s movie creates it's own eerie and uneasy atmosphere with mainly music and the acting. Truly a masterclass for the later vampire films that came afterwards.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu 1922

    ★★★★ Watched 06 Dec 2023

    The impact this movie had and still has is one that will be remembered for ages. Sure, it's not 100% faithful to the book, but its eerie atmosphere makes me just forget about sticking to the source material just as long as you create your own creepy story

  • Dracula

    Dracula 1931

    ★★★½ Rewatched 02 Jan 2025

    Kind of interesting how count Orlok from Nosferatu is the most important vampire of cinema. However, Bela Lugosi has a well deserved second place if you ask me.

  • Dracula

    Dracula 1931

    ★★★½ Watched 12 Oct 2022

    Spooctober 2022 12/31

    Universal classic movie monsters struggle a lot towards the end. I feel like they are in a rush and want to end everything as quickly as possible. I guess it has to do with that back then budgets were not as huge as nowadays, which resulted in being very picky as to what to cut from the film and what to leave there. Still, this was quite interesting, but at a times slow, and uncertain as to where it was heading next.

  • Frankenstein

    Frankenstein 1931

    ★★★★ Rewatched 03 Oct 2022

    Spooctober 2022 - 3/31

    While I was still in university I had a class centred on Romantic and Victorian literature and at some point we were asked to read Frankenstein. I admit that I enjoyed it a lot for the class, but once I could read it again for my spare time I totally understood what made it one of the most important novels of the 19th century.
    The dilemma of who was the villain, the seek of the monster…

  • Freaks

    Freaks 1932

    ★★★★ Watched 22 Oct 2022

    Spooctober 2022 - 22/31

    If there's trouble, all us freaks have is each other.

    Abe Sapien (Hellboy, 2004)

    The ending of Freaks is something I'll never forget.

  • The Old Dark House

    The Old Dark House 1932

    ★★★ Watched 18 Oct 2022

    Spooctober 2022 - 18/31

    James Whale been killing it for a long time. For some reason I couldn't recognize Karloff, that's some nice makeup work there.

  • The Mummy

    The Mummy 1932

    ★★★½ Watched 05 Oct 2022

    Spooctober 2022 -5/31

    I started this year's Spooctober with mainly the Universal classic monsters as you probably noticed. And the reason I'm pointing that out is because of all the movies I've seen so far, The Mummy quite struggled to keep my attention. And that is mainly because of the pacing. There is way too much exposition of information, but nothing really relevant happened. It is still a good one, but it just wasn't for me, I guess.

    P.S. Karloff was the Johnny Depp of the 1900s.

  • King Kong

    King Kong 1933

    ★★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2021

    *2005 King Kong flashbacks intensify*

  • The Invisible Man

    The Invisible Man 1933

    ★★★★ Watched 17 Oct 2022

    Spooctober 2022 - 17/31

    I read the novel last year I think, but unfortunately I cannot remember a lot of things to make comparisons.
    To think this was made in 1933 and it looks amazing nowadays is something breathtaking for sure. It heads too fast towards the end, but honestly this has such a nice pacing that I don't mind that detail that much.

  • The Black Cat

    The Black Cat 1934

    ★★★ Watched 20 Oct 2022

    Spooctober 2022 - 20/31

    What Victor Frankenstein couldn't do, Dracula did. Man... Karloff was everywhere

  • Bride of Frankenstein

    Bride of Frankenstein 1935

    ★★★★ Watched 04 Oct 2022

    Spooctober 2022- 4/31

    I feel quite mocked because the title character, the bride, appears the last 15 minutes or so, and those are the last 15 minutes of the movie. Nonetheless, the path leading to the end is just as enjoyable because we get to see the monster finally metting compassion and acceptance after meeting with rejection just the previous movie.
    The man accepting the monster is mainly because he is blind, there is no denying that, but still, he…

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