The Old Dark House (1932)

Taste of Cinema's Essential Pre-Code Hollywood (30 movies items)

"The mother of all haunted-house films, James Whale’s overlooked production, offers the perfect mix of horror and dark comedy. The simple premise introduces five characters who are forced to seek shelter from a storm at a sinister house, inhabited by the eccentric Femms. Among the hosts they encounter a religious extremist (Eva Moore), an effeminate neurotic (Ernest Thesiger) and a mute butler ( Boris Karloff), not to mention some other locked-up family members, who evidently escape to frighte"

Watched in 2021 (631 movies items)

"19.4. Criterion Channel "

Elokuvat 2021 (271 movies items)

"3.4 Yhdysvallat/Whale Joku jossain kirjoitti tästä kutakuinkin että ''...parodioi kauhugenren kliseitä niitä luodessaan.'' Ei lisättävää. P.S Tässä on kaksi Karloffia"

Universal Horror / Sci-Fi Movies (1931-1960) (75 movies items)

"Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Trying to make the best of it, the guests must deal with their sepulchral host, Horace Femm and his obsessive, malevolent sister Rebecca. Things get worse as the brutish manservant Morgan gets drunk, runs amuck and releases the long pent-up brother Saul, a psychotic pyromaniac who gleefully tries to destroy the resi"

Filmes 2020. (234 movies items)

"Boris Karloff kaatuilee ja törmäilee aivan kuin Boris Karloff vain osaa. Lyhyydessään ihan kivuton katselu. "

A New Decade! A New Year! Movies Watched In 2020 (641 movies items)

"Seeking shelter from a relentless rainstorm and landslides in a remote region of Wales, five travelers are admitted to a large foreboding old house that belongs to the extremely strange Femm family. The house also holds surprises – and a brutish mute manservant named Morgan. This is the least well known of director James Whale's four horror movies, but don't let that fool you, as this one is just as good as anything else Whale ever made. Despite being nearly 80 years old, The Old Dark House "

Watched in 2018 (262 movies items)

"16.11. Ärsyttävän nokkelalla sanailulla ja hollywoodmaisella elokuvaromantiikalla höystetty kummitustaloelokuva käyttää liikaa aikaa yleiseen pööpöilyyn ja liian vähän aikaa hyvään sekoiluun, joka alkaa vasta siinä vaiheessa, kun leffaa on jäljellä 25 minuuttia. Alkupuolisko on puuduttavaa seurattavaa, loppu oikein mainiota kohkausta. Lopputulos on näiden kahden summa ja erotus."

Slant’s 100 Greatest Horror Films – 2018 Edition (100 movies items)

"Director James Whale is unparalleled for his masterful blending of camp and horror elements, and The Old Dark House could be his most skillfully sustained balancing act. What begins as an account of strangers seeking shelter from a storm at the Femm estate, trading acerbic barbs with the eccentric owners with a deftness that rivals the Marx Brothers, gradually turns into an atmospheric study in repression. Throughout, Whale pays special attention to the behavior of the film’s characters, as th"

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"Old Dark House, The (James Whale, 1932) "

Spook-fest 2016 (35 movies items)

"More of an understated entry in the Universal Horror line-up, again by James Whale, in which the title tells you all you need to know. If you love classic horror films, make sure to see this one. Karloff again impresses as a deaf-mute muscle-man who stalks about the shadows of The Old Dark House. Also noteworthy is Ernest Thesiger, who played Dr. Pretorious in Bride of Frankenstein."