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The Old Dark House The [original J.B.] Priestley novel must have been a bit more plausible than as evidenced in the cinematic transition. But regardless, it has all the elements for horror and ...
The Old Dark House presents a horror story of its own where an old mansion keeps in repressed members. James Whale brought his queer vision to audiences of the 1930s to present what the queer ...
LOVERS of vintage cinema should seek out 1932 chiller The Old Dark House, now lovingly restored and returned to our cinemas.
The Old Dark HouseTime Out says Alongside The Bride of Frankenstein, Whale's greatest film, a masterly mixture of macabre humour and effectively gripping suspense. A very simple story - a group of ...
Victor Salva's horror film involves a young man with clairvoyant powers who inherits a mysterious country house.
The house at the center of the horror film "Dark House" is not just poorly illuminated — aren't they always? — but also ill conceived. According to the wildly improbable screenplay, the ...
Hitchcock’s Number 17 is a much livelier and more artful film in a similar style, but the Whale stays pleasantly in the mind—it could be the most personal film of this eternally unlucky filmmaker.
I just watched James Whale’s The Old Dark House and the queer subtext in the 1930s horror film blew my mind.