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The 1930’s gave us A LOT of vintage horror gems, and here are my 20 favorites! Let me know yours in the comments…
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They used the original lab equipment of Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein with Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle. That is a great movie and you can really appreciate the use of the original lab equipment to tell the story
So glad to see Mad Love on your list! It's one of my favorites, and I agree that it's generally not as known and appreciated as it deserves to be.
Wait… No Wolfman?!
It just doesn't get any better than Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
I too was obsessed with Dracula as a kid, in the 1990s. I must have dressed up as Dracula for Halloween 3 times. I love Bela Lugosi.
It’s a pity that the Edison verision of Frankenstein that predates the universal One is a lost film. I don’t know how the angry video game nerd ever got hold of out was able to see any of it at all?
Dwight frye is great as renfield. Daniel in old dark house the character Saul is a pure psychopath portrayal. I'm glad you mentioned the raven because Lugosi finally dominates karloff on screen. He deserved better roles late in his career.
Thank you. Was looking for 1930s horror after watching The Mummy w Boria Karloff. What a great movie
Bella Lugosi as Dracula best ever.
I would have included "M" from 1930.
This is the best channel I've found on YouTube. If only this guy had his own theater. I love and miss all of these recommendations.
The Mummy
I remember watching these on Creature Feature and Graveyard Shift ❤
Daniel-love your t-shirt ❤
spoiler alert!
Thumbs up for Peter Lorre
Great List! Thanks much! I thought for sure I had "Devil Doll" but checking my Library db, it's not there. Then realized I was confusing it with Dr Cyclops (1940). I'll be picking up Devil Doll post haste, as I love Barrymore!
As a side note, I truly appreciate your honest adoration of the true "Golden Age" of Horror films. They indisputably set the standard by which all that followed tried to emulate and achieve. Like other folks long in the tooth, they were my intro to the world of Horror films, though I should mention, I refer to all of this type that deal with the supernatural as "Dark Fantasy" and consider "Horror" the films that have Man (and Man Monsters) prey on others, i.e. the "Slasher" type films. Eagerly about to jump into your 1940s tribute! Thanks again!!! 🙂
Hi ya Daniel I may be wrong but I believe you said Mrs. Thorn "lost" her baby, (like, miscarriage, or delivery complications etc.) In the movie The Omen, Katherine Thorn's baby is MURDERED. She doesn't just "lose" the baby. It's purposely removed to make way for the antichrist to replace it. Now the malevolent infant/child will be reared by a high ranking political figure. When Robert Thorn and Keith Jennings dig up the remains in that Rottweiler fun filled cemetery, they find the skull on his infant son with a huge hole in it.
Love all these movies! Thanks for sharing!
My two favorite 1930s horror movies (it's a tie) are The Mummy (1932) and Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933).
In Mystery of the Wax Museum, the cast is outstanding, the atmosphere is so spooky and the eerie two-color Technicolor blues and pinks and greens are amazing!
I love all of Boris Karloff's movies and his TV show, Thriller. I love The Mummy because it's so spooky and the atmosphere is eerie.
The ancient Egyptian history is fascinating, and the 1920s & 1930s search for Egyptian tombs is neat too!
This movie pulls me into that mysterious world. The scene where Karloff and Zita Johann are looking into the little pool of water and it shows her their past in Egypt is so spooky and even romantic. 🎃👻😀
I have been just going on an absolute tare through 30's and 40's cinema. Love it. I want to get the kids to watch the old universal horror classics this year. In this era of stale cinema people should take the time to got back to good stories and character development. Great video man.
Mark of the Vampire is a remake of London after Midnight
I would love to enjoy some of these older films, but when they have exotic animals (or even when they kill of domestic cats and horses onscreen) I find it so immensely off-putting because I know how badly they were treated and died, even if that was 100 years ago… I rly appreciate someone highlighting older works though from a historical and cultural perspective.
I would definitely include 'the Hunchback of Notre Dame' from 1939 to this list. Charles Laughton was one of the greatest actors of his lifetime.
The Invisible Man gets in your face in the new Epic Universe in Disney World. It's a real guy in an outfit who runs up to the guests outside at Dark Universe area of the park.
Deep love for this Dracula. The creepy “silences,” the drawn-out tension. I love to visit this world.
And I’m so glad you placed the Frederick March Jekyll and Hyde so high. I’d seen him in so many other films, and thought I’d seen all of his facets. He was a favourite of mine before seeing this movie, but I was shocked (yup, and delighted) by this performance. He is the definition of underrated.
I swear, all the pre-code horror movies were so far ahead of their time and down right horrifying even today. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1931 is wildly explicit for the time in a lot of what Hyde does, and it makes my skin crawl. It's not enough to trigger my PTSD, but it's close. I love it and own it, but I sure can't watch it if my headspace isn't the best.
There's also a later Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that has horror elements in it titled "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot". Please, Daniel, check it out.
Such a Great Era. I'm 64 and when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s these classics would come on tv very often especially on a Saturday morning/ afternoon show called Chiller Theater.. Pre Code by the way is great for all genres.
Before I even view the video, if Dracula's Daughter isn't at the top its a bogus list.
EDIT #17?!? You have lost your mind. Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Dracula are certainly more classic, but they are not as good as Daughter. And bride of Frankenstein is much better than the original. My top list would be
#1 Dracula's Daughter
#2 Bride of Frankenstein
#3 Hound of the Baskervilles
#4 The Mummy
#5 The Invisible Man
#6 Frankenstein
#7 Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
#8 The Black Cat
#9 Mark of the Vampire
#10 Svengali
#11 White Zombie
#12 The Old Dark House
#13 Mad Love
#14 Dracula. I have never been a huge fan of this film. I appreciate its position, and Lugosi's, in film history, but I know my list would be dismissed out of hand if I did not include it. If I was completely honest, it may not even crack my top 20. IMO, it is only special because it was essentially first (I know not really) and Lugosi established himself as the original Dracula. I know this is cliche, but the book is better by leaps and bounds.
Everything after that is pretty much all the same to me
Trying desperately to find this film: man enters a town, meets a woman with a black ribbon choker. They participate in a dance marathon. He accidentally kills a man with his car and flees the scene. Trying later to find out if the man he hit was okay, he is given an address where he can be found. It turns out to be a funeral home. He goes in to pay his respects and finds himself alone with the corpse, as the corpse sits up in the coffin…….that's when I had to turn the TV off because my baby woke up crying. This was in the 1970's and I saw it in the middle of the night. I've looked for this movie (without success) for over 40 years. I am amazed at all the old movies you've watched and I've gotten many solid recommendations. Have you ever seen this movie? Please reply. It will finally put an end to a 40+ year mystery.
Mill Creek Ent has 100 horror movie set which I have / The craziest movie horror movies from Britain were those Todd Slaughter horror movies of the 1930s of him playing a serial killer or deranged psycho path / The sound of horror I think from the late 1950s or Early 60's about a monster that's invisible that kills these [ 1968 night of the living dead type survivors in a remote farmland rural area type. Lastly The Phantom Of Soho in the early-mid-1960s of a Killer killing people in the Streets of London.