Wednesday, May 8, 2013
the site of the Oklahoma Route 66 Museum
Country chic., the site of the Oklahoma Route 66 Museum. And for those keeping track, a lot of Die, Monster, Die’s climax can be traced back to Karloff’s 1936 film, The Invisible Ray.’Two days later I return to catch up with Catherine Martin. Once more his theories are ridiculed by the short-sighted medical community, forcing him to carry out his experiments in secret on a small island in upstate New York. “We did a lot of shopping on Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich, CT. One to stay dry, two to [get wet],” she says. By the late ‘60s Karloff’s brand of character-driven horror was an anachronism as horror films came to be dominated more by special effectts and gore. I don’t hold books as precious as a lot of other people do,’ Edgerton says. Then the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy gave the studio cold feet. But they’re all mere princes, all pretenders to the throne when compared with Boris Karloff. In fact, Stoker may have met Jack the Ripper.This clip, from a 1985 episode of The Facts of Life, just suddenly popped into my head last night, and sure enough, there it was on YouTube. Just as he makes films that seem to draw their megawatt dazzle straight off the mains, so does Luhrmann himself seem powered by an extraordinary voltage. And Mrs.
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