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Ian McDowell
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Words. Pictures. Novels: Mordred's Curse & Merlin's Gift. Short stories in Asimov's, anthologies ("Geraldine" in Love in Vein). Journalism for YES! Weekly, Yo Greensboro
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Vicious MAGA trash befouling #TCMparty on X.
If you need an alternate choice, this 1964 British cheapie is terrifying.

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@SuperAmanda.bsky.social & I saved #CurseOfTheDemon to watch instead of Mario’s inexplicable choice.

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I’m surprised the Whale got away with it. Perhaps the Hayes Office did not understand what seed meant in this context.
This is partially from Boris now being rich & well fed. He was smart about contract negotiating (he helped Lugosi get several raises). In 1931, he was a literally starving actor, and took out a dental plate to make his cheeks look more hollow.

#TCMparty #BrideOfFrankenstein
“Grew them, as nature does, from seed.”

16th-century scientist/alchemist Paracelsus claimed to have created homunculi from human sperm fed with human blood in a horse's womb.

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The “flashback” of Karloff’s hands strangling somebody was shot for #BrideOfFrankenstein. His sleeves & arms are burned. 15 minutes were cut from the film, including 8 murders. #TCMparty
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#TheMummy not only portrays gods of ancient Egypt as real, but implicitly shoes that science and Christianity are useless against them. Only by calling on the religion of her former self can Helen destroy Imhotep.

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#TheMummy is an unofficial remake of #Dracula, adding reincarnated lover subplot that Matheson & Coppola would later give to Drac. But I prefer it due to its stylishness & agency of its heroine. Zita Johann destroys Imhotep w. aid of Isis, while Van Helsing analog is helpless.
#TheMummy is an unofficial remake of #Dracula, adding reincarnated lover subplot that Matheson & Coppola would later give to Drac. But I prefer it due to its stylishness & agency of its heroine. Zita Johann destroys Imhotep w. aid of Isis, while Van Helsing analog is helpless.
Jack Pierce‘s briefly seen full mummy makeup on Boris is so terrific that it’s easy to overlook just how effectively Pierce also turned him into the undead sorcerer Ardath Bey.

#TheaMummy #TCMparty
I wish this wasn’t out of print & so expensive. Earnshaw persuasively debunks the claim that the Demon was added by the producer. Like many genre directors, Tourneur fibbed when interviewed by his fans at Cahiers du Cinema.

#TCMparty. #CurseOfTheDemon
The demon is not tacky, at least the animatronic head and claw aren’t, then one of the greatest special effects of the 1950s and I’ve always been terrified by shots. And the final shooting script by the blacklisted Cy Enfield made it clear that the demon would be on screen.
Clytie Jessop was also the ghostly Miss Jessel in THE INNOCENTS.

#TCMparty #Nightmare
(Reposting because I forgot #TCMparty hashtag)

Friday night 8 pm. A great film, but for Halloween? And is it a selection that will benefit from Mario Cantone’s schtick?

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#GreensboroNC city council at-large candidate Irving Allen w. NCA&T students. In 2019, Irving was removed from city committee for speaking truth about police homicide of #MarcusSmith. My book 𝗜 𝗔𝗶𝗻’𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 describes what happened.
In theory, I support nontraditional choices in prime time, but this is not what I want for Halloween.
As attorney Helen Parsonage observed, “nobody channels Gestapo chic by accident.”

Chicago Sun-Times coverage:

chicago.suntimes.com/live/10/28/2...
Friday night 8. A great film, but for Halloween? And is it a selection that will benefit from Mario Cantone’s schtick?

@SuperAmanda.bsky.social @SlipKid24.bsky.social
Gertrude Jekyll was a famous horticulturalist, painter and writer. Her brother Walter was a clergyman who renounced Christianity and moved to Jamaica w. his lifelong male companion.

#TCMparty #DrJekyllandMrHyde