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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 1d

Exactimundo, hot stuff.

Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 2d

Vicious MAGA trash befouling #TCMparty on X.

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 3d

If you need an alternate choice, this 1964 British cheapie is terrifying.

youtu.be/Pm5IJ7MG8NY?...

#TCMparty

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 3d

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

#TCMparty

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 3d

I’m surprised the Whale got away with it. Perhaps the Hayes Office did not understand what seed meant in this context.

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 3d

“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.

#BrideOfFrankenstein #TCMparty

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 3d

The real #VillaDiodatti is less spacious than Universal’s.

#TheBrideOfFrankenstein

#TCMparty

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 3d

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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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 3d

#TCMparty

#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.

@SuperAmanda.bsky.social

Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 3d

#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.

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 3d

#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.

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 4d

@SuperAmanda.bsky.social

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 4d

Clytie Jessop was also the ghostly Miss Jessel in THE INNOCENTS.

#TCMparty #Nightmare

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 5d

(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?

@SuperAmanda.bsky.social @SlipKid24.bsky.social

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 5d

scuppernongeditions.com/i-aint-resis...

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 5d

#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.

Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 5d

In theory, I support nontraditional choices in prime time, but this is not what I want for Halloween.

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 5d

As attorney Helen Parsonage observed, “nobody channels Gestapo chic by accident.”

Chicago Sun-Times coverage:

chicago.suntimes.com/live/10/28/2...

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 5d

Amanda love, yes!

Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 6d

Bela has more dialogue in this delightful #MarkOfTheVampire trailer than he has in the film.

@superamanda.bsky.social

@slipkid24.bsky.social

#TCMparty

youtu.be/eyvOdKm0eDo?...

Mark of the Vampire Official Trailer #1 - Bela Lugosi Movie (1935) HD

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

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Ian McDowell @ianmcdowell.bsky.social · 6d

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

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