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Post by endo on Dec 1, 2012 14:57:32 GMT -5
 "Murders in the Rue Morgue is a 1932 horror film, loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Bela Lugosi (one year after his performance as Dracula) portrays a lunatic scientist who abducts women and injects them with blood from his ill-tempered caged ape. Karl Freund's cinematography and Robert Florey's direction have been praised by critics and characterized as "expressionistic" by Leonard Maltin.[2] Despite the film being pre-Code, violent sequences prompted Universal to cut its running time from 80 minutes to 61 minutes." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue_%281932_film%29Pretty good movie. I'm a big Lugosi fan, so I've liked this for a long time. But, even if you've only seen him in Dracula, this is a good watch. |
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Post by carriechiz on Dec 28, 2012 15:41:46 GMT -5
This is definitely on my films to watch list.
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Post by endo on Dec 28, 2012 19:49:46 GMT -5
I like it a lot. Has a great atmosphere and Lugosi is awesome in it.
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Post by gorepolice on Dec 29, 2012 13:06:06 GMT -5
That is a significant amount of cut footage. I guess it was way too shocking for audiences back then.
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Post by endo on Dec 29, 2012 17:53:16 GMT -5
It is. It would be awesome to find it somewhere uncut, if it even exists. I wonder what was done with the footage? It's funny because the movie wasn't very well received when it came out, almost being a box office flop. Kinda wonder had the footage stayed in, if it might not have done better just from people wanting to see what all the fuss was about, lol.
Most critics today praise it, and it has become pretty much a cult classic.
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Post by lyrikah on Dec 29, 2012 20:56:46 GMT -5
It would be kind of funny in a messed up sort of way if someone had it in a basement somewhere. But it's probably long gone.
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Post by endo on Dec 29, 2012 21:16:52 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm sure they tossed it. Who would have thought back then that people would love to see that stuff today, lol.
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Post by gorepolice on Jan 2, 2013 1:52:30 GMT -5
Shame that the footage is probably lost forever. I'd certainly be interested in knowing what was too shocking for that time.
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Post by endo on Jan 2, 2013 21:39:54 GMT -5
Me too. I'm sure it'd be really?? today, but still be cool to see.
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Post by gorepolice on Jan 2, 2013 21:41:57 GMT -5
The things we've seen have made us quite numb to violence. We're a lot more jaded these days compared to audiences then. I remember watching Peeping Tom and wondering why people hated that movie so much back then, but today it's considered a classic.
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Post by NDX on Jan 2, 2013 21:58:09 GMT -5
I ain't 100% numb, but a good 99%.
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