Monster of the Day #3506

Updated on October 8, 2024 By Ken Begg 9 Comments

That’s a nice shot, even if it’s posed. (Warning: SMOKING)

Ah, Bela. Watch a Bela movie this month, everyone.

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  • Gamera977

    Would 'Plan 9' count as a Bela movie?

  • You'd be better off with something like The Black Cat, where not only is Bela in his prime and in the mood for acting, but Boris Karloff is there two. Great flick.

  • Gamera977

    Lol, I was joking about 'Plan 9' since Bela is in it for about 30 seconds of footage Ed Wood pulled out of a drawer…

  • Gamera977

    I've got internet access again. So I'll try to answer Eric Hinkle's question about Carl Jacobi from last week. Sorry, with only the phone for internet I really, really, REALLY hate typing anything longer than a sentence on a phone screen.

    The Jacobi story collections I'd read are 'Revelations in Black,' 'Smoke of The Snake', and 'The Tomb From Beyond'. They were all off the Luminist Archives at luminist dot org and available for free.

    I wasn't even aware there were new reprints.

    They also have Mary Elizabeth Counselman's short story collection ' Half In Shadow'. Loved it! I'm going to have to look up more of her stories. She reminds me a lot of Manly Wade Wellman.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    So, I finished binge-watching "The Herculoids." It's really the ultimate Saturday morning cartoon. There's no dumb comedy bits (or none that last for more than a second or two), Tara and Dorno are not idiots, and as noted, the sound effects are outstanding and the music is classic. Gloop and Gleep only have mouths in "Attack from Space" and I share Ken's dislike. Just NO.

    Some of the later episodes have this alternate opening with hippie-type pop music, and it stinks. For the feminists among you, in this second opening everyone is introduced EXCEPT Tara, who gets a 1 second portrait shot with no naming.

    I'd definitely recommend the series, with the previously mentioned caveat that every story is the same story. Bad guys attack the Herculoids. The Herculoids defeat them with mayhem. The appeal is in the colorful ways in which the story plays out.

  • Ken_Begg

    Yes! The Black Cat is great, and might contain Bela's best performance this side of The Son of Frankenstein.

  • Eric Hinkle

    What does it say about Bela that all his best performances had him as some madman? Either Ygor in TSoF or as Dr. Vitus Werdagast in The Black Cat? The closest thing to a 'normal' character I can remember seeing him as was as Commissar Razinin in Ninotchka.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Thanks for the belated response, and for the recommendation on both Jacobi and Mary Elizabeth Counselman. I'll have to look for her works.

  • Gamera977

    Cool! Movies Unlimited has a Halloween sale on horror movies and I picked up a set with 'The Black Cat'. I'm not sure I've seen it before and know I don't have it on DVD/Blu-Ray. It's the 'Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi: 4-Movie Horror Collection' in case anyone else is interested.

    I also at long last picked up 'Island of Lost Souls' with Bela's performance as the 'Sayer of the Law'. Plus the '70s Burt Lancaster version of 'The Island of Dr. Moreau'. Though I skipped the '90s comedy version with Marlin Brando…

    Plus a bunch of other stuff, you know saying 'Halloween horror sale on DVD/Blu-Rays!' is like waving a whiskey bottle around in front of an alcoholic.