Years ago just for fun I started a tradition in watching horror movies throughout October to celebrate the Halloween month. Hey, why not? This year I couldn't wait so I started a month early and have been enjoying many fun, scary movies: The Black Cat, Young Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy (Hammer), Mad Monster Party (taped back in '99 on AMC and it has the introduction by Roger Corman who presented a Halloween film series for AMC at the time!). The Hammer version of The Mummy I taped off of AMC, gosh, back in the 1990's (before they changed their format-boo!- and also started showing commercials, yuck!) is showing a few little pops and markings on the tape but is still enjoyable to watch.The photo above (image source here) is from The Black Cat, a rather bizarre, fascinating, expressive, twisted, kind of creepy film and truly fun to watch. It's right up my alley. In one scene, Polzeig (Karloff) and Wedergast (Lugosi) play chess to decide the outcome of a young insuspecting couple who accidentally get in the middle of the personal vendetta between the two men. Be afraid, be very afraid for you are trapped in a remote location (of course) and surrounded by some wierd characters out for blood/revenge (of course), with a coven tossed in for good measure. A solid foundation for any scary Dark-Old-House-type thriller recipe. The film's imaginative storytelling visuals (see photo) tickle your imagination. It is expressively told with the beauty of black and white.
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