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Date Posted: 08:34:19 06/12/13 Wed
Author: DAN
Subject: Re: 10 Things I Hate About The Universal Monster Movies
In reply to: Officer Torch 's message, "Re: 10 Things I Hate About The Universal Monster Movies" on 21:16:19 06/11/13 Tue

Like Torch, I grew up with all the Universal horror films, starting with Shock Theater back in Oct 1957.
And I've never stopped watching them.
I love them despite the flaws.

Anyway, I've seen many of the flaws Gary mentioned,
but some of them never bothered me.

I never questioned the armadillo in "Dracula."

The footprints in "The Invisible Man" or the shirt change in "The Wolf Man" was never a big deal to me either.
Nor was many of the other stuff Gary mentioned in the other horror films.

Yes,I have wondered about that lever in BoF that blew everything to atoms. Now what purpose was that for?

If Dr Frankenstein ever wanted wanted to blow the
place up for some reason, that lever wasn't too
practical.

Unless he had a time delay on the explosives where he could escape before the place blew.

Back to "The Invisible Man" and "The Wolf Man."

There are a couple of things in The Invisble Man that
I've thought about.

Why didn't Griffin stay at his home instead of going to that Inn?

He could have worked privately and not expose himself
to any of the problems the Inn gave him.

All he had to do was lock his house up, and cover the windows so no one would see any lights and then he
could continue working in peace.

The other thing was when Griffin threw that train switch and the train went right off the mountain.
Ok, where was that switch track suppose to take the train to?

In The Wolf Man the werewolf is supposed to see the pentagram in his next victims hand.
Yet he never saw it in that gravediggers hand.

I guess perhaps the first victim doesn't count because
you have to have a first victim before you can have
a next victim.

Then there's the Church scene in The Wolf Man where everyone stares at Larry.

It begins with Sir John sitting in the front row
and Larry standing in the back of the church.

Ok, the people in the last row turn and stare at Larry,
then the people in the next row in front of the last row turn and stare.

And then the people in the next row turns and so on down to the front row.

Now that scene would be ok if the turned heads started with Sir John in the front with him being first person looking back to see what was holding up his son, rather that that back to front way they filmed the scene.

I mean if I was sitting in church and some people behind me began looking at the back of the church at someone, I wouldn't know it.

But if they were in front of me and turned and stared at something in the back, then I might turn to see what they were looking at.

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