VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, [5], 6, 7 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 11:21:09 09/29/09 Tue
Author: Tim
Subject: Re: Behind The Mask on TCM
In reply to: DAN 's message, "Behind The Mask on TCM" on 08:54:03 09/29/09 Tue

The original release of the Shock Theater package was a little before my time. I think I saw my first horror films on television around 1963 at the age of six. I saw most the Universal classics in the 1960s, although as a kid I doubt if I knew the difference between Universal and other studios like RKO and Columbia. But I knew some movies were better than others, and those Karloff and Lugosi Universals were good! In the late 1960s I discovered Famous Monsters of Filmland and became a real monster fan.

As I grew older I became more discerning and began to learn about the various actors, directors and studios, and my interests broadened to encompass things like the Alfred Hitchcock pictures and the film noir detective flicks of the 1940s.

Behind the Mask remains one of the early Karloff films that I have not seen, to the best of my recollection. Karloff was a versatile actor, and gave excellent portrayals in non-horror pictures like Graft (1931), Scarface (1932) and The Lost Patrol (1934).

Tim

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.