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Old Dark House, The 

Year: 1932
Country: USA
Director: James Whale
Starring: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore, Raymond Massey and Gloria Stuart
Synopsis: Perhaps the first film to use the movie cliche of a storm forces travelers to take refuge in a scary house, where you just know bad things will happen.
Quick review: One of gay director James Whale's horror pictures, this film features a lesbian character who chases around Gloria Stuart almost as much as Boris Karloff does. Throw in a scene at the end when Karloff sweeps up the man he has cared for into his arms and carries him up the stairs and you have more gay content in this film that you do in nearly all the other 1930s films, when censors where beginning to clamp down on the roaring '20s. For a suspense fill, there's not a lot of suspense. Nor scares. Karloff looks menacing, but outside of some overturned tables and grunts, you would think you're watching a comedy. This film was nearly lost, but another director made it his mission to save it. For its historical value, it's worth seeing. But it's been done better so many times since that it will be hard to appreciate it from a modern point of view.
 

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