JungleSkip
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I think you need to read up on the director.I don't believe the movie was intended to be campy.
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I think you need to read up on the director.I don't believe the movie was intended to be campy.
I take it you haven't seen Bride of Frankenstein yet. That movie basically invented camp. lol
Adding lol to every post is actually really condescending.I think you need to read up on the director.
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Which is why I mention the camp arrived years later with the sequels (and mention Abbott and Costello). That movie came out 1948, 20+ years after the the originals had started. So this is exactly my point.
The film's and director's wikipedia pages talk about it.Adding lol to every post is actually really condescending.
If you have a point you want to make about the director, linking to an article or pointing me in the right direction for a search would be helpful.
Which is why I mention the camp arrived with the sequels.
The wiki doesn't mention camp in Bride of Frankenstein, unless I'm missing something?The film's and director's wikipedia pages talk about it.
A quick google brought this up: The Smiling Corpse: Parody And Camp In 'Bride Of Frankenstein' And 'Shaun Of The Dead'
From the wikipedia:The wiki doesn't mention camp in Bride of Frankenstein, unless I'm missing something?
The article you linked is strictly someone's opinion.
I just finished the movie, and aside from one comical scene featuring miniaturized people, the film looked like it was intended to be taken seriously (unlike the Abbott and Costello movies).
Maybe not as scary as scream scary, but "Dracula" is still creepy and unsettling to this day. Its the combo of the actors and the cinematography.If I really said the word “campy” I didn’t mean campy. But they are obviously less “scary” than today’s horror.
I believe even the director decides it had to be very tounge-in-cheek when made. he definetly went overboard on purposeI don't believe the movie was intended to be campy.
Yes, the director was openly gay and this movie may had some metaphors in it, but that's a long shot from calling the movie campy or that it "invented camp" as you said.From the wikipedia:
"scholars have perceived a gay subtext suffused through the film, especially a camp sensibility,[55] particularly embodied in the character of Pretorius and his relationship with Henry. "
"I think the closest you can come to a homosexual metaphor in his films is to identify that certain sort of camp humor."[59]
The common reading on Bride of Frankenstein is that it has camp sensibilities. The Abbott and Costello movies are comedies. The two are very different.
Yes. “Creepy” is the word I keep coming back to for this land in general. Things can be eerie or unsettling without being jump-out scare in your face, or gory.Maybe not as scary as scream scary, but "Dracula" is still creepy and unsettling to this day. Its the combo of the actors and the cinematography.
Yes. “Creepy” is the word I keep coming back to for this land in general. Things can be eerie or unsettling without being jump-out scare in your face, or gory.
What I always think back to is the queue to Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. The basement especially has a very unsettling vibe to it.Yes. “Creepy” is the word I keep coming back to for this land in general. Things can be eerie or unsettling without being jump-out scare in your face, or gory.
Remember an imagineer describing what they do to unsettle you there, The color of the lights (mostly red) - the turns are at angles instead of curves. And a low, throbbing sound almost constantly. All of these prey on your mind and subconsciously unnerve you. (The sound effect was also used in two movies I know of - recently in "Dunrkik" with the clock, and most effectively in the 70mm prints of "Alien" which had a constant low throbbing from the surround speakers).What I always think back to is the queue to Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. The basement especially has a very unsettling vibe to it.
Yes. “Creepy” is the word I keep coming back to for this land in general. Things can be eerie or unsettling without being jump-out scare in your face, or gory.
Speaking of fantastic beasts... is that blind pig photo op from whichever the current parks (i forgot) still there?
Oh, that's been gone for years. It was removed pretty quickly after Celebration weekend.