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Three diminutive known but effective dread films from a major hollywood studio complete this box space. Last year MGM released some of their miniature known apprehension films and now Fox has followed suite.
None of the these titles have been on DVD before, and even rarely on VHS. They occasionally showed up on the lackluster Fox Movie Channel a few years ago at queer hours of the early morning. It was on such an occasion that I encountered “The Lodger”. This is a top notch pain which rests comfortably between the Gaslight thriller and the classic fright film. Cregar plays the villain with an off kilter, understated creepiness that was blueprint ahead of it’s time and could be called the screen’s first serial killer performance.
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The cinematography looks better and more atmospheric than what Universal was shoving out in the mid 40s’. Fog trip London streets and dimly gaslit interiors play with the viewers sense of claustrophobia. You almost feel as trapped by the heavy atmosphere as Cregar’s character. Lodger is no doubt a lost classic of psychological fear.
I have to disagree with other reviewers that “Undying Monster” is the dreadful cousin of this state. “Hangover Square” feels more like a re-make of Lodger than a film of its gain factual. But Undying Monster takes us to the shadowy, atmospheric Sea cruise. The sparse sets and jagged cliffs and caves work beautifully here. We have Jane Eyre meets Bram Stoker. A family curse is the position engine to drive the lush monochrome cinematography. In fact Undying Monster boasts some of the best shots of the place, particularly the opening interior shot as the moon streams into a tudor drawing room. It looked colossal on the badly duped VHS copy I’ve had for years. On DVD it promises to be attractive. The titular Monster is not revealed until reach the ruin, so forget about it and soak up the atmosphere. There is an provocative sequence arrive the destroy, all done in long shot as if you were a passerby. It’s effective and helps screen the lack of form up talent Fox had for panic films.
These films were rarely seen even abet in the days of Slow Night Creature Features. Universal’s films are better known, and MGM’s more highly regarded by critics. But these lost Fox Anxiety films can now come by an audience of their maintain and be appreciated for the loving cinematography.
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If you’re tired of the unpleasant Hollywood “anxiety” films lately, which beget more resemblance to a series of snuff films rather than anything else, this box status is for you. Curl up on your couch with the DVD remote clutched in your hand. Be obvious to darken the room, and calm the mind. The intelligence and atmosphere of these gothic horrors will soon overcome the decades they have sat waiting in Fox’s vault to return to the camouflage.
In the 1930s, the relatively original field of dread cinema was dominated by Universal, with its often amazing monster movies such as Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy. As the Universal movies got campier in the 1940s, not many studios really filled the void. Certainly, the best of 1940s panic came from Val Lewton’s pictures for RKO (Cat People, The Leopard Man and others) . Fox, on the other hand, did not really have a reputation for terror in this era, as is definite from the Fox Panic Classics situation. That’s not to say that they are poor movies, unbiased that I don’t know if they are really awe.
Besides being Fox movies, the three movies in this plot are also tied together by all being directed by John Brahm. First made of these three - and the closest to being a alarm movie - is also the weakest in the set: The Undying Monster. The tale deals with the isolated Hammond family that is plagued by a curse that has a monster preying on the male Hammonds over the past few generations. This is a pale imitation of two genres made celebrated by Universal: the monster movie (particularly the Wolf Man) and the mystery movie (particularly the Sherlock Holmes movies, though Fox was actually the first to do the Rathbone movies) . The biggest failing of the movie is the fact that the monster is on hide too infrequently.
Much better is The Lodger, a remake of what was Alfred Hitchcock’s first suspense movie. Even if you’ve watched the older version, however, this one is peaceful fun to witness and substantially different, plotwise. Among the tremendous names in the movie are Merle Oberon and George Sanders, but the star is Laird Cregar who plays the title character. Sadly, Cregar’s career was very short (less than a decade) because he steals the indicate in most of his movies (especially in I Wake Up Screaming, allotment of the Fox Film Noir series) . The movie itself deals with Cregar as Jack the Ripper, taking up status in a rooming house where his fellow residents open to suspect he may not be fully on the up-and-up.
Best of all is Hangover Square. In a draw, it is a reworking of The Lodger to capitalize on that movie’s box office success, with Sanders and Cregar both returning in hero and villain roles respectively. Actually, Cregar is not so worthy outrageous as sick, driven under stress to catch on a second, homicidal personality; in his lucid moments, however, he is a righteous guy, a musician who falls for poor girl Linda Darnell, my accepted femme fatale from the 1940s (who, like Cregar, would die at a young age under tragic circumstances) . Besides Cregar and Darnell, there is also the sizable music of Bernard Herrmann that is an critical fragment of the movie.
The Lodger and Hangover Square fit more in the thriller or mystery category than anxiety, but that doesn’t diminish their quality. Overall, The Undying Monster merits a crude three stars, The Lodger four and Hangover Square five. Add to that some special features, most notably commentaries on the Cregar movies and some mini-documentaries on Cregar and Brahm, and this area merits a stout five stars. It may not really be a panic region, but Fox Terror Classics is a worthwhile collection of some generally obscure movies.