BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE:HORROR & SCAREY THINGS?

AFTER SEEING THE MOVIE FRANKENSTEIN

"After seeing Frankenstein, I was convinced that the monster
would climb the fire escape outside of my tenement window to
get me. Why he should want to get me, of all people, amid the
millions who lived in New York, or why he would even be in'
New York in the first place, didn't enter my mind. Logic flees
when fear comes knocking."
                           MEL BROOKS

Introduction to FORGOTTEN HORRORS (1999)
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A TITLE CARD FROM A SILENT FILM

The opening title to Mary Pickford's movie--
Sparrows (1926)

"The Devil's share in the world's creation
was a certain Southern swampland -- a 
masterpiece of horror. And the Lord, 
appreciating a good job, let it stand."

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AUTOPSY FROM THE GREEK AUTOPSIA, MEANING
"SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES"

Probably few American film-goers, not counting
a handful of horror film fans, have seen a German
movie called Autopsy in which an autopsy is 
presented in close-up and in color, but the title
still remains provocative, even though TV mystery
series frequently take viewers into the autopsy
room.
   Of course, Uncle Tom's Cabin would be a bit
more fun if Topsy had been named AuTopsy.
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ABOUT THE 1931 FILM OF FRANKENSTEIN

"While preparing to film the scene where the monster attacks Elizabeth, Mae Clarke admitted to Boris Karloff that she was worried that when she saw him in full makeup coming towards her, she might really be frightened. Karloff told her that throughout the scene he would wiggle his pinkie finger out of sight of the camera so that, despite the horrific makeup, she could always see her friend Boris waving at her and letting her know that she was safe."
iDMb Trivia -Frankenstein
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COMING ATTRACTIONS FOR FREAKS (1931)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJVXTKkjsxA
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AT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PHARMACY

Trick or Treat
Small terrors.
Racism galore.
White privilege.

Stand in line,
& hand in your precription
With proof of insurance
At the appropriate counter.

So many of our country's ills
Are not covered.

Louis Phillips
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ON HORROR

Charles Cherry's COMMONPLACE BOOK: LIFELINES (Which I consider to be the best book of quotations in print) has this to say
about HORROR:

" And after, no one will really ever remember it. Like the greatest crimes, it will be as if it never happened. The suffering, the deaths, the sorrow, the abject, pathetic pointlessness of such immense suffering by so many; maybe it all exists only within these pages and the pages of a few other books. Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning.But in life horror has no more form than than it does meaning. Horror just is. And while it reigns, it is as if there is nothing in the universe that it is not."

Richard Flanagan. The Narrow Road to the Deep North(2013). p.19
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HOW TO KILL DRACULA

"Placing the branch of a wild rose upon the top of his coffin will render him unable to escape it; a sacred bullet fired into the coffin could kill him so that he remain true-dead. Mountain-ash is also described as a form of protection from a vampire, although the effects are unknown."

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THE MOST COMMON WORD USED IN TITLES OF HORROR FILMS

"1. dead
The most common word in horror movie titles—and the number one spot on our list—is dead. Interestingly, it my have been the undead that helped the word dead shamble to the highest spot on the list. Of course, let’s give credit to Night of the Living Dead (1968) and the rest of George Romero’s zombie movie series for helping boost the word dead. In addition to the first film, you have Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the Dead (2005), Diary of the Dead (2007), and Survival of the Dead (2009). Elsewhere, we also have The Walking Dead (1936), Isle of the Dead (1945), Dead Silence (2007), Dead Ringers (1988), Dead Alive (1992), Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994), and Shaun of the Dead (2004). 

Dead often appeared alongside other entries in this list. In addition to Night of the Living Dead, you have The Evil Dead franchise, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Dead of Night (1945), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)"

DICTIONARY SCOOP ()October 16, 2024) For the list of common Horror words in film titles go to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQXJkPppJsZVMrjrFpGbhRprdnJ
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LET’S SAY

You are sitting thru
Your 13th showing of The Horror:
“Chills & thrills
In a drama of mystery & madness”
Directed by Bud Pollard.
You reach the scene
Where the East Indian
Introduces a snake & a gorilla
Into the house of John Massy
& his wife who screams.
All of sudden you think
Of all the creatures
Who frighten you –
But nothing frightens so much
As the vulnerability
Of your own children.


Louis Phillips