Dark Corners - Boris Karloff's Cauldron of Blood: Review

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  • Опубликовано: 13 дек 2024

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  • @RavenHouseMystery
    @RavenHouseMystery 7 лет назад +29

    Even towards the end of his life, Boris Karloff seemed to remain the constant professional despite the dreadfulness of the films. He was truly one of a kind.
    I don't know if it would improve the scene, but instead of Jack Torrance telling his wife how he was going to "bash her brains out" with a baseball bat in "The Shining", what if he turned that little scene into a Charades game? The wife would then guess the words leading to the horrible realization that her husband wants to "bash my brains out"!?

  • @andrewgwilliam4831
    @andrewgwilliam4831 7 лет назад +30

    The ending to "Seven" would be improved immeasurably if it involved Charades.

    • @Bluesit32
      @Bluesit32 3 года назад +2

      Oh, you mean Se7en?

  • @h.calvert3165
    @h.calvert3165 4 года назад +7

    You must love the charades scene in Young Frankenstein! 📯

    • @Bluesit32
      @Bluesit32 3 года назад

      "Quick, give'im the...! Give'im the...!"

    • @wildman2012
      @wildman2012 3 года назад

      @@Bluesit32 Said... said a give?!

    • @Bluesit32
      @Bluesit32 3 года назад +1

      @@wildman2012 "Said a...dirty word! He said a dirty word!"

  • @markjoenks2217
    @markjoenks2217 4 года назад +6

    No mention of Viveca Lindfors? She played Tania, Karloff's wife. She also played Catherine Langford in Stargate. She has been in movies with both Boris Karloff and Kurt Russell.
    Now if they had used charades at the beginning of Arrival the movie would have been over in 15 minutes.

  • @biffmercury
    @biffmercury 2 года назад +2

    As a kid, I tried to watch this movie but the opening credits were so scary that I turned it off. It had a really psychedelic look to it and great, creepy music by the same guy who did the cool music for Filmmation’s animated STAR TREK series from 1973. I finally saw the rest of the movie and figured it was shot and edited by the same blind sculptor that the movie was about.

  • @TheRealNormanBates
    @TheRealNormanBates 4 года назад +3

    1:20 holy crapnuggets! That’s Aunt Bedelia from *Creepshow* and *Stargate* lady! I think she was also the “killer nurse” sent to Kinderman’s house in *Exorcist III*

    • @Bluesit32
      @Bluesit32 3 года назад +1

      The one that was crawling on the ceiling?

    • @TheRealNormanBates
      @TheRealNormanBates 3 года назад

      @@Bluesit32 I’d have to watch it again, but she’s definitely the one who has the bone shear and says to Kinderman: “I was waiting for you to show... I didn’t want you to miss this!”

  • @fritzfassbender8093
    @fritzfassbender8093 7 лет назад +15

    Even a fool knows that a man has five senses, but Dark Corners has wit as their sixth. Many Thanks! Some thoughts:
    What scene would do better in charades? The courtroom conclusion in "JFK".
    "The Melting Face of Boris Karloff" was the name of my band in high school.
    What is about a certain era of horror films that the leading men are always the greasiest old perverts, and stupid ones too?
    "I once fathered a griffin!" is going on my tombstone.

  • @Gappasaurus
    @Gappasaurus 4 года назад +5

    If Jimmy Stuart had used charades for his 25-hour senatorial filibuster in “Mr Smith Goes to Washington” it would have easily made that film the greatest of all time 😄

  • @markasimmons
    @markasimmons 7 лет назад +3

    With apologies to the late great John Hurt, how about the chestburster scene in Alien ? "What's the matter? The food ain't that bad..." [Kane coughs] "You choking". "What's wrong?" [cough turns into retching] "Two words?". "First Word" [Kane clutches chest] "first letter ? err... A". "A something" (etc)

  • @cwgodzilla
    @cwgodzilla 7 лет назад +7

    Looks like a fun mess of a movie. I think "mess" describes most of the flicks though.
    As for charades, easy: opening to "Citizen Kane"
    "Okay, Mr Kane. One word. Plant...flower....daisy? Poison Ivy? Daffodil? Rose? Yes, rose! Second word, sounds like..."

  • @andrewyoung2796
    @andrewyoung2796 4 года назад +3

    ""When we played our charade"🎵🎶 -Henry mancini

  • @ralphyetmore
    @ralphyetmore 3 года назад +2

    "No, not sniffing around...SLEEPING around."
    C'mon, man! I can't believe you set that joke up and didn't use it!
    Ah, well. Great review anyway, as usual. Thanks for posting.

  • @VonWenk
    @VonWenk 7 лет назад +5

    Maybe Karloff could sculpt without skeletons before he lost his sight, and his wife and her lover are supplying the skeletons to keep her in the lifestyle to which she's become accustomed.

  • @robertbrown569
    @robertbrown569 4 года назад +7

    Practically every movie you've ever reviewed would have been better if expressed via charades. A movie that would _not_ have been improved by charades would be something like "Memento".

  • @d.l.parham157
    @d.l.parham157 4 года назад +2

    This is a really late comment but this film reminds me of an earlier film called "A Bucket of Blood" directed by Roger Corman (which was followed by "Little Shop of Horrors").

  • @stevengabbard930
    @stevengabbard930 5 лет назад +5

    I rented this decades ago on VHS. The opening credits were quite enjoyable with creepy music, animated lightening, and Karloff's face zooming towards the screen. The disappointment came afterwards when you're forced to admit that the credits were the best part. It really was a boring terrible film.

  • @quinnzykir
    @quinnzykir 5 лет назад +1

    0:28 MaaaaHAAAAAAAaaaaaaH the FrrenCh

  • @danddoty3981
    @danddoty3981 7 лет назад +5

    This is the same plot as HOUSE OF WAX , expect these guys went out of their way to make sure it didn't make any sense. The leading man didn't even need to be there and the story would have still been the same.

  • @trashcanhands19
    @trashcanhands19 5 лет назад +1

    "I once fathered a griffin." What the actual $#!+ ??!?

  • @TheTwick
    @TheTwick 7 лет назад +2

    Movie line. Eight words. First word. Small word. "A, of, the". THE. Second word rhymes with "balls.... THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE. (Black Christmas).

  • @jallenecs
    @jallenecs 5 лет назад +3

    What movie would be improved by charades? I think Bram Stoker's Dracula could only go up in my estimation if Keanu Reeves went with charades rather than that accent (This also applies to his performance in Much Ado About Nothing.) I'm a backwoods hillbilly, and even I am horrified and embarrassed for him.

  • @wetwork6553
    @wetwork6553 3 года назад

    very well done!

  • @waynedaly100
    @waynedaly100 7 лет назад +1

    They went back on the meteor they came to earth on in warlords of atlantis

  • @ritawing1064
    @ritawing1064 4 года назад +1

    Dorithy L.Sayers story, no?

  • @byronp2311
    @byronp2311 3 года назад

    Karloff's last film was great: Targets, directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Karloff plays an aging horror actor who finds that his latest flick will premire at a drive-in. A drive-in, for gawd sake! Meanwhile, there's a guy that's gone full on nuts, murders his family and goes on a sniping spree at the local highway. This proves to be unsatisfying so he finds a drive-in which is, of course, getting ready to show Karloff's latest film. Getting there early, he's able to climb behind the screen, poke a small hole in it and wait for the crowd. Easily Karloff's best film.

    • @anthonymunn8633
      @anthonymunn8633 2 года назад

      Sadly,Targets wasn't Karloff's last movie.He did 4 horrid Mexican movies before he died.

  • @hawk4065
    @hawk4065 2 года назад

    I really enjoy your channel.

  • @jonhinson5701
    @jonhinson5701 2 года назад

    Was the playboy the actor Jean Marais?

  • @handimanjim4378
    @handimanjim4378 3 года назад

    Have you reviewed "Hawk the Slayer" starring Jack Palence.

  • @skylx0812
    @skylx0812 5 лет назад +1

    How would you use charades to describe a tall black phallic drooling monster with a killer tongue?

  • @schizoidboy
    @schizoidboy 2 года назад

    It sadly seems to be his last film, although he also did the Peter Bogdanovich film Targets at the same time before he passed, which was a great final movie for Karloff.

  • @wildman2012
    @wildman2012 3 года назад

    Adapted from "Diary of a Blind Sculptor" by Arthur Conan Boyle.

  • @quinnzykir
    @quinnzykir 5 лет назад +2

    Not only would you have to be blind. You’d have to also not have a sense of smell, taste, and touch

  • @kali3665
    @kali3665 4 года назад

    Well there WAS a good idea in the concept. And Roger Corman used it for A Bucket of Blood.

  • @JB-pz3ud
    @JB-pz3ud 7 месяцев назад

    "SAID A GIVE???"

  • @dngillikin
    @dngillikin 4 года назад +1

    The girlfriend is cute. 'Tis a pity Karloff didn't get the opportunity to utter the word, "Eroticism," in this one. And, as for what movie would be improved by a scene involving charades, I'd venture " Manos, the Hands of Fate. " It would still be a terrible movie, but one scene, at least, would have the potential of some entertaining WTF-ery.

  • @Bluesit32
    @Bluesit32 3 года назад

    Hm. The plots a bit "House of Wax", isn't it? Except it's the artist's eyes, not his hands that are damaged and it's his wife, not him, putting the corpses there for him to "sculpt" around.

  • @itowmyhome797
    @itowmyhome797 Год назад

    🎉

  • @qq-hk3so
    @qq-hk3so 7 лет назад +1

    shark ecsorcist if you dear

  • @kennylogan3090
    @kennylogan3090 7 лет назад +2

    oh boy ! This sure looks bad. Poor Boris, I'll be sure to avoid this one for certain. Thanks Dark Corner, I mean there's only so much a guy can take! Brilliant review guys.

  • @dbsommers1
    @dbsommers1 Год назад

    An oddball one to be sure.

  • @colleencrouch4346
    @colleencrouch4346 3 года назад

    The skeleton probably serves the same purpose as an armature. Perhaps, before he lost his sight, he made his own armatures, now he's trusting someone else to do it and they're just too danged lazy!

  • @williamcrowe2576
    @williamcrowe2576 3 года назад

    I've heard of "bone china", but this is ridiculous!

  • @EddyScbr
    @EddyScbr 4 года назад

    Late comment, but: I may have been able to enjoy the "I hate sand" scene from Attack of the Clones if Anakin spoke in charades

  • @jaymartin8273
    @jaymartin8273 2 года назад

    Like a lot of movies I've seen on this channel, this could work if handled better :=)

  • @annvictor9627
    @annvictor9627 3 года назад

    So why is the girlfriend staying with such a dud?

  • @PuncherOfAbs
    @PuncherOfAbs 5 месяцев назад

    Would you say this mirrors Bucket of blood?