You know, those space suits in that setting remind me of something I saw a couple of years ago. Oh, what was it - some episode of some equally terrible serial that the Varsity Theatre thought would be good to show before... oh, what was it? It was a real scortcher of a September, the Varsity has air conditioning, I wanted to see The Curse of Frankenstein, so I went early just to get out of the heat, and sat through a newsreel and...
...Radar Men from the Moon! Or was it of the moon? No matter, either way, it spells tragedy. The same sorts of conceits, the same look as that still you've enclosed. It was, however, the right kind of terrible to evoke giggling - I'm afraid the summer-school crowd at the University has no hesitation in making fun of that particular sort of foolishness.
The Curse of Frankenstein, though - that was... an experience. English film, from Hammer Studio, I think? But not the sort of jolly politeness you'd expect out of the United Kingdom! I hadn't heard of Hammer before, but I must say, as a film, it was effective. Gruesome, but effective. I rather suspect it could only play in university towns.
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Date: 2014-01-08 09:45 am (UTC)...Radar Men from the Moon! Or was it of the moon? No matter, either way, it spells tragedy. The same sorts of conceits, the same look as that still you've enclosed. It was, however, the right kind of terrible to evoke giggling - I'm afraid the summer-school crowd at the University has no hesitation in making fun of that particular sort of foolishness.
The Curse of Frankenstein, though - that was... an experience. English film, from Hammer Studio, I think? But not the sort of jolly politeness you'd expect out of the United Kingdom! I hadn't heard of Hammer before, but I must say, as a film, it was effective. Gruesome, but effective. I rather suspect it could only play in university towns.