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Being a hardened late-lat- e junkie myself, I turned on the tube a couple of weeks ago at about 1:30 a.m. I knew something was up when I got Channel 45, something which ordinarily never happens. the original, FRANKENSTEIN was about Karloff Frankenstein two reels (or 40 commercials) from the end. The monster had strangled the little child, and the villagers were rounding up a search party. I watched it through, for the zillionth time; it really is a macabre masterpiece, and no other American horror film Ive ever seen is quite in its class. When it was over I regretfully got up to turn off the set, when to my groggy surprise, another picture title flashed on the The House of Horrors. screen With a title like that, how could I resist? The thought of resistance, of course, never even entered my insomniac head. But as matters turned out, the movie was made for me. The whole thing is about getting even with critics. ITS A TERRIBLE movie, actually a Universal B feature from 1946 in But if its awful, its so crude and scrumptiously awful ingenuous that it becomes hysterically funny, the sort of harmless movie boner that nobody can afford to make anymore, a genre that television has rescued for posterity. And in its own schloeky way, The House of Horrors is a conceptual stroke of genius, bolstered by two wonderfully apt castings. First the plot, of which theres little enough. Theres this insane artist, see, who specializes in grotesque statuary, and he thinks hes found the perfect model in an equally insane killer known as The Creeper, a veritable gargoyle of a man whom hes rescued from a river and nursed back to life Meanwhile, just as the artist is about to make his first big sale, in waltzes your vicious art critic, the John Simon of horrorsvil-le- , who collars the rich, prospective client and explains how our suffering sculptor is a fraud, a madman and a to boot. THIS scotches the NATURALLY, sale. In retaliation, the artist goads the Creeper into eliminating, one by one, all the petty pundits who have been keeping him from fame and fortune, starting with the Simon surrogate. One of the critics happens to be a woman young, attractive and fearless. She, in turn, is in love with another artist (he paints Varga-likpinups, which gives Universal the opportunity of displaying the latest in studio cheesecake), and the two of them are palsy-walswith the fuzz. After many a fascinating twist, black-and-whit- e. Home Have You Taken Advantage of PUBLIC DENTURISM? Utah Denture Clinic Can save you time and money. By working directly with the denture wearer, denturists can provide better in most and faster service on repairs generally on the same day lake cases achieve a better, more comfortable fit at considerably less cost than a dentist. 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None was needed; Hatton suffered from acromegaly, a pituitary disorder that grossly distorts limbs and The House of Horfacial features. rors was the summit of his unusual career he died the year it was made, after acting the Creeper once more in a quickie sequel, The Brute Man. ONE FACE IN The House of Horrors would stand out as instantly recognizable to anyone who lived through the World War II movie period. It belongs to Martin Kosleck, who portrays the mad artist with a skill and relish far beyond the worth of the assignment. Kosleck played Gestapo bullies so often and so effectively that its hard to think of him as anything else. One look at his beady eyes and sadistic sneer, and you can hear him saying, Ve haff vays of eggsdractink ze truce bleese dont make me yooze zem. He was east as Goebbels in at least three different Third Reich chronicals including Confessions of a Nazi Spy and The Hitler Gang. The hoke, in typical Hollywood fashion, is that Kosleck wasnt German at all, but Russian. His real name was Nicolai Yoshkin; as a character actor, he had had considerable experience on the German stage before settling in the United States in the mid-30THE HOUSE OF HORRORS was directed by Jean Yarbrough, a onetime prop man whose list of credits also includes Devil Bat (1941) and Abbott and Costello Lost in Alaska. Sic transit the good old days. The House of Horrors may be ahead of its time, but I hope not one can envi-ioirate playwrights or musicians putting out contracts on any reviewer who happens to ring the wrong chimes. I remember once when I was living on the West Coast, there was a young film critic on the Los Angeles Times who was assaulted by an indignant actor. He showed up in the newspaper office about two weeks after the relevant notice, asked the critic into the hallway, and bopped him right in the kisser. I have always tried to be as judicious as humanly possible in my choice of adjectives ever since that time the pen may be mightier than the sword, but swords went out a long time ago. |