Top 10 Films of the 1930's

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The ones that kicked off the golden age of cinema.

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1
The Invisible Man (1933,  Unrated)
2
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935,  Unrated)
3
The Wizard of Oz (1939,  G)
4
King Kong (1933,  Unrated)
5
Frankenstein (1931,  Unrated)
6
Freaks (1932,  Unrated)
Freaks
My God... What a set up, what a story, what a climax, but... what an ending!!!
7
Dracula (1931,  Unrated)
8
M (1931,  Unrated)
9
Reefer Madness (Tell Your Children)(Doped Youth)(The Burning Question) (1936,  PG)
10
The Mummy (1932,  Unrated)
The Mummy
Okay. Let me give it to you straight. I love, absolutely love the Universal horror collection. Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man etc. And I was really looking forward to seeing this one. Once I did I would have finished the entire ensemble that Universal put out all those decades ago. So I'm happy I've done that. But... I was a little disappointed. I'm not sure why, but The Mummy doesn't measure up to the ranks of the other films I so adore (but only by about one star or so). So it isn't bad at all - two particular scenes stand out as particularly horrifying, one being when Im Ho Tep first awakens and theflashback to when he is buried alive. Euurgh. Not pleasant.
Everything good to say about this film has already been seen about half a billion times before - those being the great Karloff in a signature role, the fantastic cinematography and the somewhat brilliant camera movements - so I won't drone on about those.
Yes, it's a classic. Yes, it's worth watching purely for the shots of Karloff's eyes. And yes, it's most certainly required viewing for any sort of horror fan.
But I just wished I was as enthralled with this as I was with The Invisible Man...

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