Chronology of Classic Horror Films: The 1930s

Chronology of Classic Horror Films: the 1930s is an affectionate thoughtful and sometimes provocative re-examination of virtually every American horror feature from 1929 to 1939. Donald Willis takes the films image-by-image in the introduction film-by-film in the text and year-by-year in the highlights pages which precede the reviews of each years pictures. The introductory Itinerary (Oh the places youll go!) chronologically maps the sites of the movies covered in the text from 1929 to 1949 from Woodfords Theatre New York City (The Last Warning) to the Forsythe estate (Master Minds). Willis makes the movies youve always known and loved spring to life again. The Mummy: Its either Now (Helen) or Forever (Imhotep) though her dreadful modern Cairo comment hints at some backward-looking wistfulness on her part. Bride of Frankenstein: The power now belongs to Pretorius in effect a mocking mirror reflecting back to Henry his original enthusiasm and underlining the strain of callousness in the latter.