First they ass-raped iconic Motown hits, pimping soap and biscuits and orange juice and now, raising the dead to sell chocky??

How about a Bela Lugosi Clamato™ advert or James Dean in a Volvo campaign??

yeah me too....enough to have tried to post it on Halloween night....There ISSS a better copy out there...y' aught to replace the embed and vote for the one I chose instead......I won't show you where the better copy is, I'm not yer fukkin' mother...BUT, I will show you a shorter, more poignant clip, that I'll rip yer arms..ahem, yer virtual arms outta their sockets for if ya steal it!!!

Happy Hallowheee!

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
Thanks for trying. Love that movie.

In reply to this comment by choggie:
*promote

Thanks for trying. Love that movie.

In reply to this comment by choggie:
*promote

[Bill Murray as Bunny Breckinridge Impersonating Bela Lugosi]
Dr. Tom Mason: I want to suck your blood. I want to suck your blood!
Bunny Breckinridge: Let's hear you call Boris Karloff a cocksucker.

bela lugosi called.

he wants his toupee back.

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) is a Universal Pictures pre-Code horror film loosely based on an Edgar Allan Poe short story. Bela Lugosi, one year after his legendary performance as Dracula, portrays a lunatic scientist who abducts women (one a prostitute played by Arlene Francis) and injects them with fresh blood from his vicious caged ape. The atmospheric cinematography by Karl Freund has been singled out by critics as superb, along with Robert Florey's direction. Thanks to Freund and Florey, the film has the look and feel of German expressionist films of the 1920s. However, some strongly violent scenes apparently prompted Universal executives to cut the film back to 61 minutes from what was originally an 80-minute running time. (Source: IMDB)

Indeed, a decent video, but what the hell has this got to do with Bela Lugosi. That is not Bela Lugosi. Hell, it looks more like his Plan 9 From Outer Space co-star, Tor Johnson.

Am I crazy here?

Freaks is in the public domain and the full movie is presented here.



Wikipedia sez:

Freaks is a Pre-Code 1932 horror film about sideshow performers, directed by Tod Browning.

The movie was adapted by Al Boasberg, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, and Edgar Allan Woolf from the short story Spurs by Tod Robbins. Browning, famed at the time for his collaborations with Lon Chaney and for directing Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931), took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup. Director Browning had been a member of a traveling circus in his early years, and much of the film was drawn from his personal experiences. He intended to portray the classic moral of how outer beauty does not necessarily equate to inner beauty. In the film, the physically deformed "freaks" are inherently trusting and honorable people, while the real monsters are two of the "normal" members of the circus who conspire to murder one of the performers to obtain his large inheritance.

Will I be the only Japanophile???!! Commercials in english suck! And musicals must suck to for all the FAGOTTY Hollywood directors can't rub 2 braincells between their dicks to make, what??! Chicago??! FUUUUCK. At least Martin Landau won an oscar for Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood-Go with yer gut.

film classic

"Browning, famed at the time for directing Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931), took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks", rather than using costumes and makeup. Director Browning had been a member of a travelling circus in his early years, and much of the film was drawn from his personal experiences. He intended to portray the classic moral of how outer beauty does not necessarily equate to inner beauty. In the film, the physically deformed "freaks" are inherently trusting and honorable people, while the real monsters are two of the "normal" members of the circus who conspire to murder one of the performers to obtain his large inheritance.

Reaction to this film was so intense that Browning had trouble finding work afterwards, and this in effect brought his career to an early close. Because its deformed cast was shocking to moviegoers of the time, the film was banned in the United Kingdom for thirty years."
-wikipedia