And the best Black and White movie ever is:

**Staun** · 09-30-2016

Originally Posted by Shadow

Young Frankenstein
In The Heat Of The Night

In The Heat of the Night, was in color but a great movie non the less.

**FrippWire** · 09-30-2016

My favorite is "It's A Wonderful Life".

**Garden Dreamer** · 09-30-2016

The Invisible Man

**ronmac** · 09-30-2016

Originally Posted by Garden Dreamer

The Invisible Man

Never saw it.

**JKL2000** · 09-30-2016

Originally Posted by Garden Dreamer

The Invisible Man

The Universal one is definitely a favorite of mine. I'd spend the rest of my life in that inn if I could, always a cold, snowy night.

**Jerjo** · 09-30-2016

Looks like for October TCM is going to run Frankenstein films on Sundays and Christopher Lee on Mondays. Fire up your DVRs

**nycsteve** · 10-01-2016

Originally Posted by ronmac

TCM kicks off October in high form Sunday night with "Frankenstein," "The Bride of Frankenstein" and "Son of Frankenstein." The third one (which is actually quite good in its own right) has Lugosi in one of his greatest roles as Ygor. That was the introduction of the Ygor (often misspelled as Egor or Igor) character. As many surely know here, the original lab assistant was Fritz, played by the incomparable Dwight Frye.

Dwight Frye was fantastic in Dracula. "Why should I eat flies when I can have nice juicy spiders? " "Rats ,rats, thousands of rats , millions of rats.............."

**ronmac** · 10-01-2016

Originally Posted by nycsteve

Dwight Frye was fantastic in Dracula. "Why should I eat flies when I can have nice juicy spiders? " "Rats ,rats, thousands of rats , millions of rats.............."

Indeed.

**JKL2000** · 10-01-2016

Originally Posted by ronmac

TCM kicks off October in high form Sunday night with "Frankenstein," "The Bride of Frankenstein" and "Son of Frankenstein."

Thanks, I have all those in the basement somewhere but not sure where, so will definitely record those and have a Frankenfest with the family.

**ronmac** · 10-01-2016

If I'm not mistaken, Christopher Lee is the star of the month. That means movies every Thursday.

**Jerjo** · 10-01-2016

Must be an error on their page - it said Mondays. Wouldn't be the first time their website screwed up.

**ronmac** · 10-01-2016

Originally Posted by Jerjo

Must be an error on their page - it said Mondays. Wouldn't be the first time their website screwed up.

No, I think that's correct. I was thinking that they were doing Thursdays for the star of the month, but I could easily be mistaken.

**Staun** · 10-03-2016

Originally Posted by JKL2000

The Universal one is definitely a favorite of mine. I'd spend the rest of my life in that inn if I could, always a cold, snowy night.

I agree, what a great pub. It's even got the rooms upstairs. Don't know how you would sleep with the boys singing a few choruses. The old lady sure could scream.

**Jerjo** · 10-03-2016

We watched the original Frankenstein followed by Bride of Frankenstein last night. Boy, Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder got a lot of material from those films. Peter Boyle's monster even moaned/growled like Karloff.

**ronmac** · 10-03-2016

Originally Posted by Jerjo

We watched the original Frankenstein followed by Bride of Frankenstein last night. Boy, Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder got a lot of material from those films. Peter Boyle's monster even moaned/growled like Karloff.

They were quite faithful. But, you missed "Son of Frankenstein," which was after the others. Sure, it's only three stars, but that's where they go the inspector with the mechanical arm from.

**Jerjo** · 10-03-2016

I liked the one old bat from the village that was obviously the inspiration for Frau Blucher.

**Lopez** · 10-03-2016

Originally Posted by Garden Dreamer

The Invisible Man

Always got kick out of the scene in which the invisible man strips down naked to escape the crowd and runs across the lawn. Instead of seeing bare foot prints in the snow, we see shoe prints. Maybe the Hayes Code dictated that.

**JKL2000** · 10-03-2016

Originally Posted by Lopez

Always got kick out of the scene in which the invisible man strips down naked to escape the crowd and runs across the lawn. Instead of seeing bare foot prints in the snow, we see shoe prints. Maybe the Hayes Code dictated that.

LOL - never thought of that!

**ronmac** · 10-03-2016

This Friday night on TCM, silent horror classics, beginning at 8:00 pm EST:

Nosferatu (1922)

Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, The (1920)

Unholy Three (1925)

Phantom of the Opera, The (1925)

Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)

Penalty, The (1920)

**-=RTFR666=-** · 10-03-2016

whoah - looks like my Friday night's set - thanks for the heads up

**The Dark Elf** · 10-03-2016

Originally Posted by ronmac

This Friday night on TCM, silent horror classics, beginning at 8:00 pm EST:

Nosferatu (1922)

Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, The (1920)

Unholy Three (1925)

Phantom of the Opera, The (1925)

Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)

Penalty, The (1920)

I own three of those: Nosferatu (strangely enough with David Carradine hosting and a newer soundtrack by Type O Negative), Caligari and Phantom. I've seen Unholy Three (which is a Todd Browning film), but the amazing one is The Penalty, where Lon Chaney plays an amputee, and his legs are actually strapped up behind him with leather thongs. The effect was amazing and was incredibly painful I have read. Much like Chaney using fish hooks to draw back his lips to look skeletal in Phantom of the Opera. Chaney's make up effects are fascinating to read about. No CGI there.

**ronmac** · 10-03-2016

Hexane is probably the most bizarre of all those flicks. It's really intense in some areas. I haven't seen the whole thing yet.

A few samples:

**The Dark Elf** · 10-03-2016

^ The Sabbath scene is certainly a trip, and well-researched. Can't believe they got away with what they filmed. Was it ever shown in the U.S.? Censorship was pretty strict in the U.S. since 1915 when the Supreme Court decided that movies were commerce and not an art, and thus not accorded rights under the first amendment.