BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD!

RCMerchant · September 29, 2006, 04:59:44 PM

Yes...obviously he's dead! But h is birthday is coming up Oct.20! Bela was born in 1882,which would have made him 124! In honor of this great actor I will review 1 movie a week untill the big day. I'll start with one of my personal (BAD) movie classics....BRIDE of the MONSTER, due Sunday,(so i can rewatch it my leisure tomorrow nite!) So lets raise glass (NO WINE) to Bela LUGOSI!

ulthar · September 29, 2006, 05:27:06 PM

Here's what I *thought* you meant

BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD by BauHaus

White on white translucent black capes
Back on the rack
Bela Lugosi's dead
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time's dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
The count
Bela Logosi's dead
Undead undead undead

RCMerchant · September 29, 2006, 06:39:49 PM

I was AMAZED at the amount of clips of Lugosi related stuff on YOUTUBE . And in comparison to Karloff, who is considered a "serious" actor! Lugosi is my favorite actor,of all genres, of all time. He could be in the worst PRC Z-budget pot boiler,and give it his all (many times hamming it up,just to make it interesting), when Karloff would sleepwalk through roles he fwlt were beneath him. Watching him in DEVIL BAT, BOWERY at MIDNIGHT, MY SON the VAMPIRE (which,incidently, has the same music,sans lyrics as the TALES from the CRYPT tv show!!!),the man always made these enjoyable. Even when he was having drug,maritial,emotional, and finacial problems, he always was LUGOSI. He put on a dam good show! I truly admire the man. It's too bad he died on the verge of his work being rediscovered by a new generation of fans (due to SHOCK THEATER and Famous MONSTERS of Filmland). LUGOSI LIVES ETERNAL!
Yes,my ol' lady thinks I'm a geek. Thank God she's an artist.(We're all nuts.)

raj · September 29, 2006, 08:02:02 PM

Hm, born a week after me. But many, many years before.

ulthar · September 29, 2006, 08:48:04 PM

Hmmm, raj, what day? Mine is the 15th.

Ed, Ego and Superego · September 29, 2006, 10:34:34 PM

Ulthar, I thought the song too. Thats 2 weeks after my birthday. bela and I share the same sign. Groovy!
-Ed

peter johnson · September 30, 2006, 12:18:10 AM

. . . and people forget he did actual comedies as well: A jealous husband in "International House"(1934) with George Burns, Gracie Allen, W.C.Fields, Cab Calloway, Franklin Pangborn, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, and a host of other stars of the day. Cab Calloway and his band play "Reefer Man!", and W.C. Fields gets off an incredible string of very dirty jokes, albeit thinly vieled double-entendre -- see this film if you haven't already. It's so surreal and crazy you won't believe it was made so long ago --
. . . "Ninotchka!", aka "Garbo Laughs" -- he's her Communist boss, and while not as funny as he is in "International House", it still ain't a serious picture --
peter johnson/denny crane

RCMerchant · September 30, 2006, 12:27:35 AM

In Hungary,on the stage, he was a romantic,classicly trained player.The European style of stage acting is what he would do 0n film. That's why he was so effective as Dracula. When Dracula seems not to answer except in off the wall sentences ("CHILDREN of the Night...)He is not commenting on youreality. HE'S COMMENTING ON HIS.

Fearless Freep · September 30, 2006, 02:05:08 PM

In fact, in "Dracula". he basically did the lines in the movie that he had done in the stage show which he learned pheonetically, because he didn't know English

Fearless Freep · September 30, 2006, 02:05:09 PM

In fact, in "Dracula". he basically did the lines in the movie that he had done in the stage show which he learned pheonetically, because he didn't know English

LilCerberus · October 01, 2006, 12:47:38 AM

Kinda OT:

I first heard that Bauhaus song while watching The Hunger.
I came across The Hunger soundtrack earlier this evening on Amazon.
Funny thing, but they're not on it.

Ozzymandias · October 04, 2006, 10:53:23 PM

Ozzymandias speaks: Last week, I attended the retirement party for the man who gave me my first radio job in at the college radio station (KSMU-Springfield Mo). The studio at that time was in an old two-story house on the edge of campus. We were all laughing about run back and forth up the stairs to the upstairs studio.

I said that what saved me many times was a copy of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" that was in a closet full of records next to the studio. I could put that on and run to the bathroom. I also carried with me (we had to bring our own most of our own records) "In a Gadda Da Vida" and "Low Spark of the Highhealed Boys."

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!