Island of Lost Souls (Kenton, 1932) & Corruption (Hartford-Davis, 1968):
Roxy Bar and Screen, London Bridge, 4pm
This is screening as part of the Scala Beyond, a six-week season
celebrating all forms of cinema exhibition across the UK, from film
clubs to film festivals, picture palaces to pop-up venues. You can find
more details here at the website.
Chicago Reader review of Island of Lost Souls:
'One of the best-kept secrets in rock criticism is that all of Devo's
original act—from the “de-evolution” rap down to the chant of “Are we
not men?”—was a straight cop from this 1933 adaptation of H.G. Wells's Island of Dr. Moreau.
Charles Laughton, with an obscene caterpillar mustache, is the mad
doctor working on the transformation of animals into (sub)human beings
by means of sickening “surgical techniques”; Richard Arlen and Leila
Hyams are two shipwreck survivors who, unsuspecting, wash up on his
shore. It's a grand, hokey chiller, dripping with sex and sadism and
photographed in dense, Sternbergian shadows by the great cinematographer
Karl Struss. With Bela Lugosi as the leader of the pack, and Kathleen
Burke as the unforgettably insinuating Leopard Woman.' Dave Kehr
Here is the Roxy introduction: The Classic Horror Campaign, Cyberschizoid, Scare Sarah and Filmbar70
return to The Roxy Bar & Screen. Once again we join forces with the
Scala Beyond season to present our homage to the much loved cinema. Recapture those halcyon days of the old BBC2 Saturday night horror
double bills in a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere at one of London’s
premiere boutique cinema venues.
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution,
eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of
mutated, half-human abominations.
Here is the trailer
&
Corruption (1968)
A respected surgeon disfigures his beautiful model wife in an
accident and resolves to retore her beauty. He develops a technique
which involves the use of fluid from the pituitary gland and embarks on a
killing spree to obtain more of the fluid. As events spin more and more
out of control, carnage ensues and the dead bodies start piling up…
Here is the trailer
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