Horror Movies, Old Movies, Best Horror Movies 1930 to 1934 Part 1 Reviews

By 1927, Horror Movies were delighting, shocking, scaring audiences and controversy was beginning to brew.  What effects were these nightmarish ghoulish images having on the public at large?   

Lon Chaney starred in director Tod Browning's macabre tale  The Unknown  1927  in which he played Alonzo the Armless, a carnival knife-throwing performer supposedly with no arms, hopelessly in love with a young woman.  I won't spoil the twists in this highly recommended film.

One of the biggest Broadway hits was the 1927 stage adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring a mysterious hungarian...

As a little girl, I can remember my Mom watching "Chiller Theater", a local Saturday night show which played the "old" horror flicks.  Mostly they were at that time, stuff like "Dracula" with Bela Lugosi and "Frankenstein" with Boris Karloff.  There were lots more but these two stick in my mind to this day.  When I got older, I was allowed to join Mom watching these great old films.  Thus began my lifelong love affair with all horror movies.  These movies are real artistic masterpieces eventhough the special effects were primitve by today's standards.  "Dracula" was the first of the vampire...