{"id":6632,"date":"2015-10-18T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=6632"},"modified":"2015-10-28T22:30:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T02:30:41","slug":"johns-horror-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/johns-horror-18\/","title":{"rendered":"John D’Amico’s Horror on YouTube #18 – The Old Dark House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Old Dark House<\/a>\u00a0(1932) | Dir. James Whale | 72 min.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Every day in October, a recommendation from John D’Amico\u00a0of a horror\u00a0movie or TV episode available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:<\/em><\/p>\n

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James Whale, perhaps the first great horror filmmaker of the sound era, snuck this little ultra-black haunted house comedy in between his masterpieces Frankenstein<\/a> and The Invisible Man<\/a>. It\u2019s not quite up the high bar set by those films, but you\u2019ll find it a short and sweet tale with some really powerful moments and one of the great instances of unpredictable insanity on film.<\/p>\n

Whale’s career is worth following. His horror films were standard-setting but he has some other greats in there too, like the haunting Journey’s End and the agile A Kiss Before the Mirror. You can read the original script for his unmade Dracula sequel here<\/a>,\u00a0and it’s a hell of a story in its own right.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cHltWy2BmVQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The Old Dark House<\/a>\u00a0(1932) | Dir. James Whale | 72 min.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Every day in October, a recommendation from John D’Amico\u00a0of a horror\u00a0movie or TV episode available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1157,5100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-johns-reviews","category-youtubehorror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6635,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions\/6635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}