#hanna kaapa

[mariocki]

Weird Woman (1944)

"Do you realise that you've been turning the hands of the clock back to the Dark Ages?"

"Norman, some things don't belong to any special age. They're a part of everything and of all time. Forces for good and forces for evil. I did nothing to hurt anyone, only to help you and protect you!"

#inner sanctum mysteries #weird woman #1944 #american cinema #lon chaney jr. #reginald le borg #fritz leiber jr. #brenda weisberg #anne gwynne #evelyn ankers #ralph morgan #elisabeth risdon #lois collier #elizabeth russell #harry hayden #phil brown #hanna kaapa #david hoffman #scott darling #paul sawtell #another delightful entry in the Lon Chaney Jr Has A Terrible Time cinematic universe (one of my favourites) #a strange blend of black magic voodoo whatnot with academic intrigues and melodrama‚ but hey it works! #an awful lot of fun. Lon returns from an expedition with a new wife in tow‚ much to the chagrin of Ankers' deliciously venomous woman #spurned; cue much skullduggery and potential voodoo among the campus set. it's undeniably silly but it's a good time and at an hour #long doesn't outstay any welcome. the treatment of voodoo is relatively non condescending (at least for a 1944 film) and the plot #zips along with multiple fatalities and a wonderfully nasty ending. good old Lon‚ he always has such a tough time in these films #Karloff did tragedy and madness well‚ Lugosi evil and seductiveness‚ but if you need someone to have a dreadful time #and look like a big sad wet cat then Lon is the go to guy every time