Richard Arlen and Kathleen Burke in Island of Lost Souls (1932)
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Island of Lost Souls (1932) fan art! One of my favorite movies, put it on your great pumpkin list of movies to watch this slimy sleazon!
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Kathleen Burke in a publicity shot for "Island of Lost Souls" (1932)
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Born on this day 110 years ago: actress Kathleen Burke (5 September 1913 – 9 April 1980). She’s almost solely remembered for the 1932 horror movie Island of Lost Souls (tagline: “The Panther Woman lured men on ��� only to destroy them body and soul!”). Sporting the kind of heavy black eyeliner that anticipates Siouxsie Sioux or Exene Cervenka, Burke makes a vivid impression as the sarong-clad Lota the Panther Woman. As a publicity stunt, Paramount Pictures held a competition to cast an unknown in the role of Lota. Burke (a dental assistant from Chicago) entered the contest and beat an estimated 60,000 contestants. Her film career was ultimately fleeting. Burke retired from the screen in 1938, returned to obscurity and died in 1980.
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The Sayer Of The Law by Francesco Francavilla
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Island of Lost Souls:
It’s an adaptation of The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells. It’s about a man who ends up on an island only inhabited by two weird scientists and strange hairy men, who he then finds out are actually experiments created by Dr. Moreau who is surgically turning animals into humans. It’s way better than the book in my opinion. TW for mentions of violence/torture and attempted rape. Bela Lugosi is in it as the Speaker of the Law. There’s an Oingo Boingo song based on it. it’s so good.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari:
Arguably the first TRUE horror film! The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a majorly influential German silent film from 1920, very easily streamed all over the place including YouTube! It had a tremendous impact on German and American cinema, especially in horror and later noir films, and featured fantastical elements of surrealism in its depictions and architecture that are incredibly endearing. The film is a tale of love, hypnotism, and murder. Fantastic plot twist for an early film, and Cesare is very very gender.
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Island of Lost Souls (1932) dir. Erle C. Kenton
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Island of Lost Souls, US lobby card. 1932
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