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The Film Crowd @thefilmcrowd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#NextOnFC - Long-time #TheFilmCrowd folks know we can't do a #Gothtober without a Barbara Steele movie, and this year is no exception. JOIN US! this Monday, the 12th of October at 8pm BST, for Massimo Pupillo's TERROR-CREATURES FROM THE GRAVE! Link👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLza...

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Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965) — Coffins Open. The Slaughter Begins.

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Research source ‘It’s Alive! The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein’ by Gregory William Mank 1981. #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Still a wonderful dark fantasy, with the monster turned fully into a tragic figure and Pretorius being one of the best screen villains of all time, getting all the best lines. #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lancaster said that the hissing was based on angry swans at Regent’s Park #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So how did they set her hair after getting the bandages off ? #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Brigitte Helm, Maria in Metropolis was a name banded about as a possible choice for playing the Bride #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'I invented the telephone but Alexander Bell ripped off my patent.' #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The original idea was that Elizabeth’s heart would be put in the Bride but this was dropped #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'Mind the steps, they may be slimy' 'What a charming touch.' #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A direction in the script would have had the monster try to free the figure of Christ from the cross in sympathy but was replaced with him knocking over the bishop #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the ad lines for this film was ‘The Monster Talks!’ #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'This is bread. This is wine. This is the after-dinner mint' #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trouble with this scene now, is remembering Young Frankenstein #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The cuts involved removing a subplot with Dwright Frye committing murders and blaming it on the monster and the monster attacking the Burgomaster #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein 2)

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'Mrs Newman. I learned the screams of everybody in the village.' #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'Stab him in this side' 'How mad do you want the censor to get.' #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cut was a baby in a bottle, played by Billy Barty, Pretorius ‘I think this baby will grow into something worth watching’ #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is the implication that these are supposed to be homunculi created by alchemy?#TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'Not only have I created life, they are still in their original packaging.' #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'You will need a coat and take off the fluffy slippers.' #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Whale had originally planned to cast Claude Rains as Dr Pretorius #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'We are not meant to know these things.' 'But unless we know of them, how are we meant to know that we are not meant to know them.' #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Elizabeth is played by Valerie Hobson who would become John Profumo’s wife, during the Christine Keeler 1964 scandal #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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Alice Tirzah Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Monster’s make-up has changed to show fire damage and took about 5 hours to apply #TheFilmCrowd #BrideofFrankenstein

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