The Unholy Three is noteworthy for a few reasons, although in truth it’s more of a crime thriller or melodrama first, with horror elements second. Ingagi, meanwhile, is mostly just notable as an example of the era’s incredible racial insensitivity, as the tale about African women (white actors in blackface) breeding with monstrous gorillas was indicative of the purportedly “ethnographic” films of the time, which were in reality largely excuses to deliver nudity and sexual suggestiveness on screen under the guise of “education” on foreign/savage cultures.ġ930 Honorable Mentions: The Bat Whispers, The Cat Creeps, Ingagi Although a serviceable example of the genre, the film is remembered by many today as being a potential inspiration for Batman, as cited by the character’s co-creator, Bob Kane, rather than for its other merits. The most notable of the other films is The Bat Whispers, another by-the-books Old Dark House yarn about a masked bank robber/potential monster named The Bat who terrorizes the inhabitants of a country house on a dark and stormy night. Old Dark House movies at least have some representation in 1930, although Rupert Julian’s The Cat Creeps, one of several remakes of The Cat and the Canary, is now considered lost. Several of the films we discuss this year are tenuously “horror” at best. ![]() Instead, things get a lot more obscure, and there really isn’t any classic offering. 12, 1931), it would be the obvious pick for this year, blowing the rest of the competition out of the water. Had Universal’s Dracula but arrived a month and a half earlier (it was released Feb. It’s funny to think that such a fallow year would fall now, of all times-a true calm before the storm, one year before a bumper crop completely transforms the genre in 1931. Put simply, this is one of the weaker overall years in horror history, and probably the weakest year for horror in the (mostly) pre-sound era. ![]() ![]() It’s years like 1930 that make our Century of Terror a genuinely challenging project to undertake. You can see the full list in the master document, which will collect each year’s individual film entry as it is posted. This post is part of Paste’s Century of Terror project, a countdown of the 100 best horror films of the last 100 years, culminating on Halloween.
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