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Brought to you by the same director of Dracula ( Tod Browning), we get in inside look at carnival life and the people that make it up. A very controversial film for it’ time when released it portrayed all sorts of carnival horrors, from a living torso to Siamese twins. Also included was a shock ending that disgusting many viewers from the 1930’s. Still to this day freaks is an overlooked piece of work that still doesn’t get the respect it deserves.
Another horror icon of years to come was born in 1932 when the Mummy came to life in theaters. The Mummy was played by Boris Karloff who also was famous for being the man who portrayed the Frankenstein creature a year earlier. The Mummy was so successful it inspired four sequels countless spin off and a very well done remake in 1999.
The first and best adaptation of the short story by Richard Connell’s, it’s not exactly horror but it still has a surreal image to it and holds adventure for the viewer. It’s also a very influential film as seen with all of the spin offs with different titles and many films who plots hold the same key values. It’s images of a madman hunting down human beings for his won pleasure was very explicit for it’s time but has tamed down, as with most films from this time period, to not even being comparable with onscreen horrors of today.
White Zombie holds the title for being one of if not the first zombie move every made. That right there is enough for it to be a great influential film, seeing that zombie movies have been a big craze since the late 70’s and they all owe it to this movie that got the ball started. Bela Lugosi plays a voodooist with control over an army of zombies.