Island of Lost Souls (1932) by Erle C. Kenton
Sunday, October 30, 1983, 7:30 pm
Halloween Special
The Black Cat (7:30) by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
Island of Lost Souls (8:45) by Erle C. Kenton, starring Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi
The Devil Doll (10:00) by Tod Browning, starring Lionel Barrymore
Three of the most exquisitely stylized and photographed melodramas of confused identity. The Ulmer, his finest big-studio achievement, contains highly charged performances by Hollywood’s two master horror actors. Island of Lost Souls is one of the most subtly erotic films of the period, and Devil Doll is Browning’s penultimate film, a typically macabre fantasy about a maniacal transvestite old-lady murderer.