MAD LOVE - the 1935 horror romance classic as part of our Peter Lorre Halloween Double Feature with The Beast With Five Fingers
Oct 29 thru 31
Tue to Thu 3:00, 6:45pm
Dir. Karl Freund - 1935 - 70m
A HAPPY HALLOWEEN DOUBLE FEATURE (THAT'S A 2-MOVIES-FOR-THE-PRICE-OF-ONE, YOU FOOL GHOUL !!) WITH THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS!
In his American feature-film debut, Peter Lorre turns in one of his creepiest performances as a renowned plastic surgeon whose sadistic obsession with an actress drove him over the edge of sanity. Dr. Gogol (Lorre) is in love with his Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), an actress whose appearance in a Grand Guignol-like horror theater has mesmerized him. She quits the theater to travel with her concert-pianist husband. Stephen (Colin Clive), enraging Gogol. But when Stephen's hands are crushed in a train accident, Yvonne turns to Gogol as a last resort. Motivated by sadistic intentions, Gogol secretly replaces Stephen's hands with those of a guillotined murderer, hoping that the operation will send Yvonne rushing into his arms as the murderer's hands take on a life of their own. Mad Love is one of the most chilling horror stories every put on screen, lending a macabre twist on themes of requited love and jealously.
"A hugely successful example of '30s horror style at its most unhinged and portentously Germanic, and also a nasty, insightful chunk of pulpy psychological study." - Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy
"Fascinating, ultra-creepy tale." - James Sanford. Kalamazoo Gazette