go down , death ! is a 1944 race film directed by and starring spencer williams .

the film ’s title derives from a poem by the african-american writer james weldon johnson .

go down , death !

go down death dir . aaron schimberg , 2013 . 87 min . usa .
go down death
is visually stunning and , at times , darkly funny .
go down death by james weldon johnson - famous poems , famous poets . - all poetry
and god said : go down , death , go down , go down to savannah , georgia , down in yamacraw , and find sister caroline . she’s borne the burden and heat of the day , she’s labored long in my vineyard , and she’s tired— she’s weary — go down , death , and bring her to me .
aaron schimberg ’s “ go down death ” is now available digitally via factory 25 . here’s our interview with the director from earlier this year .
go down death theatrical release | dvd | digital | vod catalog no . : ftf - 049 | in theaters : march 28th | director : aaron schimberg | length : 88 minutes | year : 2014
highlighted by offbeat narrative construction , stunning black - and - white 16mm cinematography and immaculately detailed production design , go down death is a distinctively original film informed by american gothic , folk culture and outsider art .
i’m wondering if any other divers hated when kate explained the bcd inflater valve as putting air in if you want to go up and letting air out if you want to go down . no no no .
just google “headphones that don’t go in your ear” and you will find some .
take the right door , go into the warehouse , and drop to your death without boarding the platform . the narrator will applaud stanley for jumping then the game will restart .
an astonishing , out - of - nowhere film . amidst all the cookie - cutter indies , aaron schimberg’s go down death casts a mysterious spell . a dreamy , highly stylized affair recalling early david lynch . highly recommended .
– scott macaulay , filmmaker magazine
this rings true in the poem “ go down , death , ” in which god commands death “to find sister caroline . ” subtitled “a funeral sermon , ” the poem begins with the narrator , an old - time preacher , consoling the family members of sister caroline , assuring them that she is not dead , but simply “resting in the bosom of jesus . ”
a work of latter - day dadaism . . . an expression of the same humanist - horror that tod browning imparted in his pre - code classic freaks . go down death is as eccentric and daring as american indie cinema gets .
– matthew campbell , starz denver
the slow , secret death of the six - string electric . and why you should care .
the make headsets that go in front of your ears and the vibrations allow you to here .
aaron schimberg ' s go down death is one of the strangest films ever , and then the last fifteen minutes happen . some call him lynch , some say madden , but sooner than later you’ll just be saying schimberg .
– christopher bell , indiewire ' s the playlist / vivoscene
the show has
temporarily shut down production
following the accident , amc told fox news .
recently acquired by factory 25 , the film became available this week on various vod platforms , including itunes and amazon . we got a chance to talk to schimberg , asking about the genesis of “go down death” as well as his influences , the structure of the film , and its fantastic ending .
irresistible ! evokes the great novels of william faulkner , even as go down death offers us a resolutely modern filmic experience . schimberg appropriates the language of cinema and obeys only the rules he sets out for himself . the result is a thrilling leap into the unknown .
– simon laperriére , fantasia
for its first–and only ? –narrative feature run , spectacle is pleased to present aaron schimberg’s staggering debut feature go down death . acclaimed as one of the most distinctive , visually - stunning , and greatest undistributed films of the past year , it sits uneasily among rote indie festival programming . naturally , we feel we make a great pair .
i like this poem because it gives dignity and gravity to the life ( and death ) of sister caroline , who would otherwise go quietly and faintly . that death would ride up “the golden street” through the syrupy heat of georgia to find her shows that no matter the humble conditions one endures in life , everybody achieves the grand finality of an end :
the wages of sin is death and as ye sow , so shall ye reap
. . . sayeth the scriptures !
“the death of the guitar , to paraphrase mark twain , is greatly exaggerated , ” says fender’s chief executive , andy mooney .
bernecker ' s death comes just days after a voiceover actor from the
walking dead
prequel series died in a skydiving accident .
while death and loss will come , ammons will hang on to what earthly pleasures he can while time allows . finally , the poem ends on a sublime note , lines written so softly that they should be whispered , full of truth and a love for life and even death :
the next several stanzas mark a dramatic shift in tone : johnson portrays a conversation between god and death with the high drama and ethereal imagery of a baroque painting , with death riding his white horse out of the “shadowy place” and through the deep south to claim sweet old ms . caroline .
what it tells us : arya lets littlefinger see her steal the note because she wants him to think she is planning to take down sansa .
dci / the bends is bad . it is worth avoiding at every turn . at best , it is painful and debilitating , and at its worst , it can kill you . what it isn’t , though , is an automatic death sentence , which is what “47 meters down” seems convinced of .
death , where is thy sting ? i answer the heroic question , with ' it is in my heart and mind and memories . ( maya angelou )
it eventually does . however , the line holding the cage breaks , sending lisa and kate straight down the ocean , inside the cage . they eventually hit what appears to be the ocean floor , 47 meters down from the top of the ocean . lisa is freaking out , and kate has to calm her down . they are too far down for them to hear taylor on their radio . so , kate ends up having to leave the safety of the cage to swim to where she can get in touch with taylor on the radio . she eventually reaches taylor who tells kate that he is going to send javier down with a cable to bring the cage back to the surface . but , he warns kate to stay in the cage because of the sharks .
in an episode dedicated to the show within the show , “glow” illustrates its grand capacity for storytelling , and the very good tv podcast breaks down how .
there’s only one issue that still bothers me…isn’t it supposed to be excruciatingly cold down there ? ( just to put another wrench in their odds of surviving . . )
there’s a lot of opposition to this storyline – but there is some sense in it . let’s go through the scenes one by one to try and sort it out :
“there are a lot of not - easy times that they go through as teenagers , ” she says , “and having music in her life , it’s been a savior . ”
amc told fox news on thursday - - before bernecker ' s death was confirmed - - that the network was
keeping john and his family in our thoughts and prayers .
the coweta county coroner ' s office told fox news stuntman john bernecker died wednesday evening of
blunt force trauma
after he suffered a fall . his death has been ruled accidental .
lisa begins looking at the wound on her hand and notices that the blood from it is blowing off into the wind , instead of flowing down her arm . she begins to hear taylor ' s voice , and it is revealed that lisa has been hallucinating everything after kate ' s death . she is still pinned against the cage . still hallucinating that she ' s talking to kate on taylor ' s boat , she says that they are finally free as she begins laughing hysterically . on the radio , taylor tells her that she is hallucinating , but that the coast guard is there and they are coming down to help her . lisa sees the coast guard coming down to help free her . as they help her out of the cage , she begins to come back to her senses . tears roll down her eyes as she and the coast guard make their way back to the surface safely .
go down death is a wry , sinister realization of a strange new universe , a cross - episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by the fictitious writer jonathan mallory sinus . an abandoned factory in brooklyn stands in for a decrepit village haunted by ghosts , superstition and disease , while threatening to buckle under rumblings of the apocalypse . soldiers are lost and found in endless woods , a child gravedigger is menaced by a shapeshifting physician , a syphilitic john bares all to a young prostitute and a disfigured outcast yearns for the affections of a tone - deaf cabaret singer .
take the right door , go left in the open door , use the elevator inside the maintenance room . taking this route leaves the narrator confused as to which direction to go . after opening and closing two doors in stanley ' s face , he opens a garage door that leads to the monitor room . in successive restarts , stanley will always end up in the monitor room .
- a great emotional and spiritual write that emphasizes that death only leads to rest in the bosom of the lord jesus for his beloved souls and others living need not weep for this happy event .
all news organisations will scramble to get films on air and obituaries online . at the guardian , the deputy editor has a list of prepared stories pinned to his wall . the times is said to have 11 days of coverage ready to go . at sky news and itn , which for years rehearsed the death of the queen substituting the name “mrs robinson” , calls will go out to royal experts who have already signed contracts to speak exclusively on those channels . “i am going to be sitting outside the doors of the abbey on a hugely enlarged trestle table commentating to 300 million americans about this , ” one told me .
these well - laid plans have not always helped . in 2002 , when the queen mother died , the obit lights didn’t come on because someone failed to push the button down properly . on the bbc , peter sissons , the veteran anchor , was criticised for wearing a maroon tie . sissons was the victim of a bbc policy change , issued after the september 11 attacks , to moderate its coverage and reduce the number of “category one” royals eligible for the full obituary procedure . the last words in sissons’s ear before going on air were : “don’t go overboard . she’s a very old woman who had to go some time . ”
neither of them have weight belts , if you have tried diving with even a slightly wrong weight in salt water you will know that if you go up a little bit the air expands making you go up faster , making even more air expand and you have an uncontrolled ascent . the blonde haired girl when going up to 40m to radio in would have shot straight to the surface if she hadnt put rocks in her bcd .
we just dove to 143ft , and many others do the same in the blue hole in belize . granted , we could only spend a few minutes at that depth , but it’s by no means some instant death sentence .
the population will slide between sadness and irritability . in 2002 , 130 people complained to the bbc about its insensitive coverage of the queen mother’s death ; another 1 , 500 complained that casualty was moved to bbc2 . the tv schedules in the days after the queen’s death will change again . comedy won’t be taken off the bbc completely , but most satire will . there will be dad’s army reruns , but no have i got news for you .
take the right door , go into cargo room , take the lift across without jumping , unplug the phone in the phone room . the narrator shows stanley a hilarious video about choice . return to the two doors room .
bernecker was working on the set of season 8 when he fell more than 20 feet onto a concrete surface , deadline reported . bernecker was reportedly treated at atlanta medical center , a level 1 trauma center , before his death .
fever dreams can be scarring . however , if you’re filmmaker aaron schimberg , you can take that harrowing dip into the subconscious and make it into the fine , singular work “ go down death . ” his debut film follows a few lives in a desolate village ravaged by constant bombing and unending trauma , changing character perspectives frequently — ranging from a child gravedigger to a disfigured gambler — but always maintaining its utter strangeness . it’s also sort of an anomaly in the independent scene , having been shot on 16mm black & white and utilizing both sets and scale models . we saw it last year and raved about it , claiming it “will trouble and beguile the subconscious long after you’ve moved on . ”
obey everything the narrator tells you to do , but follow the escape sign instead of going in the mind control facility . you will end up in a long corridor . the narrator will continually say that the end of the corridor will lead to your death , trying to convince you to turn back . reaching the end causes you to fall into a death trap that slowly brings you towards a large crushing machine just before stanley meets his death at the hands of the machine , a female narrator takes over and frees stanley , giving him a chance to look inside a museum containing beta elements from earlier in the game ' s production , elements from other endings , and content that was cut from the game .
my daughter - in - law printed this out on the evening of my wife ' s death . it is an awesome statement . it reached the the deepest part of my soul . thank you james . would like to have known you .
after that , the female narrator tells the player that the only way to save stanley is to quit the game , but staying put will have the metal jaws crush stanley to death , leaving the screen blank and truly forcing one to restart .
some years ago—never mind how long precisely—my friend ashley was walking down the street , to get to her next mortuary science class at um - twin cities . it was a windy autumn morning . the wind blew this poem into her hands .
the film is quite aware that the more time the characters spend underwater , the lower their air reserves get . but what “47 meters down” completely and spectacularly ignores is that , with scuba , depth is incredibly relevant to the rate of air consumption . with increasing depth and increasing ambient pressure , the air you breathe on scuba becomes more dense . but because the volume of your lungs doesn’t change , you end up using a greater volume of your overall air supply with every breath , the deeper you go . with every additional atmosphere of pressure , the air you breathe is compressed to half the original volume . so , at 2 atmospheres ( about 10 meters below the surface ) , your lungs take in air that is twice as dense as it would be at the surface , meaning you will go through your air twice as fast . at 47 meters down , a person is experiencing 5 . 67 atmospheres , which means they blaze through their air at nearly six times the rate they would at the surface .
listen to the narrator , but go down the stairs instead of up . stanley will enter a never - ending paradoxical loop of rooms . as stanley walks through the rooms without end , he begins to question everything , believing himself to be in a dream . he imagines himself to be a bird and to be flying through a star field in space , and then believes the narrator is just a voice in his head , but then he realizes that he is not dreaming and ends up screaming for help , dropping dead .
in scuba diving , one of the first things you learn is how to combat this pressure upon descent using equalization techniques . this is particularly important for the ears , because if you reach a mere several meters down and fail to equalize any of that pressure pushing in , you can be dealing with a serious amount of pain , ruptured eardrums , and even irreversible hearing loss . the only real way to avoid discomfort is to descend slowly and equalize as you go , and by slowly , i mean half a meter at a time .
my favourite issue was when the second tank arrives and it has an a - clamp fitting . her tank has a din fitting yet when she swaps tank the tank is suddenly a din . maybe a kindly shark popped down with an allan key and removed the insert 😂😂
at that point , the entire ui layer was wiped clean and it was all hands on deck to get luna ready to show in january . late nights , early mornings . palm feared sprint ' s reaction to being told that it was abandoning and rewriting a significant portion of the platform with just a half year to go , so sprint executives were told that it was just a
reskinning .
when sprint had previously been shown prima , they ' d only seen a locked - down version of the phone application , so they were none the wiser .
every day for the month of april , we’ll share a poem that speaks to us . to share your own favorite , email hello @ urltoken , and tell us a little bit about why you love it . and to read a daily poem from the atlantic archives , go here .
gotta remember it is a movie , is for entertainment . there hasn’t been one shark movie that doesn’t exaggerate things if i wanted to see a real shark’s behavior or learn how to dive i would watch animal planet or go to the classes . it’s not realistic but that’s the point .
today , like every other day , we wake up empty and frightened . don’t open the door to the study and begin reading . take down a musical instrument . let the beauty we love be what we do . there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground .
and yes , no need to go all the way to 47 meters ( not like most of the american watching public knows how deep that is anyway ) . the fact that they went into dive more than 40 - 50 feet when totally unprepared and surrounded by sharks would have been enough .
listen to the narrator until he reaches the boss ' s office . quickly enter and leave the boss ' s office , making sure the doors are closed . all doors behind stanley will be open ( including the executive bathroom ) ; go back towards stanley ' s office . a door will be open right in front of his office . ( if you go back to your office and close the door , you cannot reopen the door again ) . upon entering the door , you will be teleported to a long staircase . after you go far enough there will be a sign warning the player that both the narrator and the player need to be present in order for escape sequence to play out as intended . the narrator was disabled earlier on , so stanley couldn ' t escape . like in not stanley ending the narrator needed stanley but he wasn ' t controlled by the player .
15 . cooper spends the entire movie trying to get back to his daughter … and his daughter spends the entire movie yearning to be reunited with him . he spends two minutes with her … and then then they both agree he should split to go have presumed only - guy - on - the - planet sex with brand ?
that’s the number of months it took palm , inc . to go from the darling of international ces 2009 to a mere shadow of itself , a nearly anonymous division inside the hp machine without a hardware program and without the confidence of its owners . thirty - one months is just barely longer than a typical american mobile phone contract .
hen people think of a contemporary royal death in britain , they think , inescapably , of diana . the passing of the queen will be monumental by comparison . it may not be as nakedly emotional , but its reach will be wider , and its implications more dramatic . “it will be quite fundamental , ” as one former courtier told me .
great poetry can do many things—challenge us intellectually , show us beauty , allow us to inhabit the gray areas of language , entertain us . this poem does all those things for me , but it also gave me comfort in a time of loss , and in its ending lines i found wisdom on how to live in light of death and loss .
when mcknight launched a video series on youtube , he did an episode called “is taylor swift the next eddie van halen ? ” he wasn’t talking about technique . he was talking about inspiring younger players . the video series , in the end , grew faster than guitar sales or lessons . earlier this year , mcknight shut down his store .
disobey the narrator to the end ; take the right door , go into the warehouse , take the lift and jump onto the catwalk . take the blue door 3 times . stanley will walk into a large room that the narrator had not finished building yet ; developer textures ( orange and white tiles ) can be seen along the walls around stanley .
on d + 1 , the day after the queen’s death , the flags will go back up , and at 11am , charles will be proclaimed king . the accession council , which convenes in the red - carpeted entrée room of st james’s palace , long predates parliament . the meeting , of the “lords spiritual and temporal of this realm” , derives from the witan , the anglo - saxon feudal assembly of more than a thousand years ago . in theory , all 670 current members of the privy council , from jeremy corbyn to ezekiel alebua , the former prime minister of the solomon islands , are invited – but there is space for only 150 or so . in 1952 , the queen was one of two women present at her proclamation .
a wonderful teacher once broke down the word “translate” into its latin parts : trans + latus , “to carry across , ” to ferry meaning from one side to another . for me , this sparked an interest in how translations vary , how the shift of one word or an alternate choice of phrase can profoundly change the music of the poem , or its resonance .
“he would burst open the screen door and try to do the dishes with you , ” carloss said . when her children played in their sandbox , ernie would plop his front hooves down next to them . carloss took ernie to compete in shows throughout the state , where he would strut around with a sequined browband . “he stole everybody’s heart , ” she said .
the pre launched in the us on june 5th , 2009 , making good on the
first half of 2009
guidance issued at ces . just days later , longtime ceo ed colligan stepped down and made way for jon rubinstein , who ' d already been deeply involved with the company in his role as executive chairman . the changing of the guard was complete .
the parallels with the unease that we will feel at the death of elizabeth ii are obvious , but without the consolation of britain’s status in 1901 as the world’s most successful country . “we have to have narratives for royal events , ” the historian told me . “in the victorian reign , everything got better and better , and bigger and bigger . we certainly can’t tell that story today . ”
but that’s what enthralls keats—the eternal , resplendent pause . anticipating a moment , my teacher proposed , may be more of a thrill than the moment itself . it’s the breath pressing in your ribs before a long exhale , the wait at the top of a coaster before the plunge down . keats revels in this instant before the end . he wishes he could linger there longer .
shortly after kate escapes the cage , she swims towards the surface a bit ( up to 40 meters ) so she can get in range of the boat , allowing her to use her mask communications system to notify captain taylor that they are still alive down there . kate tells taylor that she has 55 bar left ( that’s only one - quarter of a tank ! ) . taylor then advises kate and her sister stay down in the cage at 47 meters and wait until they can pull the whole thing up somehow , because if they go to the surface while fleeing the sharks , they will get the bends and they will die ! this is a ludicrous flipping of priorities . yes , decompression illness can be dangerous , even fatal in some cases . but you know what’s 100 % fatal ? not having any air to breathe . taylor advising kate and lisa to sit tight at 47 meters and race through their air rather than take a risky ascent is like your doctor telling you to stop drinking any and all water because there might be lead in it . yes , technically lead poisoning is not ideal , but perishing from dehydration is quite a bit worse .
taking the right door will prompt further
narrative contradiction ,
and when you enter the left door , the meeting room will have been destroyed and distorted . the narrator shuts down the game and goes on a rant about how stanley destroyed his work . he is cut off by a sudden restarting of the game , with stanley reappearing in front of the two doors after returning from the cargo room .
once the cage begins to plummet to the seafloor , lisa and kate begin to experience increasing pressure . as more and more seawater stacks up above them as they sink , the pressure exerted on their bodies by all this water goes up . every 10 meters or so of seawater produces the same amount of pressure as the entirety of the earth’s atmosphere at sea level . so , at 10 meters down , a person experiences 2 atmospheres of pressure . 20 meters down , it’s 3 atmospheres , and so on . all that squeezing doesn’t do a whole lot to your solid , fleshy parts—but it does a lot to air spaces . gas is compressible , and as the pressure mounts , the air - filled sinus cavities , interior parts of the ears , inside of the mask , and lungs are all impacted .
i like learning to science and truth behind things occurring in movies and comparing them to what is shown in the movie…but… this entire article is so negative and has such a snarky sanctimonious tone that it was hard to enjoy . it’s a movie . it’s supposed to be an escape and about impossibilities and fun to watch . there’s a way to dissect fact from fiction without being so bitter lol simmer down .
take the right door , go into the warehouse , take the cargo lift across without jumping and answer the phone in the phone room . this teleports stanley in front of what appears to be his apartment , but when he opens the door , expecting his wife , he finds a robotic mannequin . attempting to leave instead of entering his apartment prompts the narrator to block stanley , forcing him to enter his apartment . as the screen tells the player to press a specific button , the apartment around stanley begins to change into his office ( in some cases the apartment will remain the same if you pressed other buttons than stated to push , however , there is still no way to progress through the story line meaning the player will still have to restart ) while the narrator tells stanley the story of the death of a man named stanley .
on the aesthetics , i love the way the poem moves . it starts with the commonplace idea that the people an older person knows begin to die off to the point that funerals take over their social calendar , much the way younger people seem to spend the summers of their late 20s and early 30s attending an endless string of weddings . the poem then pivots from its resigned stance toward the inevitability of loss and death :
i think it’s sarton’s parsing of what “dead center” is—a celebration of the blood that keeps on pumping , through loss and cold and “leaps into the dark , lovers unkind , ” alongside an acknowledgement of mortality ( “temperature zero , and death on my mind” ) —that brings me back to these stanzas over and over again . there’s a certain comfort in thinking about self - reliance as a matter of flesh and blood and breath .
3 . cooper ( matthew mcconaughey ) gives his daughter murph ( mackenzie foy ) a soothing explanation of the origin of murphy’s law . this isn’t actually true . the term means pretty much what you thought it meant — if anything can go wrong , it will ( like , for instance , your dad taking off for 80 years , leaving you behind to eat corn with dust sauce ) . speaking of : cooper shows up randomly at nasa and suddenly he’s piloting the craft ? if he’s so ideal for this incredibly important earth - saving mission that’s just about to happen , and even knows the professor , and is just a day’s drive away , you would think they might have already known he was working the farm down the street and reached out to him . did nasa not have a pilot before he showed up ?
it’s only after arya and sansa’s first staged argument that littlefinger asks winterfell’s maester to find the incriminating message sansa sent to robb , where she asked him to bend the knee to her evil fiancé joffrey baratheon , after her father was accused of treason and awaiting execution by the lannisters . by taking the ‘bait’ of this message , arya is tricking littlefinger into thinking she wants leverage with which to take down sansa .
and indeed , the talent came to palm in droves . with the original iphone having already shipped , people were tempted by the prospect of a new challenge . rubinstein was selling his old industry contacts and co - workers on the opportunity to go out and make the next blockbuster consumer product . andy grignon , rob tsuk , and rich dellinger , to name a few . matias duarte , who ' d done stints at danger and helio , was hired to lead palm ' s ui design after considering and turning down a position at google with former danger boss andy rubin . from microsoft , ruby brought in mike abbott to run the software team . palm ' s acquisition of a startup called lampdesk , founded by manu chatterjee ( who ended up creating palm ' s touchstone accessory ) and former pixo employee greg simon , closed in early october .
the tulips are too red in the first place , they hurt me . even through the gift paper i could hear them breathe lightly , through their white swaddlings , like an awful baby . their redness talks to my wound , it corresponds . they are subtle : they seem to float , though they weigh me down , upsetting me with their sudden tongues and their color , a dozen red lead sinkers round my neck .
kate goes back to the cage and tells lisa what taylor told her . after some time has passed , they see a flashlight in the distance , which they deduce is javier . since kate is running low on oxygen , lisa decides to go and bring javier to the cage . lisa swims out to meet javier but is suddenly ambushed by a shark . she is able to hide inside a small cavern of rocks , but the shark still tries to get her . the shark eventually leaves , and lisa continues swimming towards the flashlight . she reaches a drop - off point , where the ocean continues heading down . but , she continues heading out to the flashlight , even though she cannot see anything below her . she eventually reaches the flashlight but does not see javier . javier appears out of nowhere , but suddenly he is attacked by a shark and killed .
before they go into the cage , taylor informs them of the equipment , which includes a meter that tells the user how much oxygen they have left . after louis and benjamin take their turn in the cage , kate and lisa get into it . they are lowered into the water . they don ' t see any sharks , so taylor has his first mate , javier , throw some fish blood into the water to attract the sharks .
meanwhile , the pre wasn ' t the blockbuster that everyone had been hoping for . the decision to launch as a sprint exclusive was frequently cited as a killer , but the situation may have been exacerbated by a bizarre ad campaign that featured a vaguely unsettling , ghostly woman urging viewers to
just go with the flow
— it was strange enough , in fact , that it inspired a string of parody videos that circulated the internet .
the company blew out remaining touchpad inventory for as little as $ 99 , a move that one employee we spoke to called a
joke .
at that point , it was nothing more than a dead tablet walking . ( demand for the $ 99 touchpad was so strong from internal sales to hp employees alone that it brought down the company ' s entire public e - commerce system , which shared the same infrastructure . )
on the conference calls and around the table will know each other . for a narrow stratum of the british aristocracy and civil service , the art of planning major funerals – the solemnity , the excessive detail – is an expression of a certain national competence . thirty - one people gathered for the first meeting to plan churchill’s funeral , “operation hope not” , in june 1959 , six years before his death . those working on london bridge ( and tay bridge
of course , it should go without saying that the depiction of shark behavior is all wrong , too . just as with “the shallows” , there’s no way great whites would behave like this , even if they were offered up a couple of completely clueless , tasty humans . but that doesn’t even matter in the grand scheme of things ; if this movie were true to life , mandy would never have gotten the chance to worry about the sharks .
geidt will contact the prime minister . the last time a british monarch died , 65 years ago , the demise of george vi was conveyed in a code word , “hyde park corner” , to buckingham palace , to prevent switchboard operators from finding out . for elizabeth ii , the plan for what happens next is known as “london bridge . ” the prime minister will be woken , if she is not already awake , and civil servants will say “london bridge is down” on secure lines . from the foreign office’s global response centre , at an undisclosed location in the capital , the news will go out to the 15 governments outside the uk where the queen is also the head of state , and the 36 other nations of the commonwealth for whom she has served as a symbolic figurehead – a face familiar in dreams and the untidy drawings of a billion schoolchildren – since the dawn of the atomic age .
taking the left door will allow the game to proceed as normal ( sans the option to go downstairs , with the railing blocking the entrance to do so . ) instead of a keypad to access the mind control facility , you are presented with a voice box in which stanley must speak the password . he is unable to do so , and the narrator launches on a tirade about entering the right door and
doing whatever the hell you wanted
.
this is where the decision only to show us scenes of disagreement between sansa and arya comes to fruition . surprise ! littlefinger’s been busted – he’s done himself out of a job by trying to pit the starks against each other . not only have arya and sansa been working to take him down , but they’ve also had bran to help . littlefinger’s tricks don’t work on the starks , and he’s reduced to begging for mercy . he gets none .
having plans in place for the death of leading royals is a practice that makes some journalists uncomfortable . “there is one story which is deemed to be so much more important than others , ” one former today programme producer complained to me . for 30 years , bbc news teams were hauled to work on quiet sunday mornings to perform mock storylines about the queen mother choking on a fishbone . there was once a scenario about princess diana dying in a car crash on the m4 .
switchboards – the palace , downing street , the department of culture , media and sport – will be swamped with calls during the first 48 hours . it is such a long time since the death of a monarch that many national organisations won’t know what to do . the official advice , as it was last time , will be that business should continue as usual . this won’t necessarily happen . if the queen dies during royal ascot , the meet will be scrapped . the marylebone cricket club is said to hold insurance for a similar outcome if she passes away during a home test match at lord’s . after the death of george vi in 1952 , rugby and hockey fixtures were called off , while football matches went ahead . fans sang abide with me and the national anthem before kick off . the national theatre will close if the news breaks before 4pm , and stay open if not . all games , including golf , will be banned in the royal parks .
i recently heard this performed by wintley phipps . amazing ! my precious husband went home to be with jesus on january 26 , 2009 and my momma on april 20 , 2006 . this describes so very well how i have felt about death since coming to know jesus christ as my personal savior . it is such a comfort to those of us who have said a temporary ' see you later ' to those whom we love so dearly . what a blessing to have found this !
a bar owner attempts to discredit the new preacher with whom he is feuding by framing him with a photograph showing him drinking with women with bad reputations . the bar owner ' s adoptive mother , a member of the minister ' s church , supports the preacher and gets the photographic prints . when the bar owner struggles with his mother for the prints , he accidentally kills her . after the preacher ' s funeral sermon , the bar owner ' s conscience drives him to his death .
outside , news crews will assemble on pre - agreed sites next to canada gate , at the bottom of green park . ( special fibre - optic cable runs under the mall , for broadcasting british state occasions . ) “i have got in front of me an instruction book a couple of inches thick , ” said one tv director , who will cover the ceremonies , when we spoke on the phone . “everything in there is planned . everyone knows what to do . ” across the country , flags will come down and bells will toll . in 1952 , great tom was rung at st paul’s every minute for two hours when the news was announced . the bells at westminster abbey sounded and the sebastopol bell , taken from the black sea city during the crimean war and rung only on the occasion of a sovereign’s death , was tolled 56 times at windsor – once for each year of george vi’s life – from 1 . 27pm until 2 . 22pm .
she uses the spear gun to reach the oxygen tank . she eventually is able to get it and changes oxygen tanks , giving her more air . she begins hearing a voice on the radio and discovers it ' s kate , she ' s still alive . lisa decides to use her scuba gear to lift the cage , getting her free . she swims out of the cage and finds kate , with a very bloody wound on her leg . they talk to taylor and tell him that they are going to try to swim to the top . he tells them to go for it , but not to go too fast or else they will die , due to oxygen bubbles going straight to their brain . they use the flares to ward off the sharks , which works . as they get halfway , they have to stop to decompress for five minutes . as the flare burns out , kate grabs another one but drops it . lisa grabs the last flare , and as she lights it , four or five sharks are circling them . they continue to fend the sharks off with the flare . when they get to the top , they swim to the boat . taylor , louis , and benjamin begin to help them back into the boat . suddenly , lisa is grabbed by a shark . she starts picking at its eye with her fingers , which works and it lets her go . lisa and kate are helped back into the boat .
in greek myth , eurydice is a tragic object of love . when a fatal snake bite sends her to hell , her husband orpheus won’t let her go , so he leverages his musical talents into a deal with hades and persephone : he may take eurydice back to earth , and life , with him if he goes in front and doesn’t look back at her along the way . but , afraid she is not really there , he does look back . and she is lost forever .
nitrogen narcosis affects people differently , sometimes not at all . despite having gone down to 50 m myself ( both in the water and in a hyperbaric chamber ) , i can’t really say i’ve ever felt intoxicated ( or ‘narc’d 😉 ) , but i’ve seen some people totally lose it . however , being narc’d has led to a number of divers suddenly thinking they either don’t need their reg , or the fish they’re looking at could use it , and they end up drowning .
in theory , everything is settled . but in the hours after the queen has gone , there will be details that only charles can decide . “everything has to be signed off by the duke of norfolk and the king , ” one official told me . the prince of wales has waited longer to assume the british throne than any heir , and the world will now swirl around him at a new and uncrossable distance . “for a little while , ” wrote edward viii , of the days between his father’s death and funeral , “i had the uneasy sensation of being left alone on a vast stage . ” in recent years , much of the work on london bridge has focused on the precise choreography of charles’s accession . “there are really two things happening , ” as one of his advisers told me . “there is the demise of a sovereign and then there is the making of a king . ” charles is scheduled to make his first address as head of state on the evening of his mother’s death .
last month , mcnulty — one of the last senior staff who ' d been around for several product release cycles after the departures in january — called it quits along with other key members of hp ' s enyo team to go to google . sources tell us they ' ll head to the chrome group , where they ' ll rub shoulders with many former co - workers including luna architect greg simon . of course , android ' s matias duarte won ' t be far away , either .
more than 50 years after her death , it’s difficult to untie sylvia plath’s poetic legacy from her sensational , tragic trajectory : a troubled poet who succumbed to her mental illness . and yet , she was so much more than those last days : a fulbright scholar , self - aware and brilliant , with a voice that’s evocative , turbulent , and unflinchingly confrontational . like hundreds of other young women , i turned to plath , with her pure , fearless authenticity , to ferry me through the tangle of growing up .
once stanley reaches the baby game , he continues to press the button to save the baby . after 2 hours , the narrator will add another game , one where stanley ( you ) have to save a puppy from piranhas by pressing another button in front of the first one . in order to beat both games , stanley has to go back and forth to press both buttons . after a total of four hours playing , stanley will be brought to a white room where he will see the divine art .
the next morning , the two sisters meet up with louis and benjamin who take the two to meet taylor . taylor is the captain of an old boat , which houses a rusty shark cage . taylor asks the two sisters if they ' ve ever been scuba diving before , which both claim they have . louis and benjamin are the first two to get into the shark cage . they get in and are lowered into the water . lisa and kate go into another room and get fitted into scuba gear .
for several years , the palace has been discreetly trying to ensure charles’s succession as head of the bloc , in the absence of any other obvious option . last october , julia gillard , the former prime minister of australia , revealed that christopher geidt , the queen’s private secretary , had visited her in february 2013 to ask her to support the idea . canada and new zealand have since fallen into line , but the title is unlikely to be included in king charles’s proclamation . instead it will be part of the discreet international lobbying that takes place as london fills up with diplomats and presidents in the days after the queen’s death . there will be serious , busy receptions at the palace . “we are not talking about entertaining . but you have to show some form of respect for the fact that they have come , ” said one courtier . “such feasting and commingling , with my father still unburied , seemed to me unfitting and heartless , ” wrote edward viii in his memoirs . the show must go on . business will mix with grief .


frankenstein meets the wolf man is a 1943 american monster horror film produced by universal studios starring lon chaney , jr. as the wolf man and bela lugosi as frankenstein 's monster .

this was the first of a series of " ensemble " monster films combining characters from several film series .

this film , therefore , is both the fifth in the series of films based upon mary shelley 's frankenstein , directly after the ghost of frankenstein , and a sequel to the wolf man .

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the climactic transformation scene from frankenstein meets the wolf man ( 1943 ) . urltoken
frankenstein meets the wolf man currently holds a 25 % maximum approval on rotten tomatoes .
larry grows nicely here , by the way , and frankenstein meets the wolf man is a natural progression from the wolf man . well , minus the frankenstein part .
frankenstein meets the wolf man has been made available on vhs , dvd and is a bonus feature film on the wolf man legacy collection dvd .
frankenstein meets the wolf man currently holds a 25 % approval rating on rotten tomatoes . [ 5 ]
columbia ' s return of the vampire was the ( unauthorized ) dracula meets the wolf man .
ilona massey bela lugosi lon chaney jr in movie art for the film ' frankenstein meets the wolf man ' , 1943 .
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frankenstein meets the wolf man - this serves as the 5th in the frankenstein series and a sequel to the wolf man . don ' t expect a big all - out war like freddy vs . jason or alien vs .
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the 2009 film house of the wolf man is a tribute to frankenstein meets the wolf man and universal ' s other
monster mash
films and also features a climactic clash between frankenstein ' s monster and a werewolf .
two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering dracula , the frankenstein monster and the wolf man .
1961 magazine cover depicting the climactic battle between frankenstein ' s monster and the wolf man .
the wolf man appeared last in his own 1941 film , the wolf man , while the frankenstein monster appeared last in ghost of frankenstein . they both appear next in the 1944 film , house of frankenstein .
fortunately for universal horror fans the wolf man and the monster live to fight another day . unfortunately for the pickier universal horror fans , frankenstein meets the wolf man slaughters continuity and hacks at the larger cycle of films .
ilona massey and lon chaney jr in ' frankenstein meets the wol . . .
the opening of frankenstein meets the wolf man appears ominous . two grave robbers break into the tomb of larry talbot , the wolf man . the film follows the violent journey of the wolf man as he searches for the whereabouts of frankenstein . the wolf man discovers frozen in the ice , frankenstein ' s creature , who he sets free . he meets with baroness elsa frankenstein , who leads him to frankenstein ' s life work the secret of life and death . frankenstein ' s secrets are revealed , and the characters prepare to continue his gruesome work .
frankenstein meets the wolf man ' with lon chaney , bela lugosi , patric knowles and ilona massey
. march 6 , 1943 : p . 38 .
frankenstein meets the wolf man originated as a jest by curt siodmak , writer or co - writer of a few films we’ve talked about this month : the invisible man returns ( 1940 ) , the wolf man ( 1941 ) , and invisible agent ( 1942 ) .
the wolf man asks one of dr . frankenstein ' s descendants to find a cure for lycanthropy .
further proving the importance of the wolf man to universal monster history is that in all of the 1940 sequels including 1943’s frankenstein meets the wolf man , 1944’s house of frankenstein , 1945’s house of dracula , as well as in 1948’s abbott and costello meet frankenstein , multiple actors play different versions of dracula , the mummy , frankenstein’s monster , the invisible man , etc .
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ironically , frankenstein meets the wolf man began as nothing more than a joke by screenwriter curt siodmak . siodmak had just written the screenplay for universal ' s mega horror hit , the wolf man , released in 1941 . george waggner had produced and directed the film .
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waggner took him up on his idea and announced his new writing job was indeed to be frankenstein meets the wolf man , on the very day payment fell due for his car .
frustrating or not , the dvd version of the frankenstein : complete legacy collection included frankenstein ( 1931 ) , the bride of frankenstein ( 1935 ) , son of frankenstein ( 1939 ) , the ghost of frankenstein ( 1942 ) , frankenstein meets the wolf man ( 1943 ) , house of frankenstein ( 1944 ) , house of dracula ( 1945 ) , and abbott and costello meet frankenstein ( 1948 ) , plus extras .
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in short , this is the moment where the wolf man became the agent coulson of 1940s cinema .
frankenstein meets the wolf man : bela lugosi as frankenstein ' s monster and lon chaney , jr . as the cursed wolf man collide in one of the great classic horror films of the 1940s . beginning as a moody chiller , director roy william neill sets the stage for an unforgettable clash . the resurrected wolf man , seeking a cure for his malady , enlists the aid of mad scientists patric knowles , who claims he will not only rid the wolf man of his nocturnal metamorphosis but will also revive the frozen body of frankenstein ' s inhuman creation .
an evil scientist and his hunchbacked assistant escape from prison and encounter dracula , the wolf man and frankenstein ' s monster .
frankenstein meets the wolf man is a universal horror movie from 1943 . it is a cross over sequel for both the wolf man 1941 and the ghost of frankenstein and it is universal ' s first monster mash film . it is today also recognized as the film that established the first
shared universe
by establishing that the four preceding frankenstein films , along with the wolf man existed in the same universe . later universal films would also add the three dracula films and a version of the invisible man to this shared universe .
’s financial success repeated itself when it was released on video cassette . in new york in the fall of 1986 , nearly all the new york stores sold out of their copies of frankenstein meets the wolf man .
happy birthday to frankenstein meets the wolf man . i cannot find an earlier fictional character crossover in film history . two monsters for the price of one . a colossal battle royale for the ages . sure , frankenstein may meet the wolf man , but more importantly , frankenstein ' s monster battles the wolf man . the film was released seventy years ago today , march 5 , 1943 , and remains one of the best known and best loved of universal studios ' famous monsters films .
frankenstein meets the wolfman balances its weenies with precision . the competing storylines are given almost exactly the same amount of screen time .
i really love this film , one of the best in the frankenstein and wolf man series imo . but one thing i have always wondered about is that it really isn ' t dr . frankenstein who meets the wolf man , but the monster . were they calling the monster frankenstein , even though he is supposed to be nameless ? the same can be said about house of frankenstein , abbott and costello meet frankenstein , and other films . i think these are reasons why a lot of people think frankenstein is the name of the monster . i suppose it does sound better than the frankenstein monster meets the wolf man , but still it can be confusing to some people . what are your opinions on this and the film in general ?
frankenstein meets the wolf man , a universal studios production , was directed by roy william neill . the film came to movie theaters in the united states on march 5th , 1943 . curt sidomak completed the original screenplay as the writer .
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sounding more like comic - book japes than a serious classic monster film , frankenstein meets the wolf man is surprisingly good . anecdotal evidence from screenwriter curt siodmak suggests the idea was initially presented by him as a joke to producer george waggner as he needed a new car . “i was sitting down at the universal commissary having lunch with [ him ] and i said , ‘george , why don’t we make a picture frankenstein wolfs the meat man – er , meets the wolf man ? ’”
the sound score from the wolf man , composed by charles previn , hans j . salter and frank skinner is revisited in this film and is often regarded as a de facto theme song for the wolf man .
availability : frankenstein meets the wolf man has been released numerous times on dvd ; some version is available from amazon or possibly your local video store / library . the film can also be rented or purchased through the major digital services .
there are several inconsistencies in terms of continuity between this film and the next . in frankenstein meets the wolf man , the primary setting is known as vasaria and is the location of frankenstein castle . it should be noted that this is the castle estate of ludwig frankenstein , not the watchtower laboratory of henry frankenstein . in house of frankenstein , the spelling of the village is changed to visaria , but castle frankenstein has now been returned to its original location in frankenstein village . as per house of frankenstein , it is a three day journey by carriage from frankenstein village to visaria .
i really love this film , one of the best in the frankenstein and wolf man series imo . but one thing i have always wondered about is that it really isn ' t dr . frankenstein who meets the wolf man , but the monster . were they calling the monster frankenstein , even though he is supposed to be nameless ? the same can be said about house of frankenstein , abbott and costello meet frankenstein , and other films . i think these are reasons why a lot of people think frankenstein is the name of the monster . i suppose it does sound better than the frankenstein monster meets the wolf man , but still it can be confusing to some people . what are your opinions on this and the film in general ?
in son of frankenstein , frazzled bathrobe comes out and admits that the great unwashed have already started referring to the monster by the name , frankenstein .
promotional photo of the creature ( bela lugosi ) and the wolf man ( lon chaney , jr . ) .
desperate to entice audiences to its waning horror series , universal decided to combine two of its most popular monsters - - frankenstein ' s monster and the wolf man - - thus creating one sequel for two films : the ghost of frankenstein ( 1942 ) and the wolf man ( 1941 ) . inexplicably alive after having been bludgeoned to death in the wolf man , lawrence talbot ( lon . . . read more
final verdict : ugh . the addition of lon chaney jr gives this movie a much needed boost , but overall frankenstein meets the wolf man is not nearly as fun as its title suggests . the final battle takes up literally seconds of screentime .
crossover : this was the very first occasion in which characters from two previously unconnected films had met in such a way , thereby retroactively creating a shared universe in which frankenstein 1931 , bride of frankenstein , son of frankenstein , the ghost of frankenstein and the wolf man 1941 existed .
frankenstein meets the wolf man ( 1943 ) is one of the earliest and most celebrated versus movies , though the title suggests the wolf man ( played for the nth time by lon chaney jr . ) is simply inviting friends around for tea . they are hardly seen together at all until the castle - set finale , with the wolf man taking on an anti - hero role and defending the human characters against bela lugosi’s monster . in typical fashion , it’s an even fight , as the wolf man’s agility clashes with the monster’s pure strength until they both perish in a climactic flood . well , until house of frankenstein ( 1944 ) .
the dog called “bruno” in the film is actually lon chaney jr’s dog , moose . chaney adopted the dog from the universal lot after moose played the wolf that bit him in the original “the wolf man” .
most crossover films pitting various characters from different series against each other are misleading , as they almost always ultimately favor one of the various attractions . once a bunch of commercially viable elements are bunched together for one property , so to speak , decisions of dramatic emphasis must be made . frankenstein meets the wolf man , for instance , while serving as the fifth of universal studios’ 1930s - and 1940s - era frankenstein films as well as a direct sequel to the wolf man , is really the wolf man’s movie .
frankenstein meets the wolf man ( 1943 ) . universal monster team - up . stars : lon chaney jr , bela lugosi , ilona massey . director - roy william neill . moria - the science - fiction , horror and fantasy film review .
count dracula and the wolf man seek cures for their afflictions ; a hunchbacked woman , a mad scientist and frankenstein ' s monster have their own troubles .
final appearance of maria ouspenskaya as maleva . maleva previously appeared as the maternal figure to larry talbot in the wolf man .
frankenstein meets the wolf man is a poor follow - up to the ghost of frankenstein , the continuity of which is fragmented at times and thoroughly discarded at others . curt siodmak’s then unique premise does , however , allow for exceptional insight regarding the larry talbot character , whose journey from carefree young man to tortured soul reaches its darkest destination in this chilling installment .
this is univeral studios ' fifth ' frankenstein ' film and the sequel to 1941 ' s ' the wolf man ' ; interesting attempt to have a . . .
marvel and dc are two of the most popular cinematic universes , but universal ' s wolf man started it all .
the monster begins to carry elsa away , but the wolf man attacks him , and she escapes from the castle with mannering . the wolf man and the monster then engage in a fight until they are both swept away in the flood that results when vazec dynamites the dam .
a direct sequel to the wolf man , frankenstein meets the wolf man wastes no time in establishing an eerie atmosphere . specifically , an assortment of grave markers and dead trees combine with the luminosity of a full moon , thereby encompassing the talbot mausoleum with a haunting picture of death , decay , and symbolic lunacy—all elements that serve to foreshadow the tormented existence of larry talbot following his “rebirth” via moonlight .
consequently , lugosi is onscreen literally for only a few minutes , leaving the wolf man as the film ' s primary focus .
while lugosi lacked the elevated cheekbones , sunken features , and narrow jawline for which the monster is usually identified , frankenstein meets the wolf man will nonetheless appeal to fans of the latter character in its title . especially commendable is chaney’s nuanced acting , which reinforces the incredible concept of a man at war with his primal instincts—the true conflict underlying siodmak’s narrative .
larry talbot , the wolf man is back from the dead years later and is looking for a cure . talbot discovers that victor frankenstein can cure him and seeks him out , only to find frankenstein ' s creation .
even the geography is a muddle since the monster resides in the vaguely swiss village of vasaria in both ghost and frankenstein meets the wolf man . and yet , when dr . niemann thaws him out ostensibly “six years later” in house of frankenstein , the village is now titled “village frankenstein , ” while niemann seeks to take larry , the monster , and the whole brood to his old lab…in vasaria .
and here plays a bit part as the mayor . lon chaney jr became famous as the wolf man in 1941 , played the monster in
after being awakened , larry talbot chips frankenstein ' s monster out of a block of ice . when talbot changes to the wolf man , the two creatures battle each other .
lon chaney jr . stars as the unfortunate larry talbot , who gets bitten by a werewolf and survives to carry the curse . in frankenstein meets the wolf man , larry seeks out dr . frankenstein to help him lift the curse , but encounters the doctor ' s monster ( bela lugosi ) instead , which leads to a classic showdown .
as chaney himself indicated , the best monsters are motivated by factors beyond their control and elicit compassion from audiences as a result . frankenstein meets the wolf man contains the quintessential example of such , with one of its eponymous characters working to end his life and thus permanently kill the beast within .
bela lugosi as frankenstein ' s monster and lon chaney , jr . as the cursed wolf man collide in one of the great classic horror films of the 1940s . beginning as a moody chiller , director roy william neill sets the stage for an unforgettable clash . the resurrected wolf man , seeking a cure for his malady , enlists the aid of mad scientist patric knowles , who claims he will not only rid the wolf man of his nocturnal metamorphosis but will also revive the frozen body of frankenstein ' s inhuman creation .
screenwriter curt siodmak claimed that during a lunch in the studio commissary he had joked to producer george waggner that he had a great title for a new film in the series ( half - heartedly — he needed a down payment for a new car ) :
frankenstein meets the wolfman ,
which he mispronounced as ' frankenstein wolfs the meat man ' . waggner , not known for a casual sense of humor , left to have his lunch ; shortly thereafter , he called siodmak to his office , telling him to
go ahead , buy the car .
dumbfounded but pleased , the writer went to work . thus that next film was frankenstein meets the wolf man , which served as a sequel both to the wolf man and the ghost of frankenstein .
this , actually , is an extremely faithful direct sequel to the wolf man for the first half hour . once they get to frankenstein territory , then it ' s something else again .
in the wolf man , larry talbot , played by the legendary lon chaney jr . ( frankenstein meets the wolf man 1943 , dracula vs . frankenstein 1971 ) , returns home in llanwelly , wales ; he looks to rekindle his relationship with his estranged father only to learn of his brother’s death . it is there where he falls in love with gwen conliffe , an antique shop owner , played by evelyn ankers ( son of dracula 1943 , the invisible man’s revenge 1944 ) . talbot purchases a silver - headed walking stick decorated with a wolf to strike up a conversation with her . gwen tells talbot that the creature on his walking stick represents a werewolf , a man who changes into a wolf at certain times of the year .
frankenstein meets the wolf man has the skeletal structure of a really great movie . the concept is compelling , the story is solid , the cast is excellent , and the production quality is well above the “b” status the movie was given . what hamstrings this movie is the bewildering decisions made during the editing of the footage , particularly in regards to bela lugosi’s characterization of the monster .
oh , ain ' t that the truth . i can recognize the faults of frankenstein meets the wolf man . i freely acknowledge that it ' s not a patch on , at least , the two james whale frankenstein films . still , i think i could watch fmtwm once a week for the rest of my life and never tire of it . some of this has to
second and final horror film for hungarian actress ilona massey . she previously appeared in the 1942 movie the invisible agent . this is the second frankenstein film to feature the character of elsa frankenstein . the character was previously played by evelyn ankers in ghost of frankenstein . ankers also worked with lon chaney , jr . in the wolf man .
four years after his death in the wolf man , larry talbot ( lon chaney jr ) is awakened from his slumber when two vagrants open his grave . after instantly transforming into a wolf man and killing one of them , he finds himself in cardiff , wales .
after the monster lustfully carries off elsa , the wolf man attacks him , she runs out of the castle with mannering . the wolf man and the monster then engage in a fight until they both get swept away in a flood that results after the local tavern owner blows up the town dam to drown the castle ' s inhabitants .
aborted arc : all references to the ending of the ghost of frankenstein were cut , which keeps the monster as the man child it was portrayed before .
up to that point , there is nothing wrong with the movie . nothing at all . matter of fact , the first third of frankenstein meets the wolf man is , i think , nearly the equal of anything universal ever made . and i’m not talking about it as a “fun” movie , but as a genuinely great piece of filmmaking .
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frankenstein meets the wolf man doesn’t quite live up to its title of two popular monster meeting for the first time , but it provides a great continuation of larry’s story with a serious look into his horrific search for an end to his torment . seriously , check this one out . you’ll be in for a pleasant surprise .
screenwriter curt siodmak claimed that during a lunch in the studio commissary he had joked to producer george waggner that he had a great title for a new film in the series ( half - heartedly — he needed a down payment for a new car ) :
frankenstein wolfs the meat man
. waggner , not known for a casual sense of humor , left to have his lunch ; shortly thereafter , he called siodmak to his office , telling him to
go ahead , buy the car .
dumbfounded but pleased , the writer went to work ; thus that next film was frankenstein meets the wolf man , which served as a sequel both to the wolf man and the ghost of frankenstein .
so very nearly a perfect film , frankenstein meets the wolf man is still infinitely better than many of its critics , at the time or since , will deign to admit . lambasted for being the first of the monster line - ups , and therefore the beginning of the end of the classic monsters , it’s hard to see where , by 1943 , they were going anyway .
stuntman eddie parker is usually credited as lugosi ' s sole double , but his primary stunt role was thought to be that of the wolf man .
outside , vazec decides to go through with his threat . he places a roll of dynamite at the base of the nearby dam and lights it . the explosion causes the dam to collapse and millions of gallons of water flood the valley , destroying frankenstein castle . the wolf man and the frankenstein monster are presumably killed in the flood .
after the ezboard deluge , the dam indeed is destroyed , the waters have subsided and the barest remnants of the laboratory castle remain . somewhere , perhaps frozen in ice , may be the bodies of the wolf man and the frankenstein monster . but hundreds of posts about this wonderful film have been washed away by the ezboard hacker and we must , like the villagers before us , rebuild . so let ' s continue with the discussion . is there a more fun movie in all of universal ' s classic canon than frankenstein meets the wolf man ? i think not . david ' frank ! you ' re making him strong again ! '
with so much history surrounding it , what is next for the wolf man legacy now that the universal monster will be rebooted and share the same universe ? well , the good news is that fans may be allegedly getting a wolf man film sometime in 2019 , although , no set release date as of yet . exciting enough , there is still no substitute for the real thing , and seventy - five years later , the wolf man still reigns as a landmark piece of horror cinema .
the first of what would come to be known as the universal monster rallies , frankenstein meets the wolf man is arguably one of the stronger horror films of the genre , and certainly the best of the multi - monster mashes . with an excellent cast generally , and a superlative performance by lon chaney , the film , directed by roy william neill , is at times visually stunning and beautifully scripted .
after dracula kills his first target , neimann moves on to castle frankenstein to locate the good doctor’s records . he also finds the monster and the wolf man , frozen in ice following their battle at the end of the previous movie . he manages to revive the wolf man , but the monster remains comatose . enlisting larry talbot’s ( lon chaney jr . ) aid , neimann returns to his lab to commence resurrecting the monster .
complicating matters even further , the full moon rises in the night sky . larry talbot transforms into the wolf man just as the frankenstein monster breaks free of his straps . the monster approaches elsa who faints as she tries to get away . he picks her up , but the wolf man leaps upon his back , forcing the monster to drop the baroness . as the two creatures begin fighting against one another , the baroness and doctor mannering flee the castle .
disc one – frankenstein ( 1931 ) – this is exactly the same disc that was released in 2012 . it includes the film in hd , along with the frankenstein files ( sd – 44 : 53 ) , karloff : the gentle monster ( sd – 37 : 58 ) , the monster tracks trivia track , universal horror ( sd – 95 : 26 ) , frankenstein archive ( sd – 9 : 24 ) , the boo ! short film ( sd – 9 : 30 ) , audio commentary with rudy behlmer , audio commentary with sir christopher frayling , trailers for frankenstein , the bride of frankenstein , the ghost of frankenstein , frankenstein meets the wolf man , and house of frankenstein ( sd – 8 : 23 in all ) , and 100 years of universal : restoring the classics ( hd – 9 : 13 )
in llanwelly village , two graverobbers break into the talbot family tomb . they crack open the casket of lawrence talbot , believing that he had been buried with large sums of money . as the coffin lid rises , the light of the full moon shines through . larry talbot is resurrected as the wolf man . the wolf man pounces on top of one grave robber , freddy jolly , as the other manages to crawl out of the tomb through a window above the vault . the wolf man escapes and goes to nearby cardiff where he kills a police constable .
siodmak had found his weenie . the monster had been killed four times at the end of four of his own films . but the frankenstein monster wanted to live . he wanted to live , as badly as the wolf man wanted to die . the monster had to find baron frankenstein , to keep him alive forever .
universal ' s a - team of horror talent behind the camera was in full force for the making of frankenstein meets the wolf man . john b . goodman and martin obzina created some excellent sets , including the remarkably eerie graveyard featured in the film ' s opening . george robinson provided his usual superb camerawork , with some nice use of shadows in the film ' s atmospheric first half .
dark universe’s core creatives are the mummy director alex kurtzman , chris morgan ( producer behind the fast and the furious franchise ) , christopher mcquarrie ( mission : impossible rogue nation director ) , and david koepp ( writer of 2002’s spider - man ) . the tom cruise - starring the mummy will be the first out of the gate , followed by bride of frankenstein and the invisible man , with the potential wolf man and van helsing film to follow .
siodmak was having lunch in the universal commissary one day , so the story goes , when he jokingly suggested frankenstein meets the wolf man as the title for a new movie to producer george waggner . waggner , who apparently didn’t have much of a sense of humor , took siodmak seriously and assigned the project to the writer . siodmak needed money for a down payment on a car and so took the job .
in this fifth film in universal ' s
frankenstein
series , larry talbot , alias the wolf man , is brought back to the land of the living . the anguished talbot commiserates with gypsy lady maria ouspenskaya , who advises him that the only way he ' ll stay dead is to confer with dr . frankenstein .
it was going to be difficult enough to continue the saga of his own creation , the wolf man , but he also had to find a way to integrate the frankenstein monster ( in its fifth film appearance ) into the story . the wolf man had ended with larry talbot ' s father beating larry to death with a silver headed cane . to death . he beat him to death . larry talbot was dead .
frankenstein meets the wolf man was directed by roy william neill , who’s probably best known for this movie and for directing most of the basil rathbone and nigel bruce sherlock holmes films . all but two of the holmes pictures were b - movies , but it was hard to tell due to the immense care , love , creativity , and attention neill infused into each outing with the great detective .
i ' ve always liked the idea of lugosi playing the monster in this film . at the end of the ghost of frankenstein , ygor ' s brain is slapped into the monster ' s body . so , for the monster to physically transform and look more ygor - ish , is kind of a cool idea . even though chaney had a decent enough turn at playing the monster in the ghost of frankenstein , he truly had to play the wolf man . lon chaney jr . is lawrence talbot . he is the wolf man .
well , of course , there was a sequel - - in a basic sense , at least - - in house of frankenstein . by that point , it wasn ' t so much a matter of sequels asa continuing series . frankenstein meets the wolf man was itself a sequel to both the wolf man and ghost of frankenstein . i ' m sure someone at universal said ,
well , what next ? let ' s throw dracula into the mix too .
unfortunately ( in my opinion ) , they didn ' t
mix
at all . just made a movie in which each monster got his own separate story . bad move .
frankenstein meets the wolf man is the first of universal’s crossover monster movies , and it isn’t nearly as confident in scope or pace as the subsequent house of dracula or house of frankenstein , which sent a variety of monsters and a collection of spurned avengers and creators scuttling on a series of overlapping adventures . this film follows a cautious , uncertain narrative , evenly bifurcating its plot so that it’s theoretically half a wolf man movie and half a frankenstein movie . in the first half of the story , talbot is released from his tomb by grave robbers and captured by doctors . in the second half , he tracks down the ruins of the frankenstein castle , yearning to discover a secret to life and death that can enable him to commit suicide and end his werewolf curse .
so let ' s continue with the discussion . is there a more fun movie in all of universal ' s classic canon than frankenstein meets the wolf man ? i think not . i agree wholeheartedly . depite its re - editing and offbeat casting of the monster , i always thought this was the highpoint of atmosphere and fun in universal ' s ' 40s horror films . i love the orchestration of the familiar themes as well as the original music . and - as my friend john brunas once said so well ,
it ' s the wolf man ' s finest hour !
it would certainly be less of a stretch , in the matter of maleva’s acquaintances and also in keeping the supernatural and the scientific in their own worlds , if the wolf man met dracula rather than the monster .
universal had high hopes that frankenstein meets the wolf man would be a blockbuster and it didn ' t disappoint . the film premiered at the rialto theater on broadway , march 5 , 1943 and was popular enough to run from 8 : 30 am to nearly 4 : 00 am . the film scored heavily at the box office in other theaters across the country and was universal ' s top horror attraction of 1943 .
the movie is at its best in the beginning , with a phenomenal scene where lon chaney ' s wolf man is revived from the dead , but after that it gets a little lost .
rick wrote : well , of course , there was a sequel - - in a basic sense , at least - - in house of frankenstein . by that point , it wasn ' t so much a matter of sequels asa continuing series . frankenstein meets the wolf man was itself a sequel to both the wolf man and ghost of frankenstein . i ' m sure someone at universal said ,
well , what next ? let ' s throw dracula into the mix too .
unfortunately ( in my opinion ) , they didn ' t
mix
at all . just made a movie in which each monster got his own separate story . bad move .
while mary shelley ' s frankenstein takes place in the 1790 ' s , it can be hard to identify when the universal frankenstein films . . .
the good news is , following the success of universal’s 2012 4k restorations of dracula , frankenstein , and the bride of frankenstein , the studio began restoring the sequels films in 2015 – an effort that is apparently continuing this year and next . the first fruits of this work have just been released in the form of new blu - ray disc upgrades of the frankenstein : complete legacy collection and the wolf man : complete legacy collection ( see our review of the latter set here ) .
the first of universal’s monster mashups , this is a solid sequel to the wolf man , but an underwhelming entry in the frankenstein saga . despite the fact that a good deal of the movie takes place at casa de frankenstein , and we get introduced to another of the doctor’s progeny in baroness elsa frankenstein , this movie is pretty uneven for a team - up ( btw do any of these siblings know each other exist ? ) .
siodmak apparently had little interest in the films predecessor , the ghost of frankenstein , choosing to ignore that movie ' s ludwig in favor of the original henry frankenstein from the original classic , thus creating an inconsistency that would plague the succeeding frankenstein sequels for the rest of the series .
the last outing for the frankenstein monster was , the ghost of frankenstein . through a devious plan , ygor ( bela lugosi ) had his brain placed into the body of the frankenstein monster ( played by lon chaney jr . ) by one of dr . frankenstein ' s sons , ludwig . the frankenstein - ygor - monster was then quickly dispatched in a burning building . the frankenstein monster , it should be noted , was blind and spoke with ygor ' s voice at the end of the film .
in order to put the wolf man and the monster through further film adventures , scripter curt siodmak has to resurrect the former from a tomb , and the frankenstein creation from the ruins of the castle where he was purportedly killed . but he delivers a good job of fantastic writing to weave the necessary thriller ingredients [ … ]
reading from the journal , they determine that both the frankenstein monster and the wolf man are effectively immortal . however , if they could bleed off the electrical energy from the creature ' s body , they might succeed in destroying it . talbot hopes that perhaps this same process might also work on him .
the period 1931 - 41 was a great era of horror . during this period , universal created a body of classic monsters  frankenstein , dracula , the invisible man , the mummy and the wolf man . however , by the mid 40s , the war had forced cutbacks in terms of budget and personnel shortages and universal compensated by churning out a series of sequels featuring their famous monsters and then , beginning with
it is all so unapologetically absurd in its quest for audience appeal and entertainment ( and money ) that it’s a wonder the crossovers only were relegated to frankenstein , dracula , and the wolf man . strangely , the mummy never showed up in these pictures , nor the invisible man . purportedly , the invisible man and the ape woman were set to appear in house of frankenstein when it was originally entitled the devil’s brood , however it seems that even in 1943 , there were concerns with overstuffing a film with too many characters . perhaps marvel should take notes after that second avengers .
however , what it lacks in nutrition , son of frankenstein makes up for in fat globs of sweet cheese . the opening scene where the mayor of frankenstein meets with the mob is hilariously matter of fact , lugosi chews all the scenery he can , the monster kills plenty of people and smashes a lot of furniture , and the climax puts the bang in slam - bang .
patric knowles , who plays the role of doctor frank mannering in this film , also played the part of chaney ' s romantic foil , frank andrews in the wolf man . this was knowles ' final horror film .
power , whether in super strength or knowledge , maintains a great role within the film , frankenstein meets the wolf man . the first instance of power occurs with talbot , or the wolf man . his super strength and curse seem supernatural within the narrative . his ability of immunity proves the greatest of strengths . the creature also maintains a supernatural power of immunity and super strength . the creature becomes unleashed by talbot in the old ruins of frankenstein ' s fortress ; talbot frees the creature from a block of ice . once dr . mannering reads into frankenstein ' s life work , the secret of life and death , he obtains a secret knowledge that explains the supernatural powers from the two monsters . he reads in frankenstein ' s book that energy may be transferred from an indestructible force . he learns that frankenstein ' s creation may have the life of more than a 100 men . dr . mannering abuses this power . when mannering experiments with the transfer of power between the two monsters , he goes against his word because he doesn ' t want to destroy frankenstein ' s creation without experiencing its most powerful state . he decides to super charge frankenstein ' s creation . the two monsters then fight , but the film never explicitly shows the victor .
as ultimately edited and released , frankenstein meets the wolf man is told in two almost equal parts . the opening scenes tell the story of talbot ' s resurrection , killing spree , hospitalization , and escape across europe . much time is spent with a secondary policeman , inspector owen , and on scenes with a desperate talbot hospitalized by dr . mannering . the discovery of the monster and pursuit of dr . frankenstein ' s scientific notes do not begin until thirty - five minutes into the film . the second half introduces the monster , elsa , and the village of vasaria and its inhabitants .
baroness elsa frankenstein and a distressed larry are the special guests at a vasaria festival .
frankenstein meets the wolf man was the first universal monster movie i ever saw . i think i was in the 3rd grade at the time . somehow , i kept missing all the great monster movies that all the other kids were seeing . i ' d show up at school the next day and find out from the other kids that i ' d missed frankenstein or dracula or the mummy the day before . the movies were always the hot topic of conversation on the playground the next day . i knew who all the monsters were , of course . monsters were big in the 1960 ' s and you could find them in toy departments everywhere . well , i came home from school one day and i was the only one home . i guess my mom was out shopping or something . i turned on the tv and what should come on but . . . frankenstein meets the wolf man ! i was in monsterkid heaven ! fmtwm was creepy and cool ! and i still have a soft spot in my heart for it . naturally , i love them all but , this particular movie remains
special .
- gjs
the original cut of the film included dialogue scenes of the frankenstein monster , speaking with larry talbot in the glacial cave beneath the castle .
yeah , a better sequel would have been dracula vs . the wolf man . then i could have dealt with house . as long as lugosi was in all of them . oh , well .
horror films . neill ' s superb staging of the opening graveyard sequence , talbot ' s first transformation scene , and the wolf man ' s murder of the constable rank among the very best moments in all the universal classics . given his outstanding direction on
during larry talbot ' s first transformation into the wolf man , he goes from wearing light - colored night clothes to a dark shirt and pants . when he awakens the next morning , he ' s back wearing the pajamas .
frankenstein actually felt like an extra in this movie , which was a bit of a shame if i ' m honest . . . i have always considered him universals top monster ! as a whole it was decent but compared to frankenstein ' s prior movie efforts and the original wolf man , this just doesn ' t hold a candle to them !
and now returns to play the wolf man again . chaney was a big , lugubrious , hulking actor who only ever came across as dim - witted . as the nominal hero here , he seems simple - minded .
through all those changes , the wolf man was always played by lon chaney jr . he always felt proud of the character , sometimes even saying that the role was his baby . so proud of the character , chaney jr . would eventually return to reprise his role even while severely ill at the time of 1971’s dracula vs . frankenstein . despite never getting another standalone film , it definitely helped give some consistency to the character and it gave fans something to latch on to , but most of all , it gave the wolf man a much more genuine arc .
in order to put the wolf man and the monster through further film adventures , scripter curt siodmak has to resurrect the former from a tomb , and the frankenstein creation from the ruins of the castle where he was purportedly killed . but he delivers a good job of fantastic writing to weave the necessary thriller ingredients into the piece , and finally brings the two legendary characters together for a battle climax .
enjoyable old universal studios sequel with lon chaney , jr . reprising his role as larry talbot ( aka the wolf man ) . bela lugosi is less than spectacular as frankenstein ' s monster but that may have more to do with boris karloff ' s absence than lugosi ' s presence .
luckily , the aftermath was siodmak and chaney’s creation taking an even more central focus as the star of the movie , and soon the universal shared cinematic universe . and no matter what , there’s also not a person alive who cannot grin at frankenstein meets the wolf man ’s grand finale when these mutual masters of malevolence have their much hyped combat in the castle—throwing lab equipment and each other around like a prophecy of wwe shenanigans to come . for matching the sheer gonzo joy of this epic brawl , the ball is in your court , zack snyder .
the opening scene of frankenstein meets the wolf man is the stuff of pure traditional gothic horror films . excellent camerawork by george robinson gives us a single panning shot of llanwelly cemetery as vagrants cyril delevanti and tom stevenson break into the talbot crypt to steal a valuable ring from the corpse of lawrence talbot ( chaney ) , who died some fours previously . they discover the lycanthrope’s body to be strangely preserved , and as the full moon rises and shines through a window , talbot returns to life , murdering one of the grave - robbers as the other frantically flees .
looking at the future of werewolves in horror cinema , the definitive style of the modern werewolf can all look back on the wolf man all these years later . ranging from 1981’s an american werewolf in london , to the howling series , to 1985’s silver bullet , and beyond , there are all touches of the wolf man inside all of them . additionally , all these films have some sort of heartbreak wrapped around there stories where the werewolf ends up meeting death , otherwise they will kill the one they love .
subscribe to trailers : urltoken subscribe to coming soon : urltoken subscribe to classic trailers : urltoken like us on facebook : urltoken follow us on twitter : urltoken frankenstein meets the wolf man trailer - directed by roy william neill and starring patric knowles , lionel atwill , bela lugosi , dennis hoey , don barclay . graverobbers open the grave of the wolfman and awake him . he doesn ' t like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full , so he tries to find dr . frankenstein , in the hopes that the dr . can cure him , but frankenstein is dead and only his monster is alive and this one wants to live , not to die like the wolfman . universal - 1943