The Raven [VHS]
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VHS Movie Reviews of The Raven [VHS]
Movie Review: The Best Karloff/Lugosi team-up!
Summary: 4 Stars
For once, Universal got the casting right, having Lugosi play the megalomaniac villain and Karloff the tortured soul. This is fast paced and fun, giving the viewers exactly what they want to see. Easily Lugosi's most underrated performance, as he plays not a monster but a human being insanely obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe. And who can resist a movie that ends with people trapped in a room with closing walls?Movie Review: The Raven-Outstanding!
Summary: 5 Stars
This film was released on BETA in the early 80s as a double feature with the Black Cat(34).I always have trouble deciding which one is better and I guess I like The Raven a little better than the Black Cat.This film is full of juicy, priceless lines("Do I look different?", "Poe!You are avenged! , "I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!").This film is a lot of fun, and the set pieces involving the torture chamber are very atmospheric and provide an erie atmospherew worthy of Roger Corman's later blood-curdling technicolor Poe films.Movie Review: Good as it gets!
Summary: 5 Stars
This 1935 classic, is just that, a classic. Lugosi has probably his most convincing role - a madman who's out to avenge Edgar Allan Poe. The ending sort of pooter's out, after a huge suspenseful buildup, but it's still worth watching. Karloff gets top billing, but shouldn't have. Lugosi is at his best.Movie Review: Bela at his best!
Summary: 4 Stars
"Death is my talisman" announces a crazed Lugosi to the uneasy looking museum curator seated opposite Lugosi's desk as he recites Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven. The title of this is the only thing that resembles an adaption of a Poe story but forget about that. Enjoy the aristocart of horror Bela Lugosi hamming it up wonderfully as the insane Dr Richard Vollin, driven over the edge after he is denied the love of a beautiful patient he saves the life of. Then when escaped murderer Edmond Bateman (Boris Karloff) turns up for help in transforming his face, the callous Vollin disfigures him. Vollin persuades Bateman to assist him in an act of revenge on the girls father and Bateman reluctantly agrees after the Doc promises to make him "look good". This must have been have been terrfying in its day and perhaps Universals most shocking entry in its series of chillers. Karloff and especially Lugosi are superb and definately one of the latters best roles up there with Dracula, Murder Legendre and Dr Vitus Werdegast. But if you want to see the two horror greats in their best film together check out Universals earlier "The Black Cat".Movie Review: Nobody can act better than Lugosi.
Summary: 5 Stars
Bela Lugosi's performance was so real and so magnificant that he made the film both a horror and a suspensful film. He used his great talent of using his eerie and gothic looks to portray a man who was more than a villian, more than a madman. The Raven is probably the best Lugosi film I have ever watched. In my opinion, I believe that this was Lugosi's first film in which he did portray an evil person. I think that Bela's role as Dracula 4 years earlier was charming than evil. If you are a Lugosi buff, this film is a MUST!