"Sweeny Todd: Demon Barber Of Fleet Street"(1936) I actually saw this a few weeks ago for the second time and forgot to post about it. This scared me a lot when I saw it the first time as a kid possibly cos this was the early 90s when urban myths about satanism and ouija boards were rife in the UK. Not that this has anything to do with the film but those associations were going through my head at the time. Anyway on second viewing I noticed how sharp the dialogue was and how full of contrasting views it was such are the immortal lines given by the character of Sweeny Todd especially to do with his customers throats lol highly recommended.
On the Subject of Tomb Of Ligeia-I'm surprised that this was faithful to the original "Ligeia" Poe story-its been years since I read it-but I guess I need to read it again I had thought it was more macabre and exciting than the film was-unless I was getting it confused with another Poe story-luckily a friend of mine translated the original latin quotes for me so I'll dig them up as well.
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