NO EARTHLY POWER CAN HELP THOSE WHO ARE MARKED WITH THE SIGN OF THE PENTAGRAM!!!
It is almost like the poster for this movie was created before the movie itself. OK! We have 70 minutes! How do we fit Frankenstein's Monster, Wolf Man, Dracula, a Hunchback and a Mad Doctor, as well as a traveling sideshow, a prison, a band of Roma, and the necessary Burgomeister/Inspector/Traditional Romantic Leads Trifecta not to forget the Requisite Angry Torchbearing Mob into that space…
You know, it would be really quite terrible if we were to find ourselves trapped in the midst of an armed White Supremacist business operation which uses entertainment as a cover for nefarious schemes which sicken and enslave the whole of the culture whilst using non-whites as scapegoats for the damage and hostility which follows, further fuelling their cause, right? right?
When I was an agoraphobic psychotic 13 year old in 1987, my most prized possession was a VHS tape I had made myself by recording David Cronenberg's The Fly and Aliens off of HBO. I watched those movies over and over. I barely went to school that fall. I had not finished the end of 7th Grade because incarcerated in a for-profit psychiatric hospital for children, let out to go to an academic summer program, which was a bad idea…
