#310 - Do Not Fear Boris Karloff

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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We discuss the career of actor Boris Karloff, with a focus on his roles in FRANKENSTEIN and THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG. Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts, THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as well as Will's other podcast MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us)

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0:00.0	Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:09.1	And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club Shocktober edition.
0:14.4	Oh, ho!
0:15.9	Coup!
0:17.1	I want to suck your blood. Rattling chains, rattling chains. Oh, Q. I want to suck your blood.
0:21.8	Rattling chains, rattling chains.
0:23.8	Oh, no.
0:24.5	Look, there's a Frankenstein.
0:26.5	And wait, is that Frankenstein Boris Karloff?
0:31.6	And yes, his name is Frankenstein.
0:32.7	He was created by a doctor named Frankenstein.
0:34.2	And being his son, his last name would also be Frankenstein.
0:36.3	Wow.
0:38.2	Isn't it weird, Will, that we've never talked about Boris Karloff up until now?
0:41.8	It is weird because probably more than any other person, he is the cinematic embodiment of horror,
0:48.3	probably still even. Is that too grand a statement?
0:50.9	No, I think that's a pretty, you know, real statement just because
0:55.7	Frankenstein is probably one of the most iconic monsters that there ever was. But at the same
1:01.6	time, while he acted in hundreds of movies, there's not any particular one that the population
1:07.7	at large would point to and be like, ah, yes, the other great Boris Karloff
1:11.3	performance other than the mummy. And they're just angry that, you know, the actual wrapped-up
1:15.7	mummy isn't in the movie that much. Boris Karloff will forever be immortal for just the image
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