Rating: - Totally unwatchable
Hear me people. I love movies, good movies, bad movies, awful movies, A, B, and Z movies. I've seen them all people, but Bluebeard falls into a category that defies description. Ever see a movie from the bottom of the barrel?? Well knock a hole in the bottom of the barrel, start digging, and you'll eventually find Bluebeard.
First of all the picture and sound quality is terrible. The scenes at night cannot be seen, the indoor scenes are so whitewashed, it hurts your eyes. The sound is bad too. But despite all this I could still watch it if it had a good story!!!
This is the most godwaful 'horror' movie I have ever seen. It took me three attempts to finish this movie. I fell asleep the first two attempts and finally finished it on the third. It is not because I wanted to finish it, it was because of the challenge to SEE if I could finish it. This movie spends more time wrapped around the ... Read More
Rating: - Carradine shines in this uneven B thriller
I saw this on a cheap DVD copy, and the film may have lost a bit in translation, but time has not been kind to the soundtrack, the dialogue muffled, and the background music overbearing. Even so, this is clearly a very uneven production saved maily by the two leads and the high notes of artistry within an overall muddy piece.
Carradine is fantastic. This is a great role for him, displaying diverse talents. He is unfortunately not directed with any subtlety, and it is clear that he is the villain from the begginning, so this becomes more a story of "will the villain be redeemed by love?" That makes this film more interesting than a standard thriller.
Jean Parker is really luminous and lovely, and is the only young female in the cast that captures the feeling of the time period. The actress playing her sister is arch and tart enough to be playing a film noir gun moll, and the other young ... Read More
Rating: - To Love or to Kill, That Is the Question
Set against the backdrop of 19th Century France, BLUEBEARD is a black and white movie about a serial killer, named Gaston Morrell (John Carradine), who works as a puppeteer, but is also a talented and troubled artist who strangles his female models upon finishing a picture. Morrell has been attempting to live the simple life of a puppeteer, but his patron, Jean Lamarte (Ludwig Stossel) wants more money and coerces him into painting more pictures. Morrell has fallen in love with a beautiful woman named Lucille (Jean Parker) and Lamarte pursues Morrell to paint her. While Morrell fights with himself, the police race to save Lucille before Bluebeard kills again.
Illustrating the conflict that a disturbed psychopath feels in trying to live a normal life and giving into his murderous urges, BLUEBEARD is a decent movie made and distributed by the Poverty Row studio, Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). ... Read More
Rating: - John Carradine in Ulmer's moody horror classic
One of the more ambitious productions from notorious 'Poverty Row' studio Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), BLUEBEARD features the amazing John Carradine in the oft-fabled lead role.
Gaston (Carradine) is an artist/puppeteer in 19th century Paris who gets his thrills from murdering pretty young models. His newest model Lucille (Jean Parker) learns of Gaston's bizarre desires and decides to ensure his capture. Despite the 'Poverty Row' limitations of it's studio, BLUEBEARD is filled with exceptional photography and lavish production values, largely thanks to it's expert director Edgar G. Ulmer (who directed the 1934 masterpiece "The Black Cat" and whose later credits included "Strange Illusion" as well as "The Strange Woman" with Hedy Lamarr).
Jean Parker (best-remembered as Beth in the 1933 Katharine Hepburn/George Cukor "Little Women") plays Lucille and makes for a strong and vibrant ... Read More
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