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Exhibitionism
Arts Review January 31, 2003
by Robert Faires
Description: Genius and madness are the ac and dc of inventor Nikola Tesla's life, as portrayed in the Rude Mechanicals' biographical tribute Requiem for Tesla, and this new version provides the atmosphere and quickening charge of an old Universal horror film.
"...But the Rudes use these images as an atmospheric jumping-off point; they playfully tell Tesla's story through conventions of Hollywood horror, from the scientist's devoted assistant (Jason Liebrecht scrambling up and down the set's iron bars) to his innocent ingénue (Lana Lesley, the picture of Victorian rectitude in a heavy black dress by Leslie Bonnell) to the eerie keening of the theremin (expertly played by Blair Bovbjerg) to a tesla coil sending bolts of magenta lightning angrily arcing through the space. With Sarah Richardson in a Bride of Frankenstein beehive employing Elsa Lanchester's birdlike jerks of the head as she probes Tesla's psyche and Robert S..."
The Bride of Frankenstein
Film Review June 17, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Remember Gods and Monsters? This is the great horror classic that we observe James Whale on the set filming in last year's loving biopic about the director. It's the one...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: James Whale. Starring: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson and Ernest Thesiger..."
Play It Again, Sam
Screens Story June 3, 1999
"...D: James Whale; with Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester...."
Page Two
Columns October 30, 1998
by Louis Black
"...Again it was Juke who drew him. The next two years, we offered Elsa Lanchester as The Bride of Frankenstein (1984), and Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1985), both by Juke, with Chainsaw actor Ed "The Hitchhiker" Neal modeling how to cut out and wear the Leatherface mask...."
Under the Big Top
Screens Column April 17, 1998
by Margaret Moser
"...Three Ring Circus (11:45pm), a 1954 offering, is the weakest of these five, being largely an excuse to get Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis together in a circus context for laffs. Zsa Zsa Gabor and Sig Ruman costar as does, inexplicably, Joanne Dru and Elsa Lanchester..."
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