If one movie embodied a cinematic trope to its fullest form, that film would be James Whale’s The Old Dark House, a horror entry whose very name has become synonymous with a sub-genre that hundreds of films owe their gratitude to.
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Things to Come (1936) – Review
H.G. Wells’ Things to Come is one of the more interesting early entries in the history of science fiction movies. Unlike films such as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Wells believed that man could achieve Utopia, and not the horrible dystopia or post-apocalyptic worlds we still get in today’s sci-fi movies. H.G. Wells was a socialist who believed…