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“What knockers!”

Light posting this week as I’m filming some mysterious goings-on Thursday-Friday. But over at Limerwrecks the Halloween countdown continues with a limerick on the last days of Hammer films, a rhyme rhapsodising on Dwight Frye’s performance in FRANKENSTEIN, co-authored with horror host Hilary Barta, and an ode to that most melancholy of monsters, Karloff.

Title from YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, of course, image from LUST FOR A VAMPIRE.

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5 Responses to ““What knockers!””

  1. Hilary Barta Says:
    October 15, 2012 at 2:47 pm

    The one on “that most melancholy of monsters” is something special.

  2. dcairns Says:
    October 15, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    Yeah, I liked doing that one. Unusual emotional depth for doggerel!

  3. Hilary Barta Says:
    October 15, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    I, for one, appreciate the digging.

  4. David Ehrenstein Says:
    October 15, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    There’s a bittersweet melancholy to Karloff in every performance he ever gave.

  5. dcairns Says:
    October 15, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    Even as the Rev. T Vernon Isopod in Five Star Final.

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