32 Days of Halloween, Day 2
The Spectre (1925)
The Whole Town’s Sleeping (1955)
When I go galumphing around the internet looking for stuff to share with you for 32 Days of Halloween, I find some really weird stuff. Somewhere a little past halfway on the weirdometer is this, a film from 1925: The Spectre: A Legend of Old New England. This was not only shot in the period rooms of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing, the film itself was also produced and distributed by the Met.
My question is…why? I mean…there’s no information on the Museum’s website as to what this was for. I guess it could have been to show off the American Wing…? Also…distributed to where? Was this shown in cinemas? It’s a mystery locked inside an enigma shoved inside a Twinkie. We may never know.
Next, we go to a 1955 episode of the old-time radio program, Suspense. It’s The Whole Town’s Sleeping. A woman is walking alone at night… but a killer is on the loose! It’s based on a story by Ray Bradbury and stars Agnes “Endora from Bewitched” Moorehead.
A 17th century sorcerer is burned at the stake and promises to return and exact revenge for his death. In 1961, as good as his word, he comes back and is able to transform himself into a brain-sucking beast. It’s the Mexican film The Brainiac (aka El Baron del Terror) and it’s just as whacked out as you might imagine. Enjoy.
