Erle C. Kenton
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The couple goes out once together, to see the 1932 Island of Lost Souls, after which Paterson compares Laura to the feral, fractured-English-speaking Panther Woman.
The weekend feels no different, except when the couple go to a movie: an old horror flick, “Island of Lost Souls” (1932), which is pretty much the opposite of their domestic routine.
Here it feels like a tic left over from the 20th century — something he all but acknowledges when Paterson and Laura go out to see the 1932 “Island of Lost Souls” at a movie theater.
One night, Paterson and Laura go to the movies to see 1932’s “Island of Lost Souls.”
The jangle of the digital present is all but absent here; even when Paterson and Laura go to the movies, it's a revival of the 1932 horror classic Island of Lost Souls.
At one point, Paterson and Laura go to a local cinema to watch Charles Laughton in Island of Lost Souls , but you can’t really see why movies would matter in these people’s lives.
The film's ersatz moral, about the dangers of tampering with nature, harks back to The Lost World (1925) routed through King Kong (1933) and Island of Lost Souls (1932), though there's more soul to be found in any Kong close-up than in this film's overplayed reactions.
I know him primarily as a horror-movie fan who, I'm told, reads some of the genre magazines I've written for, which makes it not surprising to find assorted clips from The Old Dark House and The Wolf Man and House of Frankenstein in his movie.
Conceptually, it’s not entirely unlike good old Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton) in Island of Lost Souls (1932) wanting to prove whether or not his artificially created panther woman (Kathleen Burke) is a “real woman” — the difference being that his creation was at least organic.
Amusingly, those films were often part of a shared universe, with the monsters crossing over in such efforts as Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man , House of Dracula and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein .
Island of Lost Souls is one of the essential monster movies of the 1930s -- up there with Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), and King Kong (1933).