As promised, here comes another DC Movie Comic adaptation of a creaky, old Universal fright film classic (see our previous post for Son of Frankenstein in case you missed it!) And this time it's a spooky detective mystery set in a haunted theatre --where murder hath taken the stage! From the August 1939 issue of Movie Comics #5, "The House of Fear" '39 film (not to be confused with the great Sherlock Holmes movie of the same name from 1945) was actually a silver scream remake of Paul Leni's "The Last Warning" from 1928, which was, in turn, an apparent follow-up to Leni's superb 1927 old dark horror house hit, "The Cat and the Canary" --whew! Fun stuff, and just like the Movie Comics version of Son of Frankenstein, hot pink House of Fear here contains the same condensed, cut 'n paste process of colorized, cropped film stills, combined with added artistic elements to keep things as comic book cartoony as possible.
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I like the Son of Frankenstein a bit more. Better colors, better use of scenery in the stills. This job looks actually harder -- there's a lot of figures to x-acto out and they did and really solid job on it.
It looks like they traced over some images and I like the use of shadows, but they didn't take the time they did in the Frankenstein one to colorize it except for a couple spots. I like the work with the shadows, though.
Never saw this one so I can't comment on changes!
Can I say one thing about these old house movies -- how the hell are these detectives still on the job? To catch a killer they just throw a ton of civilians into the line of fire, and somebody dies here!
I wonder what the death mask effect looked like and why they all illustrated that? Didn't come out well in a still? Looked fake? I wonder!
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