The Haunted Strangler--you know, the one where Boris Karloff transforms into a monster by curling up one arm and sucking in his lower lip? I love this movie! (This from the guy who also loves The Christmas That Almost Wasn't). Sparky got an out-of-print DVD of this and sprung it on me as a "Halloween present".
Watching it again, I realized that Karloff spends the entire movie trying to get arrested. He keeps begging the sheriff to arrest him, but poor Boris is upper-class British and to quote Peter Cushing in Horror Express, "We're not monsters--we're British!" He gets thrown into an insane asylum, he bribes his way out, he gets committed to a different asylum, then goes insane and kills the potato lady, and is finally shot to death for wielding a tiny knife from thirty feet away and is buried right where he fell, and all he wanted was to go to jail.
Poor Boris.
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