Things I have seen since I started my pre-Code horror movie kick

handful-ofdust:

forthegothicheroine:

…which I did not expect to see in horror films of the thirties:

• A plucky final girl reporter who asks a cop “How’s your sex life?”
• A guy who got his mouth literally sewn shut for kissing a villain’s wife.
• Bela Lugosi skinning Boris Karloff alive and oh god we don’t see it but he says he’s going to do it and we see the shadows and hear the screams oh my god

Allll truuuue.;)