[UA] Re: Horror Actors

[Stuart Anderson]

Stevens Dustin wrote:

> ObUA: Obviously, you have an adventure made up of a
> creepy old house where old horror actors; Cushing,
> Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney (Sr. and Jr.), go when they
> die to become zombies, vampires, werewolves, etc. Or
> at least go to be put in make up one last time. Maybe
> PCs follow Lee to the house (an off-branch of the
> House of Renunciation?), then see somebody putting in
> Lee's plastic fangs and burying him in the nearby
> cemetery. The atmosphere is to perfectly duplicate an
> old B&W silent horror movie, including with the
> obvious fake gnarled tree, and dark backdrop. The
> capper is when they all come out of the shadows for
> one last 'bite'.

Holy crap! I saw that picture! Help me out, y'all--it was John
Carradine, Vincent Prince, Karloff, and someone else--Claude
Rains?--Hell, I don't remember. It was one of the arty pictures
the guys put out. I don't even remember the thrust of it. But it
was just a bunch of creepy smart guys sittin around talking.
Jeez--I haven't thought of that picture in years.

> Ok, maybe that's not such a great idea.

The hell it isn't.
I dig the HoR angle. Imagine Early Edition or Touched by an
Angel, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, directed by
Charles Laughton:
"As it happens, Professor Satan, I'm just on my way out."
"Something to do with that confounded paper, I'll wager."
"If I'm not at the Tower of London by midnight, there will be
unimaginable death and carnage."
"If you're . . .*not*. . . at the Tower?"
"Precisely so."
"The deuce you say. May I accompany you?"
"I want your most fervent commitment to refrain from
interference."
"Wouldn't dream of it, old boy."
--Stu


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