That's early. I didn't know color was around this long.
Color was around in various forms since the 1920's. True Technicolor was in the early 30's and the first flick made entirely in color was "Becky Sharp." But enuff of this. What I really want to say is if Lugosi and Zucco were in it, for me it rates a 10. I luv this silly piece of KRAP!
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Sure, it was around; people lit their kerosene lamps while they watched this movie!!!!! Duh!
shareI've seen films older than this in color but the majority of films until the 1960s are in black and white. I always found that strange but I guess color films must have been pretty expensive to make then.
shareThat's what I came here to check out. I'm watching this now and the only old movie I knew of in color was Wizard of Oz! I'm shocked to see a 40s quickie horror movie in color!
shareThe earliest "color" movies date almost from the beginning in 1896, those being tinted in various tones to suggest mood, e.g. red for passion, blue for night and green for eerie effects.
By about 1905 there were experiments in hand colored films, with each frame being painstakingly colored by hand. But the process was incredibly difficult, time consuming and expensive.
One of the most significant hand colored movies was "Cyrano de Bergerac" (France, 1925) which is quite beautiful. Selected epics and A-product often had color scenes inserted into them: Phantom of the Opera, Ben Hur (1925) and King of Kings (1927).
The next step was an early technicolor process known as "two strip color," which was a blending of red and green to produce the semblance of color. Both "Dr. X" and "The Mystery of the Wax Museum" used this archaic technique.
It wasn't until the 1930's that "three strip" technicolor was perfected which resulted in the beautiful color films we know today, beginning with Becky Sharp (1935).
One of the most unusual uses of color was in "Dr. Cyclops" (1940).
So, yes, color was an old and often used process long before "Scared to Death." The real question is: why was color used in a grade-z fiasco like "Scared to Death?"
To God There Is No Zero. I Still Exist.
The color film used for "Scared to Death" was a much less expensive type than Technicolor, and it shows.
I'm not sure, either, why a grade Z movie like this got the color treatment, but I could say the same thing about "Detour to Danger" (1946), and all of Eddie Dean's singing cowboy movies released by P.R.C. in the '40s. (All of those were non-Technicolor color, as well.)
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There were movies back then that should have been made in color. This one they should have done in black and white.
I like your giving it a grade of Z.