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A Weird Collision of Horror and Disney
The whole situation feels wonderfully bizarre now. Early Disney and classic horror seem like opposite universes:
- Disney: singing mushrooms and dancing hippos.
- Lugosi: hypnotizing victims while wearing funeral capes.
But in the strange laboratory of 1940 Hollywood, those worlds briefly collided.
And honestly, the image of Bela Lugosi awkwardly flapping his arms in front of Disney animators may be more entertaining than half the remakes Hollywood makes today.
