13 35 Cliff Drive

That's where the Evil Dr. Markoff lives. 13 35 Cliff Drive, you say? Yeah that's right, 13 35 Cliff Drive. Someone associated with the 1944 movie The Monster Maker was seriously trying to hammer this address home. 13 35 Cliff Drive. In the fogginess of half pre-sleep dream while watching Boris Karloff in The Ape, the sing-song rhyme of "13 35 Cliff Drive" ran like a loop in my head. 13 35 Cliff Drive. What was I saying? Oh yeah, that's where Dr. Igor Markoff lives. Who's Dr. Markoff? Well, don't you know? He's a doctor that is the upmost authority on glandular diseases, especially one called Acromegaly. Acromegaly, that's right, he keeps a bottle of it in a hidden compartment in his lab on 13 35 Cliff Drive. Acromegaly appears to be an excuse to show off someone's killer make-up skills--pretty good for a low budget, 1940's movie.



Dr. Markoff injects a gifted Pianist with Acromegaly in order to have an upper hand towards nuptial negotiations with the Pianist's daughter. The movie was okay, good prevailed over evil and it kept my attention, which is more than I can say for poor Boris in The Ape, in all fairness, though, that could have had to do with it being late. And that damn incessant 13 35 Cliff Drive roaming through my brain.

I like watching scary movies right before Halloween. So far I've watched; The Manitou, Hot Fuzz, Sleepy Hollow, Dracula and the two mentioned above. I'll probably watch Shaun of the Dead, The Mummy and The Haunting. I think it would be cool to watch Shadow of the Vampire and Nosferatu back to back. I have a 50 Movie Pack of Horror Classics, where The Ape and The Monster Maker came from, so I have plenty of old fashioned horror to keep me feeling spooky. Killer Shrews anyone?