Halloween season
simply isn’t Halloween season without a regular dose of classic Universal horror (1923-1963). Every day this October, I’ll be giving you a steady IV drip of it by counting down Psychobabble’s 31 Favorite Universal
Horrors!
#28. The Mole People
(1956- dir. Virgil W.Vogel)
Do not underrate the power of camp value. The Mole People
has it in clawfuls. There’s an asinine prologue delivered by a “scientist”
whose grasp on real science is almost as pathetic as our president’s. There’s
Ward Cleaver as an archaeologist, an Egyptian cult that got their wardrobe at
the supply shop for Santa’s helpers, and
the rubber-masked mutant mole people themselves, who probably rate as
Universal’s most memorable post-Gill Man monsters if only by default.
