A fourth perfect goth: Edna Tichenor

 London After Midnight hits my gothic spot harder than almost anything else, it does not matter that all we have is screenshots because they are absoloutely stunning screens. You can find the screenshot version of the movie in the Lon Chaney Collection dvd set but it is not listed prominently on the box but it is well worth it and probably better than anything else on the set. I think Chaney in this film is possibly the coolest looking monster I've ever seen and on top of that, Edna Tichenor is one of the most excruciatingly perfect goth girls I've ever seen. In the limited amount of surviving movies she was also in, she was a goth in those too. I wonder what she was like in day to day life.

Best photo of Barbara Steele

Carroll Borland and Barbara Steele

I rate Mark of the Vampire higher than most films of the era, it is not a great film and it is a mess but it has some nice sounds and images in it. Unfortunately a lot of the film was cut,, you can see some intriguing scenes in the trailer that were not in the film. Carroll Borland is the highlight of the movie and if only the movie studios were crazy enough to forget about the story and just devote the screen to her wandering about.
I recently watched a good Shaun Tan interview and I was glad he shared my thinking that you dont need stories shoehorned into a series of compelling images. I'll be happy when there is a group of horror film makers who dont bother with stories and just film a series of scary incidents, or a series of lovely images.
You know I've always believed that every comic artist should have their own comic where they can go crazy with any order or mixture of pinups, text, comics and sequences. Some people just dont have enough stories to go with the images, so they shouldnt have to force it out.

Perfect Goth Theda Bara