Question 1

How did Boris Karloff achieve his character's metamorphosis without expensive makeup?

Accepted Answer

Karloff volunteered to achieve the effect by simply taking out his dentures, a technique he had used for Frankenstein's monster.

Question 2

What real-life crime is referenced by an evidence box in the film?

Accepted Answer

The box is marked Constance Kent, a child murderer found guilty in 1865 of killing Francis Kent. She was released in 1885 and died in Australia in 1944 aged 100.

Question 3

Which two actresses in the film share a mother-daughter relationship on screen and off?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Allan and Diane Aubrey play mother and daughter; it is Allan's final theatrical film and Aubrey's first.

Question 4

What Victorian music hall song does the asylum kitchen maid sing?

Accepted Answer

She sings 'The Rat Catcher's Daughter', about a daughter who drowns herself after rejection; the song nods to a scene where Rankin/Tennant slashes something.

Question 5

How did producer John Croydon first meet Boris Karloff?

Accepted Answer

Croydon first met Karloff on the set of The Ghoul (1933) 25 years earlier, where he worked as a tea boy.

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