1920s Batman Returns in "Mark of the Mad Hatter"

Posted at 9:05 AM Aug 20, 2008


The good news: the guy doing the silent film version of Batman let himself use some of the 1940s Batman serial, so Batman looks like Batman, and not that weird version from that old The Bat German movie. The bad news: Although this is called "Mark of the Mad Hatter," the Hatter really just sits in his cell. I don't think he does anything. And the ugly: since the story takes place in Arkham Asylum and Batman gets gassed with Scarecrow's fear gas, it's really just an excuse to put together a plethora of sanitarium clips and the most fucked-up, disturbing silent film footage the director could find. Enjoy!

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Damien1 said:

"it's really just an excuse to put together a plethora of sanitarium clips and the most fucked-up, disturbing silent film footage the director could find."

You say that as if it were a bad thing! I wish I watched this a few hours from now, there's too much sun and glare. If you're at home, studio audience: wait till nightfall for this one. Bit different than the early one and needs darkness and dankness.

I'm thinking this is sort of a bizzaro world spin on the already kinda weird Grant Morrison/Dave Mckean book. And the other two are gonna be similar spacey collages of villains, drugs, Bats, and fucked up ness. Either that or it'll turn into a Zorro movie with the Keystones cops.

Damien1 said:

So I'm trying to find my copy of the overrated at the time but pretty nice looking "Arkham Asylum" because it just reminded me, Mad Hatter didn't do dick in that one but sit in a cell too, right?

Smoke a hookah maybe?

Maybe we can look forward to Maxie Zeus knitting quietly as somber funeral dirges play.

FLU-BIRD said:

There were two villians who called themselves THE MAD HATTER and the first was a crazy hat theif and the second was patterned after the one from ALICE IN WONDERLAND

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