Author: Tony Cadwell
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LURKIN’ PROGRESS We’re hard at work to bring each issue to your screen and are still putting this one together! Enjoy! ALL ABOUT BORIS KARLOFF HIS LIFE IN PICTURES COMMENTS ON HIS DEATH by CHRIS PETER LORRE BORIS KARLOFF : Born November 23, 1887. Died February 2, 1969. In between became a living legend and household name.…
Brother Theodore (1906-2001) was one of the most unique performers of the twentieth century. He was a stand-up comedian of sorts, an occasional actor and frequent presence on late night talk shows. Just don’t call him a monologist – “When someone calls me a monologist my first reaction is to jump on him, and tear out his guts !”, he once said to Fangoria …
The Universal monster films formed what might now be termed a “shared universe”, a concept now readily recognized amongst fans of superhero films but which was quite novel and innovative in the 1930s and 1940s. In this era, before the advent of television or home video, filmmakers could never be sure that viewers had seen the previous entries in a given series and so, instead of a continuity of events, they featured a continuity of character, catchphrase and so on that would signal familiarity in the viewer. This can be seen in detective…
Hammer Films of England single handedly revived the Gothic horror genre in 1957 with The Curse of Frankenstein , following this with Dracula or Horror of Dracula as it was called in its U.S. release, and proceeding from there to new versions of the Wolf Man, the Mummy, Sherlock Holmes and many other favorites Universal had explored in…
One name looms above all others when we think of Frankenstein the misshapen screen monster who has haunted the nightmares of moviegoers nearly a century: BORIS KARLOFF! Over two hundred years ago—beyond the memory of any living man or woman, although Dracula and the Mummy probably re- member the occasion well—a daring teenager wrote the book, “Frankenstein.” She was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, age 17. In 1887 in London, Charles Edward Pratt was born,…
In 1931 Universal produced its classic DRACULA, which set the standard for the horror cycle that took hold thereafter and would endure until the end of the Second World War. Bela Lugosi’s classic portrayal would enshrine him as the definitive vampire and the performances of Edward Van Sloan as Van Helsing and Dwight Frye as Renfield are no less iconic. Somewhat less well known, in part because it was considered lost for many years, is the concurrently made Spanish version directed not by Tod Browning but George…
The last of the Universal Monsters has left us. Ricou Browning sadly passed away just a few weeks after his 93rd birthday leaving behind a cinematic legacy that included work as an actor, cinematographer and director. Born in Fort Pierce, Florida 1930, Browning’s passion for the water was evident from an early age. He studied physical education at Florida State University and got his professional start springboard diving in local water shows. By his early twenties Browning was producing underwater shows and performing…
The Last Voyage Of The Demeter feels immediately like the type of movie we don’t really get anymore. A period feature film based on a chapter from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. Clearly appealing to the old school monster movie fan. Throughout its two hour run time we are lashed with rain and flashed with lightning as the titular Russian schooner makes its way from Bulgaria to the wind swept shores of England. The period is beautifully realized on screen and…
By: Honey Morales Fright Flicks was a popular trading card set in the 1980s among young horror lovers. It featured images from classic films in the horror and science fiction genres, along with corny one-liners and Ripley’s-style “Can you believe it?” facts. Images from Aliens, Day of the Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street (Parts 1, 2, and 3), Poltergeist, The Fly (1986), Ghostbusters, and Predator …