Sunday, August 30, 2020

(Corona-) Summer of Terror- The Bride of Frankenstein

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    The 1931 Frankenstein  film was very different from Mary Shelley's novel, removing, among other changes, a subplot where the monster...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Summer of Terror-The Universal Monsters: The Invsible Man

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     HG Wells' The Invisible Man  was inspired in part by references to invisible men in a WS Gilbert poem and Plato's Republic. It,...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Summer of Terror- The Universal Monsters: The Mummy

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           Mummification in ancient Egyptian culture is believed to started in the years prior to the rule of the pharaoahs, and became an i...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Summer of Terror- The Universal Monsters: Frankenstein

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     Mary Shelley's 1818 novel  Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus  needs no introduction. Not its origins in the electric experimen...
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Summer of Terror- The Universal Monsters: Dracula (Spanish)

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     Not too much history on this one. In the early days of sound, many were skeptical of audience expectations and the limitations of the ...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Summer of Terror- Universal Monsters: Dracula

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     Bram Stoker's 1897 vampire novel, based on folklore of Eastern European vampires and the infamy of Vlad Tepes (aka Vlad the Impale...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Summer of Terror- The Universal Monsters: The Silent Era

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      From 1921 to 1960, the Universal Monsters terrified and enthralled audiences across America with their grotesque, but sympathetic cre...