Sunday, September 27, 2020

(Corona-) Summer of Terror: Creature from the Black Lagoon

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    The story of this film begins with, of all things, Citizen Kane. William Alland, a good friend of Orson Welles, played the role of the r...

(Corona-) Summer of Terror- The Wolfman

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    (So,  my anxiety got particularly bad since writing the last one, I was unable to write the planned entries I had intended, or see the f...
Sunday, September 6, 2020

(Cororna)- Summer of Terror- The Universal Monsters: Werewolf of London

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    Werewolves were a major part of European folklore dating back to the time of the ancient Greeks. Myths around lycanthropy vary across re...
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...