Posted by moviegeek916 on April 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) – In the 1940s, a company called Timely Comics (now known as Marvel Comics) had two big characters: the Human Torch and Namor the Sub-Mariner. They decided that the only natural thing to do was put them together and make them fight. The whole Marvel Universe was born in … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment
I’ve been marathoning my way through the Universal Monster films of the 1920s-50s. By and large I’ve found them to be as excellent as I remember from my youth (in the early 90s, I was not yet born when they were made… hell, my dad wasn’t born when most of them were made). However as … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on March 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Wolf Man (1941) – Creighton Chaney decided to follow in the footsteps of his father Lon Chaney, the legendary “man of a thousand faces” famous for such films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. The studio rechristened Creighton as Lon Chaney, Jr. and he often, as in The … Continue reading →
Filed under Film, Reviews · Tagged with 1941, Bela Lugosi, Benecio Del Toro, Claude Rains, Curt Siodmak, Dracula, Evelyn Ankers, Fay Helm, Frankenstein, George Waggner, Ghost of Frankenstein, Jack Pierce, Lon Chaney, Lon Chaney Jr., Looney Tunes, Maria Ouspenkaya, Of Mice and Men, Son of Dracula, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Invisible Man, The Mummy, The Mummy's Curse, The Mummy's Ghost, The Mummy's Tomb, The Phantom of the Opera, The Wolf Man, Universal Monsters
Persistence of Vision 