Posted by moviegeek916 on July 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Batman & Robin (1997) – Sigh… so in the past couple years I have revisited a couple movies that I remember hating and finding out they weren’t quite as awful as they were in my memory (The Phantom Menace was by far the most surprising of these). So I have to admit I went into this … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Dracula (1931) – Despite hits like The Phantom of the Opera, Universal Studios head Carl Laemmle wasn’t particularly interested in making horror movies. Carl Laemmle Jr., on the other hand, was quite keen to bring Dracula to the big screen. History has kind of sided with Laemmle Jr., I am happy to say. Dracula was … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 1, 2012 · 1 Comment
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) – While the “Golden Age” of the Universal Monster movies began in 1931 with Dracula, Universal Studios was not a total stranger to the horror genre. They had some big hits starring Leonidas Frank Chaney, known as the Man of a Thousand Faces: Lon Chaney. Chaney was rightfully celebrated … 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 →
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Persistence of Vision 