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75 Years of Universal Monsters

Author : John L. Flynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976940067
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book 75 Years of Universal Monsters written by John L. Flynn and published by . This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were like Gods. Count Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Phantom of the Opera, the Bride of Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, the Mummy, and Invisible Man, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon formed a modern-pay pantheon that ruled the mythical kingdom of Hollywood. They dwelt at Universal, their Olympian-like home in the hills of northern Los Angeles. Their stories were the stuff of legend in the most successful horror films ever made. Both the Bela Lugosi version of "Dracula" and the Boris Karloff version of "Frankenstein" debuted in 1931, 75 years ago. They were followed by films that featured the Mummy, the Wolf Man, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, and many others. For twenty-five years, from 1931 to 1956, these famous monsters of filmland headlined box office marquees around the world. This book is a loving tribute to the immortal gods and monsters that we celebrate on this seventy-fifth anniversary of the Golden Age of the horror film. This second edition updates material to include "The Shape of Water" (2017) and "The Mummy" (2017) with Tom Cruise.

Great Monsters of the Movies

Author : Edward Edelson
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Great Monsters of the Movies written by Edward Edelson and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining assembly of movie monsters including King Kong, Frankenstein, Dracula, Godzilla, mummies, werewolves-as well as the actors who made these monsters famous-Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Elsa Lanchester, Lon Chaney, Sr. & Jr., and Vincent Price.

Universal Studios Monsters

Author : Michael Mallory
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0789318962
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Universal Studios Monsters written by Michael Mallory and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1920s through the 1950s, Universal Studios was Hollywood’s number one studio for horror pictures, haunting movie theaters worldwide with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, among others. Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror explores all of these enduring characters, chronicling both the mythology behind the films and offering behind-the-scenes insights into how the films were created. Universal Studios Monsters is the most complete record of the horror films of this legendary studio, with biographies of major personalities who were responsible for the most notable monster melodramas in film history. The stories of these films and their creators are told through interviews with surviving actors and studio employees. A lavish photographic record, including many behind-the-scenes shots, completes the story of how these classics were made. This is a volume no fan of imaginative cinema will want to be without.

The Wolf Man

Author : Larry Mike Garmon
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780439208475
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Wolf Man written by Larry Mike Garmon and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nina, Joe, and Bob hear about a strange creature preying on residents of a small Florida town, they know it is up to them to track down the digitally realized wolf man before the next full moon. Original.

50 Years of Hammer Horror

Author : John L. Flynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976940081
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book 50 Years of Hammer Horror written by John L. Flynn and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Years of Hammer Horror by John L. Flynn, Ph.D. is the follow-up book to his popular 75 Years of Universal Monsters. Hammer Film Productions was the most successful independent film company in the world. Between 1935 and 1983, the company produced more than 250 motion pictures and television shows, and their signature productions headlined theater marquees all around the globe. Those productions included thrillers, comedies, historical dramas, and science fiction. The company was best known for its series of gothic horror films, now termed Hammer Horror, that were produced from the late Fifties to the middle Seventies. During those nineteen years, from 1957 to 1976, Hammer Films reigned supreme as the world's premier producer of horror movies, enjoying worldwide financial success and creative freedom. Chief among its box office successes were new incarnations of Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy, the Werewolf, the Phantom of the Opera, and many others. In fact, Hammer emerged as the successor to Universal Pictures' horror film legacy. Virtually, every creature-feature Universal had filmed in black-and-white monochrome, Hammer remade in glorious Eastman Technicolor. This book is a celebration of the small independent studio that changed the look of horror films forever.

Classic Monsters Unmade

Author : John Lemay
Publisher : Bicep Books
ISBN 13 : 9781953221858
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Classic Monsters Unmade written by John Lemay and published by Bicep Books. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth tome exploring long lost horror films like DRACULA'S DEATH (1920) and LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (1928), plus unproduced scripts like WOLF MAN VS. DRACULA (1944) and BLACK LAGOON (1952).

Universal '40s Monsters

Author : John T Soister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629336923
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Universal '40s Monsters written by John T Soister and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 800 page look at Universal's horror films.

Universal Horrors

Author : Tom Weaver
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491507
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Universal Horrors written by Tom Weaver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studios during the golden age of hollywood horror, 1931 through 1946. Trekking boldly through haunts and horrors from The Frankenstein Monster, The Wolf Man, Count Dracula, and The Invisible Man, to The Mummy, Paula the Ape Woman, The Creeper, and The Inner Sanctum, the authors offer a definitive study of the 86 films produced during this era and present a general overview of the period. Coverage of the films includes complete cast lists, credits, storyline, behind-the-scenes information, production history, critical analysis, and commentary from the cast and crew (much of it drawn from interviews by Tom Weaver, whom USA Today calls "the king of the monster hunters"). Unique to this edition are a new selection of photographs and poster reproductions and an appendix listing additional films of interest.

Cinematic Vampires

Author : John L. Flynn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Vampires written by John L. Flynn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1992 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference examines 372 vampire films from 1896 to 1992. Each entry gives the year of release, production credits, actors, and a synopsis of the film and its importance to the genre. Also included are alternate titles and the original titles of non-English films. With 93 b&w photographs. Annotat

The Very Witching Time of Night

Author : Gregory William Mank
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615438
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Very Witching Time of Night written by Gregory William Mank and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history: (1) The harrowingly tragic life of Dracula's leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law. (2) John Barrymore's 1931 horror vehicles Svengali and The Mad Genius, and their rejection by the public. (3) The disastrous shooting of 1933's Murders in the Zoo, perhaps the most racy of all Pre-Code horror films. (4) A candid interview with the son of legendary horror star Lionel Atwill. (5) The censorship battles of One More River, as waged by Frankenstein director James Whale. (6) The adventures (and misadventures) of Boris Karloff as a star at Warner Bros. (7) The stage and screen versions of the horror/comedy Arsenic and Old Lace. (8) Production diaries of the horror noirs Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People. (9) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man revisited. (10) Horror propaganda: The production of Hitler's Madman. (11) Horror star John Carradine and the rise and fall of his Shakespearean Repertory Company. (12) The Shock! Theatre television phenomenon. And (13) A Tribute to Carl Laemmle, Jr., producer of the original Universal horror classics, including an interview with his lady friend of almost 40 years.

The Creature Chronicles

Author : Tom Weaver
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615802
Total Pages : 1603 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Creature Chronicles written by Tom Weaver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 1603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the final addition to Universal's "royal family" of movie monsters: the Creature from the Black Lagoon. With his scaly armor, razor claws and a face only a mother octopus could love, this Amazon denizen was perhaps the most fearsome beast in the history of Hollywood's Studio of Horrors. But he also possessed a sympathetic quality which elevated him fathoms above the many aquatic monsters who swam in his wake. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Gill Man and his mid-1950s film career (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, The Creature Walks Among Us) is collected in this book, packed to the gills with hour-by-hour production histories, cast bios, analyses, explorations of the music, script-to-screen comparisons, in-depth interviews and an ocean of fin-tastic photos.

Dracula

Author : Hamilton Deane
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573608223
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Dracula written by Hamilton Deane and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1960 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's novel Characters: 6 male, 2 female 3 Interior Scenes An enormously successful revival of this classic opened on Broadway in 1977 fifty years after the original production. This is one of the great mystery thrillers and is generally considered among the best of its kind. Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing,

Classic Monsters Unleashed, 1

Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Black Spot Books
ISBN 13 : 9781645481225
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Classic Monsters Unleashed, 1 written by Kim Newman and published by Black Spot Books. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of famous monsters in a new horror anthology featuring Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, and many others. Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Moreau, the Headless Horseman, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, the Wicked Witch of the West--they're all here, in this collection of horror short stories that reimagine, subvert, and pay homage to our favorite monsters and creatures. Written by the biggest names in the genre--including Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Morton, Owl Goingback, Richard Christian Matheson, Seanan McGuire, Maurice Broaddus, Dacre Stoker, Linda D. Addison, Alessandro Manzetti, Tim Waggoner, John Palisano, Mercedes M. Yardley, Lucy A. Snyder, Gary A. Braunbeck, Rena Mason, and Monique Snyman. And monstrously illustrated by Colton Worley and Mister Sam Shearon.

The Laughing Monsters

Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374709238
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Laughing Monsters written by Denis Johnson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancée, a grad student from Colorado named Davidia. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland—but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Nair, Adriko, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness.

The Encyclopedia of Monsters

Author : Jeff Rovin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816018246
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Monsters written by Jeff Rovin and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to more than one thousand beasts, specters, and other monsters, from the Bible's Leviathan to Hollywood's Alien, arranged alphabetically and cross-referenced by subject

Gothic Remixed

Author : Megen de Bruin-Molé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 135023446X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Remixed written by Megen de Bruin-Molé and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters. Too engaged with tradition for some and not traditional enough for others, these 'monster mashups' are often criticized as a sign of the artistic and moral degeneration of contemporary culture. These hybrid creations are the 'monsters' of our age, lurking at the limits of responsible consumption and acceptable appropriation. This book explores the boundaries and connections between contemporary remix and related modes, including adaptation, parody, the Gothic, Romanticism, and postmodernism. Taking a multimedia approach, case studies range from novels like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, to television programmes such as Penny Dreadful, to popular visual artworks like Kevin J. Weir's Flux Machine GIFs. Megen de Bruin-Molé uses these monstrous and liminal works to show how the thrill of transgression has been contained within safe and familiar formats, resulting in the mashups that dominate Western popular culture.

The Mott Street Maulers

Author : Michael Teitelbaum
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN 13 : 9780448486185
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Mott Street Maulers written by Michael Teitelbaum and published by Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 1986 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Fievel Mousekewitz and his friends must figure out a way to stop the attacks of a dreaded band of cats known as The Mott Street Maulers.