Directing films featuring schizophrenic babysitters, epic disasters and busty lesbian vampires. To a horror fan, that’s quite a career. Roy Ward Baker, a prolific British filmmaker who helmed many horror and science fiction classics for Hammer Films, including Quatermass and the … Continue reading Famed Hammer director Roy Ward Baker dead at age 93
Starring Rose Hobart, George Macready and Jim Bannon | Directed by Will Jason | Written by Edward Dein | Columbia If your distress call is answered by a woman whose shoulder pads are broader than Lon Chaney’s, don’t answer the … Continue reading Cinemarquee: The Soul of a Monster (1944)
Verne Langdon, writer, producer, composer and sculptor best known to horror fans for the iconic monster masks he created in the 1960s, died on January 1, 2011 of natural causes. He was 69. A monster kid at heart, Langdon’s intricately … Continue reading Monster mask pioneer Verne Langdon dead at 69
Why should we take Hitchcock seriously? Considering all of the books and documentaries about his work, the DVD and Bluray re-releases and remakes of his films, not to mention his direct influence on several generations of filmmakers, it seems like … Continue reading Robin Wood’s Hitchcock’s Films
A new documentary celebrates the world’s most unstoppable horror host — Count Gore de Vol. Horror hosts were nothing new to the television airwaves of the 1970s. Since the early 1950s, with the likes of Vampira and Zacherley, and into … Continue reading King of the Cardboard Castle
Starring Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains and Bela Lugosi. | Directed by George Wagner | Written by Curt Siodmak | Universal With the recent release of Universal’s big-budget Wolfman remake, it’s only fitting that the studio pays tribute once again … Continue reading Cinemarquee: The Wolf Man (1941)
Although Reynold Brown created some of the genre’s most iconic movie posters, as a new book on the artist reveals, for him it was just like any other job. Before viral ad campaigns and other gimmicks, a movie poster was … Continue reading Making monsters for the man
Starring Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn and Marguerite Churchill / Directed by Michael Curtiz / Written by Robert Adams and Ewert Adamson Warner Brothers. films of the 1930s were known for their stark realism, glamourizing the anti-hero and the … Continue reading Cinemarquee: The Walking Dead (1936)
Starring Boris Karloff, Allen Swift and Phyllis Tiller | Directed by Jules Bass | Written by Len Korobkin and Harvey Kurtzman | Maple In 1943, Universal started a trend by teaming up two of its most popular monsters in Frankenstein … Continue reading Cinemarquee: Mad Monster Party (1967)
Every generation of horror film fans has a coming-of-age story. Depending on how old you are, you might remember the day your dad brought a VCR into the living room, and how soon are you would spend your weekends scanning … Continue reading Castle Films’ 8mm Horror Digests
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