The Raven (1935)
houseinrlyeh.blogspot.com 4/25/2009 — When Jean Thatcher (Irene Ware) is dangerously hurt in a car accident, her father Judge "I don't need no stinking first name" Thatcher (Samuel S. Hinds) turns to the only man who seems capable to successfully operate on Jean for help. Dr. Richard Vollin (Bela Lugosi) is a retired ...

Announcing The Boris Karloff Blogathon!
frankensteinia.blogspot.com 10/11/2009 — Karloff portrait by Jack Freulich. Source: Heritage Auctions . I am calling on my fellow bloggers to join me in a celebration of Mr. Boris Karloff. Beginning on November 23 — Karloff’s 122 nd birthday — and on through the 29 th , bloggers ...

Targets (1968): Karloff's Overlooked Classic
thelightningbugslair.com 6/28/2009 — When Horror fans, or even the non-Horror loving public, hear the name Boris Karloff, the image that comes to mind is the lumbering square-headed brute known as the Frankenstein Monster. Of course, Karloff was much more than that. He was the Mummy, Mr. Wong, the narrator of The Grinch that ...

Unforgettable
frankensteinia.blogspot.com 2/2/2009 — I can’t believe it’s been forty years since Boris Karloff passed away, on February 2, in 1969. I was a teenager then and I remember hearing it on the news. I remember the newspaper obituaries, often illustrated with a picture of the Frankenstein ...

Boris Karloff
booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com 2/3/2009 — What is the first movie that you ever saw that truly scared the bejabbers out you? More than likely, the answer to that question will depend on many other factors than the movie itself--your age, where you live, what was happening in your life at ...

Halloween Monster Memories: The Other Faces of Bela Lugosi
mmmmmovies.blogspot.com 10/12/2009 — The slicked-back black hair; the aristocratic bearing; the pointed, slightly raptor-like nose; the dark, glittering, hypnotic eyes. Is it any wonder that when Bela Lugosi intoned his first screen line, "I am...Dracula," that audiences then and forever after believed him? That god-like, he spoke, ...

The Old Dark House (1932)
horrorcommentary.com 9/15/2009 — Arguments could be sparked that claim that James Whale is the inventor of the modern horror film. “Dracula” may have...

Son of Frankenstein, 70th Anniversary Year
frankensteinia.blogspot.com 10/18/2009 — Ygor cowers in the grip of the immense, fur-clad Frankenstein Monster. Horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi are reunited in this publicity still from Son of Frankenstein (1939). It’s barely a week now since I announced that I would be ...

Retro Review: Seven Women for Satan
brutalashell.com 8/10/2009 — Seven Women for Satan (1976) Studio: Mondo Macabre DVD Release Date: November 11, 2003 Directed By: Michel Lemoine Cast: Michel Lemoine, Joëlle Coeur, Howard Vernon, Nathalie Zeiger Review By: Marc Patterson I’m not a numerologist, but then again ...

Sep 2, Black Sabbath Horror Movie Review from Uncle Pump's Dusty Musties
ossuary.best-horror-movies.com 9/2/2009 — Black Sabbath is a marvelous gem of a horror film that is as Mustie as they get, and by all rights should not be Dusty at all, but alas it is--especially the true version.