THE CLASSIC MOVIE MONSTERS

Every Halloween season, most TV stations start featuring horror films on their schedule to steer audiences into the proper spooky mood. Thousands of those films have been made throughout the years but to me, the best horror characters are the ones I first saw on the classic films from the first decades of movie history.

Here is my personal gallery of the great monsters from the movies:

Max Schreck as NOSFERATU

Lon Chaney as THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Lon Chaney as THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Bela Lugosi as DRACULA

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster

Boris Karloff as THE MUMMY

KING KONG

Elsa Lanchester as THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Lon Chaney Jr. as The WOLF MAN

THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON

The Cyclops from THE 7th VOYAGE OF SINBAD

The Beast from 2,000 Fathoms

GODZILLA

And all the remaining others from that wonderful era!

FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND

One of the great magazines to reach its biggest peak during the Monster Craze of the mid 1960s was Warren's FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND. Created by Forrest J. Ackerman, the publication began its run back in 1958 as a one shot issue but it went into a second printing due to popular demand and soon enough it turned into a monthly, bi-monthly and annual periodical.

FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND Number One

Every Halloween season, I dust off my small collection of FM magazines and browse through those ancient pages which even now, still appear informative and entertaining.

Only Four Months To Go!

 

                                                                       

Sometimes I feel like all those poor sailors from the 1933 film KING KONG who tried to cross the pit on a log and found themselves at the mercy of the big ape at the other side. There was no way they could escape. They couldn't go back and they couldn't go forward so they just clung to that old log for dear life. 

                          In 2020, we're all just hanging on, waiting to safely reach the new year!

 

                                               And here's the original image I'm talking about!