Tuesday, October 27, 2020

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!

Friday, October 23, 2020

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.