******103-YEAR OLD BLOODSUCKING SPOILERS!****** I’m hoping readers aren’t too tired of my Halloween content (my favorite holiday), because this one should be the last one for this season…I think (?). This past weekend, I went to see my first-ever public screening of a silent movie with a live organist supplying the soundtrack! I own a…
Tag: Dracula
Musings on “Nosferatu” (1922/1979/2024); three versions of a “Dracula” variant…
******BLOOD-SUCKING SPOILERS!****** In 1974, at the tender age of around seven or eight, I was a real monster nerd. I remember having the Aurora model kits of the classic Universal Horror monsters, such as Frankenstein’s Monster, the Creature from the Black Lagoon (my favorite monster design) and the Wolf-Man (whom I spent much time in…
More Musings for Halloween: “Blacula” (1972) and “Scream Blacula Scream” (1973)…
Blaxploitation Horror. In the 1970s, some independent movie studios (the kind that cranked out B-movies for drive-ins) finally got the potentially lucrative message that representation matters. A new wave of low-budget action movies (“Shaft,” “Coffy,” “Superfly,” “Hell Up in Harlem”) were made which cast their stories with people of color in most of the major…
Retro-Musings: Is the Spanish-language version of 1931’s “Dracula” the better bloodsucker?
Monster Mash. As a kid I loved the Universal Studios monster movies. I was about born about 30-40 years too late to have caught them in original theatrical release, so I used my parent’s old 25” Zenith to get my monster movie fixes. I used to collect the Aurora model kits of the monsters as…