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With a series of financial and critical flops behind him, producer Val Lewton finally started seeing some reigns put on him by new supervising producer and ex-Universal exec Jack J. Gross. In the process of trying to calibrate Lewton's vision t
The conclusion to our exciting supplemental trilogy on Val Lewton.Works cited for these supplemental episodes:Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg, The Celluloid Muse: Hollywood Directors Speak (1972)Edmund G. Bansak, Fearing the Dark: The Val Lew
Here's part two of our supplemental trilogy, which finally gets down to how a Russian rich boy from Yalta ended up at the head of RKO Radio Pictures' fresh new "B" horror unit.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcam
For today's episode, we take a moment to commemorate Max Julien and Carol Speed, two actors who passed away in January of this year, by sitting down with The Mack (1973), one of the most significant films of the controversial "Blaxploitation" c
With The Seventh Victim dying at the box-office, The Ghost Ship pulled from distribution, and Curse of the Cat People ruffling the feathers of RKO executives, Val Lewton's top-line production became his first definitive non-horror project: a pe
Been promising this one for a while... Here's episode one of a three-part series of episodes to supplement our survey of Val Lewton's filmography.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.pat
Peter Bogdanovich, another alumnus of the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking who went on to define the New Hollywood era, unfortunately passed away this past Thursday at the tender age of 82. In this first episode of our two part commemoration,
We're back with our third episode in a series exploring the films of Val Lewton. This time, The Seventh Victim, a proto-noir with an oppressive, evocative atmosphere but a story that doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you break it down. Wel
Having been hired by RKO head Charles Koerner to command the studio's brand new "B" horror unit, producer Val Lewton authored a series of low-budget programmers that went above and beyond the call of his contemporaries, and often against the ex
Winding down our review of Boris Karloff's cycle of "mad doctor" films for Columbia, we delve into The Devil Commands, another surprisingly prescient work of science fiction and, perhaps, one of the first cinematic examples of "cosmic horror."
Happy Halloween, ya'll! This spooky season, we're indulging another of pop's childhood favorites, one he hasn't seen in decades: Edward and Mildred Dein's Curse of the Undead (1959). Often cited as the first canonical "horror Western," this lat
This 1939 programmer from Columbia Pictures starring Boris Karloff fuses sci-fi and old dark house revenge story. Though commendable as a tight pulp story, it also exceeds as a surprisingly evocative exploration of the scientific and medical et
Upcoming bonus episode on Van Helsing (2004) went a little long, so I decided to extract 20 minutes and put it up for free.Become a patron to listen to the whole episode!https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts:
The on-going saga of "Schmuck Dracula" continues with this less sophisticated retread of House of Frankenstein. Dad and I discuss this lowly send-off to Universal's second cycle of classic horror films.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakoby
Who's idea was it to cast Lon Chaney, Jr. as Dracula, anyway? Dad and I tackle the late-coming indeed, third installment of Universal's Dracula franchise, Son of Dracula -- a return to Gothic horror form compromised by mercenary studio logic an
The Ghost of Frankenstein has picked up a few more supporters over the years, but I am not one of them. Hear me grouse about the fourth entry in the Universal Frankenstein franchise.Works cited:Arthur Lennig, The Immortal Count: The Life and Fi
We finally return to the Universal House of Horrors! In this episode, we explore Rowland V. Lee's 1939 masterpiece Son of Frankenstein, the studio's first horror film since the Laemmles were given the boot in 1936. We also pay homage to the wan
Our third week of big bug movies takes us south of the border for another Warner Bros. joint. From 1957, it's The Black Scorpion, a pretty crappy movie distinguished if only by some pretty neat stop-motion special effects courtesy of master Wil
Unlocking because this week's episode on The Black Scorpion overlaps as an American sci-fi movie shot in Mexico.It's cowboys vs. dinosaurs! We weigh the tragic amateurishness of Edward Nassour's "The Beast of Hollow Mountain" vs. the poetic nat
We're back, baby, and kickin' things off with a month of Big Bug movies, starting with the forefather of 'em all: Them!. This Warner Bros. feature blends together Atom Age anxiety, anti-Communist hysteria, veiled law-and-order propaganda, and e
Our In Memoriam to Monte Hellman soldiers on with his second feature, which also happens to mark this podcast's first foray into B-cinema outside of the horror and sci-fi standard bearers. Specifically, we're talking B-war films, and Hellman's
So in our last memo we made the mistake of promising a two-part memoriam on Monte Hellman -- we decided to expand it to a five-part memoriam. Here's part one, you sickos.R.I.P. Monte,July 12, 1929 - April 20, 2021Sources for this episode:Charle
All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https:
They say kill your darlings and that's exactly what we're doing with this episode on "Kong: Skull Island" -- a movie I genuinely loved when I first saw it, but, god help me... it's kinda terrible!Link to R. S. Benedict's "Everyone Is Beautiful
Here's a teaser for our episode on Gareth Edwards' "Godzilla."All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/goPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.
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