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Nosferatu (1922)
eine Symphonie des Grauens
Title |
Nosferatu - |
Year of Release |
1922 |
Starring |
Max Schreck, Greta Schroeder |
Director |
F. W. Marnau |
Studio |
Prana Film |
"You will have a marvelous journey. What matter if it costs you a bit of pain -
Nosferatu! Vampire, the undead bringer of death. A word steeped in as much mystery as the creature it describes. Most sources readily attribute the etymology of the word to stem from the old Slavic "nesufur-
and somewhat more plausible, route to the word as we know it can also be found through the anglicisation of the Romanian terms "nesuferitu" and "nefârtatu". Meaning the insufferable one and devil respectively. Or, ever "necuratu" which translates as the unclean and is typically used in reference to the occult.
Regardless of the word' exact origins Vampire and Nosferatu have become nearly interchangeable in modern language. With the latter suggesting a more unworldly, grotesque and monstrous incarnation than the prior. The very sub-
Vincent Price was many things : gourmet chef, author, family man, voice over artist, stage performer and champion for the arts. Yet for all of that he will assuredly and most fondly be remembered by horror movie fans as the iconic pencil-
Vincent first appeared on stage to portray the role of Prince Albert in the play “Victoria Regina” at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York on December 26 1935. At the time he was 24 years old. The production was a resounding success running for nearly two years for a total of 517 performances, and as they say : “a star was born”! ...
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
(Le Voyage dans la Lune)
(Star Films catalogue # 399 -
Title |
A Trip to the Moon |
Year of Release |
1902 |
Starring |
Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bermon |
Director |
Georges Méliès |
Studio |
Star Films |
"This play is surely not one of my best, but people are still talking about it thirty years later! It left an indelible trace because it was the first of it's kind. In Short, it is considered my masterpiece – I can only bow and agree."
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Georges Méliès wrote the above quote in the mid 1930's so I think that it is safe to assume that he would be quite pleased that today, more than a 110 years after it's release, people are not only still talking about his masterpiece but it it is perhaps better known that ever.
House on Haunted Hill(1959)
Title |
House on Haunted Hill |
Year of Release |
1959 |
Starring |
Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart |
Director |
William Castle |
Studio |
William Castle Productions, Allied Artists |
"So far the ghosts have murdered only seven people. So won't you come and make it... Eight?
Hurry, or you'll be late for your own funeral."
Horror movie fans(and let's be honest here – if you are reading this then odds are, that means you) are very familiar with the stuck-
I honestly don't think I'm taking too many liberties when I say that few other films, that match the above
description, are so well known and so well loved by horror movie fans than William Castle's "House on Haunted Hill".
I honestly don't think I'm taking too many liberties when I say that few other films, that match the above description, are so well known and so well loved by horror movie fans than William Castle's "House on Haunted Hill"...
Frankenstein(1910)
Title |
Frankenstein |
Year of Release |
1910 |
Starring |
Charles Ogle, Augustus Phillips |
Director |
J. Searle Dawley |
Studio |
Edison Studios |
Monster movies are hardly new, especially to horror movie fans, and if you think of the icons of monster movies then surely "Frankenstein" will rank right at the top of most people' lists. Mary Shelley's misguided scientist and his monstrous creation have been terrorizing mountain-
Everyone is familiar with the image of Boris Karloff's 1931 depiction of Frankenstein's monster, replete with neck-
long before Kenneth Brannagh and Robert de Niro, before Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee even before the immortalized image of Boris Karloff as our beloved monster -
"Step Right Up, I'm Gonna Scare The Pants Off America", as his 1975 autobiography is entitled, may well serve as the most fitting epitaph to the man who was loathed by critics only in equal measure to being adored by his fans. William Castle is today perhaps better remembered for the gimmickry he employed in promoting his films than the actual movies themselves. Alhough, one could easily argue that therein lies the true measure of Hollywood's last great showman.
The story of Carol Ohmart reads like a script from one of her movies, but this story is true and here fact is indeed stranger than fiction. As we delve into Carol Ohmart's past, an often bizarre, sometimes tragic, but mostly cautionary tale unfolds.
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Posted 01 March 2013