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‘Nosferatu’ rises again, building on the worlds that came before
2 weeks, 2 days ago

‘Nosferatu’ rises again, building on the worlds that came before

LA Times  

“Nosferatu” began its undead life in 1922 as a silent, unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel “Dracula.” But F.W. It all starts with Murnau’s original, which gave us the towering, severe and altogether terrifying Max Schreck as Count Orlok some nine years before Bela Lugosi played the count as a suave Lothario in Tod Browning’s “Dracula.” Still a favorite …

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How a father-son battle spawned Hollywood’s classic monsters
2 years, 7 months ago

How a father-son battle spawned Hollywood’s classic monsters

LA Times  

On the Shelf It's Alive! Junior Laemmle is the hero of “It’s Alive!,” Julian David Stone’s new madcap historical showbiz novel about the making of James Whale’s “Frankenstein”. Julian David Stone’s novel “It’s Alive!” tracks the birth of the monster movie industry at Universal. In the novel, as Junior pushes ahead with “Frankenstein,” he’s not even sure who will play …

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At this weekend’s Cruel World festival, goths and new wavers will sweat to the oldies
2 years, 8 months ago

At this weekend’s Cruel World festival, goths and new wavers will sweat to the oldies

LA Times  

Had Coachella been held in the early 1980s, its lineup likely would have included many of the artists performing at this weekend’s Cruel World music festival in Pasadena. Bauhaus, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” There would be no goth movement without “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” a frenetic, cavernous post-punk masterpiece that, at nearly 10 minutes, was a dance-floor staple in darkened clubs. Blondie, …

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Nosferatu: The monster who still terrifies, 100 years on
2 years, 10 months ago

Nosferatu: The monster who still terrifies, 100 years on

BBC  

Nosferatu: The monster who still terrifies, 100 years on Getty Images From his shadow to his gaunt face, the vampire Count Orlok in 1922's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror remains one of film's most spine-tingling creations. He is, says Cristina Massaccesi, in her guide to Nosferatu for the Devil's Advocates horror history series, "the Ur-Vampire, the father of all undead …

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Is this the worst film ever made?
3 years ago

Is this the worst film ever made?

BBC  

Is this the worst film ever made? "It's difficult to pinpoint the essence of what makes one film bad and dull on the one hand, and another film bad yet entertaining on the other," Jamie Sexton, co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema, tells BBC Culture, "but bad-yet-entertaining films tend to fail to meet filmic conventions in a spectacular …

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Fangs, lust and coffins: 100 years of vampires on screen
3 years, 10 months ago

Fangs, lust and coffins: 100 years of vampires on screen

The Independent  

In the summer of 1921, the German filmmaker FW Murnau began shooting his film Nosferatu on location in northern Germany and at Jofa Film Studios in Berlin. The sight in grainy black and white film of Max Schreck’s cadaverous-faced, hollow-eyed, rodent-toothed, pointy-eared vampire, lurching up from his coffin, still makes viewers shudder. open image in gallery Helen Chandler and Bela …

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Nepotism, morphine and secret homoeroticism: The bizarre history of Universal’s movie monsters
4 years, 10 months ago

Nepotism, morphine and secret homoeroticism: The bizarre history of Universal’s movie monsters

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Invisible Man, based on HG Wells’s novel and the 1933 Universal movie starring Claude …

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Zombie movies have become hopeless cases that work as neither satire nor as horror
5 years, 6 months ago

Zombie movies have become hopeless cases that work as neither satire nor as horror

The Independent  

We are all zombies now. according to Jim Jarmusch’s new film, The Dead Don’t Die – but it also highlights the increasing aimlessness of the zombie genre. open image in gallery Bodies and bodices: the costume drama ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ The problem with zombie movies isn’t just their proliferation but the random ways they have mutated. That luminous …

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