Bride of Frankenstein News

Dread Central caught up Saturday with Benicio Del Toro, producer and star of The Wolfman during a press junket for the flick at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, CA to chat with him about the film, as well as his long-standing enthusiasm for the genre, the film's storied production, his love affair with monster model kits and more.

They always say you have to be scared to death before you can feel truly alive. So, what are the eight horror films you have to see before you die? Here's my own list and it's not all made up of the obvious candidates.

It looks as though Universal Studios is a step closer to breathing new life into one of its classic movie monsters.

There's a Boris Karloff marathon on Turner Classic Movies today. You can read about the entire line-up on their site , but here are some highlights.

Jaws Vote Now! A poll of users of film website Totalscifionline.com recently voted for the Scariest Films Of All Time.

Are you sick of sexy witches and saucy ladybirds? Here are three alternative looks inspired by classic horror heroines For a more demure Halloween costume, why not dress as Tippi Hedren from The Birds, the Bride of Frankenstein or Carrie? Photograph: Graeme Robertson What I want to know is this: just who invented the sexy witch? Was it Cher? If so, ...

Get your ghoul on this weekend with a horror lineup that includes an academy event and a graveside screening.

Whether your scary movie taste runs to classic or slasher, there's an offering for you this Halloween weekend on local movie screens.

Here comes Halloween, here comes Halloween, right down Halloween Lane. While that doesn't have the same ring as the song about Santa Claus, one can sense the growing fervor for the night of ghouls, goblins and ghastly candy heartburn.

G et in the mood for Halloween by renting and revisiting some classic horror movies.

James Whale tried to avoid making this sequel to his 1931 hit by first filming The Invisible Man .

'The Bride of Frankenstein' will be shown at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the Dunaway Center in Ogunquit as part of a pre-Halloween celebration.

The public is invited to join filmmaker and reference librarian Nick Szegda and book group leader Lauren John at the Menlo Park Library Sunday for a farmers' market brunch, Peet's coffee, and a movie screening of James Whale's "Bride of Frankenstein" with Boris Karloff as "the monster." This free events starts at 12:30 p.m. with brunch.

By Dani White Berthoud Recorder It is always fun to watch a scary movie on Halloween.

For the second year in a row, a group of San Francisco theatrical mavericks are transposing a triumvirate of cinematic thrillers to a small San Francisco stage.

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN : Elsa Lanchester is a hoot as the intended - but scarcely thrilled - bride.

Written and directed by Dublin-born Glenn McQuaid, an extension of his 2005 short "The Resurrection Apprentice," the film begins with a James Whale-inspired creditsequence and regurgitates and transplants the tale of the Edinburgh-based body snatchers Burke and Hare and updates it with such delectable touches as zombies, aliens and ultra-widescreen ...

Certain genres cry out for sequels: crime movies, action flicks, anything with Sylvester Stallone in it.

NewYork-based film director and screenwriter Neil Burger, 46, is likely best known for his visually rich 2006 film, "The Illusionist," a romantic adaptation of a story about a Viennese magician.

He needed only one name, "Karloff," to evoke images of hulking, terrible, inexorable menace.