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Saturday Jul 4 | Mountain Xpress

Cranky Hankea s Screening Room: The Allure of the Obscure

Before we get down to the topic at hand, I want to take a moment to note that this column appears on Ken Russell's 82nd birthday.

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Related Topix: Ken Russell, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Jul 02, 2009

OhNoTheyDidnt

Ex-child actor plays vampire and soldier

At 13, Alexander Skarsgard was a child actor in Sweden who wasn't comfortable with the limelight.

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Related Topix: True Blood, Entertainment, Television, Generation Kill, Theater, Arts, Horror Movies, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Pop Syndicate

Growing Up With Monsters by Carla Laemmle & Daniel Kinske

Experience Universal Monster history first-hand! Universal Studios made its name based on monster films.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies, Music!, The Phantom of the Opera, Carla Laemmle

Sat Jun 27, 2009

Catholic.net

Dracula, Frankenstein & Bride of Frankenstein

Dracula: Pervasive creepiness and menace; a number of offscreen deaths. Frankenstein: Macabre themes including grave robbing and experimentation with dead bodies; some violence including the accidental death of a child.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Frankenstein, Drama Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Short, Bride of Frankenstein, Boris Karloff, Dwight Frye

Fri Jun 26, 2009

Mountain Xpress

Cranky Hankea s Screening Room: Bashing at the Monster Bash

So here I am coming to you live from Butler, PA, where I sit in my room at the Days Inn watching a woman walk some sort of upholstered mouse she believes to be a dog around and around a little patch of grass at the center of the hotel complex.

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Related Topix: Butler, PA, Horror Movies, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Science Fiction Movies, Electronics, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Movies, Entertainment

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Times-Sentinel

No Vampires in Argentina

"Count Dracula - Hometown: Transylvania, Special Skills: Turns into a Bat, Likes: Blood, Dislikes: Wooden Stakes." All I needed to know about Dracula was found on the back of the trading card and on the front was a familiar image of Bela Lugosi in the 1931 Universal film.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies, Life, Food, Recipes, Indiana, Opinion

Mon Jun 22, 2009

News Observer

DVD Picks

Director Ed Wood's 1959 magnum opus, "Plan 9 from Outer Space," is considered by many to be the worst movie ever made.

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Sat Jun 20, 2009

Local Newspapers for North Fulton and...

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Horror Movie Double Feature "Dracula" and "Frankstein" For Teens at NESO Library Friday, June 19th Date: Friday, June 19, 2009 Times: 1-3:30 p.m. Phone: 360-8820 Location: 9560 Spruill Road, Johns Creek, GA A Horror Movie Double Feature of the classic 1931 movie 'Dracula' and the masterpiece film 'Frankenstein' with Boris Karloff will be shown for ...

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies, Frankenstein, Science Fiction Movies, Boris Karloff, Duluth, GA, Symphony, Arts

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Columbus Dispatch

Watch out for werewolves at screening after sundown

The Wexner Center for the Arts will open the cash bar, hand out free popcorn and screen The Wolf Man outside at sundown tonight.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, The Wolf Man, Drama Movies, Lon Chaney Jr., Claude, TX, Comedy Movies, American Graffiti, Music!, Crime Movies, Adventure, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Fri Jun 12, 2009

MetaFilter

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla

A Horror Film that will Stiffen You with Laughter! The jungle is jumping, with gals, gags, and goofs! And a gorilla! It's not the set-up for an awkward joke, but an honest to goodness motion picture, starring Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist, and nightclub comedians Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo as themselves, though in roles approximating Martin ...

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Sat May 30, 2009

IcTheWharf

Wolfman on the prowl in Greenwich

The legendary Wolfman has been on the prowl in Greenwich after dark. Night-time shooting has been taking place this month at the Old Royal Naval College, as the finishing touches are applied to the remake of the 1941 monster movie.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Drama Movies, The Wolf Man, Benicio Del Toro, Lon Chaney Jr.

Fri May 22, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Vampires: old school or new school?

By Branden Barker Who prefers Bela Lugosi over Robert Pattinson OLD. Vampires were doomed the minute Keifer Sutherland and "The Lost Boys" introduced us to the modern bloodsuckers in 1987.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Twilight, Horror Movies, Short, True Blood, Entertainment, Television

Thu May 14, 2009

LA Weekly

Birth of a Zombie Nation: The Undead in the Movies

One of filmdom's most malleable metaphors, the zombie has come a long way since Bela Lugosi 's voodoo priest Murder Legendre tried to turn bride-to-be Madge Bellamy into a Haiti plantation owner's mind-numbed love slave in 1932's White Zombie , generally considered to be the first zombie movie.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, White Zombie

Sat May 09, 2009

UPI

Movie memorabilia sale yields $4.2M

Props, costumes, posters, photos and other Hollywood memorabilia brought in $4.2 million at Profiles in History's spring auction, the auction house said.

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Related Topix: Star Wars, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Comedy Movies

Newindpress

Love for the Dracula

When Bram Stoker had published the novel Dracula in 1897, it had unleashed a Pandoraa TMs Box of franchises in various media.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella, Gary Oldman, Dominic Purcell

Fri Apr 17, 2009

New York Times

They Came From Horrorwood: Ackerman Items on the Block

Forrest J. Ackerman held many jobs in his 92 years: comic-book writer, literary agent, magazine editor, bit-part actor.

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Related Topix: Forrest J Ackerman, Journalism, Horror Movies, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies, Home, Home Listing, Hillsborough, NJ

Sun Mar 29, 2009

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Gun

Vampira! Vampira

Self-diagnosed media junkie tells all, sees the future, names names and cures cancer - not necessarily in that order, and in between working for the man and a pretty full t.v. viewing schedule.

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Related Topix: Horror, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama

Tue Mar 03, 2009

Los Angeles Times

PASSINGS

Robert Quarry Actor in '70s horror films Robert Quarry, 83, a prolific actor best known for his horror-movie roles as Count Yorga and the Deathmaster, died Feb.

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Related Topix: Horror, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Crime Movies, Madhouse, Adventure, Count Yorga, Vampire, Drama, Robert Quarry, Short

Sun Mar 01, 2009

FANGORIA

Hollywood to Offer a Sneak Peek at the Forrest J Ackerman

Fans of the lateA legendary Horror andA Sci-fi icon Forrest J Ackerman will have a chance to catch aA glimpse at some of his mostA treasured items, as Profiles in History joins AmericanA Cinematheque at theA ...

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Related Topix: Forrest J Ackerman, Horror, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama, The Raven, Comedy Movies, Biography Movies

Fri Feb 27, 2009

SCI FI Wire

News Briefs: New Moon casting, Lugosi's cape, Tori Spelling?

Vancouver native Bronson Pelletier has been cast in "a significant role" in the Twilight sequel New Moon , the Toronto Star reported.

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Related Topix: Horror, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama, The Raven, Comedy Movies, Biography Movies

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