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MONSTER MAGAZINE WORLD: THE WOLF MAN EXPLOITED

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Thursday, July 9, 2015. THE WOLF MAN EXPLOITED. A running feature in the earlier years of FILM BULLETIN. Published from 1934-1963, was the "Exploitation Picture of the Issue". Selected for the 29 December 1941 issue was Universal's THE WOLF MAN. Also reviewed in the same issue, it was described by the single-named reviewer, Leyendecker, as "made to order for thrill fans" and ranking "well up as a horror film, despite a fantastic story (! Listen to that box office howl! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Shock!: Audience Promotion to Excite Your Public (page 7; unnumbered in the original)

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Sunday, November 13, 2011. Audience Promotion to Excite Your Public (page 7; unnumbered in the original). The next page in Screen Gems SHOCK! Promotion book contains advice on "how to excite your public.". According to the writer of the text, there were 13 Frankensteins in New York City at the time. I wonder what the number would have been in smaller cities? Another exploitation tactic mentions dressing up a woman in the style of a Charles Adams (sic) cartoon, clearly a reference to Charles Addams' main ...

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Shock!: November 2011

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Monday, November 28, 2011. Last Three Pages of the SHOCK! Catalog series, I will be skipping the individual film entries which follow page 8 (unnumbered in the original), placing, instead, each at the end of the corresponding SHOCK! Film that may be reviewed on the blog. So we then arrive at the last three pages of the unnumbered catalog. Order forms for stills, ad mats, and balops. What's a balop, you ask? It's a slide or card bearing a picture or other visual material for projection. According to the w...

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Shock!: January 2011

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Friday, January 28, 2011. Monroe College sociology professor Norman Reed (Lon Chaney, Jr.) is jinxed. A "mental giant" and a rising star, Reed has just returned from a jaunt somewhere in the tropical isles of the South Seas; he has brought back with him new research for a groundbreaking study on religion called Superstition vs. Science and Fact. Ad for KUTV-Channel 2's "Shock Theater" with horror-host Roderick in. February 27, 1960. COUNTER-ESPIONAGE (1942) was one of the "Lone Wolf" mystery-thrillers.

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Shock!: June 2011

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Friday, June 17, 2011. Inspired Stunts (page 6; unnumbered in the original). The next page in the SHOCK promotional book gives TV programmers suggestions on how to promote the package to potential sponsors and news-people. You are urged to have a party at your studio or a haunted house. (Yeah, good luck trying to find a haunted house! Ghoulish props" include masks and daggers on the walls, a coffin, and. Your buffet supper should be "ghouled-up" with a witch serving meat balls from a steaming cauldron.

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Shock!: Daughter of Shock! - Bombay Mail (1934)

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Friday, July 8, 2011. Here's an interesting curio, a film that would have fit perfectly into the SHOCK! Or SON OF SHOCK! Love the open on this film, particularly offhand dismissive reaction to the bomb. Definitely looks worth tracking down. Thanks for the heads up on the score. Ill be keeping an ear open for those musical cues. July 11, 2011 at 11:34 AM. October 10, 2011 at 1:28 PM. October 16, 2011 at 3:20 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Contact at: eurosin@aol.com. Links of Similar Interest.

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Shock!: Review: Famous Monsters of Filmland: The Annotated Issue # 1

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Saturday, August 27, 2011. Review: Famous Monsters of Filmland: The Annotated Issue # 1. Unfortunately, the people who put this edition together do not know the meaning of "annotated." Annotated is not just reprinting some typescript of issue number one of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND. "Annotated" is offering editorial commentary at least- notes and research material that explain and expand upon the text being presented. There is no such commentary in this edition. It is not. Regarding them, we are lost i...

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Shock!: December 2010

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Friday, December 31, 2010. SON OF DRACULA (1943). Old World vampire gothic meets New World Southern Gothic in SON OF DRACULA. It's an interesting idea, right? Transplant the Germanic expressionism of the Carpathian foothills to the Dark Oaks plantation in the Deep South and let's see what happens. In general, I think the Southern setting works a helluva lot better in SON OF DRACULA than it does in THE MUMMY'S CURSE (1944). Carbondale, IL, July 1, 1960. Hey, wait a minute. I wonder if? Promotional book's ...

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Shock!: SHOCK IT TO ME: GOLDEN GHOULS OF THE GOLDEN GATE

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Sunday, January 1, 2012. SHOCK IT TO ME: GOLDEN GHOULS OF THE GOLDEN GATE. Published recently, Michael Monahan's SHOCK IT TO ME: GOLDEN GHOULS OF THE GOLDEN GATE is an important document on the SHOCK! In the Bay Area the first SHOCK! Package to films like THE BLACK SLEEP and PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. Of course, a good portion of Monahan's book is taken up with the horror hosts of San Francisco, to include by-now such legendary figures as Asmodeus and Bob Wilkins. If you have any interest in the SHOCK!