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Author Archives: Toni Ruberto
Monsters and Matinees: Nature Strikes Back in Eco-horror Films
Nature Strikes Back in Eco-horror Films Is there anything scarier in horror movies than the truth factor? It doesn’t matter how far-fetched the plot or how loosely it may be based in reality, just a touch of “this did happen” … Continue reading
Monsters and Matinees: All Bug-Eyed over Big-Bug Movies
All Bug-Eyed over Big-Bug Movies It could have been the colossal ants. Or the big locusts. Maybe the giant leeches. Most likely it was that house-sized tarantula. I’ll never really know the one film that started my obsession with big-bug … Continue reading
Monsters and Matinees: ‘Giant From the Unknown’ Towers over Richard E. Cunha’s ‘Six-day Wonders’
‘Giant From the Unknown’ Towers over Richard E. Cunha’s ‘Six-day Wonders’ In the world of Monsters and Matinees, discovering a filmmaker or film that is new to us is good – even if the movie isn’t so great. B-movie fans … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur A. Jacobs, Bob Steele, Buddy Baer, Ed Kemmer, Frank Hart Taussig, Frankenstein's Daughter, Gary Crutcher, Giant From the Unknown, Jack Pierce, Missile to the Moon, Morris Ankrum, Ralph Brooke, Richard E. Cuhna, The Film Detective, The She-Creature, Tom Weaver
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Monsters and Matinees: How Abbott and Costello brought the Meet-cute to Horror
How Abbott and Costello brought the Meet-cute to Horror To start this new year of Monsters and Matinees let’s take a deep breath, exhale all the anxiety from 2020 and laugh. Yes, even here in the world of Monsters and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbott and Costello, abbott and costello meet dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, abbott and costello meet frankenstein, abbott and costello meet the invisible man, Abbott and Costello meet the killer Boris Karloff, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, Arthur Franz, Bela Lugosi, claude rains, Dracula (1931), Glenn Strange, Hold that Ghost, Lenore Aubert, lon chaney jr, Marie Windsor, nancy guild, Percy Helton, Reginald Denny, Richard Deacon, the wolf man, William Frawley
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Monsters and Matinees: Make your Own Horror Film Festival at Home
“Have a Festival of Horror” proclaims the full-page magazine ad from 1973. It was in the quarterly magazine called The Film Journal and it literally meant to have a film festival, as in “hey, buy these movies on 16mm film.” … Continue reading
Monsters and Matinees: Horror Author David J. Skal Talks ‘Fright Favorites’
Monsters and Matinees Talks withHorror Author David J. Skal about ‘Fright Favorites’ Open the new book Fright Favorites: 31 Movies to Haunt Your Halloween and Beyond to find this dedication from author David J. Skal: “To monster kids of all … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Classic Movie Hub, Horror, Interviews, Monsters and Matinees, Posts by Toni Ruberto
Tagged abbott and costello meet frankenstein, Christmas in the Movies, Creature from the Black Lagoon, David J. Skal, dracula, Earth vs. the Spider, Hocus Pocus, Invaders from Mars, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Shape of Water, Them, Young Frankenstein
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Monsters and Matinees: The Handsome Face of Horror in ‘I Married a Monster from Outer Space’
The Handsome Face of Horror in ‘I Married a Monster from Outer Space’ When classic movie fans think of the faces of horror, we rightly go to some of the most iconic creatures in film history: the Universal monsters and … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Movie Hub, Horror, Monsters and Matinees, Posts by Toni Ruberto
Tagged B-movies, Gene Fowler Jr., gloria talbott, Haskell Boggs, I Married a Monster from Outer Space, Invaders from Mars, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, It Came from Outer Space, Louis Vittes, science-fiction, Tom Tyron
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Monsters and Matinees: You’re invited to the ‘House on Haunted Hill’
Movie audiences going to see House on Haunted Hill in 1959 knew they were in for a treat. They didn’t know much more than that – only that it was something called “Emergo” and it had never before been seen. … Continue reading
Posted in Horror, Monsters and Matinees, Posts by Toni Ruberto
Tagged Alan Marshal, Best Classics Ever, Carole Ohmart, Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook Jr, Emergo, Fright Break, Homicidal, house on haunted hill, Illusion-O, Julie Mitchum, Macabre, Percepto, Richard Long, Tingler, vincent price, William Castle
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Monsters and Matinees: ‘The Blob’ is based on a what?!
‘The Blob’ is based on a what?! “Do you know the movie The Blob, Aunt Toni?” I’ve never heard a sweeter question than that one recently asked by my 11-year-old niece, Grace. As classic movie fans, we all hope to … Continue reading
