Okay, put away your books. Time for a pop quiz. I know, I know, I promised that you wouldn’t have one today, but isn’t the point of a pop quiz the surprise factor? Don’t worry, it’s brief. Here we go. Established: Th ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2008-07-01 09:53 - 0 comments

In the wake of Universal's 1941 hit The Wolf Man , several other studios made their own werewolf films to cash-in on a popular monster. The first of these movies was Sam Newfield's The Mad Monster (1942), produced by the Producers Rele ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2007-05-31 00:00 - 0 comments

In 1942, RKO needed to recoup its losses from the financial headaches surrounding Orson Welles' Citizen Kane . They contracted Val Lewton, a Jack-of-all-Trades in Hollywood, to produce a ser ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-10-24 00:00 - 0 comments

It's probably not a coincidence that the first Frankenstein film without Boris Karloff as the Monster marked the beginning of the series' downturn in quality. As much as James Whale (an ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-03-01 01:00 - 0 comments