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...succubus, lamia, boggart, barghest, uturuncu or related fee-faw-fum had already drunk the poor girl dry. The U.S., as summer moviegoers may have observed, is crawling with the bloody things. The horror industry is in the hideous throes of what may be the biggest necromantic revival since Count Dracula was a nipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood Pudding | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...going to say, 'Let's give em another one.'" Herm made his name in the entertainment world when he wrote and produced the legendary I Was a Teenage Werewolf for American International Pictures. He followed that success with several more--including I was a Teenage Frankenstein, Blood of Dracula, How To Make a Monster, and Horrors of the Black Museum...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Herman Cohen | 3/23/1961 | See Source »

...Holy Name Society elected B. J. Lawler as its new president. Popcorn-munchers at the movie theater sat through Executive Suite and Brides of Dracula. Before cheering thousands, the high school eleven, sparked by Quarterback Ronnie Tapp, rolled to a 28-0 Homecoming-Day victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANS ABROAD: Goodbye to All That | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...place on the very short list of good science fiction films partly because its hokum is entrancing, its special effects expertly rigged and its monsters sufficiently monstrous. But the picture's major virtue is that its human characters are compounded not of green cheese or ground-up Dracula scripts, as is customary in such ventures, but of flesh, blood and imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 22, 1960 | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...unhappy about being a "compensation," and I suppose I don't mind being a "sort of Ivy League Dracula" [in the Oct. 19 review of Pillow Talk]. I can smell a compliment better than anyone I have ever met. No, all I really have to complain about is that I think you underrate Clark Gable [in the Oct. 12 review of But Not for Me]; he's really a deceptively good artist. That's all-but if overrating me goes with underrating him, then God praise the equation. TONY RANDALL

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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