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Vampires are demon lovers - courtly but toxic beaux, your dreamiest, most dangerous blind date. That's been the movie norm, from the Bela Lugosi Dracula in 1931 to today's Twilight saga. But there's another view of the tradition, an alterna-vamp, that begins with the first important horror movie, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, and was touched on in Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark and the Francis Coppola Dracula. It's the vampire as pure predator, a gaunt, subhuman pestilence, the ultimate parasite whose host is the rest of us. Nothing sexy about these creatures, or their...
...shrine - Mecca for fan-fans. Show up on a Saturday morning, walk past the Lincoln Continental in the driveway (license plate: SCI FI) and find smiling Forry at the door. He leads a tour of his home, every inch of which is crammed and wallpapered with memorabilia: Bela Lugosi's ring and Dracula cape; Ray Harryhausen's miniature of a shattered U.S. Capitol dome from an entire room dedicated to the silent SF film Metropolis; artifacts and fetishes from The War of the Worlds, Invaders from Mars, The Thing from Another World, Raiders of the Lost Ark, ad infinitum...
...ordinary, they could be scrawled in a motel register by a teen seeking furtive sex: Jack Pierce and Dick Smith. Pierce, during his time at Universal Pictures in the 30s and 40s, created the studio's entire monster menagerie: Boris Karloff's Frankenstein and the Mummy, Bela Lugosi's Dracula, Lon Chaney Jr.'s Wolf Man, Claude Rains' Phantom of the Opera...
TRANSYLVANIA LEGEND: The first of many films officially based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, the 1931 version of Dracula, with Bela Lugosi in the title role, became an instant classic. The film's horrific scenes allegedly caused audience members to faint at the premiere...
...director can conjure up any more scenarios cribbed from the artwork of middle-school girls. You’d think if she was going to dabble in the goth aesthetic she might at least toss a couple of Danzig riffs into the new single. Alas, no such luck. Bela Lugosi must be turning in his grave. —Bernard L. ParhamVery LoudThe Shout Out LoudsI fell in love with the Shout Out Louds as soon as I played their EP—which I recovered from the garbage can in the Record Hospital room at WHRB. Yes, it?...