Word: werewolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson. The Virginia Werewolf of U.S. fiction in top form...
Curse of the Werewolf (Hammer; Universal) is a routine, competent British fang opera filmed, as many of the new scare shows are, in a color process that seems peculiarly sensitive to red. The picture contains an inspired scene. As a priest holds a pretty little baby (destined to be a werewolf) over a baptismal font, a fiendish face appears suddenly in the depths of the font and the holy water bubbles to a rolling boil. The scriptwriters have also provided an unwittingly hilarious line. After slaughtering five sheep and draining them of blood, the werewolf, now a fat little...
Cohen said: "We're not subsidized. I won't make pictures unless there's a market for them." He has no urge to go respectable--he's been there already. "Teenage Werewolf," my first horror picture, was my 22nd movie. Just before it, I had made Crime of Passion, starring Barbara Stanwyck. It got good reviews, and died at the box office. Now the movie business was my life and love--I started at 12, and I haven't a relative in it--so I traveled around the country to find out what went wrong...
...defend his pictures against attacks that claim they are immoral a bad influence, or just plain trash. "Everyone gets into the act," he said. "My pictures are horror, but in a supernatural vein. No adolescent can leave the theatre and turn into a Konga or a Teenage Werewolf...
With Konga, Herm has really gone big time. Teenage Werewolf, with a budget of $150,000, grossed $2 million; Konga cost $1 million just to produce. The film was made in England, where Cohen worked seven months to perfect SpectaMation--a technique of superimposition which apparently should revolutionize trick photography. (An example appears on this page...