Word: werewolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrator's real name is never known, although he assumes names such as Lou Garrou, a play on the French word for werewolf. But beginning with his park-bench encounters and reveries -which are somewhat reminiscent of James Purdy's Malcolm-both narrator and reader are plunged into the dark underside of a surrealist life as lived by some decidedly improper Bostonians. Altogether betrayed by his faithless wife and conniving business agent who tricks him into painting the Da Vinci forgery, the narrator complains that he has been tipped into a "maelstrom of false marcheses, mercenary Bergamese whores...
Dark Shadows also has a recorded repertory of 3,000 sound effects and a few tricks that go back to radio days. The werewolf calls are authentic lobo cries, but for the squeak of bats in the night, a technician rubs a cork on the side of a bottle. The bats themselves are plastic and wired for flight. Coffins, cakes of dry ice (for eerie ground fog) and quarts of stage blood litter the studio. To spook up the manor with cobwebs, the crew flings chunks of latex into an electric fan, which scatters them authentically over the walls...
Berserk is the ninth inexpensive pseudo-shocker ground out since 1957 by Producer Herman Cohen, who first dis.-covered the gold in those chills with I Was a Teenage Werewolf. "I made Berserk for the same reason I made Werewolf," said Cohen. But why did Miss Crawford make...
...strictly zowie. It goes with such titles as The Brain Eaters, The Bucket of Blood and Little Shop of Horrors (which was filmed in a record two days on a starvation budget of $37,000). A.I.P.'s classic horror title was I Was a Teenage Werewolf, which caused traffic jams at drive-in theaters and earned $2,000,000. Similarly, A.I.P. has made quick killings on bargain-basement Biblicals (Goliath and the Barbarians, Goliath and the Sins of Babylon), on way-outer spaces (Angry Red Planet, Battle Beyond the Sun) and teen-age topicals (Dragstrip Riot, Reform School Girl...
...last year's ghoulash. Dracula and Frankenstein were fun the first time-and were still fun in later films, when they met each other, their own progeny, and mates worse than death. But in the '40s and '50s, the customers got bored with movies that cried werewolf, got fascinated with atomic-age monsters like The Blob, The Thing, The Great Green Og, and a colossal purple caterpillar filled with green radioactive goo. In the '60s, the fashion in fright has become eclectic: mad scientists, mole people, teen-aged werewolves and creatures from outer space have...