Ricou Browning, Aged 93, Has Passed Away Browning is best known for his portrayal of the Gillman or Creech in the underwater sequences for all three of the Creature From The Black Lagoon films. He was also a director, stunt coordinator and double, and a writer. Outside of the Universal Monster films, Browning’s work includedContinue reading “The Last Universal Monster Has Passed Away”
Category Archives: Classic Horror
Classic Horror: Thirteen Women (1932)
“Don’t destroy their faith in the occult, Swami.” Using nothing but the power of persuasion, a vengeful woman attempts to take out thirteen women who bullied and harassed her at an all-girls school in 1932’s Thirteen Women. The thirteen women were part of a sorority that taunted the woman, Ursula Georgi, so much that sheContinue reading “Classic Horror: Thirteen Women (1932)”
Revenge of the Slashers!
Watch Out, Final Girls!!! Sure, last month was all about Scream Queens, but next year, Ken’s Alternate Universe will celebrate Thirty-One Days Of Horror with a month-long celebration of some of the most popular slashers in the business! I’ll have the big guys like Freddy, Jason, and Michael Myers, but I’ll also look at someContinue reading “Revenge of the Slashers!”
Reign of the Scream Queens: Jamie Lee Curtis
Scream Queen Legend And The Final Girl! Could it be anybody else? Would you expect anybody else? Of course the Final Girl and Scream Queen of all Scream Queens would be Jamie Lee Curtis! It’s Halloween for crying out loud! Curtis has appeared in multiple successful franchises, is the sole reason that the Halloween franchiseContinue reading “Reign of the Scream Queens: Jamie Lee Curtis”
Reign of the Scream Queens: Barbara Crampton
Scream Queen Icon Compared to other Scream Queens on this list, many folks unfamiliar with the work of Barbara Crampton might write her off as a horror starlet. When you dig deeper into her seventy-three credits in film and television, you’ll quickly realize that Crampton is not only an iconic Scream Queen, she’s also anContinue reading “Reign of the Scream Queens: Barbara Crampton”
Reign of the Scream Queens: Brinke Stevens
Scream Queen Legend Of all of the wonderful Scream Queens on this list, none of them come close to being the ideal Scream Queen as does Brinke Stevens. Stevens has over 230 film credits to her name on IMDb and has been appearing in movies seemingly nonstop since 1981. She has one role credit priorContinue reading “Reign of the Scream Queens: Brinke Stevens”
Reign of the Scream Queens: Veronica Carlson
Scream Queen Icon Hammer Productions kept horror films above water after Universal turned away from the genre in the 1950’s. Hammer started producing films with their own versions of Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, and more, winning over tons of fans for themselves and breathing new life into Universal’s early classics fromContinue reading “Reign of the Scream Queens: Veronica Carlson”
Reign of the Scream Queens: Gloria Holden
Scream Queen Impact Much like Ingrid Pitt, today’s Scream Queen, Gloria Holden, made her audiences scream more than she ever did in a film. Holden has forty-one film credits to her name, but only one of them would ever be considered a horror film. That film, Dracula’s Daughter (1936), was the first sequel to theContinue reading “Reign of the Scream Queens: Gloria Holden”
Reign of the Scream Queens: Ingrid Pitt
Scream Queen Icon While most of the ladies on this list spent a lot of time on camera screaming, today’s Scream Queen was mainly on the offensive, making both men and women scream for mercy. I’m going to talk a little bit about the seductively beautiful Ingrid Pitt who, thanks to her appearances in HammerContinue reading “Reign of the Scream Queens: Ingrid Pitt”
Reign of the Scream Queens: Mary Philbin
Scream Queen Icon For today’s Reign of the Scream Queens entry we’re going all the way back to the 1920’s, the era of the silent film. While most modern audiences probably don’t know her name, Mary Philbin was a prominent silent film star at the beginning of the 1900’s. She appeared in a total ofContinue reading “Reign of the Scream Queens: Mary Philbin”
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