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 Posted: Thu 10:14, 14 Apr 2011 Post subject: AF1 Shoes Hollywood's History of Horror Documentar |
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The penultimate bit of voice over says, "And then there were the Hitchcock films, finding horror in the seemingly ordinary." Trailers include those for The Birds (in which Hitchcock refers to his film as a "lecture"), Vertigo, Rope and Psycho.
1950s Monster Movies
Alfred Hitchcock Films
The Wolf Man
Trailers in this section include those for Son Of Dracula, House Of Frankenstein, The Mummy's Curse, The Invisible Man Returns and Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man.
The narrator mentions a bit about the mixture of horror with comedy. This is followed by trailers for Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein and Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy.
Other trailers in this section include those for Teenage Zombies [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], The Little Shop Of Horrors, The Village Of The Damned, The Kiss Of The Vampire, It! and Night Of The Living Dead.
This film is a special feature on the DVD for Horror House On Highway 5. It purports to tell the history of the Hollywood horror film, but right at the beginning the narrator mispronounces Bela Lugosi's name. Who can trust a documentary on horror films that doesn't know how to pronounce Bela? (By the way, it's Bay-la, not Bell-la.)
A Plug For Horror House On Highway 5
The next voice over simply introduces The Wolf Man trailers. The narrator explains, "The Wolf Man andThe Invisible Man personified people's fear of losing their identity and of man's descent into bestiality." And that only leads to more trailers.
Abbott And Costello Meet Everyone
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Horror Movies for Halloween: Vintage Horror
Dracula (1931)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
1960s Horror Films
From Psycho, this movie goes to the trailer for Horror House On Highway 5, calling it "a horror film truly ahead of its ti
But this isn't really much of a documentary. It starts off with trailers for the classic horror films: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy and Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde. The trailers for Frankenstein and Dracula are not the original trailers, but rather the re-release trailers. There are thirteen minutes worth of trailers before the next bit of voice over.
More trailers in this section include Rodan, The Blob and The War Of The Worlds. (It's called Hollywood's History Of Horror, but of course films like Godzilla: King Of The Monsters and Rodan were not made anywhere near Hollywood.)
The narrator returns to tell the viewers [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "The sixties saw the horror film blend into other genres. There were monsters everywhere." One of the trailers in this section is for a film called The Horror Of Party Beach, billed as "The First Horror-Monster Musical." It shows that weird fish-like monsters with goofy eyes can somehow strike terror in the teenyboppers. Ah, those were strange times.
The narrator again: "In the fifties, horror movies capitalized on the fears rising from the age of the atomic bomb and the cold war." Trailers in this section include those for Invasion of The Body Snatchers, The Thing From Another World, Godzilla: King Of The Monsters, Enemy From Space and Invaders From Mars. In that last trailer a child sees a green spaceship and exclaims, "Gee whiz!" The trailer says [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "It's fantastic, but possible. It could happen tomorrow."
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