The History Channel has occasionally explored the roots of the monsters that thrilled and chilled our childhood and Lionsgate Home Entertainment has dutifully released them on disc every now and then. Coming Tuesday is a nice little double feature package collecting the previously released Frankenstein: The Real Story and The Real Wolfman on a single…
You have to give credit to Dwight Frye, the underappreciated character actor who created the role of the hunchback Fritz, who aided Colin Clive’s Victor Frankenstein in the 1931 Universal adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. In further Universal installments, the assistant was renamed Ygor and Frye was replaced with Bela Lugosi – but it…
One of the most enduring DC Comics creations, Bizarro has been with us since 1958 – either debuting in the Superman newspaper strip, according to editor Mort Weisinger, or in Superboy #68 according to where most baby boomers first found him. Either way, that original Bizarro was quite a different being than he is today….
I usually donât watch horror films or TV shows, and that might surprise some people. After all, Iâm known to have written some horror stories, such as DCâs Wasteland. My standard response is that I would rather give nightmares than get them. A bit flip perhaps, but largely true. I have an active imagination (from…
Part of what makes Guillermo Del Toro the accomplished horror director that he is comes from his belief in just what parts of the supernatural are fact and not fiction. In our exclusive interview, he tells us what parts of that helped him construct the scares on his newest film, CRIMSON PEAK. http://serve.castfire.com/audio/2581494/comicmix_2015-10-15-120834.64.mp3 Transcript We…
Boo! It’s Halloween today, when we laugh at death and taunt ghosts, witches and demons. Traditionally, we dress up in costume as something that scares us, exorcising our fears through make-up and disguise. If this was still a barometer of what we are afraid of, most women (and girls) are terrified of sex. And of…
TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Reviews of Pulp and Genre Fiction in All Mediaby Tommy Hancock MAN-MADE TROUBLES:THE FIVE-MINUTE FRANKENSTEINAn Anthology by L. Andrew Cooper, Georgia L. Jones, LS King, Christopher Kokoski, Brad PArnell, Thomas Rafalski, Teddi Robinson, Divinity Rose, and Jason S. WaltersBlackWyrm Publishing2013 There aren’t many fictional names that conjure vivid images in young and old, fan…
ALL PULP Reviews by Ron Fortier FRANKENSTEIN â Lost Souls By Dean Koontz Bantaam Books 381 pages Released Jan 2011 ISBN 10 â 0553593676 ISBN 13 â 978-0553593679 About the author â Dean R. Koontz is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their…
FRANKENSTEIN LIVES AGAIN IN A BIG WAY! From Bill Cunningham, Pulp 2.0 Press- I just wanted to share (Okay, I wanted to blow my horn a little bit – sue me) some of the great reviews we’ve been getting for Pulp 2.0 Press’s digital edition of FRANKENSTEIN LIVES AGAIN! It’s clear (to me) that our target…
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/ THE COMPLETE TORTUROUS STORY of the 1910 filmversion of Frankenstein is narrated in this 100th Anniversary edition.Everything you ever wanted to know about the classic firstFrankenstein film and then some. This highly researched documentbegins in the dusty archives of Thomas A. Edison and follows atrail of evidence that leads through the tattered pages of…
Top Cow sent along the cover to Jingle Belle: Santa Claus Vs. Frankenstein illustrated by Wizard Fan Award-winning artist Greg Horn (Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk). This one-shot issue kicks off the move of superstar creator Paul Dini’s line of characters in the Dinicartoons universe to Top Cow. The book is written by Dini with art and…
Director Guillermo del Toro spoke with reporters in Los Angeles to promote this week’s release of Hellboy II: The Golden Army on DVD. Of course, the question about the third film in the series came up and del Toro replied, “You know, I think that they will not green-light it or not or they will…
