Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco is a book by Stephen Thrower about the Spanish director of erotic horror films published in the UK in 2015 by Strange Attractor. Press release: Jesús ‘Jess’ Franco is an iconic figure in… Read More ›
English Gothic: a century of horror cinema is a film reference book book written by Jonathan Rigby first published in 2000 and expanded to include more recent films and TV productions and reprinted in 2006. The British horror film is… Read More ›
Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination is a 2014 exhibition being held from October 3, 2014 to January 20, 2015 at the British Library in London. Press release: Two hundred rare objects trace 250 years of the Gothic tradition, exploring our… Read More ›
Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953 - 1968 is an academic book written by Kevin Hefferman and published by Duke University Press in 2004. In the first economic history of the horror film, Hefferman… Read More ›
Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks (originally: Terror! Il castello delle donne maledette - “Terror! The Castle of Cursed Women”) is a 1974 Italian horror film produced and directed by exploitation entrepreneur Dick Randall. It is very loosely based on the Mary Shelley novel… Read More ›
Although the continuity is a little wayward, the events of many of the Golden Age of Universal horror films actually take place in one of two fictional locales - the village of Frankenstein and that of Vasaria (sometimes spelled Visaria)…. Read More ›
Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American stage and screen actor, noted for his appearances in the classic horror films Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). He is frequently seen on-screen as a simple, sometimes deranged, sycophantic assistant to… Read More ›
