Posts Tagged ‘Frankenstein’

News – Frankenstein Alive, Alive!

In 1983 Bernie Wrightson’s illustrated version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein was met with both reverance and acclaim! Now, almost 30 years later, Wrightson returns to his passionate project with a comic series that picks up at the end of the classic novel, which has been hailed as one of the greatest horror stories of [...]

News – Happy Halloween: A Glimpse Into the Evolution of Universal’s Classic Monsters

What better way to celebrate Halloween than glimpsing the evolution of Universal’s Classic Monsters? Thanks to Scott Essman, we can share a video with you that is a visual journey through the Universal monsters, from their predecessors, to the earliest monsters, through to Jack Pierce’s career post-Universal plus some extras honoring him. Happy Halloween Everyone, [...]

News – Wake the Dead

Remember the kid from Sixth Sense? He saw dead people but now he is all grown up and will star in a modern day re-telling of Frankenstein!

News – The Frankenstein Syndrome

Genre veteran Tiffany Shepis (Nightmare Man, The Violent Kind) is star of a new film The Frankenstein Syndrome. She plays Dr. Elizabeth Barnes, a gifted stem-cell researcher who joins the Prometheus Project – an illegal and privately funded research project with the goal of discovering a stem cell based universal healing serum. Read on for [...]

News – The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein to be Adapted to Film

  I am really excited about this news. I love Frankenstein in all his incarnations, and some of the best news is that Sam Raimi and Ghost House Pictures are adapting and Playwright David Auburn is scripting. How cool is that? Read on for the details!

News – 80th Anniversary Celebration for Frankenstein and Dracula at Historic Pomona Fox Theater

It was 80 years ago in 1931 that the two most important “monster” films of all time were released by Universal Pictures, Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff, and Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi. It was also in April 1931 that the Pomona Fox Theater was first opened to the public. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of these [...]