Monsters from the Vault #26

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Monsters from the Vault #26
Topic Started: Apr 24 2009, 01:37 PM (81 Views)
Laughing Gravy	Apr 24 2009, 01:37 PM Post #1
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,060 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	Always a treat when a new issue arrives. This one, beneath a beautiful cover of Karloff in The Walking Dead, includes a beautiful 15-page article by Greg Mank on Karloff at Warner Bros., 1935-1939, plus articles on Tod Browning's The Thirteenth Chair (1929), Hammer horrors of the 1960s, The Strange Door with Karloff and Laughton, reviews, and all good stuff like that.



Laughing Gravy	Jul 19 2009, 08:21 PM Post #2
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,060 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	Today, I poured over Greg Mank's wonderful article on Karloff at Warner Bros., where he made 5 films from 1936-1939: The Walking Dead, West of Shanghai, The Invisible Menace, Devil's Island, and British Intelligence. The films the studio announced for Boris but didn't make are even more interesting, including The Pit and the Pendulum and The Witches Sabbath, and the article also details the studio playing hardball with Karloff regarding salary once horror films went out of vogue following the 1935-36 season. There is also a nice description of the efforts to bring Karloff west to star in the film version of Arsenic and Old Lace (including sending Bogart to Broadway to fill in for Boris while Karloff came back to Hollywood), and why they failed. Great stuff, and Mank has a new book out on Karloff & Lugosi that I am looking forward to.



shelbyvinje	Jul 27 2009, 12:22 PM Post #3
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 415 Group: Members Member #470 Joined: June 3, 2008	Greg Mank's book on Karloff and Lugosi isn't new, it's updated from a book he wrote two decades ago. Anything Greg Mank writes is superb. He's one of the four authors who I buy any book with their name on it. As for Monsters From the Vault, I'll have to break down and buy a couple issues. I am the proud possessor of the first 15 issues in mint condition but then stopped buying them after issue #15. It's not a bad magazine, but I only have so much time to read magazines these days and I let two subscriptions lapse this year and keep hesitating renewing the subscription (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY being one of them).


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