Speaking
of being behind, with the release of the legacy edition monster films on Blu-Ray marked down for
Halloween sales two years in a row, I can overcome one of my child’s biases
against “stinky, grainy old tapes” in my multiyear quest to get my young horror fan to watch the classics.
Hey,
she says Van Helsing is her favorite
scary movie, why wouldn’t she be interested in its source material?
The
answer, of course, is her natural bias against black and white. Now, in-spite of my currently owning far too
many copies of digitally enhanced Abbot
and Costello Meet Frankenstein, we haven’t made much headway.
I’m
woefully behind on material, but since this year is the 200th
Anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein the Modern Prometheus I'm going with what I have for now,
maybe now that she’s read Dracula and
Frankenstein
someday we’ll watch more of them.
Later edit: Nope! Her resistance to black and white continued, then she went to college. Rosa and I watched them all together though. My vast warehouse of useless monster knowledge coupled with her never having seen these before led to fun commentary anyway.
1943 Son of Dracula
1944 The Mummy's Ghost
1944 House of Frankenstein
1944 The Mummy's Curse
1945 House of Dracula
1946 She Wolf of London
1948 Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
1955 Revenge of the Creature
1955 Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummy
1956 The Creature Walks Among Us
Anabelle did veer into the enjoyment of later films
1958, 1959, 1965 The Fly Trilogy
1986, 1989 The Fly Remakes
1959 The Tingler
Here’s
some links to older general posts about the classics.
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