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Each episode Batzina Belfry travels six feet under to pry open a coffin of one of her favorite Hollywood corpses to perform a post watch examination of one their forgotten films. In episode 034, Batzina uncovers the corpse of Boris Karloff to examine the 1935, The Black Room directed by Roy William Neill. She also takes a trip to the morgue to chat cadavers with Dr. Ashley Jane Carruthers. Together they autopsy character actor, Edward Van Sloan. Hope you tune in!
On this episode of Talking Terror, we return to the cinematic world of monochrome horror with the Mad Monkey's film pick of the week! Sure, you've seen Freddy vs. Jason but way before those 80's slasher maniacs had their fight, two other classic monsters were having a real "meat" cute in 1943! Listen in as we chat about Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man directed by Roy William Neill. Stay scared people, stay scared!
Sherlock Holmes in The Lady in Green (1945). Directed by Roy William Neill. Starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Eve Amber, and Henry Daniell. Soylent Green (1973). Directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Joseph Cotten, Leigh Taylor-Young, Brock Peters, and Chuck Connor. The Green Knight (2021). Directed by David Lowery. Starring Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Barry Keoghan, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Chowdrey, adn Ralph Ineson. Please review us over on Apple Podcasts. Got comments or suggestions for new episodes? Email: sddpod@gmail.com. Seek us out via Twitter and Instagram @ sddfilmpodcast Support our Patreon for $3 a month and get access to our exclusive show, Sudden Double Deep Cuts where we talk about our favourite movie soundtracks, scores and theme songs. We also have t-shirts available via our TeePublic store!
This week we have a look at the 1943 film Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. This is Episode #386!Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is a 1943 American horror film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. This was the first of a series of later called "monster rallies" combining characters from several film series. This film's script written by Curt Siodmak follows The Ghost of Frankenstein and The Wolf Man. The film involves Larry Talbot who is brought back to life. Seeking a way to return to his death to escape his werewolf curse, he meets with gypsy Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya) who advises him that the only way to stay dead is to confer with Dr. Frankenstein. The doctor is long dead but his equipment is in working condition, leading Talbot to seek the help of scientist Dr. Mannering (Patric Knowles) and Frankenstein descendant Baroness Elsa Frankenstein (Ilona Massey). Talbot then attempts to have his life sucked from his body and transferred into Frankenstein's monster (Bela Lugosi).Developed under the title Wolf Man Meets Frankenstein, the film was originally developed with Lon Chaney Jr. to portray both Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man, an idea that was halted before production began because of the physical toll it would take on the actor. The script was filmed with the monster originally having lines of dialogue which were later removed after a studio pre-screening for the film which led to the production staff laughing at Bela Lugosi's delivery of the lines. This led to Lugosi's dialogue being removed from the final film. The film was released to what the authors of the book Universal Horrors described as "lukewarm reviews". The film led to a series of what were later described as "monster rallies" involving having name-brand monsters interact with each other in films. Universal would follow this with The House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula.
Welcome to the Speakeasy Noir Cast! Black Angel is a 1946 American film noir directed by Roy William Neill and starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent and Peter Lorre. A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine (June Vincent), and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin (Dan Duryea), team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling), who had been Martin's wife. Their investigation leads them to face-to-face confrontations with a determined policeman, Captain Flood (Broderick Crawford), and a shifty nightclub owner, Mr. Marko (Peter Lorre), who Catherine and Martin suspect may be the real killer. Don't forget to keep in touch: Support us by subscribing and leaving a review! https://anchor.fm/speakeasy-noircast Call us at: (818) 643-1441 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/speakeasynoircast Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpeakEasyNoir Website: http://resurrectionfilms.co.uk/home/index.php/speakeasy/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/speakeasy-noircast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/speakeasy-noircast/support
This week Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man, and just wait til you see how they break the ice! Join us as we too meet Larry Talbot, our furry friend who is just looking for a good listener (and a way to die). Come along as we rain on a parade and find out how the villagers get their revenge with a lot more than a little rain. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss future installments. And please rate, review, and tell your fiends. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram @thefrankencast or send us a letter at thefrankencast@gmail.com. Your Horror Hosts: Anthony Bowman (he/him) & Eric Velazquez (he/him) Cover painting by Amanda Keller (@KellerIllustrations on Instagram).
Lee and Leah return this episode with a trip back to the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes series, taking a look at "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" (1942), directed by Roy William Neill, picked to be covered by special guest host on this episode, Matt Anderson. Much of the conversation revolves around the otherwise straight-forward plot and the changes made to Holmes after Universal picked up the series from Fox. Is 1940s spy-smasher Holmes a total betrayal to the source material, or is it a cool tweaking of the character? Is Bruce's Dr. Watson unfairly shat upon? Does the series do Dr. Moriarty justice as well? What's with the size of British pound notes? Also, Matt gets to play the Movie God Game, and the hosts all talk about what they've watched as of late in a slightly longer episode than usual. Check out Matt on twitter. "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" IMDB Featured Music: "Rule Britannia" by Thomas Augustine Arne & "Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves)" by Juventino Rosas.
The great detective takes on the Great White North! The Scarlet Claw is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes picture in the series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Once again, Roy William Neill is back to direct.Holmes and Watson find themselves in Canada for a paranormal convention. But things take a darker turn when one of the occult expert's wife is found murdered, her throat slashed by a claw. When Holmes receives a letter from the dead one, he decides to travel to the small Northern town to deduce whether malevolent spirits or more earthly dangers are afoot. Listen to Áine and Kevin scratch away at topics like ghosts, cross-Atlantic voyages during the Second World War, the hearty boomer goose, and Canada. We'll also discuss why this is our favorite Universal Holmes picture so far, and why we think it'll have you rooting for La Mort Rouge.Follow us on the usual social media suspects:FacebookTwitterInstagramAnd send us mysterious and intriguing missives at mysterytomepodcast@gmail.com.Mystery to Me is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
There is a house in ol' ScotlandThey call it Drearcliffe DùnAnd it's been the ruin of many a poor comradeAnd God, I know I'm oneThe House of Fear is a 1945 film directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson. It's the tenth film in the series starring Rathbone and Bruce, and loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Five Orange Pips." Which is to say, both tales involve nefarious parties threatening victims via discarded bits of fruit!In this rollicking and ridiculous movie, Holmes and Watson must investigate who's been bumping off"good comrades," the name given to members of an exclusive club of single men living together in Scotland's remote and desolate Drearcliffe House. The murder vacation of a lifetime ensues, along with all manner of haunted. house silliness, complete with a Mrs. Danvers-esque ripoff for a maid, sinister chums, stereotypical Scottish locals, and, of course, Watson firing a gun at ghosts in the dark.Listen to good comrades Áine and Kevin pipe up about pips, dream vacations, Irish step-dancing, and the Cleveland Torso Murders. Come make yourself at home in the house of fear!Follow us on the usual social media suspects:FacebookTwitterInstagramAnd send us mysterious and intriguing missives at mysterytomepodcast@gmail.com.
Pack up your pipe, magnifying glass, and deerstalker cap, and refill your Metro card — we're going to Washington D.C.!Sherlock Holmes in Washington is a 1943 film starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord, and George Zucco, and the fifth installment of the Roy William Neill series. And let's just say that, while subplots in "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Valley of Fear" do indicate that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was fascinated with America, this movie is ridiculous! The setup is simple: A British spy carrying key documents vanishes in Washington D.C. Naturally, Holmes is dispatched to the capital of the United States, along with his pal Watson. They've got enemy agents to catch, and monuments to gawk at!Tune in to hear Áine and Kevin riff on villainous lamp-phones, acceptable bridezilla-ing, orange drinks from the 1980s, and the jolly cruelty of one Dr. John Watson. And check out this wacky film — truly the middle school Washington trip of the Sherlock Holmes universe! Beware, this review contains spoilers!Follow us on the usual social media suspects:FacebookTwitterInstagramAnd send us mysterious and intriguing missives at mysterytomepodcast@gmail.com.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon is a 1942 film by director Roy William Neill, as well as a very, very loose adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1903 novel The Adventure of the Dancing Men. It's the fourth movie in a series of Sherlock Holmes films starring iconic duo Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and the second picture to be set during the Second World War.The story is that Holmes must keep a key scientist — whose device could alter the course of the fight against fascism — out of the clutches of the Nazis and other sinister forces. Holmes is "aided" in his quest by Bruce's bumbling Dr. Watson, the slightly-less bumbling denizens of Scotland Yard, and a wardrobe full of embarrassing-and-occasionally-racist disguises. Does this flawed Holmes picture prove to be a "secret weapon" of sorts, or is it a complete misfire? Listen to this episode to decode the mystery! And beware! This review contains spoilers!Follow us on the usual social media suspects:FacebookTwitterInstagramAnd send us mysterious and intriguing missives at mysterytomepodcast@gmail.com.Want to watch the flick and toss us a kickback at the same time? Buy the DVD for Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon on Amazon by clicking here, or stream it on Amazon Prime by clicking here. Purchase a paperback edition of The Adventure of the Dancing Men and other Holmes stories by clicking here.
How has Monster Kid Radio gone over 480 episodes and NOT covered 1943's Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (dir. Roy William Neill)?!? Let's correct that this week with special guest Ricardo Delgado! Ricardo and Derek discuss this iconic film, break down WHY it's iconic, and how it influenced the course of the rest of the monster movies to come after it. On top of that, Kenny also has another amazing Look at Famous Monsters of Filmland this week! Voicemail: 503-479-5MKR (503-479-5657) Email: Monster Kid Radio on Twitch! - - Monster Kid Radio on YouTube - Electronics Service Unit No. 16 - Mark Matzke's Monster Study Group podcast - United Nations of Horror podcast - Monster Hunter for Hire (Supernatural Solutions: The Marc Temple Casefiles - Volume 1) - Monster Kid Radio on TeePublic - Next week on Monster Kid Radio: The Flesh Eaters (dir. Jack Curtis) with The opening and closing song "" () appears by permission of () All original content of Monster Kid Radio by is licensed under a .
Not every monster kid movie maker saved the movies they made with their friends when they were a kid, but Rob Hampton did, and we're better for it! Rob is the co-director of (with co-director John Morgan), and this week, he joins Derek for a conversation about his background, his career, and much more. Kenny also has his Look at Famous Monsters of Filmland, and it's also time to announce, and thank, July's Executive Producers. Voicemail: 503-479-5MKR (503-479-5657) Email: Monster Kid Radio on Twitch! - Monster Kid Radio on YouTube - Electronics Service Unit No. 16 - Buy Monster Kid Radio a "coffee" - Super 8 Daze - Watch Super 8 Daze and the Super 8 short filmsAmazon Prime - Vimeo - YouTube - Monster Hunter for Hire (Supernatural Solutions: The Marc Temple Casefiles - Volume 1) - Monster Kid Radio on TeePublic - Next week on Monster Kid Radio: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (dir. Roy William Neill) with Ricardo Delgado The opening and closing song "" () appears by permission of () All original content of Monster Kid Radio by is licensed under a .
Creepy twins are everywhere in pop culture. They’re performing in American Horror Story’s Freak Show. They’re navigating a vaguely incestual relationship on Riverdale. They’re in so many Lifetime thrillers, they’re basically their own subgenre. Seeing twins in horror movies is like going into the basement or investigating a suspicious noise: it’s one of those universal rules that almost always signals something sinister. Nothing encapsulates this better than The Shining, a two-and-a-half-hour psychological endurance test that includes all the hallmarks of a good horror movie: a haunted hotel, a disturbed young boy, one man’s gradual descent into ax-wielding insanity. And yet it’s the Grady twins — on screen for less than two minutes in total — who have most deeply imprinted upon the cultural psyche. They’ve been eternally analyzed, parodied ad infinitum, trotted out each year as Halloween costumes. A Google search for them returns over 12 million results, while one for Jack Torrance, the film’s lead character, yields a little under 8 million. This is in part because a mythos has surrounded twins since essentially the dawn of time. Often assumed to share an insular closeness and an eerie similarity in both appearance and manner, they've served as a longstanding subject of fascination both in literature and society. In the late 19th century, a confluence of events cemented twins as what Karen Dillon, the author of The Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture, refers to as a “double freak.” It was then that P.T. Barnum began parading twins as circus freaks and Francis Galton began experimenting on them amid the early eugenics movement. They became both a public spectacle and a scientific aberration — meant to be gawked at and prodded. Horror filmmakers began representing this onscreen in the 1930s, starting with Tod Browning’s Freaks and Roy William Neill’s The Black Room. When the genre boomed in the ‘70s, so too did horror stories about twins, including Alan Gibson’s Goodbye Gemini, Robert Mulligan’s The Other, and Brian de Palma’s cult slasher Sisters, all movies in which twins are preternaturally disposed to mayhem and murder. By the time The Shining premiered in 1980, twins had become so synonymous with fear and freakishness that the Grady sisters were instinctually terrifying. Ultimately, it didn’t matter that they weren’t technically twins or may in fact be the same person: they were scary either way. It’s not just about shock value, though. Horror is most effective when it feeds into our own subliminal fears and anxieties, and twins are a psychic horror as much as they are a visual abhorrence. Identical twins are often used as moral allegories for our internal struggle between good and evil, or else portray an elevated codependence and uncanniness that subconsciously disturbs our notion of individuality. “We tend to feel confident that we are individuals with clear borders,” says Juliana de Nooy, author of Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture. “[So] to be confronted with an image of people where there’s maybe one person in two bodies or two people in one body, it ... immediately tells us, ‘Gasp, there might be two of us. There might be some scary other me that I can’t control.’” This calls back to the notion of the shadow self or “id” championed by Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud: the idea that there is some unconscious, uncontrollable other self driving our thoughts, behaviors, and desires. Twins literalize the division between these two selves, forcing us to stare down the parts of ourselves we’d otherwise prefer not to acknowledge. Unlike its predecessors, The Shining is not explicitly about twins, and at surface level doesn’t delve into these themes deeply. That’s what made it so impactful. “[It has] to be one of the first uses of twins as nothing but an image of horror,” Dillon says. But it is a film about duality. Isolated in an expansive, empty hotel and driven further and further into the dark corners of his mind, Jack (Jack Nicholson) devolves into his most primal, violent self — or perhaps, as the final scene hints, a past self. His son Danny (Danny Lloyd), meanwhile, spends his stay at the Overlook wrestling his alter ego “Tony” before being overtaken by him entirely. “Danny’s not here, Mrs. Torrance,” he tells his mother late in the movie. “Danny can’t wake up.” The Grady twins amplify and actualize what both characters are experiencing. Though they’re initially only hinted at, the girls’ presence is felt throughout the film via highly symmetrical scenes, recurring mirror shots, and a continued color scheme that mimics the image of their pale blue dresses against the red of their own blood. As Danny peddles dizzily around the hotel’s maze of hallways, the camera dips to his level, forcing us to see things through his eyes and from a more vulnerable position. By the time he encounters the twins dead-eyed, talking in unison, and beckoning him to “come play,” the movie’s psychological paranoia is at its peak. “At that point, it’s the full horror of, what am I looking at? Is this a hallucination of some sort?” Manchester Metropolitan University horror film scholar Xavier Aldana Reyes says, likening it to the feeling of having double vision. “I think it plays into the film’s focus on, is it really there? Is it not there? Are we going mad?” All of this helped to sear the Grady sisters into collective memory. Forty years later, they remain the quintessential image of creepy twins — as much a symbol of terror as our enduring obsession.
Boris Karloff and Boris Karloff star in the 1935 Columbia horror THE BLACK ROOM, directed by Roy William Neill! Joining Karloff is Marian Marsh, Robert Allen, Thurston Hall, and Katherine DeMille! This well-structured film shows us how to go beyond painting-by-numbers and experience the thrill of seeing how the pieces come together. Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 11:37; Discussion 20:25; Ranking 46:29
Larry Underwood (or is it Dr. Gangrene?) joins Derek this week on Monster Kid Radio to discuss the 1935 double-Karloff'ed film The Black Room (dir. Roy William Neill). Is Karloff King? Well, he's a baron in this movie, and that's more than good enough for this more than great film! Voicemail: 503-479-5MKR (503-479-5657) Email: The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards - It Came Outer Space at the Hollywood Theatre - Monster Bash - Archivos - (.mp3s of every episode of Monster Kid Radio are available for download at our barebones behind-the-scenes website at ) Monster Kid Radio on TeePublic - /> Next week: You'll Find Out (dir. David Butler) with Jeremy LaMastus The opening and closing songs "Calling Dr. Gangrene" () appears by permission of The Jeano Roid Experience All original content of Monster Kid Radio by is licensed under a . RIP Nokie Edwards
Filmmaker Joe Sherlock joins Derek this week, and if they're not careful, they may lose their heads! Or not. Listen to this week's episode of Monster Kid Radio to find out! After learning all about Joe and what he does (including his involvement in the sequel to the classic film Manos: The Hands of Fate (dir. Harold P. Warren)), he plays a round of the Classic Five, and then gets down to business with a conversation about the 1959 film The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (dir. Edward L. Cahn). Plus FEEDBACK (with the returning Brenda!). Voicemail: 503-479-5MKR (503-479-5657) Email: Skullface Astronaut - The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards - It Came Outer Space at the Hollywood Theatre - Monster Bash - Archivos - Dominique Lamssies on Dracula's Daughter - (.mp3s of every episode of Monster Kid Radio are available for download at our barebones behind-the-scenes website at ) World Premiere of Manos Returns (dir. Tonjia Atomic) May 4, 2018 - 9:00pm Crypticon Seattle - Monster Kid Radio on TeePublic - Next week: The Black Room (dir. Roy William Neill) with Larry Underwood (Dr. Gangrene) The opening and closing song "" () belongs to The Tiki Creeps - All original content of Monster Kid Radio by is licensed under a .
This week, Disney, Indiana's Scott Morris joins Derek and goes Cajun as they do battle with some pretty nasty critters. It's time for Attack of the Giant Leeches (dir. Bernard L. Kowalski), a movie that Derek's been wanting to talk about for a long time (and not just because he likes movies!). Get ready for a laid back conversation that tends to drift along other monster kid topics while Derek and Scott talk about looking for Yvette Vickers pictorials . . . I mean, talk about the movie. Also, Monster Kid Radio's Year of Frankenstein continues with a look at Son of Frankenstein (dir. Rowland V. Lee), and FEEDBACK (with A special guest email-reader!). Voicemail: 503-479-5MKR (503-479-5657) Email: (.mp3s of every episode of Monster Kid Radio are available for download at our barebones behind-the-scenes website at ) The Super Mates Podcast - Monster Kid Radio on TeePublic - The opening and closing song "" () belongs to The Surferic Dudes - - "Ossuary 1 - A Beginning" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License What movie will Larry Underwood (Dr. Gangrene) talk about with Derek next week? YOU DECIDE! 1935's The Black Room (dir. Roy William Neill) or 1966's The Psychopath (dir. Freddie Francis)? Email or call to let us know! All original content of Monster Kid Radio by is licensed under a .
Columbia Pictures offers us our last pre-code horror film: the disappointing BLACK MOON (1934) directed by Roy William Neill and starring Jack Holt, Fay Wray, and Dorothy Burgess. Based off the 1933 novel of the same name by Clements Ripley. It's, uh, not good.
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed off. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.Director: Roy William NeillWriters: Bertram Millhauser (screenplay), Arthur Conan Doyle (characters)Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke - via IMDB https://archive.org/details/TheWomanInGreen_894