This 1939 programmer from Columbia Pictures starring Boris Karloff fuses sci-fi and old dark house revenge story. Though commendable as a tight pulp story, it also exceeds as a surprisingly evocative exploration of the scientific and medical ethics, how much we allow social and legal conventions to restrict progress, and who we entrust to be the architects of that progress.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

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Karloff At Columbia, Part 1｜"The Man They Could Not Hang" (Monster Craze Memoirs - 10/11/2021)

Upcoming bonus episode on Van Helsing (2004) went a little long, so I decided to extract 20 minutes and put it up for free.Become a patron to listen to the whole episode!https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Van Helsing as Nadir of the Gothic Action-Fantasy Cycle

The on-going saga of "Schmuck Dracula" continues with this less sophisticated retread of House of Frankenstein. Dad and I discuss this lowly send-off to Universal's second cycle of classic horror films.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Déjà Boo｜"House of Dracula" (Monster Craze Memoirs - 09/18/2021)

Who's idea was it to cast Lon Chaney, Jr. as Dracula, anyway? Dad and I tackle the late-coming indeed, third installment of Universal's Dracula franchise, Son of Dracula -- a return to Gothic horror form compromised by mercenary studio logic and extreme censorship.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Vampire Blues｜"Son of Dracula" (Monster Craze Memoirs - 09/04/2021)

The Ghost of Frankenstein has picked up a few more supporters over the years, but I am not one of them. Hear me grouse about the fourth entry in the Universal Frankenstein franchise.Works cited:Arthur Lennig, The Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela Lugosi (2003)Don G. Smith, Lon Chaney, Jr.: Horror Film Star, 1906 – 1973 (1996)Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas and John Brunas, Universal Horrors: The Studios Classic Films, 1931 – 1946 (1990)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

A New Brain, or Lack Thereof｜"The Ghost of Frankenstein" (Monster Craze Memoirs - 08/21/2021)

We finally return to the Universal House of Horrors! In this episode, we explore Rowland V. Lee's 1939 masterpiece Son of Frankenstein, the studio's first horror film since the Laemmles were given the boot in 1936. We also pay homage to the waning era of the "prestige horror film," ever prescient of the rebirth of the once novel genre as the almost exclusive terrain of B-pictures.Works cited:Arthur Lennig, The Immortal Count: The Life and Times of Bela Lugosi (2003)Bryan Senn, Golden Horrors: An Illustrated Critical Filmmography of Terror Cinema, 1931 – 1939 (1996)Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas and John Brunas, Universal Horrors: The Studio’s Classic Films, 1931 – 1946 (2007)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Sibling Rivalry｜"Son of Frankenstein" (Monster Craze Memoirs - 08/07/2021)

Our third week of big bug movies takes us south of the border for another Warner Bros. joint. From 1957, it's The Black Scorpion, a pretty crappy movie distinguished if only by some pretty neat stop-motion special effects courtesy of master Willis O'Brien and his less famous protege, Pete Peterson.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Big Bugs, Part 3｜"The Black Scorpion" (Monster Craze Memoirs - 07/17/2021)

Unlocking because this week's episode on The Black Scorpion overlaps as an American sci-fi movie shot in Mexico.It's cowboys vs. dinosaurs! We weigh the tragic amateurishness of Edward Nassour's "The Beast of Hollow Mountain" vs. the poetic naturalism of Ray Harryhausen's "The Valley of Gwangi." Along the way, we unpack the uncanny history of dinosaurs and cowboys as totems of American collective identity.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/bPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB_GcDWtQj_2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

UNLOCKED｜Two Lost Worlds｜"The Beast of Hollow Mountain" & "The Valley of Gwangi" (Monster Craze Memoirs - 02/14/2020)

We're back, baby, and kickin' things off with a month of Big Bug movies, starting with the forefather of 'em all: Them!. This Warner Bros. feature blends together Atom Age anxiety, anti-Communist hysteria, veiled law-and-order propaganda, and even a little bit of U.F.O. lore. But there's also an environmental angle, here, with Big Bug movies not only reflecting general fears about insects, but also distilling the pathological drive of the American state to treat the balance of powers between man and nature like a constantly escalating Cold War itself.Works Cited:Joshua David Bellin, “Us or Them!”: Silent Spring and the “Big Bug” Films of the 1950s,” Extrapolation, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring, 2009)Bill Warren, Keep Watching the Skies: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, 21st Century Edition (2010)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Big Bugs, Part 1｜"Them!" (Monster Craze Memoirs - 07/03/2021)

Our In Memoriam to Monte Hellman soldiers on with his second feature, which also happens to mark this podcast's first foray into B-cinema outside of the horror and sci-fi standard bearers. Specifically, we're talking B-war films, and Hellman's bleak, prescient revision of the Second World War myth: "Back Door to Hell."Sources for this episode:Kent Jones, ““The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman,” The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s, ed. Thoams Elsaesser et al. (2004)Monte Hellman, interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon, originally published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Vol. 22, No. 3 (2005), eventually published in Wheeler Winston Dixon’s Film Talk: Directors at Work (2007)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/monPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

In Memoriam｜Monte Hellman｜"Back Door to Hell" (Monster Craze Memoirs - 05/09/2021)

So in our last memo we made the mistake of promising a two-part memoriam on Monte Hellman -- we decided to expand it to a five-part memoriam. Here's part one, you sickos.R.I.P. Monte,July 12, 1929 - April 20, 2021Sources for this episode:Charles B. Griffith, interview with Dennis Fischer, Midnight Marquee, No. 33 (1984)Gene Corman, interviewed by Tom Weaver, from Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Directors, Producers, Actors, Moguls and Makeup (1988)Kent Jones, ““The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman,” The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s, ed. Thoams Elsaesser et al. (2004)Monte Hellman, interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon, originally published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Vol. 22, No. 3 (2005), eventually published in Wheeler Winston Dixon’s Film Talk: Directors at Work (2007)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

In Memoriam｜Monte Hellman｜"Beast from Haunted Cave" (Monster Craze Memoirs - 05/05/2021)

All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

TEASER: #BoycottBlockbusters

They say kill your darlings and that's exactly what we're doing with this episode on "Kong: Skull Island" -- a movie I genuinely loved when I first saw it, but, god help me... it's kinda terrible!Link to R. S. Benedict's "Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny," Blood Knife, 14 Feb 2021, https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Long Dull Soundtrack in a Bad Film｜"Kong: Skull Island" (Monster Craze Memoirs - 03/20/2021)

Here's a teaser for our episode on Gareth Edwards' "Godzilla."All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/goPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

TEASER: Milo Goes to Film School

"Godzilla vs. Kong" comes out this month, so dad and I are gonna be watching through the so-called MonsterVerse produced by Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. Before that, though, I thought we might shine a little love on a new genre classic, a movie so good that of course nobody in Hollywood could learn from it: Gareth Edwards' indie debut "Monsters."All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

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