Well, tonight we go for a non-sequel, then a sequel to the non-sequel. Confused? Of course you are. Hollywood in the 1950s will do that to a person. The first film is from 1951, The Son of Dr. Jekyll. This film, which wasn’t really a...
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It’s silent movie night at 32 Days of Halloween HQ. Since we’ve featured him a couple of times before, we go back to the granddaddy of silent horror, Georges Méliès. We kick off with what could be considered a tremendously...
Day 14 of 32 Days of Halloween is normally for TV specials, sort of like Day 13 and yet totally different. I had found one version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that I considered posting, but instead remembered that Rox uncovered one that is...
Our fourth movie night for 32 Days of Halloween has long been dedicated to black and white classics. Now we go to the Fredric March 1931 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It’s actually the eighth film adaptation of the book by Robert...
So for 32 Days of Halloween, I try to stick with themes…um, themes that were sort of setup, normally arbitrarily, over the time we’ve been doing 32 Days (three years). Last year we posted the trailers to both Blacula and the...
Last year we were watching this great bit from The Colgate Comedy Hour where Abbott and Costello run into The Creature From the Black Lagoon (which is fantastic). That, of course, a play off of the classic film of theirs, …Meet...
Directed by: John S. Robertson; Written by: Clara Beranger; Based on the play by: Thomas Russell Sullivan; Which was based on the novella by: Robert Louis Stevenson; Starring: John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst, Cecil Clovelly, &...
Film: DVD: Written by: Richard Matheson (Dracula, based on the novel by Bram Stoker), William F. Nolan (Turn of the Screw, based on the novella by Henry James), Ian McLellan Hunter (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, based on the novel by Robert Louis...