Tag: Bela Lugosi
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Right. Let’s get this out in the open before we go any further. I love Ed Wood. Not ironically. Not as a cult in-joke. I love him the way other people love immaculate framing and directors who treat film sets like sacred temples. To me, Wood isn’t a punchline, he’s a wildfire. While Stanley Kubrick…
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Dracula: The Creature of the Night In today’s world, vampires are taken for granted in horror. We see them in movies, play them in games, and read about falling in love with them in books, but this wasn’t always the case. Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897, a successful and widespread book; before that vampire…
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If you ask a roomful of horror fans to name the first thing that comes to mind when you mention the phrase “zombie film,” a bunch of them are going to say George Romero, and for good reason. The guy’s 1968 debut Night of the Living Dead literally invented the modern zombie lore we all…
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It’s probably an exaggeration to say that vampire movies are the foundation of the horror genre, but it’s closer to the truth than you might think. Arguably the greatest silent horror film of all time, Nosferatu, is about a vampire, and vampire movies helped kick off the golden ages of both Universal Studios and Hammer…