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The Monster Times

Volume 1, Number 41
Credit for our startling cover this
issue must be shared by Current
Kings of Creature Camp Andy War-
hol and Mel Brooks because no
one here at THE MONSTER TIMES
wants to be held responsible for it.

IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE!

Monster movie maven Dennis P. Mitchell extends the royal TMT filmbook treatment to
IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE, a claustrophic classic from 1958.

WEREWOLVES IN THE COMICS!

Comics expert Howard Phillips charts the ups and downs of Comicdom's lycanthropes"
and profiles more werewolves than you could shake a silver stick at.
Ho hum. The world is falling apart again. The
economy’s a mess and unemployment is booming.
Strife and dissension continue to tear the planet THE DAY THE MONSTER SCENE STOOD STILL!
asunder as politicians blunder and greedy men And the Monster Scene is one TMT feature that will stand still for just about anything
Included this time is Mark Carducci’s first-hand report on the Shepperton auction.
plunder. The air isn’t so good in many places and
the food, what there is of it, could stand some
improvement. Oh yes, and it looks like there’s no SIX CELLULOID FRANKENSTEINS!
way out either. But do we at TMT despair? Not on You get six Frankensteins— each and every film adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic-
your life, and certainly not on OURS! Not while we for the price of one in Jason Thomas' survey on faithful & unfaithful Frankensteins
have so many REALLY relevant and vital matters
to report, like the latest batch of fright films, terror MEL’S MONSTER:!
tube series, creature comics and Godzilla gossip. Fright film fanatic Mark Jacobson, a frequent contributor to The Village Voice and
I mean, crises come and go, but a good monster is a
New York Magazine, reports on Mel Brooks’ irreverent spoof, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
joy forever.
And you’ll find plenty of good, nay, even MUMMY-MAKING FOR FUN & PROFIT!:
EXCELLENT monsters in this typically gala Write Ron Haydock contributes an unusual real-life report on the ancient
of THE MONSTER TIMES. For
edition eerie
Egyptian art of mummy-making and today’s sinister black market mummy trade.
openers, we’ve got IT! THE TERROR FROM BE
YOND SPACE, an unsung alien who not only ZACH LOOKS BACK!:
starred in the 1958 chiller of the same name but Former Dean of the Horror Hosts John Zacherly exhumes some monstrous memories
also headlines in Dennis P. Mitchell’s filmbook and talks about his current concerns in this exclusive interview with TMT.
treatment of that selfsame opus. Then there’s
Jason Thomas’ study of the SIX VERSIONS OF DRAC’S BACK!:
FRANKENSTEIN— that’s all the cinematic adap- TMT presents a brief, easy-to-follow photo story of ANDY WARHOL’S DRACULA, a satiric
tions of Mary Shelley’s classic— and Mark Jacob- terror tale about an ailing vampire’s desperate search for a shot of wirgin blood.
son’s critique of Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKEN-
STEIN. Other frightening features include Howard YOU’VE SEEN THE MOVIE, NOW READ THE COMIC!
Phillips’ erudite survey on WEREWOLVES
IN Ron Haydock reports on Comicdom’s myriad adaptations of popular monster movies
THE COMICS, Joel Uman’s FIEND, John Tibbetts’ in Part the First of a series on Fantasy Film Comics.
exegesis of Carl Dreyer’s classic VAMPYR, and
Ron Haydock’s real-life report on the vicissitudes of
ancient and modern mummy-making. That’s not to CARL DREYER’S NIGHTMARE CINEMA!
In this, the third installment of the TMT Lecture Series of the Air,
mention all the sinister surprises you’ve come to
John Tibbets offers an insightful peek into the shadowy world of Carl Dreyer & VAMPYR.
expect of TMT and we’ve come to deliver.
The overworked TMT Dept, of Corrections
would Kke to apologize for a monstrously mislead- SPACE: 1999!:
Terror tube critic Mark Carducci previews the launching of a brand-new, high-budgeted,
ing mistake appearing on the cover of TMT #39, our
British-based sci-fi series, SPACE 1999, soon to be shown in the states.
:

special holiday poster issue. In the top righthand

corner, a blurb reads “12 Free Giant Color Posters
Inside.” As anyone who purchased that issue HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER MOVIE!:
knows, that statement was incorrect. There was Independent filmmaker Joel Uman tells what it's like to make a feature-length
horror film on a non-existent budget and against great odds.
ONE giant color poster and 11 giant BLACK &
WHITE posters contained in that issue. The sloppy
staffers responsible for that ghastly error were
ordered to be drawn and quartered but since then,
TMT may offset any such future errors. QUERS THE WORLD, then in DESTROY ALL
in a fit of clemency, we reduced the sentence and On a happier side. I'm glad to see the MONSTERS. The other Baragon is Daiei's,
ordered them merely sketched and halved instead. inclusion of a TV Column for fine films such as created to use as a foe against their hero.
THE NIGHT STALKER and FRANKENSTEIN: Gammera. This Baragon appeared first, last,
That about sums up all we have to say. We’re THE TRUE STORY. How about mentioning and only in WAR OF THE MONSTERS, known
fiends of few words, by and large, and even those Public Broadcasting for their horror contribu- as GAMMERA VS. BARAGON in Japan.
tions? Among shows I've seen recently on Fourth, the green, amphibious monster in
few we do say are often ill worth the effort. We’re
educational television have been a documen- GIGANTIS, THE FIRE MONSTER was not
not the sort of people who go off on a tangent tary on Alfred Hitchcock and a showing of the Godzilla. In America, the monster was called
merely because we have the opportunity to do so. Lon Chaney silent. HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE Gigantis because of the discovery by scientists
DAME. Mark Radka (don't ask me how) that it was a female of the
To fully illustrate just HOW
taciturn we really are Freeland, Michigan same species as Godzilla. They even showed
would take a whole issue in itself, so instead of film clips from GODZILLA. KING OF THE
Jason Thomas, author of the TMT Robot
further taxing your patience (you’ve been really series, replies: "The SIX MILLION DOLLAR
MONSTERS to illustrate. In Japan, however,
the monster was called Gojira (Godzilla), and
good about it up to now) we’ll simply leave you with MAN is a cyborg— part machine but MOSTLY
man: it's not nice to call him a robot. We must the film's Japanese title roughly translates as
the TMT Thought of the Month.... Uh, as it turns confess we weren't aware of VOYAGE INTO GODZILLA S COUNTERATTACK.
Finally, a few of the monsters that Don Fioto
out, we neglected to come up with a thought this SPACE, which was taken from the Japanese
left out of issue #35's list. MAJIN— a colossal
space teleseries of the same name, but we
month so, on second thought, we’ll just simply never professed to be perfect. Thanx for the stone giant. GABBERA— the ludicrous cat-like
info. As far as MAD MONSTER PARTY goes,
monster in GODZILLA’S REVENGE. GUILALA
leave you. — the crude space beast in THE X FROM
it's an animated flick that really had TWO
robots in it (the hero and the heroine). OUTER SPACE. GYAOS— the vampiric Rodan-
However, Mr. Thomas prefers to deal with only like beast in RETURN OF THE GIANT
live-action movies when compiling his surveys. MONSTERS. JIGER — Gammera's irritated op-
He knows of a few full-length cartoons that ponent in GAMMERA VS. JIGER.

IT TO contain robots, but they're not his bag.”

To the Editor...
Of course, some of these remarks involve
long-past articles, but have been compiling
I

them from my TMT collection. There are

THE MONSTER TIMES IS PRODUCED AND CREATED BY LARRY

THE EDITOR Wild About Harryhausen
As an avid fan
from Toho, I would
staff for finally giving Godzilla
of TMT and monster
like to thank you and your
and the other
films several others, but I'll restrain myself rather
than scare you so completely that you'll never
print a Toho article again! In closing. I'd like to
BRILL AND LES WALDSTEIN. Editor-in-Chief: JOE KANE. Japanese juggernauts the respect and defend Godzilla from several recent snide
Managing Editor: RON BARLOW. Media Editor: R. ALLEN To the Editor... attention they deserve, which is far more than I
remarks as to his increasingly humorous and
LEIDER. Associate Editors: THOMAS ROGERS, MARK FRANK, I enjoyed issue #39. the different for-
really can say for a certain Forrest J. Ackerman and
human antics. True, at points Toho does make
JASON THOMAS, MARK EVANIER, STEVE VERTLIEB, JIM mat was quite a shock at first, but got over it I
his overrated publication. would also, I
the Big G. purposefully amusing, but have you
WNOROSKI, BILL FERET. Assistant Art Director: COLETTE quickly enough. thought the articles were
I
however, like to correct some of the ruinous ever seen a film in which he does not emerge in
CONNOR Contributing Writers: GODZILLA, DON THOMPSON, quite good, but wish you had put in less
I
errors that have been made in the coverage of
JOE THOMASINO, DA. LATIMER. GARY GERANI, ALAN Japanese monsters and put some of Ray one part or another as a dead-serious
same, before the Big G. shows up to do it him- monstrous gladiator? How many other movie
BRANDMAN, BUDDY WEISS, DON FIOTO, DAVID STIDWORTHY, Harryhausen's more famous creatures in their self (Or is he still working for you?)
GARRY BROWN, RON HAYDOCK, GARY SVEHLA, LON TALBOT, place. I'm sure many fans would like to have First off, your most common mistake: KING
adventurers have been used comically in their
DAVID BARTHOLOMEW, HOWARD PHILLIPS, ED SUMMER, seen either the Ymlr or the Cyclops from the own movies? James Bond, Tarzan. and
GEOFF OLDHAM, JOE ZANNIERI, JOEL VANCE, ROY FRIMKES, KONG ESCAPES is in no way connected, Cornelius to name but three. It has done no
7th Voyage of Sinbad. Keep up the good work. ora sequel to KING KONG VS.
DOUG MURRAY. Contributing Artists: TOM ARMSTRONG, Martin Kealey
affiliated with,
damage to their illustrious careers.
FRANK BRUNNER, TOM SUTTON, NEAL ADAMS, GRAY GODZILLA. For one thing, in KKE the ape is a Well, I'll let your pulsating brains spin awhile
King of Prussia. Pa.
MORROW, BILL NELSON, JIM JANES, BERNI WRIGHTSON, Glad you liked our special one-time-only giant
mere 60 feet in height, as even the film's star before chewing you out again. Keep up the
JEFF JONES, ERNIE COLON, JOHN BYRNE, MIKE KALUTA. admitted, in K.K. VS. G, he is at least 200 feet
admittedly outstanding work and tell Godzilla
poster issue. The format was designed to scare
Marketing Director: WARREN CHAPMANS. Contributing Photo- high, due to not only the narcotic effects of that if he ever needs a press agent ... well,
graphers: BARRY GLUSKY, EMANUEL MARIS. Circulation: our readers but NOT to scare them away from
Farou Island berries, but the fact that in never mind.
DAVID HUTT. Advertising Manager: LARRY BRILL. Creepy TMT. As you can see, we’ve since returned to Kyle Smith
GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS, the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Consultant: THE CREEP. West Coast Representative: LARRY our original form. As for Mr. Harryhausen, we'll
Great Green Beast of the same name was
WALDSTEIN be running more of Ray’s monsters in future Thanks for the information (and the admirable
judged as being 400 ft. long by a learned
issues of TMT.
THE MONSTER TIMES No 41. May 1975. is published by professor. If anything. KING KONG VS. restraint), Kyle, and let that be the last word on
The Monster Times Publishing Company, Inc., 11 West 17th Street, Case of the Missing Merchandise GODZILLA is a sequel to KING KONG Toho for the time being. The Big G., by the
New York, New York 10011. All rights reserved by The Monster To the Editor... ESCAPES, despite the release dates. way, is indeed still in our employ and it is he
Times Publishing Company. Inc. Nothing may be reprinted in Second, there are no monsters named who insists on our running lengthy articles
Several movie mechanoids were apparently
whole or part in any manner without express written permission Anulis, Angurus, or Anzilla, contrary to Don about his beastly brethren, never neglecting to
from the publisher. SUBSCRIPTIONS: U.S.A.: $8 for 12 issues,
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SI 5 for 24 issues, S25 for 50 issues. Canada: S11 for 12 issues.
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Foreign: $20 for 12 issues. Please allow six weeks for Got a gripe? Somethin’ you want to get off your
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ADDRESS: Allow eight weeks' notice, and please send an address exposed at the ending of the animated MAD ALL MONSTERS, GODZILLA'S REVENGE, and
praise for your friendly fiends at TMT? Then
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All subscriptions, inquiries, address changes or undeliverable thought. I'll mention that nobody noticed the Third, the two Baragons that Fioto all kinds and so do we. Address all
...
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Few are the sci-fi fans who will IT! THE under a black, star-studded sky (a very
wax enthusiastic over Edward L. TERROR FROM effective miniature set), and we hear actor
Cahn’s modestly-budgeted 1958 SPACE Marshall Thompson’s voice-over prologue
was one of the
fright release, IT! THE TERROR f
*
most menacing narration:
FROM BEYOND SPACE. But —and
neglected “This was the planet Mars as my crew
horror film expert Dennis P. —
monsters of the and I firstsaw it.. .dangerous, treacherous,
Frightened Fifties. alive with something we came to 'know
Mitchell considers IT! a minor Played by former
classic of claustrophobic terror Ray only as death. This was what we faced
cowboy star

and a good example of the kind of “Crash” Corrigan when our spaceship cracked up in landing
in a sinister suit just six months ago, in January of this
actionful sci-fi that can be crafted designed by makeup year 1973. But it seems as if six centuries
by solid professionals, despite a maven Paul Biaisdell,
passed before a rescue ship arrived; for
IT provided fright
paucity of funds. You’ll see what today, of all my crew, I, Colonel Edward
fans with many an
we mean in author Mitchell’s anxious moment in this Carruthers of the United States Space
TMT filmbook treatment of unsung claustrophobic Command, am the only one alive. Now I
classic.
exciting unsung opus, IT! will be going back to face my superiors on
TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE, Earth in Washington. ..and perhaps there,
which begins herewith... too, I will find another kind of death.”
The scene shifts to the Science
Committee Division of Inter-
planetary Exploration in Wash
ington, D.C., where the press has
been called in for a special
briefing by government
officials. They are told
that the attempt
first
to reach Mars, the
“Challenge 141,"

hellish monster from Mars... howling

for all the fleshand blood on Earth!. ..It
reaches through space, It scoops up men
and women. It gorges on blood!”
So proclaimed the newspaper and radio
advertisements late in the summer of 1958
for United Artists’ new science fiction/
horror thriller, IT! THE TERROR FROM
BEYOND SPACE, being released nation- responsible to some extent, but the film- Gas-masked had reached its destination months
ally on a double bill with CURSE OF THE makers, by using a title that invites members of the ago, but teleradio communications ceased
Earth-bound
FACELESS MAN. Rarely screened to- ridicule and a publicity campaign that immediately and it was thought that the
crew struggle
day, even on television, IT! was not only gave no indication of the film’s high to keep hosliel crew had perished. The expedition was
highly underrated by critics (as might be quality, were also partially to blame. Martian stow- under the leadership of Colonel
expected) but has also been almost totally Following the opening title and credit away from de- Carruthers, who, years before, had been
stroying them
ignored 'by science fiction film fans and music (the same theme used in KRONOS the first man to be shot into space and the
as he destroyed
magazines as well. The reasons for this the year before and GIGANTIS, THE the crew of the man who had pioneered interplanetary
neglect are rather unclear, especially FIRE MONSTER in 1959), the camera Challenge 141 space travel. Two months ago, a second
when you consider that IT! was one of the pans along a rocky, barren alier crime for which ship was dispatched to Mars to learn the
Challenge Com-
very best sci-fi films of the 1950s. Perhaps fate of the earlier mission. Only one hour
mander Edward
the widespread scorn for the movies Carruthers had before this press conference was
that decade (with the exception of been wrongfully scheduled to begin, a communication was
cult films like FORBIDDEN held respon- received from Colonel Van Heusen (Kim
PLANET, WAR OF THE sible.
Spalding), the Commander of the second
WORLDS and ship: it has been discovered that Edward
OF THE BODY Carruthers was alive on Mars and was the
SNATCHERS) sole survivor of the Challenge 141. He will

has been now be brought back to Earth by Van

Heusen. ..to stand trial in a court martial
for the murder of the rest of the crew!

MEANWHILE, BACK ON MARS...

Back on Mars, Carruthers continues:
“The rescue ship is ready to return to
Earth. I am to spend the next four months
—
with strangers a crew of men and women
who have but one purpose, to see that I
face a military firing squad.” Just before
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found in his quarters or anywhere on the ...testing!"), and soon the crew will have
ship. During the search, Gino Finelli nowhere to hide or escape the evil
(Richard Harvey) also mysteriously disap- clutches of the Martian. A plan is hastily
pears while in the cargo hold. Carruthers formulated to electrocute the beast, Jjut in
then finds Kienholz’ body, shrivelled order to do so they will have to surprise it
almost beyond recognition and stuffed by coming up from below. Therefore,
inside a grating leading to the Air Genera- Carruthers and Calder must exit from the
tion and Moisture Recovery Section. control room emergency air lock, travel
Major John Purdue (Robert Bice) explores down the outside of the spaceship and
the interior of a ventilator duct in “C" then re-enter at the air lock on the motor
compartment and uncovers not only the level.. .just one level below the monster.
dying Gino but the monster as well. His The others who remain above will have to
face is savagely clawed by the creature as try and distract the creature by talking
he escapes, and he and the rest of the crew and making noise so that, hopefully, it
are forced to leave Gino behind after won’t hear Carruthers and Calder coming
Carruthers, Van Heusen and Calder wire in underneath. (Interestingly, the small
the room with grenades and flee to safety talk used to distract the monster is
in the upper half of the ship. dubbed in on the soundtrack and consists
Everyone on the ship now realizes that of entire lines of dialogue and banter that
Carruthers has been telling the truth after were heard earlier in the film!) Enough
all, and even Van asks him if he knows voltage is to be directed into wires at-
what the creature is. Carruthers, too, is tached to an inter-level ladder to kill
baffled, but Eric Royce (Dabbs Greer) thirty human beings. “The only draw-
offers a theory. “You say it’s man-shaped, back,” points out Carruthers, “is the thing
humanoid? Perhaps there was once a civi- isn't human!”
lization on Mars; it ended. Disease, war,
something terrible. The Martians— what HOW TO MAKE A MARTIAN MAD
The monstrous
was left of them— went back to
barbarism. ..savage murderers.” The plan works well until they lure the
Martian breaks
Martian onto the electrified ladder.
through another Shortly, the enraged creature knocks
barrier on board the open the ventilator duct and sets off the
fear-tilled spacecraft
grenades, but they have no effect at all on
in a fiendish attempt
to lay gigantic paws the beast’s thick, scaly skin. Five of the
on hapless crew crewmen go down to investigate, but
members. All efforts Calder’s rifle is seized and bent in two by
to confine the
the beast. It lunges at them and tears a
restless monster to
his quarters proved door to shreds as if it were made of paper;
totally their point blank volley of gunfire is use-
unsuccessful. •
less and they barely manage to escape. It
is decided to use gas bombs on the mon-

takeoff.Van Heusen notices on his instru-

ment panel that the emergency airlock
in“C" compartment has been left open by
Lieutenant James Calder (Paul Langton),
who had been dumping some empty crates ner. but, during the ensuing battle, the
overboard. The hatch is closed, but not creature scratches Van Heusen’s foot with
before a strange and monstrous shape
its huge claw. Infection quickly sets in,
enters the ship and hides in the concealing
Carruthers is quilty. Carruthers is given and Mary Royce (Ann Doran) finds that
darkness of the cargo hold.
the freedom of the ship for the duration of
she cannot control it with drugs.
Van Heusen is firmly convinced of She has also completed an autopsy on
Carruthers’ guilt in connection with the their return voyage to Earth (“Why not?”
“Can you Kienholz and found that his cause of death
deaths of his nine crewmembers ("By the says Van Heusen sarcastically.
Van was cellular collapse and dehydration; not
think of a better prison?”), although
time we reach Earth, I’ll have his confes- one molecule of oxygen or one drop of
sion on tape!’’) despite his story of a and Lieutenant Calder keep a close watch
water was left in his body. Blood, bone
mysterious creature on Mars having been on him every moment of the trip.
marow, glandular secretions, moisture in
responsible for these murders. He the tissues.. .every ounce of edible fluid
assumes that Carruthers, knowing that he SINISTER STOWAWAY
in his body was gone, probably through
and his crew had crashed on the planet some alien form of osmosis, as there were
Soon, though, the question of
with little or no hope of rescue, had no puncture wounds. Eric Royce isn't
calculated that the food and supplies on
Carruthers’ innocence or guilt is abruptly
surprised. “Mars is a world almost totally
board would have lasted the entire crew a decided when the crew discovers that a
without water or oxygen,” he observes.
year.. .and ten years if he murdered the
hideous Martian beast has stowed away
“The creature’s entire being is probably
others and used the provisions for himself. on board the ship. First come strange
organized to feed in that manner. It preys
Shortly after leaving the Red Planet, Van disappearances: during a card game,
on smaller creatures which, in turn, feed
Heusen shows Carruthers a human skull Carruthers hears a distant scream from
off thesand itself.-.converting their intake
the lower recesses of the ship, after which
they had found on the Martian desert. and hoarding it as water."
From dental records brought from Earth, Joe Kienholz (Thom Carney) cannot be
Meanwhile, the monster breaks through
an identification was made: it is that of to another, higher level of the ship
Carruthers’ crewman Frank Kenner... through the center floorhatch (“Exploring After their attempts to electrocute the hungry
and the skull has a bullet hole in it. Martian a crew member utilizes a bazooka
fail,
in yet another futile effort to thwart the
“There’s only one kind of monster that
rampaging Terror.
uses bullets!” Van Heusen observes
acidly, and the evidence against
Unfortunately, the voltage only succeeds
Carruthers seems incontestable.
in angering it more than ever. It claws
Not all of the crew is as hostile to
Calder and, after his leg is broken in the
Carruthers as Van Heusen, however. Ann
struggle, traps him between a series of in-
Anderson, a young geologist who is in love
duction pumps. He cannot drag himself to
with Van Heusen and hates to see him so
the air lock, and Carruthers is forced to
vindictive against Carruthers, asks to
flee there just before the monster would
hear the latter’s version of what had
have reached him as well.
happened. “We were all outside the ship,”
Upstairs, Eric Royce contacts Calder
Carruthers explains, ‘‘exploring the
through his spacesuit radio and tries to
southern tip of Syrtis Major. Suddenly, a
reassure him. “We’ll try to figure out
sandstorm came up and we started back. I
some way to get you out of there,” he
was driving the jeep; the sand was so
promises; to which Calder quips, “Just
thick we couldbarely see. We were almost
send C.A.R.E. packages!". The monster
back to the ship when Cartwright
tries repeatedly to reach in behind the
just.. .disappeared. One minute he was
induction pumps to get at Calder, but he
there, and the next minute he was gone,
was luckily able to snare an acetylene
as if something had just plucked him out of
torch and directs the flame into the
the jeep like candy out of a box. We heard
monster’s eyes each time it approaches
a weird sort of sound, then we thought we
him. He resigns himself to being there for
saw a dark shape running near the jeep
the duration, however long that may last;
and we started shooting at it. A few
the creature must either kill them or
moments later, Kenner, all the rest, were
starve, and they must kill it or die. It may
gone. I was the only one who made it back
not be long until the final outcome is
to the ship. When the sandstorm quit, I
decided.
went out and searched all over. There
Not only is Van Heusen’s condition
wasn’t a sign of them." Ann half-believes
worsening by the hour, but Major
his story and tells Van Heusen that it isn’t
for him to determine whether or not
—
Purdue whose face was clawed by the
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This creepy
consumption level is way up on board the
closeup of the
monster's violent 1 ship, 40% over every previous maximum.
visage tells us J The gas bombs would not have affected
quite a bit about M the air that much, and no leaks are
his anti-social
reflected in pressure changes. The truth
attitudes. The
mean, narrow eyes; comes in a flash. ..the creature! It must
upturned snout, have enormous lungs for the thin Martian
tanged teeth air, and the only way that they can kill it is
and irreverently
protruding tongue
by letting all the air out of the ship! Royce
are dead and Carruthers agree that the oxygen
giveaways. This level can be built up again later, and
is one Martian Calder can take refuge in the air lock
who's definitely
while the creature is occupied elsewhere.
out for blood
or oxygen,
Everyone speedily dons a spacesuit just as
at the very least. the monster begins its last-ditch assault
on the ship and its crew. Tearing apart
level after level in a savage alien fury
(“It’s going nuts!” screams Calder), it
finally breaks through to the control room.
A final attempt is made to destroy the
beast with bazooka fire, but that fails.
Worse still, the monster blocks access to

the air lock switch. Not a moment too The marauding Martian begins to succumb to
soon, the dying Van Heusen bravely risks the Earthlings' emergency plan, as the scene
quickly becomes a case of air, air everywhere,
the creature’s wrath and manages to acti- and nary a molecule to breathe.
vate the control in a last gesture*to save his
companions. In a mighty whirlwind of dust Space Command Headquarters. “You’ve
and loose objects, all of the free air in the been called here again,” they are told, “to
rocket is sucked out into the vacuum of receive further information about the
outer space. The Martian monster strug- story which was given to you last night. I
gles to breathe and roars in pain and will read you the text of a teleradio mes-

defeat for several agonizing minutes, but sage received from the ‘Challenge 142’ less
it finally collapses, dead. The battle has than an hour ago:"
been won. “This is Eric Royce talking. Of the nine-
On Earth, the press has been teen men and women who have set foot
summoned back to the United States
CONTINUED ON PAGE 29

creature when it was first discovered in voices Carruthers. “Nothing to do but see
the ventilator duct— is now succumbing to if the beast will reach us through the
infection as well. The alien bacteria are center hatch. We can go no higher; we are
attacking the bone marrow, resulting in a in the top level of the ship. This is where
leukemia condition. Mary Royce is strug- either we die, or it dies.” Still in communi-
gling valiantly to combat the infection cation with Calder, whose air supply is
with drugs, but more fresh blood is rapidly running out, they ask him if he can
needed for transfusions. None is left in the still see the creature. “Big as death,” he
dispensary, and it becomes obvious that replies. “It’s been sitting here for the last
the men will die unless someone goes half hour licking its chops!”
down to the supply level for more.
Carruthers, Eric Royce and Bob Finelli A BREATHLESS CLIMAX The creature caches up with another unlucky
astronaut and#>roceeds to drain every edible
(Richard Benedict), the late Gino's
Suddenly, Royce and Carruthers notice ounce of fluif from his body Surviving crew
brother, are just about to attempt the members eventually learn that the only way to
a strange and puzzling fact reflected on
mission when Calder (who is now acting as destroy the fiend is by somehow denying him
the crew’s vital link in keeping track of the the ship’s instrument panel: the oxygen his oxygen fix

monster’s activities) radios that the

creature has just entered the Atomic
Reactor Room #3 with Gino’s body. Now
seems like the perfect opportunity not
only to obtain the needed blood but also to
rescue Calder and lock the creature in the
reactor room. By remote control, the reac-
tor room door is sealed with the monster
trapped inside, and the three men descend
quickly to the depths of the ship.
While Carruthers and Royce head for
the blood supplies, Finelli reaches Calder
and manages to lift him out from behind

the machinery. With the creature safely

imprisoned, it appears that their mission
will succeed.At that very moment, how-
ever, Van Heusen (who is now in a
delirium from the fever) gets out of bed
and presses the button which will unshield
the reactor itself despite desperate
attempts by Ann and Mary to restrain
him. “The radiation will kill it!” he insists.
‘It’s enough to kill a hundred men!” The
blinding radiance from the atomic furnace
drives the creature into a frenzy and it
breaks out of the reactor room, seizing
and killing Finelli. Calder hastily retreats
to his safe hiding place and both
Carruthers and Royce manage to escape
with the vital blood supplies. Royce and Carruthers make the desperate
decision to let all available oxygen out of the
The remaining crewmembers realize
ship, a plan that soon leaves the monster
that it is no longer possible to stay where breathless.
they are and so climb to the control room.
“There is nothing to do but wait now,”
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handling (St. 25 totali When we first told comics maven Howard Phillips that we
had not the space to allow him to write about every single
Name
werewolf ever to appear in a comic book, he let out a long,
Address ..
low howl and wrapped a hairy paw about the scrawny
City neck of an unfortunate TMT editorial lackey. Only
massive doses of forcibly administered wolfbane abated
State
Mr. Phillips’ admirable anger and, when he “became ferred to
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completist tendencies in check, at least as far as the
are you doing?). The original books
following article was concerned. We’d like to fang Mr. are never credited in these time-

GRAND OPENING Phillips for his cooperation in this matter, but we haven’t
seen hide nor even hair of him since the rise of the last
full moon.
wasters, so I'll discuss a few stories
and cite the -mags that they were
reprinted in. could only stomach five
I

of these losers, but there are— unfor-

FEBRUARY 1975 managed

tunately— a
In
lot more of them around!
CHILLING TALES OF HORROR
one might expect, a history of to stab the monster with a
needle filled with silver nitrate from a #6 (1970), a jerk called the "Werewolf
werewolves in comic books would be
Leader" appeared. He went around
far too extensive to two fit into just medical kit! How novel. If you would
resurrecting ghosts and turning them

CLOSEOUT BOOK pages of The Monster

Because of this reason, I’ve decided
to discuss only certain tales that may
Times. like, you can read thjs tale and many
others— in color— by ordering the
reprints from The Monster Times.
into lycanthropes, which is a neat
trick if you know what you're doing
(which he didn’t). Anyway, the last
be of particular interest to readers. They're really worth the price, and
man to be transformed eventually
Some of these are quite bad, but they're a lot cheaper than the

BARGAINS, INC. others are rather good. Toward the

end of this piece, I'll be covering the
originals are.

WORST OF THE WEREWOLVES

turned against the pack and killed the
leader in the end (love drove him to it,
of course). As a result, the heroine

107 W 42nd ST N.Y.G. werewolf regulars that appear in

today's

the
Marvel comics. We will
undoubtedly do a follow-up article on
"History of Werewolves in
During the early 1950’s, there were
a number of
comic book
really cheap, crummy
ripoffs that had been
was saved, but the hero returned to
the grave. Touching, hah?
"Werewolf Castle,” in TALES
FROM THE TOMB, vol. 3, #3, was a

w
Comics," but that won’t be for a inspired by the usually fine EC's. bit more complicated. It was intro-
1000 S OF REDUCED PRICED ITEMS while. Until then, perhaps the study Many of these awful tales (badly duced by an old hag who closely re-
AAAAAA ** **+*+*+ that you now hold in your hairy little written, drawn, edited, etc.) are sembled. EC's lovable Old Witch, and
* COMICS FOR COLLECTORS hands will tide you over. hope so, currently being reprinted
I
in black- if that isn't a ripoff, don't know what
I

.because that's all you’re gonna get for and-white magazines by

“Stanley” is! The story began with a newly-
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* MONSTER RELATED MATERIAL One of my favorite werewolf stories really bad news, and can’t
I
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is one that appeared in an old EC understand why they're still on the castle that the story was craftily
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newsstands (America, what the hell named after. There, they met a baron
the title. of it, but it related how a male
A MONSTER TIMES BACK ISSUES
lycanthrope (that's technical for
If this werewolf from Stanley’s CHILLING TALES OF HORROR #6 (1970) isn’t one of the
* FANZINES were-creature, of course) married a
worst you’ve ever laid unfortunate eyes on, then you must have been exposed to some
female vampire and lived happily ever pretty lousy lycanthropes in your time.
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introduced many of EC's terror tales).
OTHER BARGAIN BOOK STORE LOCATIONS AFFILIATED WITH: It was really a touching origin— if
1. 441 BARGAIN BOOKS, HUNTINGTON NY you're partial to monsters, of course.
2. BOB'S BARGAIN BOOKS, COMMACK NY ,
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3. SMITHTOWN BARGAIN BOOKS, SMITHTOWN N , 1 appears in the “E.C. Classics
4. FLUSHING BARGAIN BOOKS, FLUSHING, NY BOOK CO., INC. Reprints” is in their tenth issue,
5. ATHENEUM, MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA which is really THE HAUNT OF FEAR
#23 (1954). It was called “No Silver
Atoll!" and it dealt with the survivors
of a trans-Pacific airliner that crashed
into' theocean. They ended up on a

CLOSEOUT BOOK deserted island, and one by one they

were slaughtered in the night by an
unknown beast. Prior to his first
attack, the wily wolfman had
BARGAINS, INC. disposed of all the silver on the isle
(hence, the punny title). At the

107 42nd ST. N.YO W suspense-filled finale, the heroine

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Jack the Ripper was alive and not well Before experiment was even
the
According begun, though, he changed and MARVEL'S MIGHTY WEREWOLVES
(mentally) in contemporary London. A
to our com- journalist discovered the maniac's - menaced Abigail, the heroine of the Marvel’s Beast (of X-Men fame)
ics critic.
notebook one night, and everything series. The Swamp Thing intervened, seems to be a rational werewolf who
Marvel's
WERE- . seemed to be turning out all right and in the end a chandelier trimmed can't change back into human form;
WOLF BY until the police inspector— who was with silver was employed against the what he happens to be is a mutated
NIGHT is both Jack the Ripper and a werewolf, snarling murderer. While on the mutant. In AMAZING ADVENTURES
easily the to boot— attacked him by the light of subject of the Swamp Thing, I think #11, he turned himself into a hairy
best of the full moon. Not bad, but think I
that this series is the best that DC has horror in order to capture some
>
Comic- Robert Bloch did it first in "Yours to offer; unfortunately, Len Wein and enemy spies. He has been that way
dom's ly-
Truly, Jack the Ripper" (without the Berni Wrightson no longer work on ever since, pretending to be normal
canthropes.
lycanthrope). By the way, there are a it, but it's still pretty great! Check it with the help of a special face-mask
The con-
cluding lot of interesting "Ripper” films that out if you haven't already done so. and gloves. Although he appears
panel from we might cover in a future issue of The latest issue has him confronting infrequently, he did show up in THE
WERE- TMT. Is anybody interested? an honest-to-badness demon from INCREDIBLE, HULK #161 (1973); the
WOLF BY A “truly original'' title was given to hell itself! Mimic, another star-crossed mutant,
NIGHT #28, a story that appeared in WEIRD, vol. In CONAN THE BARBARIAN #38 appeared in the same issue. At the
by Doug
5. #6: "Werewolf!” This gave a differ- (1974), the heroic Cimmerian got an conclusion of this tale, the Mimic
Moench and
ent, tongue-in-cheek version of the opportunity to battle Lilutu, the died while helping the Beast combat
artist Dan
Perlin, her- LittleRed Riding Hood fairy tale. The Were-Woman, and her slobbering the Hulk ("Old Greenskin" did not kill
alds an up- introduction was done by the "Old mate. One dark evening, Conan used him, though). There's a fair chance
coming a magic dust to capture the male that the Beast will become a regular
match be- beast, but he had intended to make member of the forthcoming new
tween the Lilutu his prisoner. When the female series on the X-Men, but so far he's
Werewolf
arrived on the scene, she stood by not scheduled to appear. Hope for it,
and his
helplessly as Conan thrust his sword and if it doesn't happen, write letters
newly ly-
canthropic into the captive creature. The thing to Marvel!
sister suffered, but it did not die. Soon The best lycanthrope appearing in
the most afterward, Conan learned what he comics today is Jack Russel,
sinister ex- wanted to know and escaped on the Werewolf By Night. He started out in
ample of
sibling ri-
—
horse of an enemy whom he left to MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #2 (1972), and
the fury of the lycanthropes. was awarded his own book soon
valry we've
In the first issue of Atlas' TALES afterward. Since then, this character
ever seen.
Who says OF EVIL (1975), there were three new has had a number of fine adventures,
short stories about a demon, a and he's had the pleasure (?) of
The big bad wolf who sprang from granny’s vampire, and (you guessed it!) a battling some interesting opponents.
bed fumed out to be no mere wolf but a werewolf. The furry tale was called "A Some of his foes included: Dracula,
genuine werewolf in Eerie Publication's
gruesomely rendered WEREWOLF, from in TOMB OF DRACULA #18 and
WEIRD #6(1971). WEREWOLF BY NIGHT #15 (both in
1974), and Tigra, the Were-Woman,
Crone," another poor copy of one ot who originated in GIANT-SIZE CREA-
EC's regulars, and her tale took place TURES #1 (1974). (The latter is part-
in the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. human, part-tiger, and she's currently
As one might expect, the "wolf" was appearing in a black-and-white dud
really a werewolf, and he got himself called MONSTERS UNLEASHED.)
shot by the famous woodsman. These tales are often written in the
Hungry for L.R.R.H.'s flesh, he again first person, and they usually reveal a
tried to get her. The hunter always great deal about the character of this
intervened, though, and he was anti-hero.- To date, he (miraculously)
rewarded for his efforts by "Red," hasn’t killed any good guys, but he
who admitted that she was a vampire _ sure has zonked a lot of villains! In
just before she killed him. Not too # issue #28 (the newest one at the time
swift, but somewhat better than the ~ of this writing), his younger sister
average horror story that this finally succumbed to the family curse
company publishes. Stay away from and was transformed into a hellish ly-
these mind-rotters at all costs! canthropic travesty. can hardly wait
I

until read the follow-up story!

I

CCA LIFTS LYCANTHROPIC BAN John Jameson, the Man-Wolf,

Quite a few super-heroes have been made his debut in AMAZING
confronted by lycanthropes lately SPIDER-MAN #124 (1973). He's an ir-

Comics Code Authority

ever since the rational werewolf (blue-white in
(descended from a seven terrible tales was “The Beast' eased up on their ridiculously strin- color! )who changes form every month
real werewolf,
naturally), his wife, and an ugly (need I point out that the titles of gent restrictions a few years ago. because of a moonstone that's
hunchbacked servant (figured!). Be- these putrid offerings often left much Nowadays, such monsters run pretty grafted to his throat. Naturally, this
fore long, the vampiric baroness sank to be desired?). In it, a shipwrecked rampant in comic books, and a few U.S. astronaut obtained the accursed
her fangs into the male guest, and the man was rescued from an island. On creatures even have their own series. gem when he went on a secret journey
resident wolfman bit the female new- the ship, he soon discovered that a Things are looking mighty good, and to the moon. He now has his own
comer in the neck. Later on, the monster whom he had befriended on the Code's symbol is getting smaller series in CREATURES ON THE
honeymooners recovered and dis- the isle (sure!) had secretly boarded every issue! Marvel is especially fond LOOSE, and it's not too stimulating.
covered that the monsters had the vessel. The creature turned out to of using monsters, but DC is trying to He is the second Marvel lycanthrope
disappeared. The hunchback in- be a werewolf, and the man found catch up as much as they can. plan I to get his own book, and my opinion
formed the pair that they were now himself slowly changing form. When to do a piece on demons in comics is that one is enough. It was okay

monsters— the wife was a vampire, the rescued fellow finally arrived someday soon, but for right now I've when Man-Wolf popped up once in a
and the husband a werewolf! They home, he murdered the maid, but gotta stick to the furry fiends. while to challenge a super-hero, but
would remain as such until another then prevented his monstrous com- Considering all of the things that Marvel seems to be overdoing their
unfortunate couple arrived to take panion from slaying his wife and Jimmy Olsen (Superman's pal) went monster/ personal crisis bit (what a
their place. What want to know is,
I daughter. The two nasties went on a through, suppose it was inevitable
I thing for a TMT writer to claim!).
why wasn't the man a vampire since wild hunting spree after that, until a that he would be turned into a THAT’S ALL* FOLKS...
he was bitten by one, and why wasn’t policeman's normal bullets cut down werewolf (physically, only) one day.
That's it for the werewolves. 'The
the woman a werewolf, instead of vice both of them! What triae! This tale— "Jimmy Olsen, Wolf-
preceding is by no means a complete
versa? A-.real garbage story, must The most interesting of these tales Man!"— was reprinted in a 1969 giapt
I
coverage, but it gave you a brief idea
was "Ghoulish Feast" (from HORROR issue, and haven't seen it since.
I
say!
Anyway, the transformation was
of some of the good and bad points iij
In WEIRD, vol. 5, #4, the first of TALES, vol. 3, #6), which claimed that lycanthropic history. I'm really
caused by Mr. Mxyzptlk, the magical
surprised that DC doesn't have a
imp from another dimension who
regular wolfman— considering that
always bugs Superman. Rejected by
they have had the (very first) Demon,
Lucy Lane. Jimmy's girlfriend, the
the Spectre, the Frankenstein Mon-
villain got revenge on the Daily Planet
ster, the Swamp Thing, and others—
reporter by forcing him to drink a
but maybe some day one will come
"wolfman potion” from his extraordin-
snarling along. Since Atlas/ Seaboard
ary souvenir collection. The stuff
is proving itself to be none too
worked, and he was transformed into
original in most instances, we can
a barber’s nightmare as soon as the of THE DEMON #6,1 probably expect a lycanthrope from
full moon rose. The antidote was
them, too (their revolting Morlock
supposed to be a kiss from a beautiful
2001 is sort of one, but I'm sure they'll
maiden, but Supergirl. Lois and Lucy
Lane, Lori Lemaris (a mermaid from do better).
Of course, Warren and Skywald
Atlantis) and Lana Lang all failed to Matter of Breeding." and it dealt with
cure him. Finally, a homely hag from have many of their own wolfmen, but
a hair specialist who invented a pill
Mr. Mxyzptlk's dimension broke the they don't publish comic books—
that cured baldness. Because the
spell and tricked the culprit into re-
thus, as usual, they get passed over
tablets had been made from the
in this study. Incidentally, the reason
turning to his own world. hormones of a wolf, his experimental
why this article took such a long time
In 1973, Jack Kirby's Demon was human subject became a lycanthrope appear was first announced
to (it
attacked in issue #6 by a "Howler," (a natural reaction, no?). In the end,
several issues ago) was that someone
who appeared to be a werewolf who the wolfman killed himself, the
put wolfbane all around my type-
was possessed by the supremely scientist, and his partner, but an
writer, and only managed to get a
I

ancient and evil "Primal Entity." This order for 10,000 bottles of the
fanged friend of the family to bite off
monstrous thing sought to gain "Miracle Hair Replacement Tablets"
the nasty plants. (If you believe that,
control of the Demon's immortal had already been shipped fo
' see that he bites you next!)!*
body, but Etrigan's formidable distribution across the country
demon's-flame seemed to destroy it.
at the end of the book. In the last
panel, though, a strong hint was
Jimmy Olsen went
given that the Howler still existed, in i a little shaver to a
another body. He has yet to return. fiend when the
The Demon was an awfully good and 1r. Mxyzptlk in-
tervened in Jimmy
interesting series, and it's really too
Olsen, WEREWOLF,
bad that it was discontinued. If you from SUPERMAN’S
liked it, write and demand that it be PAL JIMMY OLSEN
restored! #122(1969).
During the same year, the Swamp
Thing fought against a lycanthrope in
the 4th issue of his fabulous
magazine. The story took place in the
Scottish Moors, and there was
something special about this particu-
lar wolfman — he was white in color!
He turned out to be the son of an
elderly couple who wanted to cure
him via a total blood transfusion.
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page 10 The Monster Times

i The six celluloid

Frankenstein Monsters on
demonic display here are:
• Percy Darrell Standing
tchokihg Lucy Cotton) in LIFE
Ever since filmmakers first WITHOUT SOUL i19lS>,
began adapting FRANKEN- k
Charles Ogle, the very first
Frankenstein Monster, in Edi-
STEIN to the screen, they’ve
son’s FRANKENSTEIN (1910).
been claiming that their version Boris Karloff as the immortal
is the “true” one, the one most Monster in James Whale S
FRANKENSTEINH93t)
faithful to Mary Shelley’s classic Michael Sarrazm in NBC's
tale of terror. Of the six filmic .'FRANKENSTEIN THE TRUE
Frankensteins (not counting STORY (1973: Bo Swenspn >n
ABC's FRANKENSTEIN .1973),
sequels and spinoffs) to appear and in the middle of it all. J
so far, none have stuck strictly to k Christopher Lee in Hammer s#
f* THE CURSE OF
Ms. Shelley’s book, although
some have come far closer than
FRANKENSTEIN >1957' f
others. To clear up the creature
confusion surrounding the six
celluloid Frankensteins, scare
scholar Jason Thomas takes this
eerie opportunity to discuss
each of the films in relation to the
original novel. And let this mark
an end to it, do you hear us, an
end to it!

fter seeing the fine TV film,

FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY,
I planned to do an article comparing and
contrasting Mary Shelley’s classic and
both television versions. However, I soon
decided that something else would be
better. What I did was to briefly discuss
the six major cinema versions of the
Monster’s origin, giving a synopsis of
each. I closed the piece with a greatly
condensed version of the book, which,
hopefully, will help everyone decide for
themselves which film is best, and which

is most have
faithful to the original tale. I
seen all but the silent version, and my
choices for the best are FRANKEN-
STEN and THE BRIDE OF FRANKEN
STEIN (sincethe second movie is actually
a necessary continuation of the first, I
regard them as being one complete 2
1/2-hour film). As you will see in the
following, the version that is most faithful
to the novel is the one that was aired on
ABC-TV. Read on, Frankenstein fanatics,
and decide for yourselves!

VERY FIRST FRANKENSTEIN

The very first version of FRANKEN-
STEIN (Edison) was made in 1910. The
Monster was hunchbacked, with great BY JASON
mats of hair all over his body and claws on THOMAS
his hands. Young Frankenstein, wanting to THE SIX
create a perfect being, formed this super-
powerful Monster in a vat of bubbling
chemicals. He was, of course, horrified by
VERSIONS OF
the creature’s frightening appearance. He
fainted,and the thing lumbered off. Later,
under the care of his fiancee and his
father, he regained his strength. It is .

indicated that he had been temporarily

deranged when he began his experiments,
but he was now back to normal. Days
later, as the wedding day drew near, the
Monster tracked down his creator. The r rmkenstein watched, the reflection of nature. Virtue had triumphed. There The thing didn’t like this idea, so it killed
jealous thing remained with Frankenstein s creation also disappeared, thus were— purposely (and tragically)— no real the man and escaped. On Henry’s wedding
for a while, then left. On the scientist’s oving that the scientist’s mind was now shock elements in this film, but the ver- day, the Monster confronted Elizabeth,
wedding night, however, the thing came .re and strong again (owing to the love sions that followed were quite different. the bride-to-be, and almost murdered her.
back and frightened the young bride. ; had received). The premise was that In 1915, LIFE WITHOUT SOUL
was Henry and all of the male villagers tracked
Afterward, as it peered at its reflection in e Monster could not exist under such made. The “Brute Man” in this flick was the Monster to an abandoned mill, which
a full-sized mirror, it faded away— but its nditions— it was a physical manifesta- externally normal, and the actor wore no was quickly burned, and the Monster
image remained. Moments later, as i of the evil side of Frankenstein’s make-up. This version included the scenes appeared to die in the flames as the movie
that the Edison film had deliberately ig- ended. This screenplay was actually a
nored. The Monster killed three people be- combination of the 1910 adaptation and
Dr.Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his sometimes able assistant (Dwight Frye) prepare the newly
assembled Monster for his electrical fix in a lab scene from James Whale’s atmospheric FRANKEN- fore Frankenstein shot it to death; then the novel. However, in both movies
the scientist also died. However, the story Shelley’s idea of a mate for the Monster
turned out to be imaginary— at the end, was dispensed with. But then, in 1935,
one of the characters was shown reading a Universal released THE BRIDE OF
book (Shelley’s novel, no doubt). Within FRANKENSTEIN, which I consider to be
the movie, none of the action had actually the finest of all the saga's films.
taken place. In this sequel, we learned that the Mon-
The Boris Karloff rendition of FRANK ster survived the fire. He continued killing
ENSTEIN (Universal) came along in 1931. people until he was befriended by a kindly
This creature was a pathetic thing, old hermit. The blind man taught the Mon-
created frotn dead bodies (as it was in the ster many things, including how to say a
novel and all films that succeeded this few words, but two frightened villagers
“talkie” classic) and activated by lightning brought this beautiful relationship to an
bolts. Dr. Henry Frankenstein and his abrupt end. Soon afterward, the Monster
hunchbacked assistant created the Mon- teamed up with the evil Dr. Pretorius,
ster in a secluded mountain laboratory, who had succeeded in creating perfect
but it was given an abnormal criminal miniature humans. The villain had the
brain. Tormented by the assistant, the Monster kidnap Elizabeth Frankenstein
once-dead thing(s) soon became a mur- so that Henry would help him make a
derer. Henry had a mental breakdown female companion for the creature. Unfor-
from overwork, and another doctor made tunately, the “bride” was repulsed by the
preparations to dismantle the Monster. “groom,” who ended it all by blowing up
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the castle. This movie was thrilling, tongue-in-cheek Hammer remake

frightening and very touching. For the CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Entitled
first time,people cried for the Monster; THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN,
there were even scenes wherein the Mon- this minor spoof followed its predecessor
ster cried. Together, thesetwo Universal quite closely, except that it was lustier
motion pictures are unbeatable! This and had more gory killings. In this, also,
series continued through five more pro- the Monster got an acid bath at the conclu-
ductions, concluding with the sacrilegious sion.
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET
FRANKENSTEIN. FAITHFUL FRANKENSTEIN
In 1956, Hammer Films completed work
on THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. In early 1973, the first television
This introductory film (which starred version of FRANKENSTEIN was re
Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing) leased. This 3-hour (with commercials)
*
launched an entire series, not about the cheapie was filmed in five days, but,
Monster, but rather Dr. Frankenstein and despite its roughness, it is worthy in that
his various unholy undertakings. The it duplicated the novel more than any

sequels are still going strong, with other movie. In this entry, Dr. Franken-
FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER stein and two assistants created a gigan-
FROM HELL the latest entry. CURSE tic, ugly being. When one of the men died,

Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Ciivei pre-

sents the monster with a less than
happy bride (Elsa Lanchester) in
Whale's BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
,

The Frankenstein
Monster takes to the (1935). a film our author views as an
Sfwamps rather than extension of. rather than a sequel to.
endure another the earlier FRANKENSTEIN
moment ol FRANK-
ENSTEIN: 1970.
dismal 1958 ripoff ot
of the Frankenstein
legend that featured
an embarrassed
Boris Karloff as a
descendant of the
deceased Or Hiding in the adjoining woodshed, the agreed. Hallway through the operation,
Frankenstein. Monster learned how to speak English. however, the scientist realized the horror
One day the creature, confident that he of what he was doing and destroyed the
could makefriends with the’ family, ap- body. In revenge, the angry giant killed
proached the blind girl. The others, mis- Frankenstein’s closest friend, along with a
taking his intentions, attacked him and woman who was in the house. Franken-
began with a very young Victor his heart was used in the operation, and drove him away. Frankenstein, learning stein fled with Elizabeth, his fiancee. At
Frankenstein inheriting the estate of his lightning was again employed to liven up that his creation was still alive, began an inn, they were married, but the Mon-
parents. Years later, the brilliant scientist the Monster. This creature was different hunting for him. The Monster was shot, ster arrived and strangled the new bride.
and his assistant, Paul Krempe, attempt- from all its forerunners in that it had the and soon afterward he came upon his Armed with a pistol, the man went after
ed to reanimate the dead. After mentality of a child. In its playfulness, it creator’s little brother. When the boy his creation. An accident mortally
succeeding with a dog, they sewed toget- accidentally killed Frankenstein’s remain- screamed, the bewildered giant inadver- wounded Frankenstein, and the Monster
her a large, ugly being from several cada- ing assistant and then ran away. When- tently killed him. Frightened, the Monster tried to help him. Blaming himself for

vers. Frankenstein then killed a brilliant ever people saw him, they were terrified began to cry because of what he had done. everything that had happened, the man
man so that he could transplant the because of his appearance. Finally, how- Frankenstein found him hiding in a cave died. The mourning giant regretted all

fellow’s brain into the monstrosity. The ever. he found a solitary house in the and treated the wound in the creature’s that he had done and, whefi policemen
brain was accidentally damaged before woods. In it was a blind girl, her father, neck. When the Monster agreed to leave if arrived, he let them shoot him. With his
the operation took place, and, when the her brother and his Spanish fiancee. a mate was created for him, the man creator cradled in his arms, the dying
Monster was brought to life by strong Monster’s last words were, “Forgive me.”
electric currents, itturned out to be a This tragic tale, although a bit overdone,
moron. The thing escaped, and Krempe was quite good. Wouldst only that it had
shot it to death after it killed a blind man. been done on a larger scale!
Victor restored it to life and lost no time in
locking it in the laboratory annex. Soon FRADULENT FRANKENSTEIN
aTterward, he arranged for it to murder Toward the end of 1973, FRANKEN-
the family servant. Elizabeth, Franken- STEIN: THE TRUE STORY was shown
stein’s fiancee, found the creature, which on NBC-TV. This expensive 4-hour (with
promptly broke loose and chased her.
After rapidly dousing the Monster with
kerosene, Frankenstein set it ablaze. Fall-
ing into a tub of acid, the thing was com-

Poter Cushing played the good doctor Franken-

stein in THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, Ham-
mer’s 1957 version of the Shelley classic. Like
Universal before it, Hammer has hauled out the
A freezing Frankenstein Monster (Michael Sarra-
venerable Monster for several sequels of varying
zin) findshimself up the floe without a paddle in
quality.
NBC’s FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY.
Despite its over-all excellence and a script co- commercials) production was very im-
written by Christopher Isherwood. the made-for-
pressive, but it deviated from the novel
TV epic failed to be true to its title.
more than any other version had. The title
pletely dissolved by the time the authori- is fradulent, but the movie is well worth

ties arrived. Since Krempe refused to cor- seeing: in some instances, it even
roborate Frankenstein’s incredible story, surpasses Karloffs version(s). As usual,
the evil scientist was being led to the Victor Frankenstein was shown leaving
I would gladly give my right arm to have actually seen the monster.
Guillotine as the film ended (he escaped in the university to conduct his own
the sequel, THE REVENGE OF FRANK Artist Kerry Gammillcontributed this disarming moment of monstrous levity to our otherwise experiments into the secrets of life and
serious Frankenstein study. For those not up on their Frankenstein films, the above scene is death. In London, he teamed up with Dr.
STEIN).
taken from Universal's SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939), with Basil Rathbone as Dr. Wolfgang
Fourteen years later, there was a Claval, who was experimenting with solar’
and Lionel Atwill as the one-armed Inspector.
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Years earlier, Frankenstein had left the

university at Ingolstadt to study Nature’s
mysteries on his own. Upon discovering
the secret of life, he gathered parts of
bodies from butcher shops and dissecting DRACULA is the title of 12 new magazines direct Iron)

rooms and built an eight-foot-tall Monster. England. Each issue Is in full color throughout the book,
featuring the art of such Spanish greats as Esteban Maroto
After bringing it to life, he soon regretted who does the character WOLFF), Enrich Sic and J.M. Bea.
his deed. The Monster fled, and Victor fell These 12 books contain art like you've never seen before in
your life! And the color is superbly done. All on heavy card-
ill. While he was being cared for by his board-like stock to Insure long readability.
closest friend, Henry Clerval, word All these Tzooks are In English text, meant for the British
Isles, but imported by THE MONSTER TIMES for TMT
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brother, William, had been strangled. A ganzas. They can be purchased In lois of six, In Tots .of
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family servant named Justine was tried art library. The greatest barbarians and the prettiest ladles
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for the crime and executed. Not long
afterward, the Monster approached his
creator and told him that he had learned
how to speak and act from a family in the
woods. In return for chores that he had
performed for them at night, they had left
books outside their cottage for their
unknown benefactor to read. When he
finally revealed himself to them, they

The Monster learns that his love for his intended mate shall go forever unrequited in a genuinely attacked him because of his frightening
poignant scene from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Ernest Thesiger, as the flamboyantly perverse Dr. visage. Later on, he happened upon
Pretorius, looks on. William, accidentally killed him and then
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that the crawling hand had begun to hurt, the Monster took over the ship and scientist destroyed the female body
deteriorate. Before he could inform •headed it due north. The crew escaped in because he did not want a race of such
Victor, he died, and his brain was lifeboats, but Elizabeth remained behind creatures to be spawned. The Monster
transplanted into the composite body. and was strangled by the Monster. killed Clerval and, on Victor’s wedding
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Now that we’ve demonstrated which eerie authors have been faithful to
^
Ms. Shelly and her ever-popular Monster, we deem it meet and just to or Corpse-Kicking
take a look at the latest and least serious of the film industry’s Franken- For Fun and Profit
stein adaptations. While Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN makes no
BY MARK JACOBSON
attempt to be a faithful reworking of the Shelley classic, creature critic \

Mark Jacobson maintains that Mel and his film still have a lot to answer
for, as you’ll see herewith... ^

yf I liked war movies. I’d be worried.

f)
Sooner or later Mel Brooks is going to get
Sgt. Rock and the whole Easy Company
up and doing the old soft shoe. When
Madeline Kahn, dressed as a Christopher
Street Statue of Liberty, pumps her red,
white, blue tushy in time to “When John-
nie Comes Marching Home Again,” that’ll
be it. The 2000- Year-Old Man mangled
The Gunfight at the OK Corral in his effu-
sive BLAZING SADDLES, but that was
allright; the Cisco Kid was no friend of
mine. But why did Brooks have to throw
the schtick at Frank?

INITIAL EXCITEMENT
Thefirst few minutes of YOUNG Young Dr. Frankenstein ;Gene Wilder •
lets ’free
exultant dry as his newly assembled Monster
FRANKENSTEIN were exciting. Brooks Peter Boylei shows definite signs of life, a- com-
decided to make the film in black and modity our critic feels the film too often lacks
white. That showed commitment. The
music wasn’t too campy. The coffin that
opened with no warning to reveal a par-
tially decomposed body was scary. The
first sequence with Gene Wilder, as the
grandson of Baron Von Frankenstein, try-
ing to live down his heritage by teaching
brain surgery, was grimly funny. The
neurologist as the modern-day Franken-

Come to me,
my melancholy
Monster...

BLAZING SADDLES all over again.

All the out-of-context one-liners and
binges of vaudeville mugging tend to
make things very silly. So silly that
The Monster takes his first outsized steps in an Brooks loses his ability to throw any kind
early scene from YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, Mel of scare into us. That’s too bad, because if
Brooks' parody of the Universal originals. While
individual scenes and schticks provoke much
he would have retained the feeling of the
monstrous mirth, the film still suffers from its opening minutes he would have had a
creator's lack of cinematic self-control. much more versatile film. -What we wind
up watching is just another bit of schtick,
this time with a monster theme.
stein, good obversation. Brooks even shot crazy sheen on the details Universal
the scene in which Wilder demonstrates Studios turned out 40 years ago. Every NO LAUGHING MATTER
medical procedures for the class by humil- time he tries to invent something, such as
This is unfortunate because Mel Brooks
iating and torturing an elderly patient in a Madeline Kahn’s bilious characterization
is one of the few people currently making
clinical and detached style. It looked of Wilder’s fiancee, the awful gags about
humor movies in America. Brooks seems
almost like a Fredrick Wiseman movie: the Monster’s sexual proficiencies, or the
content to parody old movies which had
black and intelligent humor, yet still useless top hat and cane dance number
come to parody themselves long before he
creepy. It was all very promising. A real Wilder and his monster run through, it’s
got around to it. Why doesn’t he do some-
hope was raised that Brooks would be able
thing more difficult? It’s also unfortunate,
to control the flood of banalities that Madeline Kahn, as Dr. because if Brooks had utilized some of the
drowned BLAZING SADDLES in a sea of stein's fiancee, gets carried
away by an unusually well- horror elements at his command by taking
ha-has. Itseemed as though he was really
attired Frankenstein Monster the monster a little more seriously, he
making a funny Frankenstein movie, in- YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. wave of interest in
in could have produced a
stead of a movie making fun bf Franken- With Andy Warhol and Brooks old-style monster films that could have led
stein. layinghands on Mary Shelley’s
Monster within a scant few few more of them being made. As it is,

TOUGH TASK months of each other, it’s he just kicked the corpse.
enough to make one wonc
I guess it's a tough assignment, making
if NOTHING’S f British comic Marty V
a funny monster film without latching anymore. k Feldman plays the good ’
onto the conventions of the genre for some doctor's popeyed assistant,
easy laughs. Polanski, in his FEARLESS Igor, a role originally por-
trayed by Dwight Frye.
VAMPIRE KILLERS (which is very close Contrary to popular belief,
in outward purpose to YOUNG FRANK- the Igor character is not
ENSTEIN), almost did it. But even he fell without his fair share of
back on teeth and bat jokes when his brains, only they're usually
inspirations, like the gruesomely hilarious slung under his arm. .

dance of the vampires, grew thin. Brooks

does have his glorious moments. His
monster, played with simpatico and YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) 20th Century
Fox. Directed by Mel Brooks. Screenplay by
random lunacy by Peter Boyle, is Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks. Based on the
fabulous. With all the chic costume design- characters in Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly.
Makeup by William Tuttle. Music by John Morris.
ing in the film, Boyle looks like the Hulk Starring Gene Wilder (Dr. Frankenstein). Peter
wandering around Bloomingdale’s. The Boyle (the Monster), Marty Feldman (Igor),
parody of the blindman scene from BRIDE Madeline Kahn (Elizabeth), Cloris Leachman
(Frau Blucher), Teri Garr (Inga), Kenneth Mars
OF FRANKENSTEIN, in which a blind (Inspector Kemp). Richard Haydn, Liam Dunn,
Gene Hackman sets Boyle’s finger on fire Danny Goldman, Leon Askin, Oscar Beregi, Lou
Cutell.
while trying to offer him a friendly cigar,
is out of sight. Marty Feldman’s (as Igor)
overstuffed eyeballs stand out. They got P.S.-a copy of the YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
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we’re happy to run the following unemployed people looking for not thinking of entering the
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Some mummies were even
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w hen the Egyptian mummy-

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you had been in. this life. Still, the
basic mummification process was
the same for everybody.
soul would also need his former
earthly comforts too, and ser-
vants and hand-maidens of dead
Egyptians were often buried
right along with their master or
Christopher Lee into famous tomb. The
mistress in the
mummies of the movies, they EGYPTIAN BRAIN DRAIN put to
simply cut out their tongues,
wrapped them in bandages, and Using an iron hook, the
Jeremy Bentham, the 19th century British philosopher and founder of Utilitarianism, wrote
then, after cursing them with
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eternal life, buried them in tombs

Egypt began their skilled mum- to his skeleton, dressed in his own clothes and brought out to attend each meeting of the
mification process by first thrust- Utilitarian Society. As this photo suggests, his will was done.
which they were supposed to
forever keep safe from dese- ing the hook up into the dead
making mummies nowadays, Egyptian sun beat down and
crators, looters and other assort- man’s nose and pulling out his
brains through his
however, are far from religious. bake the corpse’s flesh until it’s
ed infidels. nostrils.
When they were finished, they In fact, they're downright merce- brown and withered-looking, just
Ancient Egypt's real mummy- nary. likethe real mummies of ancient
makers, however, spent consid- put the brains in a jar containing
a preserving fluid. They they Working in secret, behind times which archaeologists have
erable time making their mum- locked doors, the modern found buried in tombs.
mies and, for one thing, they flushed out the cavity in the skull
with wine, alcohol or spiritous mummy-makers are actually In MYSTERIES OF THE
never buried a man or woman exporting their mummies
out of ORIENT, John Keel, the interna-
fluid.
while they were still alive. Their Egypt and selling them as the tional adventurer, reported that
reasons for making mummies Next, they slit the corpse up
itsside with a long, sharp knife —
real thing as ancient mummies he had actually met a modern
were also vastly different from from Ancient Egypt. They are mummy-maker and had even
those usually given in horror and began removing the intes-
tines and
involved in a black market been to the man’s charnel house
all other internal
films.
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mummy trade and often will workshop. Gaining entrance
kidneys. Like the brains, they make quite a bit of money from forcibly, as it were, Keel saw the
also placed the inner organs in their mummies because mum- vat where the mummy-maker
jars of preserving fluid. Later, mies are always in demand, and soaked his corpses and witnes-
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tomb right along with the for such men to bodies awaiting their turn at
finished mummy. Most tombs have already mummification, and then export.
After removing the been discovered, and so there is Corpses that were too badly
inner
organs, the mummy-makers fill- A Portrait of the Pharoah as an Old more demand than supply. damaged, though, the mummy-
Mummy: Thoutmosis of the XVIII Dy-
I
Although today’s mummy- piaker discarded.
ed the corpse’s empty trunk with nasty. While the mummy-making process
myrrh and other perfumes, and may seem a simple one, it took the makers are following the authen- Smuggled out of Egypt as the
then soaked the body for exactly
Egyptians 1500 years to perfect it. ticprocess for mummifying dead real thing, fake mummies are
seventy days in a vat of natron, bodies, which they get from sold not only to museums but
death or took poison, so that they graveyards, hospitals and jails, also to private collectors of oddi-
which is a salt that dehydrates
could continue serving their in their haste to get more phoney ties. I’m not such a collector my-
body tissue. When they removed
rulers in the next life. ancient mummies out on the mar- self, but if you are, and somebody
the corpse from the vat after the
ket, they have cut many steps comes by one day offering you
specified time period, they
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ing fluids. To give their mum- freshly smuggled out of Egypt,
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Mummy-making dates back as mies a look of antiquity, they you'd do well to check out the
far as 4500 BC, but even though take the corpses out into the merchandise with an expert
oilsand gums, particularly the
the Egyptian government has a desert, where mummies won’t be before laying your cash on the
gums, were used like a sealing
law against mummification of the found, and let the broiling line. The mummy dealer just
wax over the flesh. Then they
dead today, there are still certain might be trying to sell you a
wrapped the now-mummified
unscrupulous men engaged in the ringer. You can never be too sure
corpse in lengths of linen band-
business of making mum- about mummy dealers— or their
The Egyptians believed, as
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mind, they carefully attempted one of the world’s foremost centuries. Their
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bone for all eternity. They didn't mummy-makers wrapped the
want a corpse to ever decay, corpse in bandages, they also The spindly digits of a 17th
because in the other life the soul placed magic amulets on various Dynasty mummy holds for
would need the body in as good a our scrutiny a copy of
parts of the dead person. If the
Georgess McHargue's ex-
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cellent
amount of time and effort particularly wealthy, they would whence came all these
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co-starring

MARSHALL

THOMPSON •
SMITH •
SPALDING
with ANN DORAN •
DABBS GREER •
PAUL LANGTON •
ROBERT
Written by JEROME BIXBY • Directed by EDWARD L. CAHN
Produced by ROBERT E. KENT • Released thru UNITED |H 'ARTISTS
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The Monster Times page 19

Back in the bad old days of the

and early ’60s, Fun City

I'M WITH
late ’50s
fright addicts would rarely fail to
tune in to watch vintage horror
films on WOR-TV’s SHOCK
THEATER, which had recently
purchased a package of Univer-
UKIKIWT.
sal’s great and not-so-great
horror films from the ’30s and
’40s. But it was SHOCK THEA-
TER’S host, a gleeful ghoul
named Zacherly, and his spirited
black comic antics that made the
show more than merely enjoy-
able. Taking an irreverent ap-
proach to the genre, Zach was
fond of mocking fright films that
deserved no better treatment and
once even went so far as to
employ his trusty scissors to
deat r oy, on camera, a print of a
ghastly film called WHITE PON-
GO to prevent its ever being
shown on his show again.
Though John Zacherly’s horror
host days are far behind him (he
currently spends his nights
working as a disc jockey for rock
station WPLG-FM), he’s not
adverse to looking back in
fondness at his SHOCK THEA-
TER interlude, as the following
interview demonstrates.

TMT: What do you think about

today’s horror films?
Zacherly.
Once and
ZACH: Have you seen any good
Future King
horror movies lately? of theTV Horror
Hosts, demonstrates
TMT: How about THE EXOR- how he got a
CIST? Have you seen that? head in the Then we would go off on some
cut-throat world the kind
tangent with of
ZACH: Yeah, I caught that. I of television.
operation he was doing, using
thought it was a pretty good Today the
"cool ghoul" cabbages, liver, jello, and all
horror movie. I’m a little amazed other weird stuff.
spends his working
they tried to put so much hours as a
religious significance into it. disc jockey TMT: Did you watch the soap
Once the kid’s head turned for WPLG-FM. opera DARK SHADOWS?
around, I thought, “There goes a progressive rock
the religion.” And the beds station of considerable ZACH: Yes— I used to laugh
bouncing four or five feet off the renown.
because they kept doing that
ground. I thought, “Who are they time trip on that show. They
trying to kid with this religious to stay seemed to run out of ideas, then
slant?” But it was really a fine
me back to life.” HA! HA! HA! TMT: Exactly what type of
everyone would be transported
character were you portraying? afternoons when everyone
horror movie. went to the movies. But finally I to another time with other
TMT: (We showed Zach an old clothes and maybe a different
ZACH: Just a crazy character. did a cowboy show in Philadel-
TMT: Did you think the dialogue photo from his television past.) I
part of the family. They began to
never really knew. phia for television and took many
was too hard? Do you remember this picture?
stretch the plot a little bit, you
different parts. I remember
wearing the black suit you have know. What was the name of the
ZACH: That’s really weird. Do
house? Collinwood. Oh yeah. HA!
in those pictures. I may have
you know what that is? My god,
slicked my hair, I don’t remem- HA! HA! The lightning was
this is a real house. Me and
ber. But they called me and said, great; they also had a family
Richard Thomas of the Waltons tomb. J feel a show
“Hey, do you want to host a like that could
—at the time Richard Thomas possibly run again. It’s a timeless
horror movie?” I didn't know
was a small boy acting in New type of horror show.
what a horror movie was. I really
York— were out in Long Island
had never seen one. Apparently
doing a kid show about ghosts
a lot of people around the
and things, and Jack Lescoulie
country took the same approach.
was the narrator. I have some
The films that were released
really weird pictures of me and
consisted of some good ones:
Richard Thomas standing in
front of this amazing old house
DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN,
with these rotten old curtains
THE SON OF FRANKEN-
STEIN, THE MUMMY, etc.
fluttering. The house never had
They start to get watered down
been painted in years and years
after that with a lot of bad acting.
and was loaded with dog food and
So they were faced with buying
Zacherly exhibits ghoulish glee in a garbage all over the place. I can’t Zach. as he appears today, photo-
shot from ZACHERLY FOR PRESI- 50 shows, 40 of which were really
remember all the stories about it. graphed outside his home in New
DENT, a mock campaign guide pub- bad. So we loosened them up a
Just an incredible old house. York’s Upper West Side.
lished during Zach’s horror heyday as bitby having some comedy going
host of WOR-TV’s SHOCK THEATER. on during the film.
TMT: Was it intended that you

ZACH: We’re just not used to it, portray a comical horror host? TMT: Was it intended that you
that’s Everybody speaks like
all. cut into the pictures?
that, even the president. [Ex- ZACH: It started in Philadelphia Zach indicates how much he enjoyed
President Richard M. Nixon— when horror movies were first ZACH: We took the approach of talking with TMT reporters Russak
Ed.] HA! HA! HA! being released for TV. Occasion- making believe the doctor or the and Lipowski.
ally I get dressed up and about mad scientist didn't know what
TMT: What did you think about two years ago I did a little they were doing but we did.
the movie in general? number with the Grateful Dead. TMT: What was your favorite
I rode up and down Fifth Avenue A maniac of many moods, Zacherly
horror movie?
ZACH: THE EXORCIST is in a stagecoach, and everyone has been known to strike sinister, as
really a super horror film, people* was shouting, “Hey, Zach, how’s well as comic, poses. ZACH: Well, I always liked the
are really scared. I liked the your old lady?” I was really SON OF FRANKENSTEIN. It
Zach s pioneer portrayal of a dement-
acting— the people were good ed horror host inspired a spate of imi- amazed. seemed to me that they
actors. Ellen Burstyn [Chris tators who borrowed both his makeup
expanded on the sets. The dining
MacNeil], an accomplished ac- and style. The original, however, is TMT: Whatever happened to room scene was really freaky,
tress, was great, although I’ve still the greatest. your old lady? with the huge fireplace and those
never seen her before. big beams that came out from
ZACH: Well, all those things everywhere. And shadows all
TMT: Have you met any other NEFARIOUS NOSTALGIA were characters created because over the place and the storms. It
horror celebrities? TMT: Did you do your own they couldn’t afford actual was sort of a semi-modern
makeup for your appearances on people. impressionistic kind of thing. The
ZACH: I’ve met Jonathan Frid Shock Theater? laboratory was great too, with
for a brief moment at the DARK TMT: How did you get inter- that crazy kind of pyramid
SHADOWS studio, a hello- ZACH: Oh yeah, it takes only ested in horror films? shape— that was really weird. I
goodbye type of thing. An about two minutes to do. In also liked Bela Lugosi in that; I

associate of mine met Boris television we never pretended ZACH: When those things were thought he was outstanding as
Karloff and asked if he disliked they were sunken cheeks or released for television, I had the shepherd with the broken
what we did to his films. He said, anything like that— it was just never seen any horror movies. I neck [Igor]. I didn’t know who he
“Not at all, my dear, you brought short of being a clown’s makeup. wasn’t allowed to as a kid. I used was at first.
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ZACHERLY TODAY-WPLJ TMT: Do you ever have trouble

TMT: Are you nervous before
making a show roll?

you go on the radio for WPLJ? ZACH: Not really. I made a

mistake in my life— 1 should have
ZACH: Not really. I never bother learned how to be a stand-by guy
to say too much on the radio, I who could remember jokes. I
just like to work the music really can’t remember jokes and
sound. I know what music I have when I have to introduce a group
to choose from and or whatever I try to think of
something to say that’ll get
people in a good mood. I’m really ...is our way of getting the latest
hot-off-the-weird-wire info to you,
very bad at remembering things. Since I've mentioned Bryanston, do extremely high- hopes for— THE
serving up all the news of what’s
It's a terrible thing. I should let me digress for a moment and DEVIL'S RAIN (previously reported as
cookin' in every medium, from the
learn how to do that by now— say rare to the half-baked to the well- divulge other goodies under their REIGN, 'scuse please). Now on
or done: reviews, previews, bulletins wraps. ..such as a voodoo opus location in Durango, Mexico, THE
and controversial comments on entitled LORD SHANGO (already DEVIL’S BRAIN has an especially
and fantasy happenings
horror, sci-fi playing at some locations), THE star-studded cast, consisting of
books, comics, TV and even
in films, HUMAN FACTOR, starring George Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida
real life. We have spared no costs, Kennedy and now lensing in Rome, Lupino, Keenan Wynn and somebody
Naples, and Capri, and one have called. ..er... William Shatner.
time or tender egos in bringing you I

this expanded edition of our beloved

Teletype page, so feel free to send us
letters full of lavish praise for our A film that turned up at the recent Back to the future with Norman
selfless efforts to keep you “in-the- 18th London Film Festival was the Jewison’s production of ROLLER-
know.” Handling Fright Film Fore- intriguing THE MAN
WITHOUT A BALL, starring James Caan, John
casting chores is “Breezy Bill” Feret, FACE, starring Gayle Hunnicutt, Gert Houseman, and that delectable dish
who kicks off this feature with his Frobe and Geralding Chaplin, Char- recently of MAN WITH THE GOLDEN
column, which beams directly be- lie'sother acting daughter. GUN, Maud Adams. This is the futur-
low... Now for Tyburn Productions, who istic sport with the deadly rules.
seem to be making a bid to share the Since so much publicity has been
notoriety of the Hammer Horrors. given the Devil of late, it’s no wonder
Lana Turner turns up as star of someone’s granted equal time to
Look into my crystal ball and I will angels, or so it would seem, though
show you
the future, first one I'm surprised that it happens to be
way. ..and then another. ..and then yet none other than Charles Chaplin. Mr.
another still. This appears to be the Chaplin has written and scored a new
year of the futuristic space film. film entitled THE FREAK. The heroine
SPACE: 1999 is due on the TV tube of the title is a South American girl
anytime now, much mulling contin- born with a pair of wings, and the
THEATER might have been short ues with regard to STAR TREK, and ability to fly. Rather than have it

on budget but was always long on grisly fun. there is a lot of action on the cinema strictly a fantasy, it seems that, in Mr.
scene. Chaplin’s hands, it will be something
The new live-miniature-animation of a morality play. Two of Mr. Chap-
sound as good as I can in horror crazy. I should have a process called "Magicam" (see TMT lin's daughters will essay roles in the
combination. That’s what the fun little routine— but I don’t. HA! #38, p. 25) will be utilized in Herb film.
of it is, putting three songs HA! HA! [Yawn] This job is Jaffe's forthcoming sci-fi comedy en- J4ow for the “sharking" truth. Those
should be wide awake DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF toothsome terrors will be around in
together that kind of go funny. I titled
ELECTRIC SHEEP? Authored by Universal's soon-to-be-released
together, instead of just sticking now. Trouble is I don’t get much
Philip K. Dick, the film tells of JAWS, which features several grue-
them in there because you have sleep. Some people get the some murders and a thrilling climax
bounty-hunting 21st Century detec-
to play any three songs. impression I’m crazy— when real- wherein the amphibious star attempts
tiveson the track of escaped Martian
ly I’m just sleepy or exhausted. robots. to eat. ..a boat. Another film dealing
Can you walk the streets a bit— with them will be United Artists'
TMT: Do you enjoy today’s rock
have to get a soda or something PERSECUTION; LEGEND OF THE SHARK’S TREASURE, pfoduced by
music? WEREWOLF and starring Cornel Wilde. That may
before I go on the air. La da dee is ready with Peter
dee dee... Cushing starred and introducing be the FIN-ish.
ZACH: Oh yeah, I love it. I like David Rintoul as the werewolf; THE Filming in Yugoslavia and Austria
Zacherly can be heard on the GHOUL is set for release also starring has begun on a thriller entitled 5 AND
so many groups— one day to the MAKES
radio every weekday from 10:00 Cushing, with Don Henderson as the 7 11.
next it will be Pink Floyd, which
P.M. to 2:00 P.M. on WPLJ, 95.5 titlecharacter (this one is set in the
I sometimes think is probably the
Rock’N’Stereo. For more pic- 1920s) and just announced for lensing
one I like most, or the Allman tures and information on Zacher- at Pinewood, THE SATANIST. Plus
Brothers. I used to be very fond there’s some talk of a TV series. Nice
ly, don’t forget to buy Zacherly
of the Dead but I haven’t heard For President available from the
going.
much of them lately. Shakespearean actor Nicol
Monster Times Bookshelf. Williamson will record a 4-record
album of J.R.R. Tolkien's THE
HOBBIT for London Records, replete
with a flute, harp and hurdy-gurdy
accompaniment.

Amazing 504 Offer DARK

"Spaced-out
STAR, described as a
Odyssey," will be
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I for the new musical
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starring Yul Brynner, they have been
dashed. Mediocre everything, plus an
issuing forth from Bryanston Dis- insipid Cyclops, made this show one
tributors under Jack H. Harris' big monstrous. ..flop. Yul was. cool,
production. but his ship ought to sail into the
A very interesting for
sunset quickly.
title set
If you're anxiously awaiting the
production next year by director Carl
Foreman THE YEAR forthcoming AIP presentation of
at Universal is Margot Kidder, who just had lots of
OF THE GOLDEN APE. Described as Edgar Rice Burroughs’ THE LAND
exposure, or over-exposure if you
THAT TIME FORGOT, you'll be happy
a suspenser, it’s to have a star- will, in a recent PLAYBOY magazine,
studded cast. to learn that Burroughs’ book and
should be turning up clad on the
comic sales were higher in 1974 than
Peter Ustinov stars opposite Helen screen soon in THE REINCARNA-
Hayes in Disney's ONE OF THE any year previous in its 51 -year
history. LAND TIME FORGOT could
TION OF PETER PROUD, opposite
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Nimoy that appeared in a local

Canadian paper. In the piece, Leonard
talks about how portraying Mr. Spock
has affected his life. “I'm more

SF&F is TMT’s general, all-purpose, For those who always wanted to

miracle science fiction column, command a starship— especially the
bringing you a variety of reports from Starship Enterprise — here's your
the world of sci-fi by a crack team of chance. STAR TREK action figures of
Trek Talk will be a regular feature of Kirk. Spock. McCoy and Scott,
experts. Books, films, comics,
the TMT Teletype page, bringing you complete with authentic costumes,
magazines, television, radio and even
the latest news from the world of hand-phaser guns and a set of the
real life will be amply covered by the
STAR TREK and current events in the command bridge of the Enterprise
likes of R. Allen Leider, Ed Summer be out soon from Mego.
lives of the people who brought you will
and a whole host of guest typewriter They'll be in stores this spring and.
thatundying sci-fi series. Aiding and
titans whose sole aim in this or any if they sell, there will be a second
abetting us in this quest for
other world is to get the latest sci-fi series with other ST characters,
intergalactic info will be (among including Uhura, Sulu, Romulans,
news to you.
others) Bjo Trimble and Margaret A. etc. They’re built the same as the
Basta, both of whom publish Star Apes and super-hero figures, with
MONKEY BUSINESS... Trek newsletters for the education riveted wrists and feet and repairable
and edification of Trekkies 'round the arms and legs If the elastic snaps
When CBS-TV announced that the globe. due to wear or very rough handling,
popular PLANET OF THE APES- film they can be re-strung with elastic
’
serieswas about to become a weekly Fun City Star Trek fans should be thread (from Woolworth's) with a pair
prime-time TV show, that ape of tweezers.
alerted to the fact that now there's a
announcement was greeted with The deck of the Enterprise includes
argued with and bargained with is too strong and too widespread. late-night New York radio show the sick bay and the command deck
much fanfare in myriad publications humans, again something you rarely Perhaps that's it! Could it be that the oevoted exclusively to Star Trek layout, complete with furniture.
(including this one). A scant few saw in the films. The whole apes APES' reign is coming to an end? doings. The Trekey Show (according Bright Idea: Try using other Mego
months later, the same CBS execs series was based on the concept of — Don Fioto to host Jay Gee. a "trekey" is a action figures (if you can find a sale
announced the demise of that Ape being superior to Man and this, I
serious Star Trek enthusiast, while a on them) and. with modeling clay and
selfsame simian series. That an- other make-up materials, create your
think, was the reason for its great "trekkie" is short for "trekkiebopper,"
nouncement was met with a minimum own alien life forms. Good luck.
popularity. On the TV show, the a more frivolous sort of fan) can be
of protest, primarily because most concept was destroyed. heard every Wednesday night from .....
critics concurred that the series didn't Now, to the scripts. Almost from 1.30 to 2 a.m. on WHBI-FM The . rational now than was before
I playing
live up to ape fans’ expectations. In the very start they lacked the power, show features (among other things) that role." the popular actor allowed.
this guest opinion piece, tube critic the appeal, the realism so evident in live and recorded guests, special "It's given me a broader concept of
Don Fioto explains what he considers the film series. You felt kind of lost convention reports Star Trek news what earth is about it's a —
planet
the reasons behind the failure of the with the TV show, not knowing why and Star Trek music. Host Jay Gee rather than the final product of
PLANET OF THE APES. apes were the masters and humans has had an interview with Leonard existence. have a new perspective on
I

the slaves. You. didn't understand Nimoy plus a group from S.T.A.R. on the idea that other beings may be
...OR THE FAILURE OF
where this place, this planet, was. So recent shows, and is hopeful of looking at earth and wondering if life
THE PLANET OF THE APES! many important points were either having Tribbles scripter David Gerrold could exist here." In an interesting
lost or overlooked in the TV scripts. on an upcoming show. If you're a true self-observation. Leonard also said
The dialogue was generally lousy, the "trekey," we suggest you tune in. The that. "A year after the series began
PLANET OF THE APES seems to
plots usually poor, and the characters
I

be everywhere these days. Toys,

Trekey Show boasts a local audience was so repressed from playing Spock
that the scripts featured were usually of some 2,000 fans and it might inter- had serious psychological problems
games, books, comics, movies, I

flat and unrealistic. est you to join them. caused by suppressing my emotions
posters, you name it; the apes have
entered just about every medium, and
Finally, and, think, most
I
Star Trek fan Carl Jan of Canada in the role. began to suppress my
I

important to the demise of the TV sent us an article about Leonard feelings offstage too."
profitably, at that. Every medium,
series, was the lack of use of what
that is, except television. When I

call the "shock effects" of the

PLANET OF THE APES entered that, PLANET OF THE APES concept.
too, it died after less than halt a
What do mean by shock effects?
season. The question is: Why? The
I

Well, for example, the discovery of

answer is the basis of this article.
the Statue of Liberty on a deserted
In this ape-watcher's humble
beach by Charlton Heston in the first
opinion, there are three main reasons
why the PLANET OF THE APES TV
APES film. Or the discovery of what
at first resembles an abandoned
series One, the apes were
failed.
tunnel or mine shaft, but turns out to
much too "human.” Two, the scripts
were sub-par. Three, the series didn't
make use of the "shock effects" of the
PLANET OF THE APES films. Let's
consider them in order.
In the majority of the APES movies,
the apes were realistically fearsome.
They were decidedly NOT human. Oh,
they had a few emotions similar to
humans, but, for the most part, they
were foreign... alien,, if you will. They
were basically cold, cunning, intelli-
gent, and nonsympathetic towards
humans, exhibiting very few emotions
a! all towards them, other than hate
and scorn. They were not the equals
of humans. The apes were, quite
The TMT A Star Is Bom Dept.
simply, the superior species. would like to announce the screen
On the TV show, this changed. debut of a brand-new horror
Many of the apes became foolish. heroine. Jennifer Stock, star of
They displayed jealousy and envy SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED and
towards the humans and towards the soon-to-be-released DEATH
DANCE. In addition to being just
another pretty face, Jennifer is a
highly talented actress-singer and
a regular reader of THE MONSTER
TIMES. And smart too. Did we
May 29 — June 1, 1975
mention yet her many talents?
We're not getting paid to say these
At the Braniff Place Hotel —New Orleans, La.
things, incidentally, it's just that
Ms. Stock is the first budding
scream screen star that TMT has
had the opportunity to tout. She's
very personable, we might add. and
A Cast of THOUSANDS!!
possesses quite a pair of lungs.
She can scream with the best of
them and should, we feel, get more To include: George Takei (Lt. Sulu); Arlene
bigger and better parts. Martell (T'Pring); Tribbles (David
Gerrold); and Bill Theiss...and YOU.'!
be a major 20th century subway depot
like Grand Central or Times Square
Station (in the second film. BENEATH
BEWARE MORE BEASTS, THE PLANET OF THE APES). Orafull
a newly released anthology shot of the ruins of a once-great 30 of your Favorite Science Fiction £ Fantasy
of frightening fiction, is human metropolis like Manhattan
Manor Books’ latest addi- nestled on the ape planet. These
tion to its horror line. effects gave you something to Films, like Forbidden Planet, and 7 Voyage
Edited by Vic Ghidalia and identify with. They brought home,
Roger Elwood, the 95cf with great power, the feeling that of Sinbad
paperback features new son ething like this could happen in
stories bv Barry Malzberg, the future. That the evolutionary
Ed Hocn and Thomas process somehow could get screwed
Scortia, as well as rare up and reversed. That there most
terror tales by Jack William- definitely is a chance that man could
son, August Derleth and blow everything he has in some
William Hope Hodgson. stupid war and that his future could
Manor is also reprinting lie as slave to other creatures on this
Ghidalia and Elwood's planet. These effects chilled you and
HORROR HUNTERS, an stunned you and left you with a raw
anthology that includes feeling of what could happen if we are
sinister sleuthing stories not careful. To my knowledge, such
by Lovecraft, Sturgeon, shock effects were used only twice on
Leiber, Bloch, Blackwood the TV series (in poor fashion, might I

and Derleth. add), and their absence left you

feeling that the show was phony,
contrived
dumb.
and, to put it plainly,
VUL-CON II
other apes, which was unthinkable in Well, that's about it. The series
the films. The apes appeared
whimsical, comical, and the humans
on the TV show could trick them,
outwit them and otherwise make
monkeys of them. Apes actually
folded because of
•human” apes and
Maybe the
effects. public wasn't
ready for the show, either, but doubt
it. The popularity of the phenomenon
poor
lack of
scripts,

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shock
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The time is the 1920s, and Count Dracula (Udo

Kier) has a problem He feels so weak, wan,
:

drawn and drained of energy that he doesn't

even have the strength to turn over in his grave any
more. Desperately in need of the blood of a wirgin

ANDY (a commodity difficult to find in those decadent

times), the-Count finally, and with much reluc-
tance. agrees to journey with his servant (Amo

WARHOL'J Juerging) to redder pastures Italy, a Catholic

:

country where wirains are said to DrolifeCate.

When TMT Editor Joe Kane was dispatched, much against his
will, to a midtown movie theater to see ANDY WARHOL’S
DRACULA, it was with great reluctance that he went. He had
already suffered through Warhol’s abysmal three-dimensional
desecration of FRANKENSTEIN and figured he would only be I have heard it said, Master,
zat in Italy everyone is a wirgin...even za
in for more of the same. Not even promises of free popcorn
I

(buttered, mind you) would lift his fallen spirits. Still, being a
terror trouper from way back, go forth he did and, to his
amazement and surprise, discovered that Andy’s Gang hadn’t
done a half-bad job of it after all. In fact, he felt that ANDY
WARHOL’S DRACULA was so “on target” that we decided to
run his quickly-scripted story of that very same fright film here.

Arriving at a small Italian town, the Count undergoes severe withdrawal The decadent lamily’s Marxist gardener (Joe Dallesandro] The Count’s loyal, if arrogant, assistant journeys into town

2 pains while awaiting his wirgin blood fix. His assistant, however, man-
3 has been sharing the favors of two of the daughters
4 where he encounters much hostility in the person of a rude

^
ages to introduce him to an impoverished Italian nobleman (Vittorio (Dominique Darrell and Stefanie Carsini) and offers them peasant (Roman Polanski) who uses him for crude sport
DeSica) and his quartet of (hopefully) wirginal daughters. his thoughtful appraisal of the situation. T he assis tant makes some insulting retorts but PolanskL, *
s,

.Pi remains seated since he's too

short to want to stand up
on camera Considering
'

W.:., 5

how superior this lilm is

own FEARLESS
to his Fi. B
\^j
VAMPIRE KILLERS, its a
wonder he appeared
C M
JV
[vVm, in it at all. X -j&m.
Da Counts a creep
/"
and youse
is floozies. I

Come da l

revolution tt
So, make for us an offer. You would perhaps
an' you’ll ’
feel better if

all be up against l stood in a hole?

the wall.
Let's get it on.
^

While his henchman’s away, the

Count makes a play for one of the Never one to waste
nobleman's daughters words, Dracula gets But, as the hostile Marxist gardener could have
straight to the point told him, the daughter wasn't a wirgin at all, and
her tainted blood makes the count wiolently ill.

If Gak! 1

H Perhaps 4
'• zis
wampire
business
wirgin
never l isn’t
I've t
j
J even done right
f You are ,
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l quite sure 1
after all.
of zis?
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Zere is no,
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how you zay,
try 1

fiance? ,
4 zomething i

You haff
. anozzer
neveThad za vein.
I
> boyfriend?
'
You haff
never ridden
za bike?

The ailing Count and his worsening

condition spark little sympathy in the
heart of the hostile Marxist gardener.

pr But..^^i
can't we
£ discuss zis ,

like reasonable
( Y'can help
mj gentlemen! ^
•* yourself
up da stairs,
ya capitalist
creep! Oney
> place I'd >
help you up*
is against
j Oy. zis issjj
)
da wall. (. l

Whattaya'fc a terrible
country you
tink o’ that /
hall taken
dat, ya ...jk
aristocrat nj
me too.

IH But the Counts problems His fiendish jig up, the

9
Time passes and the
Count succeeds in using
another daughter
effort to slake his untoward
in an I
II
BP
suddenly multiply when he
overhears that the gardener
telling the family that Dracula
wampire.
H Count's assistant is con fronted
by the damaged daughters
understandably upsef mother.
is really a
lusts. Again he fails to find a
wirgin and winds up womiting
her unclean corpuscles into hearing zis 4
Hmm,
the family bathtub. information iss making
me very cross... und
zat iss not a word
I tend to use lightly, v

THE END! Und zo anozzer wampire bites za dust

und Andy Warhol makes anozzer million.
 page 24 The Monster Times The Monster Times page 25

“You’ve seen the movie, now read the comic!” That

suggestion has been made ever since enterprising comic book pub-
lishers began adapting popular films to an equally popular
four-color comic format over 35 years ago. And no movie comics
have found a greater audience than MONSTER movie comics,
as writer Ron Haydock explains in this, the first installment
of his eerily erudite series on horror comics.
a poor

M Bonster comics are everywhere

today. Even more than superhero
classic film terrors
STEIN, DRACULA,
like FRANKEN-
THE MUMMY and
Lugosi s horror serial THE PHANTOM
monster’s
KONG,
from the
screen to
the comic
lept

comics, monster comics from TOMB CREEPS, another Universal picture. book page.
OF DRACULA to SWAMP THING to KING KONG all well represented on Fiction House published own
their In KONGA
THE OCCULT FILES. OF DR. SPEK- the comic racks. series of movie comics beginning in #19(1964),
TOR are not only selling very well, but Although Fawcett Publications had 1946 but, except for a comic version from which
are being collected with a vengeance. actually pioneered the concept of a of the mystery movie BIG TOWN,
this illus-
single comic issue devoted to one tration was
One particular category of monster which was itself a version of the taken, the
comics, though, is seldom heralded, single film by regularly publishing original popular radio show of the angry ape
both FAWCETT MOVIE COMICS and Fox Comics published ROCKET-
and it should be— the monster movie time, Fiction House's MOVIE COM- exercised
comics. MOTION PICTURE COMICS in 1950, ICS are of little interest to monster SHIP X in 1951, and Charlton some of his
Published by Gold Key, Dell,
the idea of screen comics dates back and horror movie comic collectors. published THE THING in 1952. but consider-
able
Marvel, Charlton and National, to 1939, when National published six Fawcett’s line of movie comics, neither of these comics were movie muscle by
among issues of MOVIE COMICS. Each.issue adaptations. However, they may very
companies,
other special however; contains at least three titles battling
movie edition comic books are contained adaptations of current which are. again, worthy of any well have been inspired —
at least for Nazis, no
distributed at a time that specifically movies, and the very first issue, their titles— by two big hit movies less.
fantasy movie collection.
coincides with the respective movie’s published in April of that year, currently playing in theatres then:
featured none other than a comic ROCKETSHIP X-M and THE THING
initial theatrical release. Consequent- selves were only loosely tied to the published 23 issues each of KONGA
ly, many comics fans and collectors
book version of SON OF FRANKEN- ’(FROM ANOTHER WORLD). originalUniversal films about these and GORGO and eight issues of
1950. Fawcett published George
In
might not know that a movie edition STEIN, Universal's big horror film Dell Comics published their own monsters. At the time of this monster
with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Basil Pal s DESTINATION MOON, and then REPTILICUS. Reptilicus, however,
of any one particular film exists, followed it up the next year with movie-inspired comic with THE comic boom at Dell, though, the changed his name to REPTISSAURUS
Rathboneand Lionel Atwill. Nation- CREATURE in 1953. Copyrighted by company also reprinted their CREA-
simply because they didn’t chance to
al’s adaptation of SON OF FRANKEN-
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, another THE TERRIBLE with the third issue.
venture down to their favorite Pal film. Fawcett’s third entry was Universal Pictures. Dell's CREATURE TURE comic from ten years earlier. In GORGO #12 was a particularly
newsstand the one week that the STEIN was, in fact, particularly was obviously from the movie THE 1968, Gold Key also published a because it became a
unique
THE MAN FROM PLANET X in 1952. interesting issue
comic was on sale. With some rare for a movie comic story As with nearly all movie comics from CREATURE FROM THE BLACK movie-inspired comic. KING KONG. movie monster crossover issue when
exceptions, however, companies like because the film tale was not told in LAGOON, released that same year, In 1957, however, Dell did publish an Reptilicus roared into its pages.
all other publishers in the years to
Charlton have continued publishing artwork but in photos to which and while the comic story did adhere authentic movie version of another
come, Fawcett's DESTINATION But only the first issues of each of
additional comics based on one dialogue balloons and captions were
MOON, WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE to the gospel according to Universal, classic terror, THE HUNCHBACK OF these three Charlton monster titles
movie; the second issue and all then added. National's artists also
and THE MAN FROM PLANET X all Dell's CREATURE was not exactly a NOTRE DAME, from the film starring were the authentic movie adapta-
subsequent issues actually being colored in the otherwise black and featured color photos from the films literal adaptation of the movie. Still, Anthony Quinn and Gina Lollobrid- tions, with Steve Ditko handling the
sequels to the original first issue, white movie stills, and today this on the covers, and black and white the cover featured the infamous Gill gida. monster artwork of the first GORGO
which was the true movie adaptation. issue of MOVIE COMICS #1 is a movie photos on the inside covers. Man and, ten years later, Dell again Charlton Comics got on the and the covers of other issues.
For the most part, though, movie
'
highly-prized, much sought-after dipped into Universal archives to monster bandwagon by publishing
edition comics are one-shots, and there have been many outstanding collector's item. produce comics based on FRANKEN- movie comics of KONGA, GORGO
unless you keep a steady, watchful monster, horror and fantasy movie A very rare comic, the SON OF STEIN, DRACULA, THE WOLF MAN and REPTILICUS in 1960. Not content
eye on the stands and racks, you're comics published, as well as many FRANKENSTEIN issue will generally and THE MUMMY. with producing merely one issue of COMING NEXT!
science wmov
very likely to remain unaware of the worthwhile editions of western films, bring in prices that hover around fifty These comics all featured
Dell each monster title. Charlton went
fact that a new film has been adventure pictures and comedies. The dollars, more or less, depending on artwork of the famous Universal ahead and kept on publishing comics
published as a movie comic. sixties, in saw
a horror
fact, boom the condition of the copy. MOVIE characters on the covers— Boris about Konga, Gorgo and Reptilicus. MOVIE COMICS!
with the movies of Edgar Allen Poe COMICS #6, also published in 1939, Karloff as the Monster in FRANKEN- These were all sequel stories and
HISTORY OF HORROR and Ray Harryhausen, new releases is another rare item. This STEIN, or Lon Chaney as THE WOLF proved successful enough that, DON’T MISS IT!
During the past thirty-six years, like GORGO and REPTILICUS, and featured an adaptation of MAN — but again, the stories them- before it was all over, Charlton had

protagonist in Dreyer’s last film, we the dent. So after that, for each take David Gray tells the doctor that
fasten hungrily upon her. realize lengths that he’s being buried alive, we follow
GERTRUDE: “Life is a long
The quite Dreyer went to to insure this we arranged a false light by he’s losing too much blood during the burial procession through his
THE succession of dreams which glide
past one after the other."
film is
something of a suspension: made
by a Danish director on location
literally
very dislocation, we appreciate
anew the consistency and vision
directing a spotlight hung with a
black cloth on to the lens." This is
the "
transfusion the
conducting. The doctor replies,
doctor's own eyes as he lies within the
coffin. Nothing is seen in these

LECTURE What sort of man was this Carl

Dreyer? Certainly his work is
in Paris in three languages—
French, German, and English.
of the man. VAMPYR is not the
hopeless mish-mash of misty
why the film looks as if
everything were occurring in
“Don’t worry, I have it right
here," pointing to the bottle. The
two sequences that resorts to
fantastic make-up, camera trick-
SERIES crowded with witches, witch-
hunts and the dark shadows of
None of the sequences were shot
in
—
a studio 'everything seen is
images and incoherent plot borne
out of the mind of a hack
some kind of mist or haze. In fact,
the images seem to be dissolving
doctor, we remember, is himself
a vampire...
ery, or dramatic hyperbole.
experience simply the impact of
We
He only made
OF THE AIR the strange.
fourteen films from 1919 to 1965,
and nine of them were silent. His
real —
the hotel, the river landing,
the mill. The film on its surface is
filmmaker that yawning viewers
will claim. It is one of the great
away in the final scenes when
David and the girl are effecting
The acting is itself
None of the people in the film,
disjointed. dislocation: no longer do we gaze
into the eyes of a sweetly-dispo-
at first utterly normal. David films by a filmmaker who has their escape through the wood- save the possessed girl and her sitioned girl but into those of a
first sound film was VAMPYR, consistently demonstrated father, are portrayed by real mad, grinning thing; no longer do
Parts s
but before that he had already
richly established the tone and
Elderly vampire peers into the coffin
of her latest victim in Prof. Tibbetts’
own artistic rendition of a scene from
Gray arrives
He is
soft felt
a pale
at Courtempierre.
young man with a
hat and fishing tackle
dedication, craft and uncompro-
a

mising vision in all of his films.

land.
Halving thus dislocated, in
effect, the clarity of the image,
actors. The presence of so many
non-actors gives the acting style
we gaze upon the world from our
own eye level but from the level
theme of his filmic style. He was VAMPYR. Dreyer has commented on the he next sets out to dislocate the a kind of stilted, shambling
born in Copenhagen on February
over his shoulder. A man comes of a body being carried to burial
In this, the third installment of to his room and gives him a book filming of VAMPYR: “Usually clarity of sound. The film is in awkwardness that further con- in a coffin.
Professor John Tibbetts’ college 3, 1889 and was adopted by a curse she hurls at her persecu- one finds the definitive style of a three languages and the scraps of tributes to this vague feeling of
to be opened upon his death. The
lecture series on the horror film, puritanical Lutheran family that tors. His last film, GERTRUDE, man dies shortly thereafter and dislocation.
the good doctor turns a properly never let him forget what he portrays a woman who more or the book turns out to be a tract What Carl Dryer is doing is
dislocated critical eye to VAM- owed them. As a youth he less exhausts the men who come upon vampires. Other characters nothing less than breaking up the
PYR, Danish filmmaker Carl suffered the same kind of into her life— a classic suggestion show up: an old lady and a world, tearing
dark blossoms
Dreyer’s surreally sinister evoca- experience that Ingmar Bergman of the succubus. strange old doctor. One day a from their roots, so to speak,
tion of psychic disorientation, later did when he was shut away VAMPYR is based on a story
young woman is found with the disconnecting, tearing apart or
disquieting terror, and vampires. in a cupboard by his father to from a collection of stories called obscuring what we accept as
old lady bending over her. The
While some have dismissed the await the coming of the Devil. IN A GLASS DARKLY by J. old lady quickly disappears and real, and putting things more or
1931 classic as sloppy, confused With this sort of upbringing, it is Sheridan LeFanu, the great the young woman, a trance-
in less back together in a strange
and confusing. Prof. Tibbetts perhaps not difficult to under- master of the nineteenth century like state, is carried into the kind of fusion. This world of
explains why nothing could be stand why Dreyer remained ghost story. The story in hotel where she awakens later. dancing shadows, children's skel-
further from the truth as we step preoccupied with puritannical question here is called “Car- Ablood transfusion is given her etons on window sills, the scythe
into the subtly nightmarish cruelty and repression. His milla,” and was about a girl who by the old doctor. Later a grave of an old man silhouetted against
shadow world of Carl Dreyer and PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC falls prey to a beautiful vampire.
is opened,revealing the old the river, the flood of white flour scene from VAMPYR.
VAMPYR. deals with, as he called it, the The film pretty much drops the woman. A
stake is driven at the end, the occasional sounds
“perversion" of Joan’s death at strong lesbian overtones. These through her heart. The old of a bell from the deserted dock,
true stated
art, Carl the hands of the witch-hunters. show up only in the memorable doctor flees in terror but dies in is a world where the links have For me, most effective of all is
Dreyer in has as its
1955, DAY OF WRATH, the film that sequence when one of the sisters the old mill where someone has been snapped between motive David Gray’s little odyssey
function to "shock the soul.” The broke an eleven-year silence awakes from a trance a victim of started the gears releasing a and result, action and reaction. through the mill. The shadows
range of his films reveals a suffocating white flood of flour Yet all these things are natural dance upon the wall, variously
succession of witch-hunts, tor- upon him. things. Except for several scenes climbing shadow-ladders, playing
tures, vampires and dreams. Yet which feature the superimposi- a shadow-accordion, stamping
it is rare to hear his name Now if one approaches this tion of the old woman’s face (the upon a shadow-wooden leg. They
mentioned when the discussion film on its literal level, he is move and
chief vampire) over other se- revel all about
turns to matters of the horror puzzled, to say the least. We are David— with no discernible
quences, there is little technical
film. The fact is, the films of Carl used to dealing with things in trickery or resource to horrific or source th throw the shadows.
Shadows exhibit an e ! independence in the dislocated world of VAMPYR. terms of motivation. Everything
Dreyer make considerable de- sensational images. Instead, They exist independently on the
mands upon the viewer. There is dark and satanic have between and has an explanation or source or VAMPYR
the lifted inside outside, is a quiet film; more walls. This is the final disloca-
nothing sensational in his work— horror film into a special place between reality and
fantasy, cause. Similarly, every action has accurately, it is a disquieting tion, the final stroke, the final
The disoriented David Gray (Julian West) dreams of his own death and funeral.
none of the color and sex of the deserving of our attention. darkness and light, natural and some kind of discernible result. film. It is not a dark film so much shock to the §oul, that cleaves us
Hammer films, the Expression- The original introductory title supernatural." A film like VAM- VAMPYR, like any truly great film after a- few days. Here, we dialogue, even when translated as a gray film. The images are away from the waking world.
istic sarcasm of the Whale- of VAMPYR states: “There exist PYR, more than any other film exercise in horror, deliberately found it at once. We had begun in subtitles, are of little help in shrouded in mist, not to enhance When a figure appears and sits
directed features, or the Gothic certain predestined beings by Dreyer, illustrates how the sets such notions aside. Siegfried shooting on the film— starting their mystery but simply to drain on a bench, to be followed an
Kracauer has said that film tends
unscrambling the plot. He
irony of the Aldrich or Corman whose very lives seem bound by horrible in film comes out of this with the opening scene and — directed the actors to speak their them and events of their instant later by his shadow which
films. One’s first reaction to a invisible threads to the super- kind of shadowy balance of to induce a dreamlike state in the significance. This is why we feel then wanders away on its own,
alter one of the first screenings lines in three languages for
Dreyer film like VAMPYR or natural world. They crave darkness and light, natural and viewer, since it presents a
ol’ t.he rushes we noticed that one foreign distribution, whether
no incongruity at the various we fall back, a bit dazed. The
DAY OR WRATH or GER solitude. ..they dream. ..their im- supernatural. Think of it, as in succession of flow of images
of the takes was grey. We they could speak those languages
kinds of dislocations occurring. world, even of shadows, is out of
TRl-'DE might be one of restless agination is so developed that chemistry, as a suspension of beyond the viewer’s control. This is why the dream-like control, and there’s nothing we
Certainly this is the effect of
wondered wjiy, until we realized or not. This accounts for the
boredom: the characters talk a their vision reaches far beyond elements in a liquid, neither lassitude and dull apprehension can do about it. P
VAMPYR. Events here do not that a false light had been indistinctness of the words.
lot while the camera poises itself that of most men. David Gray's mixed nor precipitating. In the of the terror acts on one so much,
have explanations or causes: projected onto the lens. We Additionally, the lines are
motionless, the action is mea- personality was thus mysteri same way. our imaginations like a slow drug. The most
even their results are vague. thought about that take, the spoken softly and the worcs VAMPYR (1932) 65 min. Directed
sured and slow, and there is ous." This element of detachment achieve this same kind of Rare view of the wolfpack answering the vampire’s call in a scene effective scenes are those when
producer. Rudolph Mate and I, in make only a peculiar kind of by Carl Dreyer. Written by Dreyer
absolutely no compromise to- or suspension is essential to suspension. In a film like VAM- excised from the final print of Carl Dreyer’s VAMPYR. This kind of thing can be hard to the sister wakes up and we see
accept, admittedly; yet the relation to the style we were sense, as if the words weren’t and Christian Jui. With Julian
ward dramatic artifice. Never- Dreyer’s work, particularly in his PYR, we end up ourselves in by the snap in her eyes and the West, Sybille Schmitz, Henriette
the vampire and opens her eyes horror genre demands peculiar looking for. Finally we decided
theless, Carl Dreyer was one of excursions into the dark and a dreamlike stale, our credibility after VAMPYR, dealt with an old quite connected with meanings. snarl, slow
maddeningly in Gerard, Rena Mandel, Jean
to look at her sister. Her lips responses from the viewer and that all we had to do was An example of this sort of
the master filmmakers in the strange. Tom Milne has de and incredibility suspended. This woman's burning at the stake for coming, that she is possessed. Hieronmko, Maurice Schutz.
world and his delvings into the scribed it as “the tension is reflected in the words of the witchcraft and the subsequent draw back. in a snarl and her eyes VAMPYR is no exception. Once deliberately to repeat the acci- oblique dialogue occurs w'hen And when David dreams that
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Inveterate terror tube-watcher at Moonbase Alpa; Australian

Mark Carducci can recall only a actor Nick Tate as Commander
very few really fine sci-fi Alan Carter: Preston Hancock as
teleseries, even when he stops to Paul Morrow, Landau’s second-
think about it. No wonder then in-command; and Anton Phillips
that his heartfelt hopes were as Dr. Paul Mathias. Also in the
hoisted following the announce- cast of regulars are Clifton
ment that a high-budgeted Bri- Jones, Zienia Merton, Suzanne
tish sci-fi series, SPACE: 1999, Roquette, and Sarah Bullen.
was due to hit American airwaves * Among the directors who’ll

soon. Mark was fortunate enough be at the helm of various

to see a few segments from the episodes are Lee H. Katzin (THE
show in advance of its release
and reports on his findings here. Martin Landau, as Commander
Koenig, undergoes rapid aging
BY MARKCARDUCCI in BLACK SUN-the third epi-
sode of ITC’s SPACE: 1999
lFhe medium of television has series— a task that required the
given science-fiction fans pre- expert services of makeup maven
cious few series of significance in Basil Neval.
its short but prolific history. The
fervent fan, hard-pressed to
recall any really good shows,
finds a very short list indeed.
The losers come to mind more
quickly, perhaps because there
have been so many more of them.
Remember SCIENCE FICTION
THEATRE, produced by the
dean of sci-fi himself, Ivan
(FLIPPER) Tors? Or what about Landau relaxes as Neval goes to

LOST IN SPACE, VOYAGE TO COSMIC COUPLES occasionally left something to be after the moon’s displacement work . .

desired. It can be unequivocably destroys the Earth via tidal

THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, SPACE-: 1999 stars Martin
stated, however, that the quality
TIME TUNNEL, LAND OF waves and earthquakes. Sent
Landau and Barbara Bain, the
of the miniature and other effects speeding through the heavens on
THE GIANTS, ad nauseum? husband and wife team of
work in SPACE: 1999 will be on a dead world, the lunar survivors
Still, in spite of itself, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE fame.
such a high level that the show encounter all manner of arch
television has offered us one or Almost as large as STAR may be called a “2001 for the aliens and intergalactic alterca-
tube." The man responsible for tions.
the exacting realism of these Designing the costumes and
marvelous visuals is Brian sets for SPACE: 1999 is Keith the
...fitting actor with facial
Johnson, himself a part of the Wilson, a man whose undeniable mold...
effects team on Kubrick’s outer- talents have graced most of the
space eipc, 2001: A SPACE Andersons’ series. In conjunction
ODYSSEY. Brian’s apprentice- with Brian Johnson, he has
ship under Doug Trumbull and created some superb interiors
Wally Veevers, as well as his like the breathtakingly futuristic
work on other productions, has lunar command center— as well
taught him many tricks, and he’s as some awesome exteriors, like
had to use every one in order to the sprawling modular Moonbase
fulfill requirements
the of the Alpha. His efforts have netted
Theinterstellar stars of SPACE; 1999— Martin Landau (Commander John Koenig), 8art>ara more than 130 scripted special SPACE: 1999 sets worthy of a
Bam (Or. Helena Russell) and Barry Morse (Professor Bergman)— should be no strangers to effects shots in the pilot show big-budget’ sci-fi feature of the
Husband and wile team Landau and Bain formerly starred in MISSION:
avid. tube addicts.
IMPOSSIBLE, and Barry Morse was better known as Lieutenant Gerard on THE FUGITIVE a alone! first magnitude. From every
few years back.

two Our old friend Christopher Lee guest stars ifl the EARTHBOUND episode
truly outstanding shows. TREK’S itself, the fan following
oi' SPACE: 1999. Chris plays Captain Zant&or, one of five surviving
TWILIGHT ZONE, THE IN- of the Landaus should insure a aliens from the dying planet Kaldor.
VADERS and that unequaled built-in audience for this British-
brainchild of Joseph Stefano’s, made series. Gerry and Sylvia
THE OUTER LIMITS, are a few Anderson, the producers of
that immediately come to mind. U.F.O., CAPTAIN SCARLET,
And for sheer audience appeal,' and THE PROTECTORS, are
no science-fiction series has yet filming SPACE: 1999.
matched Gene Rodenberry’s This ominous fact shouldn’t
STAR TREK. One of the things worry anyone, though, because ...and Landau’s age doubles in
that made that series worthy of the Andersons have changed next to no time.
itsfollowing was its concept, one their tactics a bit this time,
that allowed the Enterprise to giving the new series room to
“explore strange new universes bfeathe. The first and obvious
SALZBURG CONNECTION, LE
and seek out new life and new change is their inclusion of heavy- MANS), Charles Chrichton
civilizations.” Within the limits of weights Landau and Bain in the (DEAD OF NIGHT, THE AVEN-
cast. With these two in the leads
GERS and THE PROTECTORS
Unidentified actress dons spicy outfit and
the acting won’t have that TV series), Ray Austin (TV’s
spacey gaze for her chores in a soon-to-be-
wooden, puppet-like quality that THE SAINT and MY PART-
characterized earlier live-actiion NER, THE GHOST), and David
Anderson series (undoubtedly a Tomblin (former producer of the
bad habit picked up by producing i much-admired THE PRISON-
too many puppet shows like
ER).
FIREBALL-XL5 and STING- LARGE LUNAR CHALLENGE standpoint, SPACE: 1999 shapes Whether or not all of the 24
up as a real feast for the color episodes of SPACE: 1999
RAY). The premiere episode of
For added space spice, each SPACE: 1999 offered a great famished science-fiction fanatic. soon to be released to the
episode of SPACE: 1999 will challenge to the ingenuity of The producers are optimistic
feature guest stars, many of Brian and his crew. Working about success, and with good
its

whom will be well-known to sci- with a far smaller budget than reason: they’ve done their jobs
ence-fiction and fantasy buffs. STAR TREK had, they were well. It remains only for the
The series’ first season promises expected to depict the develop- airing of the first episode to see
an exciting episode starring ments leading up to and whether the general public, and
Hammer veteran Christopher including the tearing away of the not just the hard-core fans, take
Lee, and another with Victor moon from its orbit around the the series seriously.
Frankenstein himself, Peter Earth. The cause of this was the ADDITIONAL INFO
Cushing! And even more brilliant detonation of a stockpile of * The budget for each hour-
that the stars of SPACE: 1999 nuclear waste on the lunar
long episode of SPACE: 1999 has
will be the elaborate special surface. The inhabitants of a city,
been set at $275,000. That figure
effects.Although special effects Moonbase Alpha, on the opposite represents the highest budget
in past Anderson series have side of the moon become the only
for an hour series ever allotted
usually been quite good, they human survivors in the universe by ITC (Independent Television
Corporation) in 20 years of pro-
Fearful of an imminent explosion, lunar
clear disposal area in BREAKAWAY, the
duction. The entire series will be
the adventures of 31 1 (count shot on only the best 35mm film
stock. According to ITC, "We
Roddenberry’s budget, his script- have more sets than any other
writers could use the entire television series has ever had
cosmos as a framing device for both interior and . exterior in- —
their plots. So with SPACE: Our old pal Peter Cushing puts in an ap-
cluding new planets and locations pearance on the GUARDIAN OF PIRI
1999, a forthcoming sci-fi TV in every episode.” ITC producers episode. Peter plays one of several aliens
odyssey from England. Instead can accomplish this by filming on a machine-dominated pleasure planet
of having a starship to carry called Piri.
the series in England, where
them through the galaxy, how- costs are less prohibitive. American syndication market
ever, the people of SPACE: 1999 * In addition to stars Martin liveup to their advance notices
travel the solar system on a
Landau and Barbara Bain, the remains to be seen. You’ll be abel
natural satellite kjiown to us all SPACE: 1999 crew will include to make up your own mind soon
the moon itself! Just how they do when 1975
Barry Morse (Lt. Gerard on the enough, though,
this makes up the better part of
FUGITIVE teleseries) as Profes- becomes SPACE: 1999, on the
the pilot film, a not-to-be-missed sor Victor Bergman, top tube at least.
scientist
hour of far-out space opera.
 page 28 The Monster Times

JOEL
UMAN
TELLS

“HOWTO
MAKE A

Monster movie fans contempla- actors who would be willing to wires to a 12-volt battery, and
ting the idea of making a fright work for a rather small salary. the bullet hit explodes.
^
film feature of their own would be Then came finding the various These bullet hits were taped to>
well-advised to read the following locations. The major ‘set’ of the special body armor, small discs of
articleand commit it to memory film was supposed to be an old very strong aluminum sheet
before embarking on their horrific winery in east Montreal. A large, which were themselves attached
venture. With a severely limited dark, spooky place... perfect for a to the girl. On top of each bullet
budget and generous doses of bad horror film. hit, a small plastic bag of
luck, Canadian independent film- Oman’s FIENDish characters draws men- Then I had to order the
acing bead on unseen victim in FIEND, a artificial blood was taped in
maker Joel Uman decided to make one-man feature film that has yet to see necessary special effects equip- place. Then the girl’s clothes
just such a film, which he titled release in the civilized world. ment and makeup. Even a simple went on top, concealing the
FIEND, and found adversity at thing like artificial blood couldn’t bullet hits and the blood. When
every turn. Still, against great me as soon as he got back. be found in Canada and had to be
the explosives are set off, they Deranged heroine prepares to do in unseen
odds, Joel did manage to get his later, there was
Three months ordered from Hollywood. For assailant in one of many fantasy sequences
tear open the plastic bags and from FIEND. The screaming scenes were
project completed, if not yet stillno word. I got fed up and some reason, the fake blood the blood spurts through the torn recorded at the actress's apartment and our
released. The following is his decided to make the film on my arrived six months late, prevent- clothing in a shockingly realistic intrepid filmmaker feared that someone
first-hand report about the terrors own. I gave up on shooting in ing us from starting the film on would call the cops in earnest, but thanks
manner, This was the same to public apathy, those fears were to prove
of making his first horror film 35mm. 16mm would be cheaper schedule and almost sabotaging technique they used in THE unfounded.
feature. and, besides, I owned my own the entire project, for the delay WILD BUNCH and BONNIE
16mm equipment and therefore carried us into the peak season AND CLYDE. settling asking her to scream at
During the winter of 1973, could save on rental costs. I cut for the winery, and they were Other scenes called for the girl the top of her lungs while I ran
with a cast of four and a crew of the budget drastically, but the working 24 hours a day. There to be stabbed. In this case the the tape recorder.. .unsettling
two (including myself), I began film called for much special was no way we could film in aluminum armor was again used, because I was sure someone in
directing my first feature-length but instead of a bullet hit taped the crowded apartment building
horror film. Entitled FIEND, it on top, the armor was covered would think a real murder was
was to be the gory story of a
beautiful girl who meets a
THIS GIRL IS ABOUT TO DIE. with soft pine. Then on top went being committed and would call
the cops! I had forgotten about
another sack of blood. When the
— and
mysterious dangerous-
man and finds herself trapped in SLOWLY. BRUTALLY. girl
clothing,
was stabbed through her
the knife tore the
public apathy;
stirred.
no one even

a bizarre world of torture and plastic bag, releasing the blood. Along with the plentiful
pain. Needless to say, it was a The knife then sticks into the soft screams were lots and lots of
very low-budget enterprise, and pine and can stay in place stabbing sounds, including the
one for which I was providing without the actor’s assistance. really gruesome sounds of
almost all of the money myself. The aluminum armor, of course, ripping flesh. Both were simu-
Because of multiple money protects the knife from actually lated by stabbing and ripping
problems, the film was shot in cutting the girl.
open a cabbage head with a
16mm rather than the usual In addition, many of these pocket knife!
35mm. And the low budget also scenes were filmed in slow At this point, with the film
dictated the small cast and crew. motion, which causes the blood to edited and the soundtrack mixed,
But just what was I dong spurt very slowly and sail
a final print was made. I thought
directing an 80-minute color through the air, making the the hardest part was over.. .but I
horror film under such difficult scenes all that much more was wrong. I still had to convince
circumstances? Well, for several a distributor to distribute
frightening.
years I had been trying to put FIEND.
Of course, all of this is very There was one very important
together a package— that is, a
time-consuming.. .as well as very fact of movie industry life that I
script, a cast, and a director—
expensive. And the final se- didn’t know before shot
that would interest some dis- I
quence would prove to be the FIEND, and it was to cause me
tributor and convince him to
most expensive of all: A wild car great problems later on. The
front the necessary production
chase through the winding and simple fact is that most distribu-
money. I had been working on
the script off and on for about a
year before it was ready. I was
IOLENCE! ACTION!
HE MOST VIOLENT FILM EVER MAOE!
hilly streets of Montreal, climax-
ing in a spectacular crash.
tors are not really interested in
pushing a film they weren’t
Normally, when shooting a car involved in during production. If
living in Montreal at the time and
took the script to a number of i. .MIX KUBRICK, PECKINPAH, LEONE, ANO chase, there are duplicates of they distributed my film, they’d
local distributors before finally If// FELLINI. ..AND YOU HAVE... each vehicle available. If one car only be providing competition for
spins out when it’s not supposed films in which they themselves
getting an enthusiastic response
from one of them. They liked
to — which happens all too fre- had invested. About the only
quently in anything as compli- distributors interested in inde-
the script very much, they
cated as a good chase— and is

FIEND!
assured me, but at the moment pendent productions are those
demolished before the script calls who haven’t invested in any films
were very busy with one of their for it, the second vehicle will be
own Could
productions. I come themselves. These are usually
substituted. But we couldn’t very small companies with little
back in about six weeks?
afford such luxuries, so if or no muscle in the industry and
Sure I could! I was excited by
anything went wrong, well, that therefore they don’t stand much
their interest, and what was six
would be the end of our chase. chance of giving the independent
weeks’ waiting after a year of The cars were a Falcon and a
work? Six weeks later, I went producer a very good outlet for
fright filmmaker yetc Vega. In the final scene, while his film.
back. Oh, we’re sorry, I was told,
taking a corner at 60 mph, the discovered this all too real
but we're still awfully busy. Why effects work and ended with an there at this time of the year. Vega skids, crashes, and blows
I

situation when I went to New

don't you phone us back in a exciting car chase and crash. ..all Disaster! The whole script had up. To show the explosion, York with a print of FIEND
been written around that loca- several large gunpowder bombs tucked under my arm. (Well, not
tion! So not only did I have to were placed in strategic locations
exactly tucked, as the print
find another place to stage those inside the car. On top of them
weighed about thirty pounds!) I
scenes, but I had to rewrite the were large plastic bags contain- had offers, but the distributors
script to fit the new location! ing several gallons of gasoline
who made them just weren’t big
So there I was, six months mixed with tar. When the bombs enough to do justice to the film.
late, shooting in the middle of a went off, they ignited the Only two options remained open
bitterly cold Montreal winter. At gasoline/tar mixture, causing the for me. I could distribute the film
times it was so bad that the spectacular fireball type of
by myself, which is a very
camera actually slowed down explosion so popular in the expensive and extremely tricky
from the cold, ruining the takes. JameS'Bond films.
operation, or I could go with
FILLING FIEND SOUNDS OF VIOLENCE regional distributors. These
WITH FEARSOME SCENES small companies only distribute
Next came the tedious dubbing to a small section of the country,
The film was filled with job. Most large budget films have and you have to put up the cost of
stabbings and shootings, necessi- allthe dialogue recorded at the
the prints yourself. They show
tating much special effects work. same time as the picture is being the film at one or two test
Most of these scenes occur filmed— only sound effects are theaters, judge what kind of
during various fantasy sequences added later. As an ,economy audience the film attracts, screen
which represent the hallucina- measure, however, I chose to dub the film at another theater
A cinematic blood shortage resulted in a six-month shooting delay, one of many tions of the drugged heroine. In the entire film. Every separate
monstrous complications for which the would-be independent filmmaker has to be catering to that group, make a
prepared. Horror films can provoke a good deal of fear behind the scenes as well. one scene the villain— the sound effect, every word of little money, use that money to
—
FIEND of the title shoots the dialogue, had to be recorded and
set tip a further showing, and so
couple of weeks? of which are expensive things to girl repeatedly at point-blank then edited to fit the film. This on. A film might take two years
Several weeks later, they stage. Nevertheless, I * was range. To show the wounds on proved to be a painstaking to cross the country in this way.
announced it was nice to hear determined not to .cut back on the girl, special explosive devices process, since every word must But that’s really the only avenue
from me again, and that they thisaspect of the film. After all, called bullet hits were ordered match the actors’ lips exactly. open to me. So although you’ll
wanted me to meet the head of horror and action were what from Hollywood. Smaller but There were numerous screams probably get to see FIEND
the company to discuss my
. FIEND was supposed to be all more powerful than a firecrack- and groans in FIEND, and I eventually, don’t hold your
script. The only trouble was that about. er, each bullet hit has two wires recorded these at the heroine's breath waiting. It may be quite a
he was in Europe; they’d phone The next problem was finding leading from it. Connect the apartment. It was rather un- while.

AND LIVE TO TELLTHE

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Even though IT bit the airless dust and died an ignoble death at the conclusion of the film, we at
TMT will always remember him as we see him here: a tall, imposing monster of impeccable bearing
and unparalleled ferocity who asked only for a little room to breathe. You may think us sentimental
old fools for saying that, but there you have it and there you go.

THE GREEN SLIME (1969) invaded involving Ann’s switch of affections from
Gamma One, while a vampire woman from Van Heusen to Carruthers emerging
another world wrought havoc on a space- toward the end of the film. The script is
ship in Curtis Harrington’s QUEEN OF intelligent and the characters are realistic.
BLOOD (1966). In DESTINATION: Technical contributions are similarly
INNER SPACE (also ’66), an amphibious impressive: fine, crisp black and white
creature from an underwater flying photography by Kenneth Peach, Sr., an
saucer attacked scientists in a research appropriately thrilling and atmospheric
lab. Also, many episodes of the defunct musical score by Bert Shefter and Paul
Irwin Allen teleseries VOYAGE TO THE Sawtell, and an authentic-looking array of
BOTTOM OF THE SEA dealt with vari- interior spaceship sets under the art direc-
ous monsters— including a deadly Lobster- tion of William Glasgow and set
Man— causing destruction on board the decoration by Herman Schoenbrau.
submarine Seaview. None of these, how- Special effects, although hardly FORBID-
ever, even approached the breathless DEN PLANET or 2001 vintage and
excitement and claustrophobic horror limited by the film's relatively low budget,
attained in IT! THE TERROR FROM are professionally handled under the cir-
BEYOND SPACE. IT! proved that a film cumstances. The Martian terrain and the
need not have a big budget, color stock, spaceship lift-off, glimpses of the
name stars or a long running-time in order “Challenge 142” traveling through the
to be effective. Unlike so many overblown starry reaches of interplanetary sp&ce.
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sues ol DC comics, 1965
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silhouette, as when it stumbles blindly oblivion to which it has seemingly been 254-4449. Old and new
through the present. Send Stamps (54) in lull color cents. Marsha Brand*
comics and fantasy We on one perforated sheet
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of catalog price for original envelope. Rare.
catch glimpses of it, though, the overall comics in mint condition.
Legg". 4972 Prieto Dr
For Sale- Creepy and
Warrington. FLA 32506.
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impressively fearsome and horrible-
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looking monsters ever seen in motion Dabbs Greer- (Eric Royce), Ann Doran (Mary lobby cards, poslers. Marvels black and white
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Carney (Kienholz). Ray "Crash" Corrigan (AAlt").
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