Monthly Archives: July 2010

Paul Meehan: Forthcoming Book Horror Noir

July 19th, 2010 | Posted in horror, noir, Paul Meehan

My friend and TheoFantastique contributor Paul Meehan has completed his work on his forthcoming book Horror Noir: Where Cinema’s Dark Sisters Meet (McFarland, 2010). From the publisher’s website: This critical survey examines the historical and thematic relationships between two of the cinema’s most popular genres: horror and film noir. The influence of 1930s- and 1940s-era […]

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Popular Science: Evolution and Dragons

July 18th, 2010 | Posted in dragons

The website for Popular Science magazine has an interesting brief piece titled “If Evolution Had Taken a Different Turn, Could Dragons Have Existed?” The article notes that several of the features of dragons are found in various animals, just not all of them in a single creature. And although it would have taken several interesting […]

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Gargoyles: Disney Making Live-Action Film

July 17th, 2010 | Posted in Disney, gargoyles

I learned through a link to my blog from The Grimm Tea Party that Disney Studios has a live-action film on gargoyles in the works. A few websites are reporting on this, including The Hollywood Reporter, which states that The studio is in the process of hiring Zoe Green to develop a story revolving around […]

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Cryptozoology: Chupacabra Killed in Texas?

July 14th, 2010 | Posted in Chupacabra, cryptozoology, monsters

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Has the legendary, blood-sucking monster, El Chupacabra, been shot and killed in Texas? The Discovery Channel’s description of Chupacabra: Mysterious animal deaths sparked mass hysteria on the small island of Puerto Rico. In 1992, Puerto Rican newspapers reported a series of strange killings […]

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MAKE-UP ARTIST magazine: Universal Studios Horror Features

July 11th, 2010 | Posted in horror, Universal Pictures

A perusal of the magazine rack at Barnes & Noble last week was rewarded with the find of Make-Up Artist magazine, Number 85 (July/August 2010). Two articles were of special interest to me. The first is related to the first photo accompanying this post of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. The Creature is is […]

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Cinefantastique Online: House of Usher – A 50th Anniversary Review

July 8th, 2010 | Posted in 1960s, Edgar Allan Poe, horror, Vincent Price

My contribution to Cinefantastique Online‘s 50th anniversary reviews and retrospectives from films of 1960 is now available as I look at House of Usher (alternatively The Fall of the House of Usher). This film was a pleasure to revisit as one of my favorites growing up. Roger Corman excelled with a series of horror films […]

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Roswell: Happy Anniversary

July 6th, 2010 | Posted in aliens, UFOs

No adequate consideration of American cultural celebrations for the month of July would be complete without a mention of Roswell, New Mexico. In July 1947 on a rancher’s land near the small city of Roswell, an event took place that would give birth to one of the greatest mysteries which would fuel UFO mythology and […]

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Coming Attractions

July 5th, 2010 | Posted in horror, vampire, zombie

In the near future I will be interacting with the authors or editors of several books. To begin this process, I have mentioned this book in the past but am slow to finally read the volume. I have just begun Stephen Asma’s On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears (Oxford University Press, 2009): […]

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