This
site is a tribute to the monster films I watched at the movies as a
kid. |
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Links to Frankenstein Information: |
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Frankenstein I don't
know anybody that isn't afraid of the Frankenstein Monster! |
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Links to Vampire Information: |
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Dracula and Vampires Ever since I was a kid I thought Vampires were cool. They would float through the night as mist, or come as a wolf - they had powers brought on by the bite of the Master Vampire. Sleeping by day and coming out at night to feed on human blood, the vampire's biggest foe was sunlight. Bram Stoker wrote the book "Dracula" - a story of a Master Vampire who was an ancient Count in Transylvania. The real Count Vlad Dracula was a Romanian Monarch also know as Vlad the Impaler because he impaled his enemies on spikes. Vampires fear the crucifix, silver bullets, wooden stakes through the heart, and garlic so legends say, and are immortal. |
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Links to Creature from the Black Lagoon Info: |
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Creature from the Black Lagoon While the movie "Jaws" scared lots of people from swimming, I was already scared to swim after seeing this move! An unknown catalyst or evolutionary change created the reptilian Creature from the Black Lagoon, and a group of scientists exploring the Amazon stumbled upon this monster in South America. The creature took a fancy to a lady in the group and made several attempts to stalk and capture her, but eventually the party was able to rescue the lady and drive the monster back into the deep. I used to swim down at the river as a boy, and I always would think of the scene where the monster's claws were touching the woman's toes as she swam unsuspectingly above him - and then I would get scared and get out of the water! |
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Links to Werewolf Information: |
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The Werewolves The Wolfman was a movie based on the legend of the werewolf - a man bitten on the night of a full moon by a magical wolf. From then on the man would change into a werewolf beast on the nights of the full moon. The only thing that could stop the werewolf was a silver bullet shot into it's heart. Every victim bitten by the werewolf would become a werewolf as well - just as the victims of vampires became vampires themselves. The werewolf posseses great strength and all the senses of the wolf. |
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Links to Mummy Information: The Mummy Returns New 2002 The Curse of the Mummy and Howard Carter The Universal Classic Movie Collection on DVD |
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The Mummy Thousand of years ago The Mummy was killed and embalmed by a Pharoah of ancient Egypt, and a curse was put upon his soul. Centuries later when his tomb was discovered in modern times he was revived and used as a zombie killer to do his evil master's bidding. A dead corpse, dressed in decaying moldy rags, the monster would shuffle slowly through the night stalking it's victims. Nothing would kill the mummy except fire - and even that had to be accompanied by a magic spell to cast out the dark curse on his soul. Once relieved of the curse, the mummy could return to it's grave. |
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Links
to Invisible Man Information:
H.G. Wells' "The Invisible Man" The Hotspot Online Review 1933 Scifi.com Invisible Man Home page "The Hollow Man" 2000 GraphicClassics.com H.G. Wells H.G. Wells 1866 - 1946 UniversalStudios.com "The Invisible Man" |
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The Invisible Man The H.G. Wells classic about a doctor experimenting with chemicals, who accidentlly discovers a serum that makes him invisible. While it wasn't that scarey, this movie was intriguing and it made all of us wonder what it would be like to be invisible! The potion eventually made the doctor go crazy, and he ran crazy through the countryside terrorizing people. The original film was made in 1933 but a television show and a similiar version in modern times entitled "The Hollow Man" was made in 2000. |
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