Tag Archives: Lon Chaney Jr.

Universal Pictures had such success with its horror movies that the logical assumption was the more monsters, the merrier. Starting in 1943, with the release of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Universal embarked on a series of creature-crossovers, in which ...

Back in the early 80s, when I was in Junior High, there was a Boston institution called The Creature Double Feature—a Saturday afternoon double feature of classic horror films, on a local TV channel, through which many a young person ...

With a moody opening that sings high with 1990s aesthete sensibility (the Columbia Pictures logo being swamped by oppressive clouds then fading into a pre-title sequence that resembles Tim Burton’s 1989 film Batman in a sense – which became a ...

  Comedy and horror have forever gone hand in hand; the whole adage of laughing/screaming and the physical response paralleled and shared between being terribly frightened and in absolute hysterics is something that filmmakers throughout the years have been attracted ...

Spider Baby is a weird, weird film. An anomaly in the late ‘60s, that was directed and written by Jack Hill (Switchblade Sisters, Foxy Brown, Pit Stop, Coffy) and starred Lon Chaney, Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker, Beverly Washburn, ...

 Details Director: Jack Hill Starring: Lon Chaney, Jr., Sid Haig, Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker, Beverly Washburn, Mantan Moreland Type: B&W Year: 1968 Language: English Length: 85 min Aspect Ratio: 1.67:1 Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Resolution: 1080p Audio: LPCM 2.0 Subtitles: ...