Tag: Robert Armstrong

• Monsters Suspended animation The New Man Zombies

  

  The Mad Ghoul

  Universal horrors in the forties were not only Wolf Men and Frankensteins. This 1943 low budget entry is a standalone feature, and it’s not bad. It’s subject matter is rather gruesome, but it cleverly bypasses the Hays Code. An early zombie movie, it does suffer from a thin script and…

  December 17, 2019
• Apemen/Neanderthals Giant monsters Lost world Monsters

  

  King Kong

  Larger than life in every aspect, the original King Kong was a juggernaut, as loud, daring and unstoppable as its titular monster, it crashed into cinemas in 1933 and has refused to leave ever since. Willis O’Brien’s revolutionary stop-motion work, a multitude of amazing visual tricks and Fay Wray’s legendary…

  February 21, 2019