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The Giant Gila Monster
Last Halloween, we brought you a blog post on The Killer Shrews, a low-budget horror movie shot in Dallas, Texas, and released in 1959. What is the film’s connection to the American Heritage Center? We hold the papers of Forrest … Continue reading
Posted in Horror, Motion picture actors and actresses, motion picture history, science fiction
Tagged Attack of the Crab Monsters, film, film history, Forrest J. Ackerman, Godron McLendon, movie, movie history, movie posters, movies, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Ray Kellogg, science fiction, science fiction movie, Tarantula!, The Giant Gila Monster, The Killer Shrews, Them!
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Attack of the Killer…Shrews?
With it being the Halloween season, it seems appropriate to take note of a gruesome creature of movie land that may have haunted our dreams, or is kitschy enough to have made us roll our eyes in disbelief. You’ve heard … Continue reading
Posted in Current events, events, Fantasy, Holidays, Horror, Motion picture actors and actresses, motion picture history, Pop Culture, popular culture, science fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Entertainment industry, film, film history, Halloween, Holidays, movie, movie history, movie posters, movies, popular culture, science fiction movie, The Killer Shrews
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A Friendship Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick and Gerald Fried
Gerald Fried, a Julliard trained composer for television and film, began performing music in his Bronx neighborhood during the 1940s. There he met Stanley Kubrick, who would go on to become a celebrated film director, screenwriter, and producer. Kubrick and … Continue reading
Terror in the Theater – Fifties Fears
Science fiction films of the 1950s commonly expressed several themes: fear of technology leading to unintended consequences; invasion of the planet by aliens; and the effects of atomic radiation. Because science fiction movies were not constrained by reality, more imaginative … Continue reading
Posted in Cold War, Fantasy, Horror, motion picture history, Politics, Pop Culture, popular culture, science fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Cold War, Entertainment industry, film history, Forrest Ackerman, Forrest J. Ackerman, movie posters, popular culture, science fiction, science fiction movie
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Cat Women of the Moon: When Felines Attack!
I’ve been beginning blog posts recently by writing about this or that gem that I found in the Forrest J. Ackerman Collection. After watching enough movies and looking through the artifacts that are in the collection I’m starting to realize that … Continue reading
The Wasp Woman: A Makeover Gone Murderous
One of my favorite “B” movies from the 1950s is a film called The Wasp Woman, released in 1959. The film is about a woman named Janice Starlin who is the CEO of a cosmetics company. As she is quickly … Continue reading
Forbidden Planet: An Exceptional Specimen of ‘B Movie’ Ingenuity
I recently had the pleasure of watching Forbidden Planet, a science-fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox and released in 1956. A young Leslie Nielsen plays a space captain (Commander J.J. Adams) who is directed to a planet to hopefully … Continue reading
Science Fiction and Gender in the 1950s
The portrayal of gender in science fiction is a fascinating and sometimes overwhelming topic of discussion. As science-fiction is often referential and sensitive to the time period it was written and portrayed in, it is far from being just fantasy … Continue reading