Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein is, without a doubt, my most anticipated movie of the year. I simply cannot think of a more perfect marriage of filmmaker and subject. Like Del Toro, my fascination with the mad doctor and especially his creation has been a lifelong obsession. Over the past few years, I have taken on […]
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The Curse of Frankenstein will be released on 4K Ultra HD on October 13 via Warner Archive. Based on Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein, the 1957 monster movie is the first in Hammer Films’ seven Frankenstein films. Three versions of the film have been newly restored in 4K with HDR and Dolby Atmos audio: the US theatrical […]
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Some people seem to fit multiple lifetimes’ worth of experience into one. Christopher Lee was one of these. Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born 100 years ago on May 27, 1922 to Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Lee and the Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini Lee. The actor who would later become world famous for playing Dracula joked […]
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It seems that every decade or so the horror genre is declared dead only for a groundbreaking film to come along and resurrect it. In the late 1950s, that film was The Curse of Frankenstein. The “death” of horror is always hyperbole, often merely declaring the end of a particular trend within the genre, but […]
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