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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Universal Studios release Dracula starring Bela Legosi. It was a box-office success, and the first in a series of films featuring macabre characters and chilling atmospherics. Neibaur reviews the key horror films that Universal produced into the mid-1950s, provided production information, critical commentary, and an overall assessment of the movie's significance. He also examines their impact on popular culture, into the cinemas of today....
Author
Series
Escapades of Clint McCool volume 1
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
89 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Imaginative Clint McCool goes on a fact-paced adventure and runs into trouble on a film set, which threatens to keep him from saving the day.
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1945, war is reigning in the Pacific Rim while Syms Thorley continues his life as a B-movie actor. But the Navy would like to use Thorley in their top-secret Knickerbocker Project, putting the finishing touches on the ultimate biological weapon: a breed of gigantic, fire-breathing, mutant iguanas. Thorley must don a rubber suit that will transform him into the merciless Gorgantis, and star in a film that simulates the destruction...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"If you love film that scares, and want to believe that zombies, vampires, and other deadly and terrifying creatures could be real, let Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence take you to the world where horror and science meet. How would a zombie really decompose in Night of the Living Dead? What is the science behind the night terrors that inspired the creation of Freddy Krueger? How does modern medicine and therapy differ from what would have been offered...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
When a plane carrying an atomic bomb crashes over the Arctic Ocean, the explosion unleashes Gamera, a 200-foot-long fire-eating turtle. He is hungry for destruction and not about to be stopped, until he reaches Tokyo, where a small boy forms an odd connection with him, allowing authorities to unleash 'Plan Z'.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (68 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A well-meaning scientist, driven mad by his greedy bosses, seeks his revenge in the only way he knows how, by breeding a race of devil bats to do his sinister bidding. The town's only hope is a reporter who investigate the deaths.
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[Special edition].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (215 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The curse Of The Aztec Mummy: The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor's lover, Dr. Almada, his assistant, and wrestling superhero, El Angel. Krupp finally meets his match, however, when he comes up against Popoca, the warrior mummy...
11) Godzilla
Series
Criterion collection volume 594
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages : black and white photographs ; 19 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.
Series
Code red volume 198
Publisher
Code Red
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Professor Wassermann is asked by industry magnate Morgan Hunnicut to lead an expedition to study the giant Yeti creature found frozen in a large ice block.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Perfection, Nevada, Burt finds that the town has been turned into a tourist attraction, complete with simulated giant worm attacks. A phony attack turns real when the Graboids return. This time the Graboids are mutating into something far more lethal and virtually indestructable.
15) The mole people
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 78 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of archaeologists stumble upon a race of albinos living under the earth who are afraid of light of any kind and keep mutant humanoid mole men as their slaves.
16) Konga
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After discovering a potion in the jungle that makes plants grow to ten times their normal size, Dr. Decker returns home to England to give the brew to his lab companion, Konga, a baby chimp. He uses Konga to murder his many enemies but eventually the ape overdoses on the serum and grows to gargantuan size and attacks London.
17) I sell the dead
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It was a time of ghouls and most ghastly of all, the fine art of grave-robbing. Arthur Blake is a 19th century corpse snatcher, who pilfered the cemeteries and coffins of England until his capture by police. But just before Blake is to meet the hangman's noose, he will confess to a peculiar priest his gruesome tale of vampires, zombies, and cadaver-dealing that takes him from the savagery of the criminal underworld to the terrors of the undead.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 6 hr., 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scorpion King: Mighty Memnon rules over nearly all the known world, who defeats his enemies in battle with the help of a beautiful sorceress. "Free tribes" form a fragile alliance to fight Memnon, and hire a trio of assassins to kill the sorceress and thus remove Memnon's advantage. The assassins are betrayed by the son of one of the tribal leaders, and Mathayus finds himself unable to kill Cassandra. Mathayus abducts the sorceress, who explains that...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
12 DVDs (approximately 33 hrs.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes all 70 classic TV episodes and the two frighteningly funny feature-length movies - The Munsters' Revenge and Munster, Go Home! - plus lots of bonus features.
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