2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 6: Wolf Blood (1925)
6. SQUEAKY REELS: [whispers] This one came out in 1925. Shhhhh! Star George Chesebro co-directed this with Bruce Mitchell, and after the 1913 film The Werewolf, it would be the second werewolf movie ever made. It’s also more adventure than horror. Dick Bannister (Cheesebro) is the new field boss of the Ford Logging Company, which […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Maciste in Hell (1925)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Upton is an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor in London. She currently works as a freelance ghostwriter of personal memoirs and writes for several blogs on topics as diverse as film history, punk rock, women’s issues, and international politics. For links to her work, please visit https://www.jennuptonwriter.com or send her a Tweet @Jennxldn Maciste, played by […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: The Lost World (1925)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on October 5, 2021. Adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel, The Lost World is most famous for its stop motion special effects, which were created by Willis O’Brien and predate his work on the original King Kong. In some prints of this film, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 19: The Unholy Three (1925)
The first of eight movies that Lon Chaney would make with director Tod Browing (The Blackbird, The Road to Mandalay, London After Midnight, The Unknown, The Big City, West of Zanzibar and Where East Is East are the others), Tweedledee (Harry Earles) is a small man who leaves the circus when he assaults a young heckler and starts a riot. He’s […]
FANTASTIC FEST: The Lost World (1925)
Adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel, The Lost World is most famous for its stop motion special effects, which were created by Willis O’Brien and predate his work on the original King Kong. In some prints of this film, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself appeared in the opening, introducing what audiences were about to see. […]
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