Big V Riot Squad: Halloween

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The Phantom of the Opera -- October 30, 2024

San Francisco Examiner, 26-October-1980

Halloween is coming.

My fiancée, who is now my wife, and I used to go to San Francisco's Avenue Theater, on San Bruno Avenue, where Bob Vaughn accompanied silent movies on the Mighty Wurlitzer every Friday night.

Every year around Halloween, the Avenue showed The Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney. We went just about every year, so we probably attended this showing.

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Special Halloween Spook Show Tonite at 11:15 PM -- October 29, 2024

Chatanooga Daily Times, 31-October-1949

The Capitol Theater in Chatanooga and the Liberty in Chickamauga both offered a "Special Halloween Spook Show." The feature attraction was Robert Florey's 1946 film The Beast With Five Fingers, Peter Lorre played an astrologer. I like the picture.

Monday, October 28, 2024

Gala Halloween Show -- October 28, 2024

Victoria Advocate, 31-October-1949

Victoria, British Columbia's El Rancho and Rita Theaters both had had Halloween shows at 11:15pm on Halloween night, but only the El Rancho's was a "Gala Halloween Show." On the other hand, customers at the Rita got a "Halloween Show!" with an exclamation point. Subtle differences.

I don't remember The House Across the Street. The Monster Maker was a typical PRC (Pretty Rotten Crap) release.

Sunday, October 27, 2024

A Double Shock Program -- October 27, 2024

Kansas City Times, 31-October-1949

Halloween is coming.

This ad for Kansas City, Missouri's Regent Theater promises us a Halloween show with "A Double Shock Program," but doesn't tell us what features they were showing. That's crappy, but at least they offered free coffee and doughnuts after midnight.

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Guns! Ghouls! Gags! Gals! -- October 26, 2024

Bellville Daily Advocate, 01-October-1949

Halloween is coming.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello teamed up in burlesque and went on to Broadway and the radio. In the 1940s, they made a series of popular comedies for Universal. Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (Heck of a title) was an attempt to reproduce the success of 1948's Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was better.

Friday, October 25, 2024

The Frankenstein Monster in The Asylum of Horror -- October 25, 2024

Hagerstown Daily Mail, 01-October-1924

Halloween is coming.

Frankenstein's Monster made a personal appearance at Hagerstown's Warner Brothers' Maryland Theater. He was part of The Asylum of Horror, a horror/comedy show starring magician Dr Silkini (Jack Baker). The monster was played by Art Dorner, who was said to have doubled for Karloff in the Universal Frankenstein films.

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Contraband Magazine -- October 23, 2024

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Halloween is coming.

When I was young, I read Warren Publishing magazines like Famous Monsters of Filmland and Vampirella. I brought this issue of Famous Monsters to Saint Monica's to show my friends at recess and my seventh grade teacher confiscated it.

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Paulette Goddard -- Halloween, 2023 -- October 31, 2023

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Happy Halloween, everyone. Paulette Goddard was remarkably beautiful.

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Friday, October 27, 2023

Famous Monsters of Filmland -- Mystery of the Wax Museum -- October 27, 2023

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Halloween is coming.

When I was young, I read Warren Publishing magazines like Famous Monsters of Filmland and Vampirella. I remember reading that The Mystery of the Wax Museum was a lost film. Then someone found it and I saw it on television, in two-color Technicolor. Fay Wray was the leading lady and Lionel Atwill was the bad guy.

Monday, October 31, 2022

Virginia Nicolson -- Halloween, 2022 -- October 31, 2022

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Happy Halloween, everyone. Actress Virginia Nicolson was the first wife of Orson Welles. She appeared in his amateur film "The Hearts of Age" and his semi-pro film "Too Much Johnson."

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Red Eyes -- October 26, 2022

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Halloween is coming.

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Veronica Lake -- Halloween, 2021 -- October 31, 2021

Happy Halloween, everyone. Actress Veronica Lake is playing a witch, which seems appropriate for the star of Rene Clair's I Married a Witch.

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing -- October 20, 2021

Washington Evening Star, 28-October-1962

Halloween is coming.

I never saw it, but I have read about a famous Halloween episode of Route 66 which featured Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and "Lon Chancey, Jr."

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Saturday, October 31, 2020

Carole Lombard -- Halloween, 2020 -- October 31, 2020

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Beautiful and funny actress Carole Lombard poses for a Halloween photo. As far as I know, she appeared in only one horror film, 1933's Supernatural. Great poster.

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Friday, October 30, 2020

Frankenstein, 1910 -- October 30, 2020

Edison Kinetogram, 15-April-1919

Halloween is coming.

The first actor to play Frankenstein's Monster in a movie was Charles Ogle, in the 1910 Edison Frankenstein. When I was young, this movie was thought to be lost.