Last Friday on this blog I presented an article saluting several of the most iconic horror movie masks. My first pick chronologically was the “Red Death” costume Lon Chaney’s Erik dons in 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera. As chilling…
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Ask most people what the Frankenstein Monster looks like, and they’ll mention a green-skinned behemoth with a flat head, surgical scars on his forehead, and bolts on the sides of his neck. It matters little that this isn’t close…
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They’re the most recognizable cinematic creatures in history, the Universal Monsters! The Wolf Man, Frankenstein, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. These are characters who have embedded themselves…
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Lon Chaney‘s greatest role was as Erik, the scarred fiend lurking in the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera House who serves as an unseen mentor to beautiful Swedish soprano Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin), in the classic 1925 silent adaptation of…
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