Lon Chaney, Jr. news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Lon Chaney, Jr. performances. According to Wikipedia: Lon Chaney, Jr. was an American character actor, well-known mainly for his roles in monster movies and as the son of...
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Lon Chaney, Jr. news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Lon Chaney, Jr. performances. According to Wikipedia: Lon Chaney, Jr. was an American character actor, well-known mainly for his roles in monster movies and as the son of Lon Chaney. He was born Creighton Tull Chaney, began acting under that name, and was first credited as "Lon Chaney, Jr." only in 1935, as a studio marketing ploy by a small production outfit.
There is a geography in my mind as real as that around me -- a geography based in film. In locations, real, created, or recreated in film and television - a fictional landscape that also makes sense to me. Maybe more sense than the real world. In all the noir study I did for World Gone Wrong I mapped out the city of Los Angeles in my head from the dozens and dozens of films I watched that were shot in that city from 1941-1958. There is a very real L.A. in my head that is stuck in a endless... Read Full Story
Today The Vault of Horror marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of the great Lon Chaney Sr. How fitting indeed that April Fool's Day would be the birthday of Hollywood's greatest illusionist. Born Leonidas Frank Chaney on April 1, 1883, he would go on to become the single greatest celebrity of the silent film era, with only Charles Chaplin being a possible exception. He was best known for his incredible skill with makeup--so much so that he even wrote an entry on the subject for the... Read Full Story
The Wolf Man ’s most lasting influence–beyond the advantages of using Larry Talbot as a synonym (Pynchon did it in Vineland ) and the endlessly suffering protagonist–has to be the music. I noticed parts both John Williams (for The Empire Strikes Back ) and Danny Elfman (for Batman Returns ) lifted. The music is an essential part of the film, as many of Lon Chaney Jr.’s scenes are almost silent film style solo ones, where Chaney visualizes his internal turmoil.
Director Waggner’s style... Read Full Story
Spider Baby might not be “the maddest story ever told,” but it comes somewhat close.
The film’s a strange mix of haunted house, 1950s sci-fi and cartoon humor–I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a live action cartoon; it’s like “Scooby Doo” on expired sleeping pills. It opens with that 1950s sci-fi introduction, the erudite gentlemen addressing the camera. Here it’s Quinn K. Redeker, who maybe doesn’t do the erudite well, but is a solid and likable leading man for the picture... Read Full Story
I thought I'd point out today that James Cagney's excellent Lon Chaney biopic The Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) is being released to DVD tomorrow. The late Cagney classic has been out of circulation since 1998, when it was initially released at the dawning of the digital video age. Since then, it's become very hard to come by, so if you've never seen it, nows your chance. Although in my opinion the finest leading man of the Hollywood studio era, Cagney grew weary of the endless gangster... Read Full Story
(via AICN ) This is an interesting story and one that I hope is true. It broke, more or less, on the Horror Drunx website today, in a post by “Sid Terror” and tells the hugely-detailed and highly entertaining tale of his stumbling upon a print of this long-lost Tod Browning-Lon Chaney classic in a Hollywood vault back in the late 80’s, fully intact and in good condition.
What happens after this and why isn’t this restored film sitting on my DVD shelf right now? Well, I won’t spoil the... Read Full Story
In some very encouraging news regarding an upcoming project I've been following with great interest, Sir Anthony Hopkins has signed to play the role of Sir John Talbot, father to the lycanthropic Larry Talbot, in Universal's remake of The Wolf Man . Hopkins himself confirmed the rampant rumors during an interview for his new film Slipstream , indicating that he would be taking on the part made famous by Claude Rains in the 1942 original. He will be playing alongside fellow Oscar-winner... Read Full Story
Sen. Joe Bidden has made some odd pronouncements in the past and so we here at Curbside have been watching old Joe like a chicken hawk. It turns out that when Joe is about to have one of his Lon Chaney attacks, he starts making these strange statements so as to distract his listeners while in the process of changing into the creature of the week Read Full Story
Sideshow Lon Chaney As the Wolfman Wolf Man Universal Studios Monsters 12" Figure ( Toy ) By sideshow collectibles 2 used and new from $58.00 First tagged "halloween" by Doug Customer tags: halloween party , halloween Read Full Story
Director Eben McGarr discusses his retro-fantastic indie film House of the Wolf Man, starring Ron Chaney, the grandson of the original Wolf Man, Lon Chaney, Jr. The show begins with Weirdo News™. House of the Wolf Man | Eben McGarr | Werewolf | Lon Chaney | Universal Monsters Read Full Story
