ROCKOLLECTIONS: HALLOWEEN PT.2 END
Oct 30, 2009 Rockollections, WLSO NEWS
Posted by
Mike Pell
As promised, I will take a look at Wolves and Werewolves in the concluding chapter for this year.
And I will be doing my lame quasi-Bela Lugosi and Maria Ouspenskaya impressions.
We’ll have songs expected, and some perhaps surprising, regarding our topic.
For your further enjoyment, here are some interesting facts about Monster Movies:
Boris Karloff, who starred as Frankenstein, had to wear 22-
pound size 24 boots. He also donned two pairs of pants with
steel struts shoved in them, and a double-thickness quilted
suit.
Karloff’s facial makeup was one-sixteenth of an inch thick,
and the bolts on the side of his neck left long-term scars.
Bette Davis wanted the part of Mrs. Frankenstein, but was
turned down because she was “too aggressive.”
Among the lighting tricks in the classic film Dracula: Twin
pencil-spotlights were shined in Bela Lugosi’s eyes to give
Count Dracula his legendary hypnotic stare.
The Castle Dracula and Carfax Abbey sets were so expensive
to build that Universal Pictures kept and reused them. You
can spot them in numerous Universal films of the ’30s.
In Boris Karloff’s second big monster flick The Mummy, he
had to be wrapped every day in linen and gauze, and was
covered with mud.
Lou Chaney, Jr.’s werewolf makeup in The Wolf Man took five
hours to apply every day.
The werewolf costume was actually made of yak hair.
Enjoy the show.
Happy Halloween Everyone!
Mike
Tags: Bela Lugosi, Bette Davis, Boris Karloff, Carfax Abbey, Count Dracula, Dracula Castle, Frankenstein, Lon Chaney Jr., Maria Ouspenskaya, Monster Movies, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, Universal Pictures, Werewolves, Wolves
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