Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Saturday, October 31, 2020
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Halloween
The Smithsonian Magazine, in it's October issue, has an article on Vampires in New England. You can read it here.
Here are more interesting articles from the Smithsonian Magazine: The Witch of the Hamptons and Witches of Halloween Past.
Here's a clip from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, what I think is a truly great version of the classic. I think this is one of the best scenes from the whole movie.
The Monster has been pressuring Victor to create a mate for him. Victor has resisted and the Monster killed Victor's beloved Elizabeth. In desperation, Victor reanimates the dead Elizabeth.
The Monster thinks that this is his mate. Victor thinks he has brought back his Elizabeth. Helen Bonham Carter in an outstanding performance as Elizabeth begins to understand what has happened to her.
A friend sent me an article about a ghost tour in San Francisco's China Town. An excerpt is below. The whole article may be read here.
Tourist Trapped: Chinatown Ghost Tour
Just in time for Halloween, Melissa and I spent Saturday night on a walking ghost tour of Chinatown.
We paid $29 each to meet a group of about 10 or 15 people in the
upstairs bar of the Four Seas Restaurant on Grant Street. After taking
advantage of some $5 Happy Hour appetizer deals, we were instructed to
meet our guide, Rose by walking through the backdoor of the restaurant
into an alley.
Rose points to the scene of a crime.
Melissa
and I were expecting 90 minutes of gory historical stories about
Chinatown, which is certainly what we got. What we were not expecting
were actual ghost hunters, folks who had downloaded iPhone apps which
could both detect the presence of a spirit as well as provide you with
it’s name. And then, of course, Rose had some sort of Ghostbusters-esque
device which she held in the air. The device features a line of lights
which would flash from green to yellow and all the way up to red, which
meant we were in the presence of a ghost.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Halloween
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein hasn't been one of my favorite horror books. However, the movie "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" is my favorite film version of the story. Robert DiNiro as The Creature highlights just what a range Mr. DeNiro has an an actor. I've also seen Helen Bonham Carter in many movies and I think her best scene anywhere, hands down is in this film.
Ms. Carter plays Victor Frankenstein's love interest, Elizabeth. She is killed by The Creature and Doctor Frankenstein attempts to ressurect her. The best scene in the whole movie is where Elizabeth begins "coming to" after the procedure and it slowly begins to dawn on her what Frankenstein did, until she comes to the full realization of what has become of her.
My favorite Halloween book is Dracula by Bram Stoker. I love annotated books and one of the ones annotated by Leonard Wolf (he has several) is my favorite. Of the movies, the classic Dracula starring Bela Lugosi is the standard by which the others are judged. Another of my favorites is Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder. Finally, Mel Brooks did a great job with his spoof, Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Dracula
The version I like to read the best is an annotated edition, with notes by Leonard Wolf.
I've recently learned of a great resource for book lovers, BookDrum.com, which has an entry for Dracula. If you follow the link, you'll find all sorts of background material, maps, links, etc.
My favorite movie versions include of course, Dracula, the 1931 version starring Bela Lugosi; Bram Stoker's Dracula with Gary Oldman in the starring role and Dracula: Dead and Loving It, starring Mel Brooks and Leslie Nielson.
Check out the links! Enjoy!
Monday, October 31, 2005
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