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Who is your favorite Poverty Row horror actor?

I wonder which performances in Poverty Row horrors you consider the best.  Pick your favorite horror actor from the list below, or even someone I forgot to mention.  Remember, base it STRICTLY on...

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The Missing Link between Monogram Pictures and the Horror-Comics Boom of the...

And the linkage between Monogram Pictures' weirder productions and the horror-comics boom of the midcentury? Covered among many other points of interest in this new (due in October) book from Craig...

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"Forgotten Horrors" Collides with "Comics from the Gone World"

As the FORGOTTEN HORRORS movie-book series approaches a logical conclusion -- may wrap with Vol. 8, or may stretch on into a Vol. 9, depending upon the volume of titles to be covered -- we'll be...

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FORGOTTEN HORRORS VOL. 9

And yes, there will be a FORGOTTEN HORRORS VOL. 9. The current manuscript for FORGOTTEN HORRORS VOL. 8 is bursting at the seams, so must confine the thing to motion pictures from 1960-1961 lest the...

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Are these films REALLY in the Public Domain?

Okay, so most (all? nearly all?) of the PRC and Monogram features are available a ton of places and invariably listed as being in the PD. Would anyone know if this is really the case. I'm no lawyer,...

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Best Forgotten Horrors?

No, I'm not referring to the books themselves (which I believe I have every one of)... I'm referring to the films in the original Price/Turner book (which I probably have far too many of...)I'm just...

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Run-Up to FORGOTTEN HORRORS VOL. 8

All set to drop Forgotten Horrors Vol. 8: The Resurrection of Edgar Allan Poe. Manuscript completed as of yesterday (Sept. 7, 2015), and proofreading and indexing are in progress. This volume will...

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Is there really do documentary on the history of Powerty Row?

Seems not. I find this quite surprising, as it's very fascinating stuff from many points of view. There is (sometimes) artistic merit to the films, a ton of human drama,  what seems to have been...

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Could we restore some of these films?

I watched the notoriosly jumpy and dark FACE OF MARBLE a few days ago. I saw somewhere that someone had cleaned it up digitally, almost eliminating the blurs and the jumps. The question is: could we,...

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Goddard on dedicating BREATHLESS to Monogram

For some reason, I came across this. Never seen a Goddard film, but I understand he's a big shot.Godard, why did you really dedicate Breathless to “Monogram Pictures”? I did it to prove that you can...

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FORGOTTEN HORRORS VOL. 8 Arrives

Today marks the eStore debut of FORGOTTEN HORRORS VOL. 8: THE RESURRECTION OF EDGAR ALLAN POE. Closing in on completion of the sweeping genre study that George Turner and I began during the 1970s; the...

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What is the best of the 1940s poverty row horrors?

I interviewed Tom Weaver on my Plan9Crunch blog and he tabbed "Devil Bat" as his favorite. He liked the "murder a reel" plot. I love "Devil Bat" and "Invisible Ghost" but my favorite is "Strangler of...

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Revolt of the Zombies

I love White Zombie, but had never actually seen the sequel, Revolt of the Zombies, until just a couple of days ago. Sadly, I was disappointed; it starts of with a fun and interesting idea, and seemed...

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Celebrating Monogram's tenth anniversary

http://archive.org/stream/motionpictureher147unse#page/n201/mode/2up Found via http://lantern.mediahist.org/ which really is a treasure trove!

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Mystery Movie - "Famous Side Show Murders"

I was wondering if anyone knows anything about the film "Famous Side Show Murders" it was released by Exploitation Pictures on the bottom half of a horror double feature with Todd Slaughters great...

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From Ramboona to Scientology

Monogram is now the Church of Scientology:http://www.laweekly.com/news/what-is-the-church-of-scientology-doing-with-this-los-angeles-movie-studio-7293993

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Monogram or Monarch

"The Phantom of Chinatown uses Monarch instead of Monogram. Anyone know the difference?

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THE CORPSE VANISHES and BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT on Blu ray

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XVYVH2X/"With THE CORPSE VANISHES (1942 ), Monogram Pictures might have, possibly, hit its finest hour. The film, which definitely falls within the realm of horror, owes...

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Which of the Monogram 9 are on Bluray?

If this had been discussed, send me a link. I can't find it.

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the joy of poverty row films - Location Shooting!

Whatever the film is, horror/terror/mystery, etc. I find location shoots in the 1930's and 1940's irresistible. The cars! The streets! The little shopping areas! early Los Angeles and the suburbs!...

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