Oddball Films Media
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Jun 8, 2014
Sink your fangs into delicious excerpts from the famous Dracula (1931), starring Bela Lugosi, a confection that introduced the legendary Count Dracula and his spider eating minion Renfield to the silver screen. silent cinema trailers featuring Lon Chaney Sr. as Quasimodo in the Hunchback of Notre Dame(1925), and as a deformed phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House in Phantom of the Opera (1925) and Paul Leni’s expressionistic comedy horror film The Cat and the Canary (1927) inspired by Broadway stage plays and the cornerstone of Universal Pictures horror genre;
Dracula (B+W, 1931)
In this epic film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi, a solicitor visits a sinister castle despite warnings from the locals! Renfield (the solicitor) becomes Dracula’s minion who brings him to London, where he wreaks havoc attacking lovely ladies, and turning them into vampires. Will Dracula continue his swath of destruction? Or will a couple of protective gentlemen stop him?!
Gumby in The Blob (B+W, 1957)
Gumby and his best pal Pokey unwittingly unleash a very hungry blob monster on an old-west town and he is hungry, hungry hungry!
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Son of Frankenstein (1939) starring Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff, sheds light on the dark mystery of manufactured life as Dr. Frankenstein’s son returns to his inherited castle finding his father’s faithful servant Ygor attempts to reanimate the Monster; In this classic science fiction and horror film a Frankenstein descendant is shown in the creepy old mansion with his family and entourage. While exploring the laboratory, the gentleman finds an old assistant with the Monster. Just before preparing to revive the creature to its full health Rathbone utters the famous line once again, “It’s alive!” Will history replay itself in the saga of Frankenstein’s monster??
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954, B&W)
This program features excerpts from Creature From The Black Lagoon, a water monster spine-tingler from 1954, directed by Jack Arnold and starring Richard Carlson and Julia Adams. This film series awed 1950s audiences with nothing less than a fish-humanoid monster with a penchant for lady scientists!
In this 1954 monster horror film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, and Whit Bissell, a fish-humanoid monster goes after the scientists who study it. The creature lurks in his lagoon, excited by human visitors!
Doom of Dracula excerpted from House of Frankenstein (B+W, 1944)
Directed by Erle C. Kenton, this film is a portion of the mad-dash combination of horror heros crammed into House of Frankenstein. In this excerpt, two men, having murdered a professor and taken over his traveling show "The Chamber of Horrors!" find the skeletal remains of Dracula himself. They attempt to revive the dark price so that he will follow their commands!
Tanka (1976)
“An extraordinary film”-Melinda Wortz, Art News
Tanka means, literally, a thing rolled up. David LeBruun’s Tanka is brilliantly powered by the insight that Tibetan religious paintings are intended to be perceived in constant movement rather than repose. The film, photographed from Tibetan scroll paintings of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, is a cyclical vision of ancient gods and demons, wild revels, raging fires and sea battles with monsters-an animated journey through the image world of the “Tibetan Book of the Dead”.
The Boo Boo Monster Enters a Beauty Contest(Color, 1973)
Rhythmic, staccato beats structure this darling short on the Boo Boo Monster who is always prone to making mistakes that we can learn from. See him try to win a beauty contest using unconventional methods. The softness of style and the sweetness of the characters make this lesson on race and acceptance very accessible and un-accusatory.
Bride Of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935, B+W, excerpts)
The most beautiful horror film of all time! It seems like everything that scares us about science gets the prefix “Franken” added to its name, and why not? The sparking machinery and the flashes of madness are among the highlights in this spine-tingling condensed version, but nothing can steal the spotlight from the monster’s fierce maiden fair.