Postcards From Shadowland: Huge Halloween Edition! 2013

09_metropolis_workers — Metropolis 1927

earth vs the flying saucers — Earth vs the Flying Saucers 1956

uninvited_610 — The Uninvited 1944

Bedlam — Bedlam 1946

103-MadMonster4 — The Mad Monster 1942

masque-du-demon-1960-15-g — Black Sunday 1960

Annex - Veidt, Conrad (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)_01 — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920

Tales From the Crypt — Tales from the Crypt 1972

1941_Wolfman_img5 — The Wolf Man 1941

a NightMonster2 — Night Monster 1942

Bela Island of Lost Souls — Island of Lost Souls 1932

carnival-of-souls — Carnival of Souls 1962

Annex - Chaney Jr., Lon (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man)_05 — Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 1943

Annex - Chaney Sr., Lon (Hunchback of Notre Dame, The)_01 — The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939

Annex - Chaney Sr., Lon (London After Midnight)_05 — London After Midnight 1927

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein — Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948

Annex - Chaney Sr., Lon (West of Zanzibar)_02 — West of Zanzibar 1928

una O'Connor — The Invisible Man 1933

Annex - Cushing, Peter (Daleks' Invasion Earth - 2150 A.D.)_02 — Daleks’ Invasion Earth -2150 A.D. (1966)

The Man from Planet X — The Man from Planet X (1951)

Annex - Karloff, Boris (Bride of Frankenstein, The)_05 2 — The Bride of Frankenstein 1935

Chaney in the unknown — The Unknown 1927

amityville_horror — The Amityville Horror 1979

Annex - Karloff, Boris (Man They Could Not Hang, The)_NRFPT_03 — The Man They Could Not Hang 1939

Corridors of Blood — Corridors of Blood 1958

Annex - Krauss, Werner (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The)_01 — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920

Annex - Lugosi, Bela (Ape Man, The)_01 — The Ape Man 1943

Annex - Lugosi, Bela (Chandu the Magician)_01 — Chandu the Magician 1932

time-of-their-lives — The Time of Their Lives 1946

Annex - Lugosi, Bela (Ghost of Frankenstein, The)_01 — The Ghost of Frankenstein 1942

Invisible-Man — The Invisible Man 1933

Annex - Lugosi, Bela (Raven, The)_03 — The Raven 1935

Annex - Churchill, Marguerite (Dracula's Daughter)_02 — Dracula’s Daughter 1936

bloody-mama — Bloody Mama 1970

Annex - Lugosi, Bela (Son of Frankenstein)_02 — Son of Frankenstein 1939

Annex - Lugosi, Bela (White Zombie)_01 — White Zombie 1932

Annex - Marshall, Tully (Cat and the Canary, The)_01 — The Cat and the Canary 1927

Annex - Naish, J. Carrol (Dr. Renault's Secret)_NRFPT_02 — Dr. Renault’s Secret 1942

black sunday — Black Sunday 1960

Kill Baby Kill — Kill Baby Kill 1966

Annex - Price, Vincent (Abominable Dr. Phibes, The)_01 — The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971

Bela-Dracula_04 — Dracula 1931

Annex - Price, Vincent (Dragonwyck)_01 — Dragonwyck 1946

Annex - Price, Vincent (House of Wax)_01 — House of Wax 1953

Annex - Price, Vincent (Raven, The)_01 — The Raven 1963

Dracula's+Daughter — Dracula’s Daughter 1936

Annex - Rathbone, Basil (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The)_01 — The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939

annex-karloffborisbrideoffrankensteinthe_03 — the Bride of Frankenstein 1935

Beauty and Beast — Beauty and the Beast 1946

shrinking man — The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957

32093_Invasion-of-the-body-Snatchers-1 — Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956

tarantula — Tarantula 1955

village-of-the-damned-original — Village of the Damned 1960

catandcarary2 — Cat and the Canary 1927

silent-night-bloody-night — Silent Night, Bloody Night 1972

Freaks wedding-feast — Freaks 1932

west-of-zanzibar — West of Zanzibar

Chaney He Who Gets Slapped — He Who Gets Slapped 1924

Family Plot Karen Black RIP — Family Plot 1976 (rip Karen Black)

Curse-of-the-Demon-5 — Curse of the Demon 1957

Devil_Girl_From_Mars03 — Devil Girl From Mars 1954

Doctor Cyclops still — Dr Cyclops 1940

evelyn-venable-doubleWeb — Double Door 1934

rosemarys-baby-1968- — Rosemary’s Baby 1968

barbara-steele-and-vincent-price-pit-and-pendulum — Pit and the Pendulum 1961

experiment-in-terror — Experiment in Terror 1962

eyeswoaface — Eyes Without a Face 1960

demon fireball its in the trees — Curse of the Demon 1957

a behemoth PDVD_000 — The Giant Behemoth 1959

frankenstein bride Mae Clarke — The Bride of Frankenstein 1935

ghost-of-frankenstein — The Ghost of Frankenstein 1942

haunted_palace_23 — The Haunted Palace 1963

night of the demon true believers — Curse of the Demon 1957

he_who_gets_slapped — He Who Gets Slapped 1924

Hitchcock's Blackmail — Blackmail 1929

House on Haunted HIll -Nora-Mrs.Slydes — House on Haunted Hill 1959

house — House of Frankenstein 1944

images — The Haunting 1963

Night of the Living Dead — Night of the Living Dead 1968

Island of Lost Souls — Island of Lost Souls 1932

Metrópolis — Metrópolis 1927

it-came-from-beneath-the-sea — It Came From Beneath the Sea 1955

The-Crawling-Eye — The Crawling Eye 1958

itcamealien2 — It Came from Outer Space 1953

it-came-from-outer-space-07 — It Came from Outer Space 1953

Lifeboat — Lifeboat 1944

lionelatwill8 — Man Made Monster 1941

Lon Chaney in The Monster — The Monster 1925

Murnau's Faust 3 — Faust 1926

night-demon-macginnis — Curse of the Demon 1957

NightMonster1 — Night Monster 1942

Poster - Day the Earth Stood Still, The_30 — The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951

r2 d2 4The Thing-0 — The Thing from Another World 1951

The Devil Commands — The Devil Commands 1941

stepford wives — The Stepford Wives 1975

screaming-skull2 — The Screaming Skull 1958

Smoking Frankenstein friends are good — the Bride of Frankenstein 1935

Swimming with Julie — The Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954

The Black Cat Karloff and dead wife — The Black Cat 1934

The Black Cat Ulmer Karloff & Lugosi — The Black Cat 1934

fly — The Fly 1958

The Ghost Ship Lewton — The Ghost Ship 1943

The Invisible Ray — The Invisible Ray 1936

the leopard man — The Leopard Man 1943

freaks — Freaks 1932

The Man They Could Not Hang Karloff in Lab — The Man They Could Not Hang 1939

The Man They Could Not Hang — The Man They Could Not Hang 1939

The Mummy Karloff — The Mummy 1932

psycho — Psycho 1960

The Thing From Another World — The Thing from Another World 1951

The-Mummys-Ghost — The Mummy’s’ Ghost 1944

the undying monster — The Undying Monster 1942

jane_eyre- — Jane Eyre 1943

The Woman Who Came Back — The Woman Who Came Back 1945

the-amazing-colossal-man-pic-4 — the Amazing Colossal Man 1957

the-incredible-shrinking-man — The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957

the-seventh-seal- — The Seventh Seal 1957

The+Haunting — The Haunting 1963

The Devil Commands — The Devil Commands

thing-from-another-world-pic-3 — The Thing From Another World 1951

UndyingMonster+%2836%29 — The Undying Monster 1942

Unholy 3 Lon Chaney — The Unholy 3 (1925)

Vampyr — Vampyr 1932

I walk with a zombie — I Walked with a Zombie 1943

the exorcist — The Exorcist 1973

carnival-of-souls- — Carnival of Souls 1962

White Zombie — White Zombie 1932

Zita JohannIsland-of-Lost-Souls-3 — Island of Lost Souls 1932

Zounds-Herman Munster — Munster, Go Home! 1966

Special appreciation for several of the fabulous images courtesy of Dr. Macros High Quality photos!

HAVE A VERY SAFE & HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM YOUR EVERLOVIN’ MONSTERGIRL!!!!!!

Reccuring Iconography in Classic Noir, Suspense & Horror: Stairs…

battleship-potemkin the steps — Battleship Potemkin 1925- Sergei Eisenstein known for his montage framing and editing offers up the epic dramatization of the social uprising in Russia, which brought about a grim massacre with an iconic scene of the baby carriage plummeting down the great stone steps.

Caligari — Dr. Caligari’s somnambulist, Cesare (Conrad Veidt) ascends the abstraction of a stairway to nowhere…in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

nosferatu+stairs — F.W. Murnau’s 1922 masterpiece of shadow and light. With subtle prominence, the silhouette of the stair rails makes cogent the sinister outline of Max Schreck’s Nosferatu all the more.

blackmail 1929 — Alfred Hitchcock’s crime thriller Blackmail (1929).

She 1935 — She 1935 Irving Pichel and Lansing C Holden’s fantastical saga based on H. Rider Haggard’s novel about an ancient esoteric civilization reigned over by the cruel high priestess She who must be obeyed, upon the steps by the secret eternal flame of everlasting youth! with an intoxicating score by Max Steiner.

she-1935-color-vs-black-white- — Again in 1935, SHE was released in both B&W and a gorgeous colorized version. I’ll be doing a larger overview of the film very soon. Using images from both.
Steps upon steps, leading to divinity, or leading to death?

queen of spades the staircase — Thorold Dickinson’s hauntingly sinister fable- The Queen of Spades 1949- See the intricate network of elaborate stairs that wind within the vast manor house, which lead to the infamous lady who bet her soul away to the devil in order to win at a game of cards.

Notorious — In Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946) Cary Grant carries Ingrid Bergman to safety down the moonlit stone steps.

Charlie Chaplin in City Lights 1931.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho 1960.

Jack Clayton’s The Innocents 1961 starring Deborah Kerr.

Notorious end shot — In notorious (1946) Claude Rains stands alone facing his fate up those moonlit stone steps…the end scene.

Siodmak’s The Spiral Staircase 1946 Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Maguire, & Elsa Lanchester.

Douglas Sirk’s Thunder on the Hill 1951 starring Claudette Colbert.

Lewis Allen’s The Uninvited 1945- Stars Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey.

The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 with George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield.

MORE TO COME!!!!!!!

I’ll be heading back up the ‘steps’ here at the drive-in, be well- MonsterGirl!

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