Postcards from Shadowland no. 16 Halloween edition –

**The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Directed by Jack Arnold adapted by Richard Matheson and starring Grant Williams**

**Five Million Years to Earth (1967) Directed by Roy Ward Baker, written by Nigel Kneale starring Barbara Shelley and Andrew Keir**

**The Manster (1959) Directed by George P. Breakston starring Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton and Tetsu Nakamura**

**The Twilight People (1972) Directed by Eddie Romero**

Bluebeard (1972) Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Starring Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Natalie Delon, Agostina Belli, Karen Schubert, Sybil Danning, Joey Heatherton and MarilÃ¹ *Tolo*

**The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) Directed by Robert Florey with a screenplay by Curt Siodmak. Starring Robert Alda, Peter Lorre, Andrea King and J. Carrol Naish**

**Carnival of Souls (1962) Directed by Herk Harvey starring Candace Hilligoss**

The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) Directed by Robert Florey Starring Robert Alda, Peter Lorre, Andrea King and J. Carrol Naish

**Bedlam (1946) Directed by Mark Robson Starring Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Ian Wolfe,Billy House, Richard Fraser, Glen Vernon and Elizabeth Russell. Produced by Val Lewton**

**Dracula (1931) Directed by Tod Browning adapted from the novel by Bram Stoker-Starring Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Frances Dade and Edward Van Sloane**

**Blood and Roses (1960) Directed by Roger Vadim. Adapted from the novel by Sheridan Le Fanu- Starring Mel Ferrer, Elsa Martinelli, Annette Stroyberg**

**Black Sunday (1960) La maschera del demonio-Directed by Mario Bava Starring Barbara Steele, John Richardson and Andrea Checci**

**The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) Directed by William Dieterle Starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara and Cedric Hardwicke adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo**

**War of the Colossal Beast (1958) Directed by Bert I. Gordon Starring Sally Fraser and Roger Pace**

**It Conquered the World (1956) Directed by Roger Corman- Starring Beverly Garland, Peter Graves Lee Van Cleef and The Cucumber Monster**

**Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) Directed by Edward L. Cahn–Starring Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara and Luis Van Rooten**

**The Old Dark House 1932 directed by James Whale-Gloria Stuart and Boris Karloff**

Dead of Night (1945) Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer.–Starring Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Googie Withers, Mary Merrall, Sally Ann Howes, Frederick Valk, Anthony Baird

Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) directed by Silvio Narizzano with a screenplay by Richard Matheson adapted from a novel by Anne Blaisdell–Starring Tallulah Bankhead, Stephanie Powers, Peter Vaughan, Donald Sutherland and Yootha Joyce

**The Tenant (1976) Directed by Roman Polanski–Starring Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova, Claude Dauphin and Shelley Winters**

**House of Horrors (1946) Directed by Jean Yarborough starring “The Creeper” Rondo Hatton, Martin Kosleck and Virginia Gray**

**Spirits of the Dead (Italy/France 1968) aka Histoires extraordinaires**
**Segment: “William Wilson” Directed by Louis Malle**
**Shown from left: Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon**

Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965) Directed by Freddie Francis–Screenplay by Milton Subotsky–Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Neil McCallum, Ursula Howells, Peter Madden, Katy Wild, Alan Freeman, Ann Bell, Phoebe Nichols, Bernard Lee, Jeremy Kemp

**Doctor X (1932) Directed by Michael Curtiz-Starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster, John Wray, Harry Beresford**

**Frankenstein (1910) Produced by Thomas Edison Directed by J. Searle Dawley**

***Horror Hotel aka The City of the Dead (1960) Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey Starring Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Tom Naylor and Betta St. John. From a story by Milton Subotsky***

House of Frankenstein (1944) Directed by Erle C. Kenton from a story by Curt Siodmak. Starring Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr. J.Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Anne Gwynne, Peter Coe, Lionel Atwill and George Zucco

**Island of Lost Souls (1932) Directed by Erle C. Kenton Starring Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams and Kathleen Burke based on a story by H.G.Wells**

**Isle of the Dead (1945) directed by Mark Robson written by Ardel Wray-Starring Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery, Helene Thimig, Alan Napier, Jason Robards Sr.**

**Carl Theodor Dreyer Leaves from Satan’s Book (1921) starring Helge Nissen**

**Diabolique (1955) Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot adapted by Pierre Boileau Starring Simone Signoret, VÃ©ra Clouzot and Paul Meurisse**

The Wolf Man (1941) Directed by George Waggner Starring Lon Chaney Jr. Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, Evelyn Ankers and Fay Helm original screenplay by Curt Siodmak

**Night Must Fall (1937)**
**Directed by Richard Thorpe**
**Shown from left: Robert Montgomery, Dame May Whitty**

**Phantom of the Opera (1925) Directed by Rupert Julian and Lon Chaney. Starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin story by Gaston Leroux**

**Strangler of the Swamp (1946) directed by Frank Wisbar-starring Rosemary La Planche, Robert Barrat with an original story by Leo J. McCarthy**

**Nosferatu (1922) directed by F.W.Murnau Starring Max Schreck**

**The Abominable Snowman (1957) Directed by Val Guest starring Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing and Maureen Connell written by Nigel Kneale**

**The Bat Whispers (1930) Directed by Roland West-starring Chance Ward, Richard Tucker, Wilson Benge, DeWitt Jennings, Una Merkel Grace Hamptom, and Chester Morris**

**The Curse of the Cat People (1944) directed by Gunther von Fritsch- Starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, and Elizabeth Russell. Screenplay by DeWitt Bodeen**

**Mighty Joe Young (1949) Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack**

**Young Frankenstein (1974) Directed by Mel Brooks Starring Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars and Liam Dunn.**

**The Devil Bat (1940) directed by Jean Yarborough Starring Bela Lugosi**

**The Fly (1958) directed by Kurt Neumann screenplay by James Clavell, Starring David Hedison, Patricia Owens and Vincent Price**

**The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) directed by Tobe Hooper. Starring Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger and Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface**

The Undead (1957) Directed by Roger Corman written by Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna Starring Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Allison Hayes, Val Dufour, Bruno VeSota, Mel Welles, Dorothy Neumann and Billy Barty

**The Witches (1966) directed by Cyril Frankel Written by Nigel Kneale Starring Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh and Alec McCowen**

**The Uninvited (1944) directed by Lewis Allen Starring Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner and Gail Russell**

**THE NIGHT CALLER [BR 1965] aka BLOOD BEAST FROM OUTER SPACE MAURICE DENHAM, JOHN SAXON, JOHN CARSON Date: 1965**

**Poltergeist (1982) directed by Tobe Hooper written by Steven Spielberg. Starring JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Craig T. Nelson, Dominique Dunne Heather O’Rourke**

A Very Ghoulish & Giffy Halloween from your ever lovin’ MonsterGirl!

THANKS TO RETRO-FIEND FOR ALL THE SKIN-CRAWLING GIFS!!!!!

Â BE SAFE AND HERE’S WISHING YOU A SPOOKTACULAR HALLOWEEN FROM THE LAST DRIVE IN…!!!!!!

Postcards From Shadowland No.13

**Act of Violence 1948 directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan and Janet Leigh**

Chaney Hunchback — **Lon Chaney in Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923**

**What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? 1962 Directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford**

bedlam-1946-001-boris-karloff — **Bedlam 1946 directed by Mark Robson Produced by Val Lewton and starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee**

Bette Davis in Dead-Ringer — **Bette Davis and Bette Davis in Dead Ringer (1964) directed by Paul Henreid and co-starring Karl Malden and Peter Lawford**

Blondell and Tyrone Nightmare Alley — **Joan Blondell and Tyrone Power in Nightmare Alley 1947 written by Jules Furthman for the screen and directed by Edmund Goulding**

CabinInTheSky — **Cabin in the Sky 1943 directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Lena Horne and Ethel Waters**

crossfire postcards — **Crossfire 1947 directed by Edward Dmytryk starring the Roberts- Robert Young, Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan**

**The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 directed by Robert Wise and starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal and Hugh Marlowe**

**The Devil Commands 1941 directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Boris Karloff and Anne Revere written for the screen by Robert Hardy Andrews**

Title: OLD DARK HOUSE, THE (1932) "¢ Pers: STUART, GLORIA "¢ Year: 1932 "¢ Dir: WHALE, JAMES "¢ Ref: OLD005AA "¢ Credit: [ UNIVERSAL / THE KOBAL COLLECTION ] — **THE OLD DARK HOUSE, THE (1932) GLORIA STUART and BORIS KARLOFF Dir: JAMES WHALE**

dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde — **Dr JEKYLL AND MR HYDE 1931starring Frederick March & Miriam Hopkins and directed by Rouben Mamoulian**

Farley andThey Live By Night — **They Live By Night starring Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell. Directed by Nicholas Ra**y

Fontaine and Anderson Rebecca — **Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca 1940**

CapturFiles — **Phantom of the Opera 1925 starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin**

Gloria Odds Against Tomorrow — **Gloria Grahame Odds Against Tomorrow 1959 directed by Robert Wise**

Josette Day Beauty — **Josette Day in Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast 1946**

Judith Anderson Rebecca — Judith Anderson in Rebecca 1940

Leigh and Thaxter Act of Violence — **Janet Leigh and Phyllis Thaxter in Act of Violence 1948**

Louis Calhern Marlon Brando Julius Caesar 1953 — **Joseph L. Mankiewitz directs Louis Calhern & Marlon Brando inÂ Julius Caesar 1953**

Ls metropolis — **Fritz Langs’ Metropolis 1927**

M castle's sardonicus — **William Castle’s Mr Sardonicus 1961 Starring Guy Rolfe and Audrey Dalton**

Maclean the children's hou — **William Wyler directs Shirley McClaine in Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour 1961co-starring Audrey Hepburn and James Garner**

**Mary Astor and Van Heflin Act of Violence 1948**

**Odds Against Tomorrow Shelley Winters and Robert Ryan 1959**

Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird — **Gregory Peck in Robert Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 written by Harper Lee with a screenplay by Horton Foote**

Robert Ryan The Set-Up — **Robert Ryan in Robert Wise’s The Set-Up 1949**

Sam Fuller's The Naked Kiss, Constance Towers — **Sam Fuller’s The Naked Kiss 1964 starring Constance Towers**

Samson and Delilah-Hedy Lamarr — **Cecil B DeMille’s Samson and Delilah 1949 -starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature**

Taylor and Jane Eyre — **Robert Stevenson directed Bronte’s Jane Eyre 1943 starring a young Elizabeth Taylor and Peggy Ann Garner**

The Children's Hour — **The Children’s Hour Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine**

**Julie Harris and Claire Bloom in Robert Wise’s The Haunting 1963**

the night_of_the_living_dead_3 — **George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead 1968**

Walk on the Wild Side barbara Stanwyck — **Barbara Stanwyk as Jo in Walk on the Wild Side 1962 directed by Edward Dmytryk**

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane Bette — **What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Bette Davis and Victor Buono**

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13th- Hope you have a truly lucky day-MonsterGirl

The Film Score Freak Recognizes: â˜† ‘The Man of a Thousand Faces’ It’s Lon Chaney’s Birthday April 1st

The Film Score Freak wants to pay tribute to The Man of a Thousand Faces, the inimitable Lon Chaney Sr. who’s evocative style of physical performance, volatile and poignant, effusive, penetrating and always sublime characterizations created some of the most memorable roles in cinematic history.

Happy Birthday Lon Chaney, we here at The Last Drive In wish you never get slapped, never to be unknown, never to be in the shadows or swing from a bell unless you’re ringing it for joy, to keep your wonderful face unmasked and the music playing til the ends of time, no matter how many thumbs or arms or legs you have, or whatever unholy mischief you might be up to, we adore you forever from here to Zanzibar….

My song ‘Passing/Arriving’ appears on my lo-fi album The Amber Session, you can visit my official site at EphemeraÂ

He_Who_Gets_Slapped — **as Paul Beamont or HE in He Who Gets Slapped 1924**

Laugh, Clown, Laugh with Loretta Young — **as Tito in Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) with Loretta Young**

Lon Chaney andnJoan Crawford The Unknown — **Alonzo in The Unknown 1927 with Joan Crawford**

**Lon Chaney as The Phantom of the Opera 1925**

Lon_Chaney_as_Chinese_immigrant_Yen_Sin_in_the_film_Shadows_(1922) — **Lon Chaney as Chinese Immigrant Yen Sin in Shadows (1922)**

London after Midnight — **as Professor Edward C. Burke in London After Midnight 1927**

**as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923**

The Miracle Man in and out of costume — **Chaney in and out of his costume as The Frog for The Miracle Man 1919**

The Penalty with Ethel_Grey_Terry_and_Lon_Chaney — **as Blizzard in The Penalty 1920 with Ethel Terry**

The Unholy 3 (1930) — **Echo – The Ventriloquist in The Unholy Three 1930**

**Alfonso in The Unknown with Joan Crawford**

Happy Birthday Lon Chaney-With love to a man of many monsters from a MonsterGirl

The Film Score Freak recognizes The Phantom of The Opera starring Lon Chaney and Jo Gabriel’s ‘Bulldozer’

The Phantom of The Opera 1925 starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin

A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. Starring the man of a thousand faces Lon Chaney as Erik The Phantom and the lovely Mary Philbin as Christine Daae.

Here I’ve taken beautiful scenes from Phantom and edited them together with my song Bulldozer from my album Fools and Orphans.