THE MONSTER MASH

What do you get when you mix such literary luminaries as: Homer, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare, Mary Shelly, Conan Doyle, Poe, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, and J. K.

Rowling …

 

With such behind-the-camera film-making talent as:

 

Ang Lee, James Whale, Tod Browning, Stephen Spielberg, Jacques Tourneur, John Guillerman, Ivan Reitman, Robert Rodriguez, Peter Jackson, Ray Kellogg, Bert I. Gordon, Christopher Guest(?!?) …

 

And with such before-the-camera luminaries as:

 

Bela Lugosi, Eric Bana, Boris Karloff, Fay Wray, Matthew Broderick, Robert De Niro, Abbott & Costello, Frederic March, Lon Chaney (father and son), Elsa Lanchester, Jessica Lange, Naomi Watts, James Arness, Mara Corday, Dana Andrews, Richard Carlson, Steve McQueen, and Jeff Bridges?

 

What, you were expecting Hamlet? Paradise Lost? The Inferno? Or, maybe Brokeback Mountain, This Is Spinal Tap, Saving Private Ryan, Best Years Of Our Lives, Raging Bull, Gunsmoke?

 

Hah! Why, the MONSTER film, what else?Join Steve Bogart, John Mulholland and Meir Ribalow for a monstrously (we couldn’t resist, mea culpa) good time on ICONs Radio Hour on Sunday, October 28, at 8 pm ET, as they explore the monster film, in all its Grade Z/B and A glory.