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For this special Thursday edition of Slop Night, we’re watching a trio of classic monster movies. I was trying to decide on two of them, but they’re all short, so you know what, we’re watching all three. First up is The Wolf Man (1941), the movie that more-or-less defined what a werewolf is in pop culture. A man (played by Lon Chaney Jr.) returns to his father’s spooky castle estate in Wales, only to be bitten by a wolf; he then starts transforming into a wolf himself, becoming an insatiable monster during a full moon. Will he be cured, or will someone else put him down first? I guess we’ll find out. Pretty much everything you associate with werewolf lore is actually from this movie. It is by the best-known and best-regarded film of schlockmeister director George Waggner.
Second is The Thing from Another World (1951), the first film adaptation of John W. Campbell Jr.’s 1930 short story “Who Goes There?”, which John Carpenter later made into The Thing (1982). A group of scientists and military personnel in an Arctic research base find themselves being picked off one-by-one by a shapeshifting, body-snatching alien. Somehow, they have to figure out a way to kill it. Pretty much Among Us, but on Earth. It is the only directing credit of note of Christian Nyby, who was otherwise a career film editor.
Third, and last, is Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), in which a team of scientists discover and capture a prehistoric half-man half-fish creature while searching for fossils, only for it to escape and kidnap the fiancee of one of the researchers. Pretty much the definitive monster-captures-girl movie of the 1950s, and one that inspired about a million homages and pastiches. Director is Jack Arnold, whose film The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) we watched last night (and it was great.) This is his most famous feature, so let’s check it out.
We’ll start 8PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- The Wolf Man: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-wolf-man-1941/
- The Thing from Another World: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-thing-from-another-world/
- Creature from the Black Lagoon: https://letterboxd.com/film/creature-from-the-black-lagoon/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- The Wolf Man: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12312
- The Thing from Another World: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12245
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/17418
CWs for The Wolf Man:
- Death of dog.
- Stalking.
- Animal abuse.
- Body horror.
- Needles.
- Anxiety attacks.
- Gun violence.
- Sad ending.
CWs for The Thing from Another World:
- Deaths of dogs.
- Stalking.
- Dog fighting.
- Someone is physically restrained.
- Shaving.
- Someone is burned alive.
- Amputation.
- Broken bones.
- Jump scares.
- Electrocution.
- Kissing.
- Flying saucer crash.
- Gun violence.
CWs for Creature from the Black Lagoon:
- Bugs.
- Someone is burned alive.
- Squashed head.
- Kidnapping.
- Hospital scene.
- Anxiety attacks.
- Claustrophobia.
- Blood and gore.
- Drowning.
- Gun violence.
Links to movies:
- The Wolf Man: https://tankie.tube/w/7mMzYCXKNL4pHEMz8ao8bj
- The Thing from Another World: https://tankie.tube/w/ieZJYUFB83oQacsNiQ55Bt
- Creature from the Black Lagoon: https://tankie.tube/w/tKuxv4kUhAPaGxWmn1GTkQ
