Monster of the Day #1063
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Monster of the Day #1063

I hope this is better documented than this. What a prop!!!!!! Courtesy of the Maestro, Carlos Rambaldi. This was made for a proposed TV pilot, Hercules and the Princess of Troy. The entire thing is on DailyMotion.
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RIP Joseph Sargent
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RIP Joseph Sargent

Veteran helmer Joseph Sargent passed on December 22, 2014. Mr. Sargent had a long, distinguished career, starting (as did so many directors of his generation) as a prolific television director before moving on to movies. During his nearly 50 year career, Mr. Sargent directed a handful of classics, and more happily, for our purposes,…
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Monster of the Day #1062
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Monster of the Day #1062

I'm pretty sure this guy has been featured, but it's one of the few such films to have some candids. This thing was really a work of art, built over a stripped down Volkswagon. All I can say is, anyone who builds something like this is fine with me! The larger frame lasted a…
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Monster of the Day #1059
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Monster of the Day #1059

Moose was the dog that played the more traditional werewolf who bit Lawrence Talbot in The Wolf Man. (Meaning Moose was playing Bela Lugosi.) Chaney loved the dog and became his owner. Sadly, Moose died during the production of Universal's Cobra Woman when he was run over by a truck.
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Monster of the Day #1058
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Monster of the Day #1058

It's harder to find Bela candids. He was a very serious man, and not given overmuch to fooling around. In this as in many things, Karloff was his opposite. I am AWFUL at recognizing faces. But damn if Bela Jr. as a baby doesn't look exactly like Bela Jr. as an adult. (And also…
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Monster of the Day #1055
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Monster of the Day #1055

Man, I've been saving this one for a while. We have long had solid cinematic evidence of the triceratops' profound ninja skills, but this is further proof.
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