Guillermo del Toro’s horrific evening @ The Academy

26 September 2012

Guillermo del Toro’s horrific evening @ The Academy

Category: Film | Tags: academy of motion picture arts & sciences, boris karloff, bride of frankenstein, dracula, guillermmo del toro, the academy

It’s frightful experience going to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science this October for the multiple screenings of “Universal’s Legacy of Horror.” [...]

9 May 2011

She did the mash, she did the monster mash

Category: Language & ideas | Tags: boris karloff, kimberly brooks, sara karloff, the huffington post

Arts editor Kimberly Brooks makes wonderful banner headlines for her page. [...]

24 April 2011

Sara Karloff, daughter of Frankenstein

Category: Film | Tags: boris karloff, frankenstein, jack pierce, james whale, larry edmunds bookshop, sara karloff

The only child of Boris Karloff, Sara Karloff, who lives in San Diego, remembers her father rapturously at at book signing at Larry Edmunds Bookshop. She shared home movies from her own collection. [...]

14 April 2011

Karloff’s got a monstrous hold on arts·meme

Category: Film | Tags: boris karloff, hollywood history, larry edmunds bookshop, sara karloff

“A Night for Boris Karloff” coming up at Larry Edmunds Bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard, features a telecast of Karloff in “This is Your Life” and home movies. Sara Karloff, the monster’s perfectly normal offspring, will be there signing books. [...]

13 April 2011

Doing the monster mash at Malibou Lake

Category: Fashion, Film | Tags: boris karloff, frankenstein, hollywood history, james whale, karie bible, malibou lake, marc wanamaker

Locations Malibou Lake Frankenstein 1931 475

An edgy, even freaky, scene between Boris Karloff as the sensitive monster Frankenstein and a cute little girl was filmed at a place called Malibou Lake, north of Los Angeles. [...]