A unique, original ad in the Courier-Mail heralded the Easter weekend release of SON OF FRANKENSTEIN at the Tivoli Theater — misspelled ...

Bolt your windows, lock your doors! This dire warning appeared in Brisbane’s Courier-Mail on Monday, April 3 rd , 1939. The Monster was “...

Boris Karloff made a number of appearances, in and out of Frankenstein Monster makeup, in cartoonist Feg Murray’s celebrated Seein’ Star...

Here’s a repost, tweaked and updated, of my original introduction to cartoonist Feg Murray, whose work I’ll be showcasing here over the next...

Karloff’s Monster — holding the son of the Son of Frankenstein (1939) — strikes a commanding pose on this fotobusta , a large-format I...

Back in the Thirties and Forties, when promoting a new Frankenstein film, exhibitors used every trick in the ballyhoo book. Park an amb...

The most original, the most imaginative movie posters created today aren’t displayed on theater fronts. The best work, by far, is found...

The Monster steps up to the microphone in this cartoon illustration by Vernon Lind displayed large and very prominently in The Pittsbur...

The Monster swoops like a greenish ghost out of a foreboding castle and flies over a desolate landscape in an unusual trade magazine ad f...

Little Peter von Frankenstein (Donnie Dunagan) is hostage to his granddad’s rampaging Monster on this French 1970s re-release poster for Son...

The Monster appears twice on this 1947 Belgian poster in French and Flemish, celebrating the WWII-delayed release of 1939’s Son of Franken...

It’s Bride of Frankenstein Ballyhoo halfway ‘round the world as The Monster and his Mate put in a personal appearance at the Regent Theate...

These yellowed clippings are not just from any old scrapbook. This is a page from makeup master Jack Pierce ’s personal scrapbook, circa 1...

Today, May 5 th , marks Jack Pierce’s 121 st birthday. Bela Lugosi’s Ygor, Boris Karloff’s Monster and director Rowland V. Lee gang up ...

A tuckered Boris Karloff rests backstage on the Son of Frankenstein (1939) set. A number of readers have expressed interest whenever I’ve ...

Lionel Atwill was born in Croyden, England, 125 years ago today, March 1 st 1885. The British-born actor became a Broadway sensation in 191...

Ygor cowers in the grip of the immense, fur-clad Frankenstein Monster. Horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi are reunited in this pub...

Born June 13 in South Africa, raised in England, Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) was an established Shakespearean by the time he first came to...

Here’s another beautiful foreign poster with vivid colors and wonderful hand-drawn lettering for Son of Frankenstein (1939), known in Spa...

Another sensational foreign release poster for Son of Frankenstein (1939), this one by Guy Berjab for the French version, advertised as o...