My “Cult Movie Monday” comes thanks to this terrific blogger and a wild wild list of great movie monsters – enjoy!
I was just looking over a list of of horror movies I made early on this blog, of some of my favorite monsters, and took note of how damn weird all the monsters on that list were. I remember deliberately leaving certain types of traditional monsters off the list, like vampires and werewolves.
I also noticed a trend, from decade to decade, too. Whatever social or economic concerns Americans were voicing in the media at that time, got appropriated by Hollywood to make these movies, although its not quite that simple, as Hollywood didn’t just reflect our fears, but reinforced them, as a lot of these films had a sort of dialogue with one another.
In the fifties, the big theme was nuclear generated monsters because people were still reeling from the use of atomic weaponry during the war. In the sixties, the theme was zombies, and other human related…
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Quite an interesting piece..!🙂
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Thank you for reading and commenting! I am trying to share great blogs from others as well…so much great information out there!
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Keep going…!😊
It was such a pleasure reading even this one.. 🙂
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Thank you for sharing this interesting post
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This looks very interesting, John. Going over to finish reading.
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Good reblog, John. I remember ‘The Trollenberg Terror’ very well! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks for the reblog!!!!
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