A Run For Their Money
If, as a hypothetical, a golden age studio wanted to compete with, even surpass, Universal, as Hollywood's top horror studio, does anyone have any thoughts on which studio would have been best able to...
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Good choice, Count Murco. I actually wasn't thinking of them at all for some reason. RKO, I mean. Although one of the Big Five, boasting excellent world-wide distribution, they were in continual...
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Columbia? Analogous to Big U in many ways - size, precariousness, studio assets, etc.
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Columbia would be a good choice but for studio chief Harry Cohn's wanting to upgrade his studio. They made a few horrors, most of them in the early 40s, with the best known being Return Of the...
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I didn't know Mayer hated Horror, but someone at MGM must have greenlighted amongst others Dr J ,Freaks, Mad Love, Devil Doll , Dorian G and of course The Wizard of Oz which is as frightening in...
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RKO would have been my choice. Actually, Paramount did a nice job when they wanted to (ISLAND OF LOST SOULD, etc)...
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RKO and Paramount seem to be popular choices, and I agree either would have been a good place to focus on horror. The former actually did, for four years, with Val Lewton, so in a way they did get...
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I'd also go with RKO. But it's interesting to look at Columbia's sparse horror output and see that it sorta correlates with Universal's.After puttering around with a few borderline or weak-tea...
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I think that if L.B. Mayer had been so inclined, MGM would have been a good contender. I mean, consider MGM's early gangster output, such as THE BEAST OF THE CITY. A lot more gritty, violent and...
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It's a moot point to speculate about MGM producing horror films. After 1936 it wasn't going to happen. Mayer did not like the genre. He felt horror films were in poor taste, and could not understand...
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What, no one's allowed to reply?What's this Ghostery Enterprise thing that keeps popping up? I get it, MGM weren't going to make a Horror Film after '36 without literary antecedants Uni didn't...
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Good point, Russ (though I'd asterisk WOLF and SOD - miscast lead and all - as attempts at adult horror in the earlier vein.)
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I think Monogram actually did give U a run for their money, if only in quantity!
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(though I'd asterisk WOLF and SOD - miscast lead and all - as attempts at adult horror in the earlier vein.) That's true, I think they are some the best in the 40's and FMTW and The Mummy's Curse...
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While for me, SON OF DRACULA was probably the last big-time, classic Universal Horror I ever saw (except for THE OLD DARK HOUSE). For some reason, when Shock Theater ran, first on Channel 11, then...
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I experienced the exact same thing, but with GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN instead. I lived in the NYC cable market (1969-1973) and the Baltimore/Washington market (1973-1983) and saw the entire Universal...
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Rick, mayhap that one-of situation was one of those where a station "forgot" to return a print? (I recall the old days when a local station would always seem to run the SAME feature or series ep.,...
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PhantomXCI wrote:But I saw them all, including the uber rare I'VE LIVED BEFORE.If it's the 1956 Universal film on reincarnation, I got a copy of this on ioffer recently. Is there an existing thread...
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< So did Fox's Darryl Zanuck, which is why there are so few Fox monstuh flicks. He left in '56, Fox started releasing monstuh flicks hot and heavy (THE FLY and sequels, JOURNEY TO CENTER OF EARTH,...
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In spite of the fact that, as I read years ago (somewhere), THE FLY and PEYTON PLACE (actually premiered Dec. '57), were the only two Fox films to show a profit in '58.
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