Tag: Fay Wray

The Vampire Bat (1933) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2023
Film Reviews

It didn’t take long for other studios to capitalize on the success of Universal Pictures’ Dracula [1931] and the first was from Larry Darmour Production who also owned Majestic Pictures distribution company, which was known as a Poverty Row studio aka b-movie/ ow-budgeted films that existed from 1920s to 1950s. This particular 90-year-old film, is…

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2023
Film Reviews

This movie is more of a detective’s tale than a horror film especially by today’s standards. It does layer in plenty of atmosphere and a storytelling that audiences of the 1930s would find appealing and a bit bizarre. Another important element that likely is lost upon the modern audiences is when the film was released,…

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King Kong (1933) 85-years later and Still the King – By Baron Craze

April 19, 2018
Articles

This April the first true monster movie celebrates its 85th anniversary, which came from the mind of a 6-year-old boy who found him fascinated by gorillas and a nightmarish hatred for elevated trains, and who knew all of it would find its way into a 1933 classic raging and rampaging beast marked as the Eighth…

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