Lon Chaney

Universal horror: ‘Essential’ Blu-ray spotlights classic actors

2012-10-17 17:03:27

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Ray Bradbury dies at 91; author lifted fantasy to literary heights

2012-06-06 11:43:00

Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered space-scapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died. He was 91. Bradbury died Tuesday night in Los Angeles,...

'The Wolf Gift' review: Anne Rice teases, but payoff is slight

2012-03-01 10:25:00

How's your back feeling? Sore? If you want a deep-tissue massage, forget the spa. What you need is a good bite from a werewolf. As one discovers, in Anne Rice's novel "The Wolf Gift," the shift from human to wolf and back again is like a really sexy...

Around Town: Marvel legend Stan Lee hosts 'Avengers' screening

2012-05-03 16:37:49

Universal Pictures salute showcases century of crowd-pleasing fare

2012-05-03 16:37:48

Elyse Knox dies at 94; B-movie actress in the 1940s

2012-02-19 00:00:00

As a B-movie actress in the 1940s, Elyse Knox was perhaps best known for the only horror film she ever made, "The Mummy's Tomb," with Lon Chaney Jr. as the monster who kidnaps her. She later recalled working through the night on the abduction and...

TCM unveils list of 10 most influential silent films

2012-01-18 16:37:46

The Arts on TV: Renee Fleming in 'Capriccio'; 'Spider-Man'

2011-08-11 16:33:04

Timeline: Men and their grooming habits

2010-11-07 00:00:00

30,000 BC: Stone Age man begins using sharpened flint and seashells to scrape the hair from his body, inventing the morning shave. 1150 BC: Biblical hero Samson, whose feats of strength allegedly included slaying an entire army with the jawbone of an...

Lon Chaney's 'The Phantom of the Opera' plays on after 85 years

2010-09-06 16:34:07

Bruce Campbell on the horror franchise that launched his career: 'All roads lead to "Evil Dead" '

2010-09-01 16:33:54

From the Vaults: 'The Wolf Man' (1941)

2010-09-17 16:33:30

The original film werewolf was a tragic figure -- a good man doomed to transform into a ravenous beast and attack those he loves. But while the man beneath the fur is lovable, the beast itself is all terror.

2012-10-30 05:57:39

Lon Chaney Jr. gets his hair done for "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man." The movie screens Oct. 27 at the Alex Theatre.

2012-10-12 14:46:00

Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye and Edward Van Sloan in "Dracula." Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney Jr. are among the iconic figures of the Universal horror films of the 1920s-1940s.

2012-10-10 19:39:22