Scream Scene Podcast

"What year is it?" your deadicated hosts ask as we watch John Carradine play a mad doctor experimenting with glands.

It's THE UNEARTHLY (1957) from director Boris Petroff! Tor Johnson and Allison Hayes return, but not for much impact unfortunately.

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It's bonus episode time! This time, we review the horror-adjacent film THE MUMMY (Sommers, 1999)! How did we get from Boris Karloff to Arnold Vosloo? From horror to pulp adventure? Take a listen and enjoy the Fun Facts(TM) scattered throughout the episode!

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Before SCREAM, before TEEN WOLF, and even before LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, we get I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF (1957) from director Gene Fowler Jr and starring Michael Landon!

It's the first horror featuring teens and marketed for teens, and it certainly won't be the last!

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Science vampires?! Oh my! Your deadicated hosts sit down with THE VAMPIRE (1957) from director Paul Landres, featuring *checks notes* a score by STAR TREK composer Gerald Fried?!

Starring John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey and Dabbs Greer with a script by Pat Fielder.

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From the ashes of the Rank Organization rises producer Guido Coen and THE MAN WITHOUT A BODY (1957) from director W. Lee Wilder!

Starring Robert Hutton, George Coulouris, Julia Arnall and Nadja Regin, this low-budget B movie certainly is... an experience you won't see coming!

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Quatermass faces against the smog monster in QUATERMASS 2 (1957, Guest)!

How does this British "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" compare to the previous Quatermass film from 1955? Will Nigel Kneale get his way in recharacterizing the American iteration of his character? Will they blow up the asteroid in time to save Earth??

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Hammer Film strikes gold with THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957, Fisher), starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court and Robert Urquhart!

We discuss the difficulties of adapting a public domain novel due to Universal's litigious nature, and how the studio reignites the Gothic horror genre.

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Our first bonus episode on horror adjacent films features the classic ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, from 1948! The final appearance of the classic Universal iterations of Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Wolf Man!

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What happens when you cross Frankenstein with Alraune? You get SHE DEVIL (1957) from director Kurt Neumann, starring Mari Blanchard, Jack Kelly and Albert Dekker, and adapted from Stanley Weinbaum's 1935 story "The Adaptive Ultimate."

Your hosts discuss the ways the film fails, how its "problematic," and the cultural tropes it uses without questioning them.

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Your deadicated hosts travel to Italy for our first Italian horror film! It's I VAMPIRI (1957), directed by Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava, and starring Gianna Maria Canale, Dario Michaelis and Carlo D'Angelo.

Along with our usual background of the film, we dive into Italian history and the political & cultural context in which I VAMPIRI was released.

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