Monster Mags Theater "Castle Films"

Other than the Don Post masks, the 8mm digests (from Castle Films and others) is what I wanted most from the Captain Co. Unlike the masks, I was able to afford one of these, once in a while, though only the silent prints, as I didn't have a sound projector. The Castle editors (especially) did a great job of cutting 90% of the feature and still having it work as a story.

Even in these days of DVDs, it's fun to look back at this primitive form of home video and if you no longer have any, or a projector to watch them on, YouTube will provide. Check this link for more Castle Films.

Monster Mags Theater ("Shock Award")

Back in this post, you saw the poster for The Monster of Piedras Blancas, with the FM "Shock Award" emblem. Here is the trailer for the movie, that starts out with FM #2 and the award emblem with the voiceover saying "Famous Monsters of Hollywood magazine names it "Shock Award Winner!"  Hollywood!?

Monster Mags Theater "Basil Gogos"

If you can hear him over the din of this (otherwise unknown) 2008? Con/Show, here's 10 min. of Basil talking about his art.

Monster Mags Theater "FM Covers: Part Deux"

Same thing, different music. A promo for the new FM 251.

Monster Mags Theater "FM Covers"

I thought this was kind of fun!

Monster Mags Theater "Deluge"

For the first installment of MMT, we refer back to the Modern Mechanix article on movie spfx in this post.

"Deluge" (1933 RKO) was an early disaster film with some of the best miniature effects seen up to that time. It was often mentioned (usually accompanied by stills) in FM and other monster mags. The film was thought "lost", for many decades, until an Italian dubbed print turned up in the 1980s. The disaster footage had been available because of it's reuse in several serials.