As a huge fan of cinema history, especially when it comes to our beloved genre, I was especially thrilled to attend the recent preview night of Warner Bros.’ new horror-themed evening tour, “Horror Made Here: A Halloween Screening and Twilight Tour,” which runs at the studio’s iconic lot in Burbank, California on Friday, October 28th and Saturday, October 29th.
“Horror Made Here” attendees will get a special look at various shooting locations at the Warner Bros. lot during a guided tour, including where Elvira was almost burned at the stake for Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (which was also a location used in The Monster Squad), the church where Sam Emerson and The Frog Brothers loaded up on holy water in The Lost Boys, the Chinatown set from Joe Dante’s Gremlins, and more.
During the tour, guests will also get to check out several “haunted” locations and will...
“Horror Made Here” attendees will get a special look at various shooting locations at the Warner Bros. lot during a guided tour, including where Elvira was almost burned at the stake for Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (which was also a location used in The Monster Squad), the church where Sam Emerson and The Frog Brothers loaded up on holy water in The Lost Boys, the Chinatown set from Joe Dante’s Gremlins, and more.
During the tour, guests will also get to check out several “haunted” locations and will...
- 10/22/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
One Hollywood history book that will be stealing our attention upon its publication this fall is Ben Urwand's "The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler." A recent profile in the New York Times points out that the already contentious project asserts that in the 1930s Hollywood wasn't just collaborating with Nazi Germany but, in Urwand's words, "with Adolf Hitler, the person and human being." More than a few feathers are ruffled by Urwand's thesis. Historian Thomas P. Doherty, author of recently published "Hollywood and Hitler: 1933-1939," tells the Times: "The word 'collaboration' in this context is slander... You use that word to describe the Vichy government. Louis B. Mayer was a greedhead, but he is not the moral equivalent of Vidkun Quisling."And USC history professor Stephen J. Ross mentions for the article: "The moguls who have been castigated for putting business ahead of Jewish identity and loyalty were in fact...
- 6/28/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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