The
Quintessential 1950s Sci-Fi Movie
…
FORBIDDEN
PLANET
50TH
ANNIVERSARY 2-DISC SPECIAL
EDITION and ULTIMATE COLLECTORS
EDITION
From Warner Home Video November
14
Newly Restored and Remastered
Film, in Widescreen and
Dolby Digital® 5.1, Has Six
Hours of Bonus Features Including
Two Follow-Up Robby the Robot
Films, Lost Footage, Additional
Scenes, Three New Documentaries
and More
Ultimate Collectors Edition in
Unique Metal Alloy
Collector’s Case
Contains Collectible Robby The
Robot Action Figure,
Reproduction Lobby Cards
Portfolio and Mail-In Movie
Poster Offer
Burbank, CA (July
21, 2006) - Forbidden Planet,
considered by many the most
influential science fiction film
ever made until the Star Wars
era, goes into DVD orbit November
14 when Warner Home Video
releases Forbidden Planet 50th
Anniversary 2-Disc Special
Edition and Forbidden Planet
Ultimate Collectors Edition. The
film, in a new widescreen
version, has been digitally
transferred from fully restored
new film and audio elements. The
remarkable electronic soundtrack
has been remastered in Dolby
Digital 5.1.® The 2 Disc Special
Edition will be available at
$26.99 SRP; the Ultimate
Collector’s Edition for
$59.92 SRP.
A pioneering work whose ideas and
style influenced countless
cinematic space voyages that
followed -- Star Wars, Star Trek,
Lost in Space, 2001: A Space
Odyssey, among others --
Forbidden Planet is based on
Shakespeare’s The Tempest
and stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne
Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren
Stevens, Earl Holliman and
Richard Anderson. It also marks
the motion picture debut of Robby
the Robot. Fred McLeod Wilcox
directed the Cyril Hume
screenplay.
More than four hours of special
features in the 2-Disc Special
Edition include commentary,
additional scenes, two follow-up
vehicles starring Robby the Robot
plus three documentaries. Also of
special note is the lost footage,
which features preliminary takes
of various special effects
including the space ship and
interior and exteriors. Very few
people knew of the existence of
footage, which, since the
‘50s, had bounced around to
various stock houses and vaults,
simply marked as “The Saucer
Footage.” Star Wars special
effects artist Dennis Muran, who
had learned of the footage in the
‘70s, brought it to the
attention of WHV which finally
tracked it down in New York City.
The Ultimate Collectors Edition
keepsake case includes the 2-Disc
Special Edition as well as a
collectible Robby the Robot
replica with moveable limbs,
Forbidden Planet and The
Invisible Boy reproduction lobby
cards portfolio, as well as a
Forbidden Planet original
theatrical poster mail-in offer.
Synopsis
Commander Adams (Leslie Nielsen)
and his crew set out to
investigate the
disappearance of a colony of
scientists on the planet
Altair-4. After landing, they
discover only two survivors, Dr.
Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon)
and his exquisite daughter
Altaira (Anne Francis).
The Morbiuses live a surprisingly
prosperous lifestyle, attended to
by Robby the Robot, a
super-butler who performs many
amazing feats. But lurking in the
background is an invisible force
-- which may or may not have been
responsible for the
disappearances of those
scientists – and about which
only Morbius knows the truth. But
Morbius is not about to share his
secret (or his daughter!) with
anyone else.
DVD Special
Features:
• Additional scenes
• Lost footage
• Excerpts from The MGM
Parade TV Series
• Two follow-up vehicles
starring Robby the Robot:
– 1958 MGM feature film The
Invisible Boy
– The Thin Man MGM TV series
episode Robot Client
• Three documentaries:
– TCM original Watch the
Skies!: Science Fiction, the
1950s and Us
– All-new Amazing! Exploring
the Far Reaches of Forbidden
Planet (featuring new appearances
by Leslie Neilsen, Anne Francis,
Earl Holliman, Warren Stevens and
more)
– Robby the Robot:
Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon
• New digital transfer from
restored picture and audio
elements
• Soundtrack remastered in
Dolby Digital 5.1
• Science-fiction movie
trailer gallery
• Languages: English &
Français
• Subtitles: English,
Français & Español (feature
film only)
Note: All enhanced content listed
above is subject to change.
Forbidden Planet 50th Anniversary
Two-Disc Special Edition
Street Date: November 14, 2006
$26.99 SRP
Running Time: 98 minutes
Rated G
Forbidden Planet Ultimate
Collector’s Edition
$59.92 SRP
For the First Time
Ever Audiences can Experience the
All-New Extended Movie Including
Over 13 Additional Minutes of
Never-Before-Seen Action-Packed
Footage, 230 New Visual Effects
Shots and Nearly 40 Minutes of
Deleted Scenes
The ORIGINAL
King Kong on DVD!
The King Kong:
Two-Disc Special Edition (SRP
$26.99) includes the 104-minute
restored and remastered B&W
film on video in its original
full frame, with Dolby Digital
2.0 mono audio and English,
French and Spanish subtitles.
Extras include audio commentary
(by Ray Harryhausen and Ken
Ralston, with Merian C. Cooper,
Ernest B. Schoedsack, Ruth Rose,
Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong),
the 2005 I'm Kong: The Exploits
of Merian C. Cooper documentary,
a gallery of trailers for other
films by director Merian C.
Cooper, the new RKO Production
601: The Making of Kong, Eighth
Wonder of the World documentary
by Peter Jackson (featuring the
following featurettes: The
Origins of King Kong, Willis
O'Brien and Creation, Cameras
Roll on Kong, The Eighth Wonder,
A Milestone in Visual Effects,
Passion, Sound and Fury, The Mystery of the
Lost Spider Pit Sequence and King
Kong's Legacy...VERY cool
stuff!!) and Creation test
footage (with commentary by Ray
Harryhausen).
The King Kong: Two-Disc
Collector's Edition (SRP $39.98)
includes all of the above in
limited tin packaging that also
features a 20-page reproduction
of the original 1933 souvenir
program, King Kong original
one-sheet reproduction postcards
and a mail-in offer for a
reproduction of a vintage
theatrical poster.
The King Kong Four-Disc
Collector's Set (SRP $39.92)
includes the King Kong: Two-Disc
Special Edition along with The
Son of Kong and Mighty Joe Young.
It will NOT include the extras in
the Collector's Edition tin.
Fortunately, The Son of Kong and
Mighty Joe Young isalso available
separately (as will The Last Days
of Pompeii, also by Kong
directors Merian C. Cooper and
Ernest B. Schoedsack) for an SRP
of $19.97 each.
The Son of Kong includes the
70-minute restored B&W film
on video in the original full
frame, with Dolby Digital 2.0
mono audio and English, French
and Spanish subtitles. Extras
include the theatrical trailer.
Mighty Joe Young will include the
94-minute restored B&W film
on video in its original full
frame, with Dolby Digital 2.0
mono audio and English, French
and Spanish subtitles. Extras
include audio commentary (by Ray
Harryhausen, Ken Ralston and
Terry Moore), 2 new featurettes
(Ray Harryhausen and The Chioda
Brothers and Ray Harryhausen and
Mighty Joe Young) and the film's
theatrical trailer.
Finally, The Last Days of Pompeii
includes the 96-minute, B&W
film on video in the original
full frame, with Dolby Digital
2.0 mono audio and English,
French and Spanish subtitles.
There are no extras.
Famous Monster
Movie Art of Basil Gogos
The “monster craze”
among baby-boomers, sparked by
the release of horror classics to
television in the late ‘50s,
gave birth to a new
phenomenon–the monster
magazine. Famous Monsters of
Filmland, was the premier
publication for young horror film
fans.
Issues of the new
magazine practically leapt off
the newsstand due in no small way
to their striking cover paintings
by Basil Gogos. Like a Bizarro
Norman Rockwell, his stylish
portraits of horror film
characters and stars were seen on
magazine covers throughout the
1960s and 1970s. Gogos’
Technicolored interpretations of
Frankenstein, The Creature
from the Black Lagoon, and the
Phantom of the Opera, breathed
new life into the old black and
white images. His amazing use of
color and bold, impressionistic
brushwork gave a sense of
excitement and sophistication to
his paintings which has never
been matched.
To many the
name Basil Gogos is as familiar
as that of Boris Karloff, Bela
Lugosi or Vincent Price.
Gogos’ paintings are as
iconic as his subjects. The
Famous Monster Movie Art of Basil
Gogos is a celebration of the
career of the acknowledged master
of film monster portrait art.
This long-overdue retrospective
features high-quality
reproductions of many of his most
famous paintings as well as many
previously unpublished paintings
and drawings of classic film
creatures and actors as well as
the artist’s magazine, book
cover, Rock CD cover art, and
movie posters. Also featured are
in-depth interviews with the
artist and commentary from his
contemporaries and film
professionals alike.
 Deluxe
Hardcover * 168 pages * 80 B
& W illustrations * 100 color
illustrations * Edited by Kerry
Gammill and J. David Spurlock * 8
1¦2" X 11" trim *
Deluxe Slipcase Hardcover Edition
with 16 page BONUS folio. Gogos
Signed Deluxe in Slipcase with
BONUS 16 pgs is VERY limited.
Order it now or you may miss out
(only 600 DX copies!) RETAIL:
$59.95 + $6 shipping.
Hardcover * 168 pages * 80 B
& W illustrations * 100 color
illustrations * Edited by Kerry
Gammill and J. David Spurlock * 8
1¦2" X 11" trim *
$34.95 (+ $3.95 U.S.)
Table of Contents
* Introduction by Rob Zombie
* Biography
* Training and Early Work
* '60s Style: the NY Commercial
Scene
* Famous Monsters
* Movie Posters -Universal
Studios and more
* Return of the King
* Looking Back
For more information
go directly to VANGUARD's website
at http://www.creativemix.com/books/books.html
About the Authors:
Kerry Gammill:
After years of drawing Superman,
Indiana Jones, and Spiderman,
Gammill left comicbooks for
Hollywood to work as a conceptual
artist on Stephen King’s
Storm of the Century TV
Mini-Series, Virus, Species
II, Can of Worms (TV 1999), Dean
Koontz’s Phantoms, the
Stargate SG-1 TV Series, and the
new Outer Limits TV Series.
J. David Spurlock:
Known for his 25 years of
commercial illustration, art
direction, and editing, Spurlock
is a recognized pop-culture
historian who has served as
President of the Dallas Society
of Illustrators. In addition to
teaching at the School of Visual
Arts in New York, Spurlock’s
career includes work for Disney,
Sony, Vanguard and MTV
THESE
MASTERFUL RECORDINGS ARE ONLY
AVAILABLE THROUGH MONSTROUS
MOVIE MUSIC!
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (and other Ray
Harryhausen animation classics)
is our latest spectacular release
(MMM-1953), following on the
heels of our first three
acclaimed CDs, and it features
the first recordings from movies
whose characters were brought to
life by stop-motion special
effects genius Ray Harryhausen.
The CD begins with a long suite
from the wonderful 1949 fantasy,
Mighty Joe Young, with a rousing
score by Roy Webb. Filled with
exotic African underscore,
fanfares galore, nightclub music,
and outrageous orchestration,
this amazing music will have you
thumping your chest like a
gigantic irate ape! As a bonus,
this suite contains a
“special musical guest
appearance” by Harryhausen
himself!
Next comes a suite from
Harryhausen’s renowned 1957
monster-from-space film 20
Million Miles to Earth, scored
from the Columbia music library
circa 1957. In addition to
lovely and atmospheric cues
written especially for the
picture by Mischa Bakaleinikoff,
this recording contains famous
library cues re-used in dozens of
Columbia films. Composers
like Max Steiner, David Raksin,
Daniele Amfitheatrof, George
Duning, David Diamond, Frederick
Hollander, and Werner Heymann are
represented in this varied score
that evokes a wide range of
dramatic situations and memorable
films.
Finally, there’s a
four-minute suite from the Holy
Grail of Harryhausen films: The
Animal World! This 1956
documentary by Irwin Allen
featured animated dinosaurs by
Ray, and Paul Sawtell’s
pulse-pounding music recreates
the prehistoric thrills! Click on
Mighty Joe to go right to the
website!
Our second new CD release, THIS
ISLAND EARTH (and other alien
invasion films) (MMM-1954),
contains never-before-released
music from four outer space films
of the 1950s and ’60s.
This Island Earth was
Universal-International’s
only big-budget color sci-fi
thriller of the fifties, and
it’s one of the classics of
the genre. This recording
features the entire unforgettable
score by Herman Stein, with minor
assistance from Henry Mancini and
Hans Salter, and it includes
music cut from the film and heard
for the first time since the
original scoring sessions. The
music ranges from
beautifully-evocative passages to
mysteriously atmospheric cues,
not to mention some amazingly
inventive musical sound effects
sequences and cues of pure action
and terror.
Next is a lengthy suite from Ron
Goodwin’s masterful The Day
of the Triffids, a 1962 British
film about killer plants who
attack when a meteor shower
renders most of humanity
blind. Goodwin’s music
includes lovely pastoral cues,
shock hits, and one of the most
powerful Main Titles in all of
monsterdom! This unique score
stands apart from most monster
movie soundtracks.
Closing out the album are two
Main Titles of note. 1958’s
War of the Satellites is a
breakneck excursion into
low-budget film scoring, so
evocative of the era. And
then there’s the opening
from Ray Harryhausen’s 1956
classic Earth vs. the Flying
Saucers, which perfectly sets the
stage for the alien menace that
will follow.
Each CD includes 40-page liner
books, complete with
never-before-released photos,
music scores, and approximately
20,000 words of text!
Lovers of science fiction,
fantasy, and horror films and
their music will not want to miss
these two classic releases.
Our breathtaking performances
have been vividly recorded
through close-miking techniques
to recapture the dynamic
full-orchestral sound heard at
the original Hollywood scoring
sessions. They’re so
authentic, don’t be
surprised if a giant scorpion
leaps out from behind your
speakers! Get yours
now at www.mmmrecordings.com.
 SYNOPSIS
Peter Jackson, George Lucas,
Steven Spielberg, John Landis,
Dennis Muren, Ray Bradbury, Rick
Baker, Roger Corman, Ray
Harryhausen and other legendary
all-stars of cinema bring to life
the evolution of science-fiction
and special effects films from
the wild and funny days of
B-movies to blockbusters that
have captured the world’s
imagination. This is the story of
the Sci-Fi Boys who started out
as kids making amateur movies
inspired by Forrest J
Ackerman’s FAMOUS MONSTERS
OF FILMLAND magazine and grew up
to take Hollywood by storm,
inventing the art and technology
for filming anything the mind can
dream. Dennis Muren, 8-time
Academy Award® winner, shares
his childhood space and monster
movies for the first time, as do
others in “THE SCI-FI
BOYS.” There’s also
over an hour of rare bonus
material sci-fi treasures.
THE BONUS
FEATURES
“THE SCI-FI BOYS” has
about 70 minutes of Bonus
Features with a great variety of
rare sci-fi treasures.
Here’s a description of what
you will find there in the 29
separate choices of footage (not
counting the Photo and Document
Gallery):
Focus on Forrest J Ackerman:
• You’ll see
Forry and Ray Bradbury carrying
on like excited kids at the Los
Angeles Industry Screening of
Universal’s “KING
KONG,” where Ray Bradbury
declared it a perfect movie and
Uncle Forry let out a Kong-sized
roar to prove how terrific his
lungs are at age 89.
• A five minute
excerpt from the historic 1970
interview of Forry Ackerman by
James Gunn, a very famous name in
science-fiction today as an
author and professor. In the
interview, which took place at
the first Ackermansion, Forry
discusses some of the very rare
early science fiction films and
the variety of topics that are
included in the definition of
science fiction.
• Ray Bradbury on
Forry, filmed by Paul Davids at a
Los Angeles bookstore, in which
he discusses Forrest J
Ackerman’s influence and the
fact that so many of today’s
directors, at one time or
another, found themselves at
Forry’s doorstep asking to
see his collection.
• In another section,
Forry discusses his
correspondence with Universal
Pictures founder Carl Laemmle,
and Mr. Laemmle’s gift to
him of the soundtrack discs of
some of the first sound horror
films.
Rick Baker:
• Rick Baker talks
extensively about the evolution
of effects makeup techniques, and
his role in “pushing the
envelope” to expand the ways
and techniques by which effects
makeup is accomplished, as well
as his role as King Kong in the
de Laurentiis version and
building the ape for the remake
of “MIGHTY JOE YOUNG.”
Ray Harryhausen:
• You’ll see
more of Ray Harryhausen’s
acceptance speech when he
received his Gordon E. Sawyer
Academy Award® presented by Tom
Hanks and Ray Bradbury at the
1992 Sci-Tech Academy Awards®.
Fred Barton:
• In the Bonus
Features you’ll really get
to know Fred Barton, who started
out in the field at age sixteen
by getting the chance to restore
the original Robby the Robot at
Movie World in Southern
California. Fred now manufactures
life-size Robby the Robot’s
for sale, as well as replicas of
robots such as Gort from
“THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD
STILL” and Maria from
“METROPOLIS.” Find out
what it’s like to be the kid
who was always known as “The
Robot Man” who grew up to
bring robots to the homes of
collectors who can afford them.
• Also, you’ll
see an excerpt from Fred
Barton’s junior high school
production, “2002: A SPACE
CATASTROPHE,” with Brian
Lambert’s song
“SPACEMAN.”
Paul Davids and his childhood
friends Jeff Tinsley and Bill
Goodwin appear in three Bonus
segments.
• In “THE
TIN-CAN MAN” you’ll see
and hear about the robot costume
they built to feature in their
childhood 8mm movies, and about
Bill’s struggles to get
inside the costume.
• In “THE $40
FILM THAT WENT OVER BUDGET TO
$54” they review the
original budget for their film
that was a winner in the FAMOUS
MONSTERS Amateur Movie Contest
and try to figure out why the
film cost an extra $14 they had
not planned on as kid filmmakers.
There were no talent costs, so
the biggest line items were film
and processing, plus building a
dragon that needed doll’s
eyes and breathed fire using a
propane torch – and the four
dollars they had to pay to
Forrest J Ackerman for the right
to make their silent film based
upon his script.
• In
“WHAT’S A HOBBIT –
AND WHO CARES?”Bill Goodwin
explains about publicity the
young filmmakers received in a
Washington DC newspaper’s
TEEN section. The friends from
childhood (they met in 3rd grade)
talk about the influence of
producer George Pal in their
lives, and Paul Davids presents
to director Peter Jackson all the
rejection letters he and George
Pal received in the 1970’s
when they tried to launch a film
based on Tolkien’s “THE
HOBBIT,” which might have
led to an earlier live-action
version of “THE LORD OF THE
RINGS” if every studio
hadn’t turned it down.
Donald F. Glut tells how excited
he was to get the offer to write
the novelization of “THE
EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.”
• You’ll see a
full-length (nearly 10 minutes)
un-cut version of Don Glut’s
“SON OF TOR,” made when
he was a teenager. The film takes
place on an island similar to
Skull Island, featuring a giant
ape, dinosaurs, and even a
gigantic lizard that is nothing
more than Glut’s pet
alligator with a dinosaur-like
fin taped to his back. Brian
Lambert provided the music.
Bob Burns tells about:
• The first time he
made himself up as a werewolf,
using shoe polish to darken his
face
• His friendship with
Paul Blaisdell, naming many of
the films Blaisdell created
monsters for and telling about
the time he played an alien in
“INVASION OF THE
SAUCERMEN.”
• You’ll see Bob
Burns’ film he made at age
seventeen called “THE
MONSTER,” with 70-year old
Bob offering a commentary on the
silly sets, lab equipment, and
the makeup for the monster, which
consisted of lettuce applied to
Bob Burns’ face.
Steve Johnson:
Steve Johnson, in several
extensive interview segments,
gives us an in depth look at what
it was like to be a child
filmmaker trying to do his own
versions of all the Universal
Pictures horror classics (even
though he’s lost those
films!) He tells about the
incredible
“synchronicity” by
which he met Rick Baker in Texas,
and how his correspondence with
Rick Baker while he was still in
high school led to him coming to
Hollywood and receiving help from
Rick Baker in getting established
in makeup effects.
• You’ll see
excerpts from a recent short
special effects film Steve made
as an experiment, called
“EVERLOVING” – an
elaborate exercise in making a
visually creative and imaginative
effects film that looks like it
was made digitally but was made
mainly with old-fashioned
techniques, including puppets of
various sizes.
Dennis Muren:
By far the longest and most
in-depth interview in the Bonus
Features is with Dennis Muren. We
hear about many aspects of Dennis
Muren’s life, challenges,
hobbies (we see more of his 8mm
childhood movies), and the
gigantic business changes in the
world of special effects that he
has witnessed and for which, in
large part, he has been
responsible. You’re learn
about the founding and growth of
Industrial Light and Magic, and
about the creation of Pixar and
its early development.
You’ll also get to hear
about Dennis Muren’s
philosophy, relating to the irony
that he was born at this
particular moment in time. If he
had been born much earlier or
much later, his life and work
would have been completely
different. The explosion of
special effects has happened now,
in our lifetime.
Peter Jackson:
Lastly, Peter Jackson discusses
“THE VALLEY,” which he
produced when he was fifteen. It
included a stop motion animated
creature, similar to Ray
Harryhausen’s Cyclops. His
film won an award for best
special effects in a student
production. That, and FAMOUS
MONSTERS magazine, started him on
his way. He tells about what
it’s been like collecting
FAMOUS MONSTERS issues through
the years, and how it’s
become a game in his life.
Lastly, Peter Jackson makes his
statement about “THE SCI-FI
BOYS,” that it was a film
that puts on the record, for all
of time, the contribution the
great pioneers of this genre had
on his generation of filmmakers.
PHOTO AND DOCUMENT GALLERIES
• The Ackermansion
1986, Ray and Diana Harryhausen,
Forrest and Wendayne Ackerman,
Paul and Hollace Davids
• Pre-Golden Globe
party 2006, with Peter Jackson,
Forrest J Ackerman, Rick Baker,
Basil Gogos, Bob Burns, and Paul,
Hollace and Scott Davids
• Paul Davids’
childhood monsters – a
collection from 5th grade
“trick photography”
with a ghost to teenage creation
Glarph the Sea Serpent
• 1931 – two
letters from Universal Pictures
Founder Carl Laemmle to Forrest J
Ackerman
"Creepy
Crawls" is a ghoulish and
ghastly terror-touring travel
guide to the most dreadfully
Horror-ed of destinations! From
Tobe Hooper's 1974 drive-in
classic The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre to the real-life
Baltimore haunts of Edgar Allan
Poe to the macabre features of
Paris, France, Creepy Crawls
offers morbidly offbeat locations
for horror aficionados and travel
buffs alike.
Author Leon Marcelo lurks with
you amongst the foulest of
frightfully fiendish horror
sites, and offers the name and
address of each destination,
horror trivia and curiosities,
photographs, travel tips, all in
an entertainingly ghoulish
narrative that is in the jugular
vein of beloved horror-host
Elvira and the classic horror
comic book icon The Crypt Keeper.
"Creepy Crawls" takes
the reader on a befouled,
worm-ridden journey to:
London's most loathsome sights
Grim Paris
Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore
H.P. Lovecraft's New England
Stephen King's Maine
And visits the despoiled haunts
of:
Dawn of the Dead
The Exorcist
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween
The Amityville Horror
Friday the 13th
"Creepy Crawls" also
includes a ghostly guide to the
final resting places of such
horror legends as Bela Lugosi,
Peter Lorre, and Lon Chaney, as
well as a foreword by the one and
only Godfather of Gore-Herschell
Gordon Lewis, director of such
horror classics as "Blood
Feast" and "2,000
Maniacs."
And so you must ask yourself,
Creepy Reader: Do you have the
guts for somegood ghastly and
gruesome olde . . . creepy
crawls?!?
The Author
Leon Marcelo has been a horror
fiend since first reading Edgar
Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale
Heart" at the tender age of
thirteen. His writing has been
featured in Deep Red, Fangoria,
Rue Morgue, Chiller Theatre,
Ultra Violent, Horror Biz, Carpe
Noctem, Morbid Curiosity, and
Virus (Germany). He is a Ph.D.
candidate in English at the State
University of New York at Stony
Brook, where his work
concentrates on composition and
rhetoric and, of corpse, Horror
in literature and film.
 Previously
Sold-Out Book JACK PIERCE –
THE MAN BEHIND THE MONSTERS
is Back from the Dead via
Amazon.com
Los Angeles, CA—August 22,
2007—Like Dr.
Frankenstein’s theories
themselves, the impossible is now
possible in conjunction with
CreateSpace, the world’s
fastest-growing provider of
print-on-demand books. Sold out
upon its first printing, the
48-page magazine-style book, with
official photos and text about a
legendary makeup artist, has at
last returned in an on-demand
capacity in both standard printed
book and digital downloadable
formats.
JACK PIERCE – THE MAN BEHIND
THE MONSTERS chronicles the
career exploits of
Universal’s classic monster
creator, Jack Pierce, who was
with the studio during their
horror heyday of 1928-1947. After
freelancing in Hollywood’s
earliest days as an actor,
stuntman and assistant director,
Pierce flourished in makeup in
the 1910s and 1920s, first making
himself into any variety of movie
extras called for on fledgling
studio lots. Then, from
1930-1947, Pierce created some of
cinema history's most
distinguishable icons of fright.
Include Frankenstein’s
Monster, The Mummy, The Bride of
Frankenstein, Ygor, The Wolf Man,
and The Phantom of the Opera
among his many classic creations.
Pierce undeniably created the
greatest screen characters in the
careers of Boris Karloff, Béla
Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Claude
Rains, and many others of the
period. Contained in this unique
publication are detailed text and
photos from every significant
film of Pierce’s career,
spanning the mid-1910s to the
mid-1960s.
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ABOUT AUTHOR
Since the mid-1980s, Scott Essman
has been writing and producing
projects about motion picture
craftsmanship and Hollywood
history. In the past ten years
specifically, he has published
over 250 articles as a freelancer
for outlets including The Los
Angeles Times, Entertainment
Design, Cinefex, Creative
Screenwriting, Directed By: The
Cinema Quarterly, plus several
Internet sites dealing with
filmmaking. He has also produced
over 15 publicity projects for
Universal Studios Home
Entertainment where he made video
documentaries about moviemakers,
wrote publicity materials, and
interviewed movie craftspeople,
including Peter Jackson (KING
KONG), Zack Snyder (300), and
David Twohy (RIDDICK). His Jack
Pierce efforts culminated in this
book and a play performed only
once in 2000. Scott lives in
Southern California with his two
Dachshunds.
MEDIA CONTACT: Scott Essman,
scottessman@yahoo.com,
626-963-0635.
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