The B-Movie Monsters That Time Forgot

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Written By Chris Well

“Look, we can’t all be Frankenstein and maybe that’s okay.”—Film School Rejects

In Hollywood during the 1950s, monster movies pretty much turned away from the genre’s classic creations—instead of the literary and Universal Monsters, there came new nightmares drawing from the Atomic Age in odd shapes and sizes. In the video summary “The B-Movie Monsters That Time Forgot!,” Leigh Singer and Little White Lies explores the weird and wonderful creature features that conquered the genre more than half a century ago, and whose sense of invention, daring and sheer fun have helped keep them alive longer than anyone might have dared imagine…

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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