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The B-Movie Monsters That Time Forgot

“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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This video comes from Little White Lies, a film-focused magazine based in the United Kingdom.

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