Category Archives: Posts by Jennifer Garlen

Silver Screen Standards: Elsa Lanchester

Silver Screen Standards: Elsa Lanchester Thanks to her role as the nameless title character in Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Elsa Lanchester has a special place in horror movie history as the most famous of the female Universal monsters, even though … Continue reading

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Silver Screen Standards: The Adventuress as Anti-Hero in Baby Face (1933)

The Adventuress as Anti-Hero in Baby Face (1933) Despite the sweetness of its title, Baby Face (1933) packs a punch so spicy that it’s famous even among Pre-Code pictures for its frankness about transactional sexual relationships. The pre-release version of … Continue reading

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Silver Screen Standards: Hangover Square (1945)

Hangover Square (1945) As a fan of great Hollywood villains like Boris Karloff and Vincent Price, I’ve always been fascinated by the brief but brilliant career of Laird Cregar, who died two months before the release of his final film, … Continue reading

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Silver Screen Standards: Mad Love (1935)

Silver Screen Standards: Mad Love (1935) I’m firmly in the “every day is Halloween” camp when it comes to classic horror movies, and I especially love the lesser-known, off-the-wall, really weird examples of the genre, from Murders in the Zoo … Continue reading

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Silver Screen Standards: To Catch a Thief (1955)

Silver Screen Standards: To Catch a Thief (1955) We mostly associate Alfred Hitchcock with tense thrillers and even horror, thanks to his later hits and TV series, but To Catch a Thief (1955) is something else entirely, a glamorous, action-filled … Continue reading

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Silver Screen Standards: Fifty Years of Jaws (1975)

Silver Screen Standards: Fifty Years of Jaws (1975) Some people watch fireworks every year on the Fourth of July, but I watch Jaws (1975). Steven Spielberg’s iconic adaptation of the novel by Peter Benchley has long been a favorite of … Continue reading

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Silver Screen Standards: The Universal Monsters

The Universal Monsters The summer of 2025 marks the arrival of the new Epic Universe theme park in Orlando, Florida, which prominently features an entire land, Dark Universe, dedicated to Universal’s iconic movie monsters. The Universal monsters have been around … Continue reading

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Silver Screen Standards: The Big Clock (1948)

Silver Screen Standards: The Big Clock (1948) Time looms over us all, but not as literally as it does over Ray Milland in director John Farrow’s fascinating noir, The Big Clock (1948), which features Milland as a magazine editor framed … Continue reading

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Silver Screen Standards: Dr. Morbius, Mr. Hyde, and “Monsters from the Id”

Dr. Morbius, Mr. Hyde, and “Monsters from the Id” I happened to watch both the 1941 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the 1956 science fiction classic, Forbidden Planet, in the last few weeks, and the thematic overlap … Continue reading

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Silver Screen Standards: Them! (1954)

Silver Screen Standards: Them! Capitalizing on nuclear anxiety, Them! (1954) helped to usher in a new era of monster movies guaranteed to give post-WWII Americans nightmares about the possible consequences of the Atomic Age. In Japan, this metaphorical threat took … Continue reading

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