You'll enjoy McEwan's incisive analysis of the films, and his many anecdotes about their production, their creators, and their stars. The pitchfork-wielding villagers of the films, in real life, were often parents, friends, and neighbors.įrom Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, and The Mummy, to Val Lewton's Cat People and the comical coda of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Douglas McEwan teases out most elegantly the subliminal message in each of your favorite monster films. Many gays felt akin to the cinematic monsters: isolated, unloved, even persecuted. In the 1930s and 1940s, when most of the classic monster films were made, American society was less accommodating to gay lifestyles than it is today. ![]() Part social commentary, part film history, We Belong Dead will change your view of the classic movie monsters. They've been gay all along, but you didn't know it. The monsters are coming out of the closet. ![]() A Top-to-Bottom Guide to Classic Monster Films
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