This Halloween at midnight, veteran writer-editor Paul Castiglia launches a blog to preview his forthcoming book, Scared Silly: Classic Hollywood Horror-comedies. The blog can accessed here.
Castiglia’s blog and book will offer readers a fun overview of horror-comedy films spanning the 1920s through 1966, the year Don Knotts’ The Ghost and Mr. Chicken was released. “In my mind, ‘The Ghost and Mr. Chicken’ was the last traditional horror-comedy, devoid of PG elements that would pepper later efforts,” said Castiglia.
Also covered will be horror-comedy entries in famous film series including The Little Rascals and The Bowery Boys, and efforts by comedians wildly popular in their day but less well-known now like Wheeler & Woolsey, Hugh Herbert and Olsen & Johnson. Of note to fans of oddball cinema is the inclusion of Brown & Carney, a team pre-fabricated by Rko to compete with Abbott & Costello and Mitchell & Petrillo, the latter aping Jerry Lewis so...
Castiglia’s blog and book will offer readers a fun overview of horror-comedy films spanning the 1920s through 1966, the year Don Knotts’ The Ghost and Mr. Chicken was released. “In my mind, ‘The Ghost and Mr. Chicken’ was the last traditional horror-comedy, devoid of PG elements that would pepper later efforts,” said Castiglia.
Also covered will be horror-comedy entries in famous film series including The Little Rascals and The Bowery Boys, and efforts by comedians wildly popular in their day but less well-known now like Wheeler & Woolsey, Hugh Herbert and Olsen & Johnson. Of note to fans of oddball cinema is the inclusion of Brown & Carney, a team pre-fabricated by Rko to compete with Abbott & Costello and Mitchell & Petrillo, the latter aping Jerry Lewis so...
- 10/16/2009
- by Barrett
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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