COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN: DAY 11.5

Just a quick reminder

Tonight on Turner Classic Movies

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013

8pm ET -- HORROR OF DRACULA

9:30pm ET -- ISLE OF THE DEAD

11pm ET-- DEAD OF NIGHT

1am ET-- THE HAUNTING

3am ET-- THE HOUSE OF SEVEN CORPSES

4:30am ET-- HORROR CASTLE

MONSTER MONTH: A COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN (Day 19)

(Frankenstein's Monster is a Foodie?)

Well it’s much later than I usually post these Monster-Month blogs, but I had a snag last night and could not complete the task.  And so, let us look instead to the future.  More specifically to the children who will carry the torch (pardon the pun) for Frankenstein’s creation for the forseeable future.  

Adam Rex created a couple of really neat books featuring our fair Frankenstein Monster and they are for kids, though I’m of the opinion that they’re good for all ages.  The focus isn’t completely on the creature, but on many of the monsters who are out there making meals every day trying to feed themselves and their families.

FRANKENSTEIN MAKES A SANDWICH and FRANKENSTEIN TAKES THE CAKE are the two titles in question and I wish I had my copies of these two books available, but I can’t seem to find them at the moment.  But as you can see from the art and bit of poetry in the images around, it’s fun stuff.

(Click to Frankensize)

from the KIRKUS REVIEW:

FRANKENSTEIN MAKES A SANDWICH (reviewed on August 1, 2006)

Readers will relish every gross and hilarious entry in this monstrous menu of misadventures, from the towering appetizer concocted by Frankenstein—a green-skinned Fred Gwynne in Rex’s detail-rich, superbly over-the-top illustrations—to the Japanese-inflected closer, “Godzilla Pooped on my Honda.” Interlaced with repeated appearances from an increasingly frantic Phantom of the Opera (who can’t get a succession of pop tunes out of his head), the verses and accompanying art go from suggesting unfortunate results when “The Invisible Man Gets A Haircut,” to making lurid allusions to the contents of “The Lunchsack of Notre Dame.” They range from why “The Yeti Doesn’t Appreciate Being Called Bigfoot,” to tracking the Mummy’s reluctance to bed down: “Here’s his new excuse: / He wants cookies with his juice. / But he won’t get far— / that’s his stomach in that jar.” Making Judy Sierra’s Monster Goose (2001), illustrated by Jack E. Davis, look like an exercise in restraint, here’s a read-aloud candidate sure to elicit loud screams—but not of fright.  (Poetry. Ages 6-10)

(Click to Frankensize)

(Click to Frankensize)

SITES CITED:

http://adamrex.blogspot.com

http://www.superchefblog.com/2008/06/adam-rex-frankenstein-takes-cake.html

http://www.ironicsans.com/2006/09/interview_with_adam_rex.html

http://vbplrecommends.blogspot.com/2010/10/frankenstein-takes-cake-by-adam-rex.html

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/10/interview-with-king-of-the-monster-illustrators-adam-rex/

http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1425

BTW, here's some other art by Adam Rex of note to you, my readers:

And don't forget that TCM serves up these goodies

TOMORROW MORNING:

Saturday, October 20, 2012

9am - ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945)

10:15am - THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1958)

12pm - FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (1966)

1:45pm - DIARY OF A MADMAN (1963)

FINIS.

SHADOWY SATURDAY SELECTION - COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN (Day 29)

OCTOBER 29th on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES


9:30 am – Doctor X
In which cannibalistic murders are popping up all over the city as investigators try to discover the culprit before the next victim falls...







1:45 pm – Godzilla, King Of The Monsters
Toxicity breeds mother nature's revenge as the king of monsters comes up from the depths to wreak havoc in Japan!





8:00 pm – Cat People
A woman fears her sexual lust will lead to her transformation into a vengeful cat... and so do we!





9:30 pm – Martin Scorsese Presents: Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadows
Perfect title for a master of putting the negative spaces to as much or more use than most have for the positive ones.


11:00 pm – The Body Snatcher
A desperate Doctor uses a thug to obtain bodies to further his medical knowledge with little care as to where or why the bodies remain in such a steady and convenient supply.





12:30 am – Isle Of The Dead
Quarantined to an island during a deadly plague and war, rumors of a vampiric demon begin to spread among the fearful. The tension builds as a General attempts to visit the mausoleum in which his wife lies and finds it empty.







2:00 am – Bedlam
A young protege to Lord Mortimer is interested in the conditions at a notorious asylum nicknamed 'Bedlam', but when she tries to bring forth changes, she finds herself committed there by Master Sims (Boris Karloff). Will she escape or suffer there for an eternity?






3:30 am – The Seventh Victim
A young woman investigates why her sister has gone missing and stumbles into the rituals and actions of a satanic cult in Greenwich Village.






5:00 am – Ghost Ship
When a third mate calls his new Captain on his cruelty, as murders and disappearances run rampant during a voyage, he realizes he may be the next victim.