So there I was, sitting on the couch with my laptop and telling myself I could NOT again post the picture of Frankenstein’s monster saying, “No like Monday!” I looked through my monster groups on Facebook for a new picture. Do you suppose I could find anything? Then I saw this movie poster, which has nothing to do with Mondays and is actually a kind of a disappointing monster, but I downloaded it anyways, and here it is.
He is rather intimidating on the poster, I suppose.
I’ve seen Curse of the Demon a couple of times, DVR’d from TCM. According to pre-movie commentary by Ben Mankiewicz, producer Val Lewton did not want to show the monster right away but was overruled by the studio. I agree that it would have been much scarier to see the first victim looking utterly horrified by… what? But these were pre-Jaws days.
For the uninitiated, in the first Jaws movie, we don’t see the shark until well into the movie. This was actually making a virtue of necessity, because they had a lot of trouble with that mechanical shark, but it turned out to be SO effective. Who knew? Val Lewton, apparently, but nobody believed him. Come to think of it, some post-Jaws movies could be a little more circumspect, too, but that’s a whole other blog post.
What a messy eater!
And here is the Jaws shark. I feel he is a monster worth waiting for. I’m afraid this was not a blog post worth waiting for, but what do you want from me on a Monday?
Mohawk Valley Girl 
Dana Andrews! He was my Houston high school principal’s brother – they were born in Huntsville – all 13 kids in the family. Both his bothers Dana and Steve Forest(also an actor) would come to our school every year and walk into English classes and read fiction/play out loud and talk about importance of English classes/reading/classical literature.
We were always thrilled. – Hadn’t thought of that in years…must go look up old films
How awesome is that! I love to hear about people giving back, supporting the arts and education like that. I’ve loved Dana Andrews since I saw him in “Laura.” Hmm, might be time to pop that one in again!