James L. Neibaur > Quotes

“Most of the werewolf tale was original to this movie. Some could be found in the earlier Werewolf of London, but a person becoming a werewolf from a bite, a silver weapon being necessary to kill a werewolf, the mark of the pentagram, and so on were the creation of screenwriter Siodmak.”
― James L. Neibaur, The Monster Movies of Universal Studios

“He bought a 230-acre farm, and Universal was the first truly “big” movie studio and remained the largest in Hollywood for a decade.”
― James L. Neibaur, The Monster Movies of Universal Studios

“Because silent movies are projected at 18 frames per second, when this footage is included in a sound film projected at 24 frames per second, the movements are faster and jerkier.”
― James L. Neibaur, The Monster Movies of Universal Studios

“His experiments with special effects for The Lost World (1925) continue to be the blueprint for what has been done since.”
― James L. Neibaur, The Monster Movies of Universal Studios

“Lugosi ended up being hired when he agreed to the very small salary of only $500 per week for seven weeks.”
― James L. Neibaur, The Monster Movies of Universal Studios

“Even a man who is pure in heart, And says his prayers by night. May become a wolf when the wolf bane blooms, And the autumn moon is bright.”
― James L. Neibaur, The Monster Movies of Universal Studios

“While the basic legend of the werewolf was old, Curt Siodmak’s script defined it for all subsequent portrayals. Even the poem was his creation, and in later years the writer would laugh at how people believed it was actual folklore.”
― James L. Neibaur, The Monster Movies of Universal Studios

“Some studies claim that Strickfaden used an actual Tesla coil built by Tesla himself.”
― James L. Neibaur, The Monster Movies of Universal Studios

“The studio had actually informed Browning that they wanted Dracula to attack only female characters because of the sexual subtext.”
― James L. Neibaur, The Monster Movies of Universal Studios

“This was the last time Boris Karloff would portray the Frankenstein monster in a movie (he would don the makeup for a celebrity baseball game in 1940 and again for a 1962 episode of TV’s Route 66).”
― James L. Neibaur, The Monster Movies of Universal Studios