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Article: CLASSY CLASSIC HORROR RETROSPECTIVE PLAYS SEATTLE.(Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 11, 1999
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For most of the past 50 years, the great Universal Studio horror movies of the '30s have been, in the words of film historian William K. Everson, ``the least appreciated of all classic films.'' But no more.
-- The '90s have seen an explosion of interest in classic screen horror: dozens of books, videos and Web sites regularly argue that the studio's horror cycle of the '30s (with sequels extending into the '40s) is the single greatest body of work in American film.
-- In its recent documentary, ``Universal Horror,'' narrated by Kenneth Branagh, Turner Classics makes the case that the studio's famous movie monsters - Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf ...