We dropped with Horror Express with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. So the first one I taped was House on Haunted Hill. And if you ever buy from Screen Factory, the Vincent Price Collection has my hour-long interview with him. They tried to find Vincent Price titles for me, because I’m rather well-known for having done one of the only on-camera interviews with Vincent Price on his entire career, called Vincent Price: The Sinister Image. I was given a list of films, and those were what we chose. What’s the criteria for the films you choose for Haunted Hollywood ? And I’m sure my story resonates with a lot of people, because you start out with that genre when you’re a little boy. So as a kid, that was what I watched, as an escape from school and all that kind of thing. And then I started watching the films of Vincent Price, especially at the drive-in, when I was in high school, because that’s what they showed, nothing but triple-feature horror movies. as the Mummy, and Bela Lugosi as Dracula. So the first movies I saw were the Universal horror films, with Lon Chaney Jr. For Ed Wood’s Bride of the Monster, he talks about the delusional world of the man who played Kelton the Cop.ĭavid Del Valle spilled deeper stories all over Den of Geek in a terrifying talk about Haunted Hollywood.ĭen of Geek: What cemented you as a horror aficionado rather than any other genre?ĭavid Del Valle: I started going to the movies when I was four, or five, or six years old. For Horror Express, he tells the story of the stages of grief Peter Cushing passed through after the death of his wife. Martin Kosleck spent his career playing onscreen Nazi villains and perverts, Del Valle got to witness the actor’s debauchery first hand. He also produced and was the on-camera host of the only interview Vincent Price ever gave about his horror film career.įor the film Flesh Eaters, a guilty pleasure for horror purists where particles eat their way out of victims’ bodies, Del Valle opens with the story of the mad scientist who spiked their drinks.
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Del Valle hosted a series of television interviews entitled “Sinister Image,” speaking with moviemakers as varied as Cameron Mitchell to Russ Meyer. The film historian and agent to the stars hosts Haunted Hollywood, opening each showing with a personal story. Real life and Hollywood history blend in macabre ways, and no one blends these stories better than David Del Valle.
For some of these movies, the most horrifying thing is they ever got made in the first place. Some of these films are frightening in their content, others for the stories behind the film. Every Friday for 13 weeks, they will add a new scary flick.
On Friday, July 31, the channel and app dropped seven cult classics to their new 20-film series Haunted Hollywood.
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But Full Moon Features does, and they know where to find them. “The police don’t believe in monsters,” we learned in Ed Woods’ 1955 B-movie horror favorite Bride of the Monster.
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