![]() ![]() ![]() These were the first rumblings of what would become a national craze, one which served as a gruesome shadow to the political and social upheaval of the ’60s. ![]() In 1957, Mark Voger writes in his entertaining and engrossing Monster Mash, a pre- Little House Michael Landon starred in I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and Hammer Films released Curse of Frankenstein. Atomic age paranoia gave rise to the Red Scare, and Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver targeted horror comics as the main cause of juvenile delinquency. Monsters languished in the ’50s as aliens and irradiated insects became the main cinematic movie threat. As the real world became more honest about itself, horror films gained popularity, and grotesque creatures like the Phantom of the Opera and Frankenstein’s monster were fantastic reactions to the thousands of soldiers who returned home carrying deep mental and physical scars. The industrial grade slaughter wrought by World War I forced humanity to face the dark side of a century’s worth of technological innovation. ![]()
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