I think every kid is a natural monster buff.
October 17, 2023 12:26 PM   Subscribe

1981.. CBS News... Charles Osgood... Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Monsters... But Were Afraid! [50m] A strange news-ish coverage of monsters of all sorts. Includes some really interesting mask and physical prop work from the age of physical effects.
posted by hippybear (4 comments total)

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OMG, I saw this on TV! I was ten and would check out every book at my library related to movie monsters and monster make-up and special effects, over and over and over...it's just a shame we didn't own a VCR back then, I would have worn that tape out watching this thing.
posted by mittens at 1:09 PM on October 17, 2023 [1 favorite]


OMG, I saw this on TV! I was ten and would check out every book at my library related to movie monster

Those books! When I was a kid, my dad was doing night classes to get his bachelor's that were held in a local high school. I'd hang out on the library and read those books obsessively while he was in class.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 2:22 PM on October 17, 2023


I remember watching this when it originally came on. Haven't seen it or heard it mentioned since. Awesome!
posted by Liquidwolf at 4:56 PM on October 17, 2023


When I was a kid, I used to like old monster movies without actually seeing them. I would read about them in A Pictorial History of Horror Movies and Famous Monsters of Filmland, but there was no home video in those day, no cable, and the few broadcast stations we could pick up didn't exactly run Boris Karloff marathons.
posted by pracowity at 9:25 AM on October 20, 2023


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