Daft mistakes in film books in Horror Film Books and Magazines Forum

0 Points

Forum Jump

Daft mistakes in film books

Author	Comment
TomWeaver999		#21	[-]
Mar 10 12 12:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Could he possibly be related to .... ?? If I was aware of him/his book at the time, I've sure done a great job of forgetting him/it.
	Remove this ad
clore103051		#22	[-]
Mar 10 12 1:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Chesterbelloc wrote: Robert Marrero's VINTAGE MONSTER MOVIES was the only book to tell us the truth: BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN is the highest grossing film in history. He also lifted whole paragraphs from Greg Mank's IT'S ALIVE!, and supplemented that info with sentences and information from Weaver and the Brunai's UNIVERSAL HORRORS. I see that the book has an intro by FJA. Now I'm curious as to why he would have endorsed it or at least, what he had to say about it.
thehorrorboy		#23	[-]
Mar 10 12 2:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: For years, CITIZEN KANE was missing from the list of Orson Welles' movies in the back of every Maltin MOTV guide. The prestigious AFI CATALOG says GONE WITH THE WIND is black-and-white. Well, yeah, it was black and white... and red, blue, yellow, orange, green, etc.
Chesterbelloc		#24	[-]
Mar 10 12 3:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: Could he possibly be related to .... ?? If I was aware of him/his book at the time, I've sure done a great job of forgetting him/it. We used to yuck about the book on the old AOL boards, but it is very forgettable. Check out my movie collection at: http://www.dvdaf.com/search.html?where=larryw7&init_form=where_0_larryw7*mode_more Last Edited By: Chesterbelloc Mar 10 12 3:32 PM. Edited 1 times.
Marshall Crist		#25	[-]
Mar 10 12 4:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	AnthonyOsika wrote: TomWeaver999 wrote: "Effing hack." Great potential nom de plume for an aspiring writer. lol F. Inghak.
markchro		#26	[-]
Mar 10 12 5:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	One mistake that has stuck in my mind since I bought and read the book back in the late 1980's, was Gene Wright's Horrorshows. There's a chapter near the back entitled Horror-Makers with details on directors and actors. There was a small biog of Michael Gough that caught my attention......"GOUGH, MICHAEL 1917-1985" Which must have been news to Mr Gough as he was still well with us, appearing in Out Of Africa, and getting ready to play Alfred in Tim Burton's Batman. At least Mr Gough did go on to have a great innings and made it to 94! (about a year ago)
Paul Haight		#27	[-]
Mar 11 12 2:24 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gojira wrote: Picked up a second hand copy of the Aurum Encyclopedia on Science Fiction - which I remember spending many long hours with as a child whilst visiting a distant relative - and noticed some rather daft mistakes in it, further compounded by them being repeated in the stills! Their synopsis of INVASION OF THE STAR CREATURES could only have been written by somebody who never saw the movie. In addition to stating that the space Amazons are under the control of the vegetable monsters, and that the monsters invade an army base (!), the unidentified reviewer asserts that "the film's best sequence is the attack on Ball and Victor by a star creature hiding on the back seat of Ball's car while the couple watch a movie at the drive-in", a scene which does not appear in the movie. The same book asserts that there were two PERRY RHODAN movies, and Essy Persson was in both, but I'm pretty sure there was only one. Another gem: the monster in THE CREEPING TERROR "lumbers out of a crashed spaceship in the Colorado desert". Planet Collision!
TomWeaver999		#28	[-]
Mar 11 12 12:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	<< "GOUGH, MICHAEL 1917-1985" Which must have been news to Mr Gough << There was a 1990s book (which I hope is not only out of print but no longer exists) on PRC, by a nut named Wheeler Dixon, which had the opposite problem: Apparently he researched people associated with PRC using sources from the 1940s (!!!!!), so everybody who was still alive in the 1940s was still alive according to this 1990s book. It was filled with entries like "Henry Hdfjggfrdsaf (1880- )" indicating that all these people were still around and in their 100s or 110s or 120s.
Rakshasa		#29	[-]
Mar 11 12 12:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: It was filled with entries like "Henry Hdfjggfrdsaf (1880- )" indicating that all these people were still around and in their 100s or 110s or 120s. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Links To All The Classic Monster Stills I've Posted: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/30758
Rick		#30	[-]
Mar 11 12 12:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I guess we could start listing the problems with John Stanley's books, but maybe that's just not fair...
	Remove this ad
Kosmo13		#31	[-]
Mar 11 12 2:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In the 90's there was some book on vampire movies that misidentified the picture of Anthony Hopkins on the back cover as Anthony Perkins. In this case, I did judge a book by its cover. I left it on the bookstore shelf and didn't bother looking at what was printed on the pages.
doctor kiss		#32	[-]
Mar 11 12 2:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Kosmo13 wrote: In the 90's there was some book on vampire movies that misidentified the picture of Anthony Hopkins on the back cover as Anthony Perkins. In this case, I did judge a book by its cover. I left it on the bookstore shelf and didn't bother looking at what was printed on the pages. Scott Nance's BLOODSUCKERS - VAMPIRES AT THE MOVIES [currently available for 1 cent on Amazon]. He includes the Anthony Hopkins picture again inside the book, as a full page photo on p.8, likewise identified as Anthony Perkins. I let the book sit gathering dust on my shelf for many years after it came out in 1992, and when I eventually looked at it again last summer, a piece of paper fell out, on which I'd evidently started listing all the errors it contained. The list ran to 54 errors,... but that was only up to page 26, at which point I'd clearly grown bored and just tucked the list into the book to continue with at some future date. Just took the accursed thing off the shelf again... and page 18 is another full page photo groaner. It's a still of Reggie Nalder in SALEM'S LOT, with the caption underneath: 'Klaus Kinski as NOSFERATU in Werner Herzog's 1979 remake.' Even the front cover doesn't escape without a mistake, promising coverage of all vampire movies, beginning with LA MANOIR DU DIABLE (which should be LE MANOIR DU DIABLE --- although at least the author is being consistent, as he changes the spelling of any number of French and Italian movie titles at will in the main text of the book as well). Last Edited By: doctor kiss Mar 11 12 2:35 PM. Edited 1 times.
Rick		#33	[-]
Mar 11 12 2:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Speaking of such error-lists...after my reading of Drake Douglas's HORROR last year and listing the errors I found, it occurred to me that maybe I'd read/re-read other genre volumes with pad and pencil in hand, just to be fair. Still might try that. I just finished reading Jonathan Rigby's AMERICAN GOTHIC (without having my mind on errors), and only noticed two mistakes. Both were photo captions and both made exactly the same mistake -- identifying Ralph Morgan as his more famous brother, Frank.
TomWeaver999		#34	[-]
Mar 11 12 2:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There's a vampire book by the Raymond McNally-Rgfhf Fsdfdgg team that says that Lugosi played Dracula aka Count Latos in HOUSE OF DRACULA. I mentioned this in my FANGORIA book review and McNally wrote an angry letter insisting that, yes, on page (whatever) it DOES say that ... but in the back, on page (whatever), they listed Carradine as the actor playing Dracula aka Count Latos, so therefore there WAS no mistake. FANGORIA showed me the letter in advance, so that when it was published in the next issue, my response was right underneath: "I didn't realize that a boner had to be made twice to qualify as a boner. And by the way, it's Baron (not Count) Latos, pal." Last Edited By: TomWeaver999 Mar 11 12 3:42 PM. Edited 1 times.
clore103051		#35	[-]
Mar 11 12 3:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: "I didn't release that a boner had to be made twice to qualify as a boner. And by the way, it's Baron (not Count) Latos, pal." I hope that you really didn't write "I didn't release."
TomWeaver999		#36	[-]
Mar 11 12 3:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In the magazine, I didn't. TODAY I did! Thanks for catching that.
clore103051		#37	[-]
Mar 11 12 3:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gotta be careful about releasing that boner. I once in my frustration at correcting a staff member's sales pieces, sent back all but the one which had proper calculations and wrote a note that said "Your driving me crazy with these simple math mistakes." He gave them back to me, all corrected and he corrected my note. I actually had a good laugh about that and thanked him for keeping me humble.
DonM435		#38	[-]
Mar 11 12 4:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	On a visit to my folks' house in Chicago some years ago, I found an old book from my collection, Monsters From The Movies, a 1972 paperback by Thomas G. Aylesworth, published by J. B. Lippincott. It has a bunch of marginal corrections by some young snotnose who felt he knew better than the author. No new blooper-scan: all of these I found 40 years ago. Re Son of Dracula, he manages to assign the out-of-left-field name to the antagonist: "Chaney was not the suave gentleman that his father was, in spite of cleverly operating under the alias of Anthony Alucard (spell that one backwards). ..." [p. 103] In 1939, we are told, Basil Rathbone played "Wolfgang Frankenstein." He must be confusing Frankenstein with Mozart. [p 36] Also, the monster's loyal friend was "Igor." [p 37] The werewolf of London is really "an eccentric botanist who is attacked by a real werewolf while on an expedition." "The Japanese gets away with the plant and the loveable botanist is killed by a silver bullet." [p 61]. In the next paragraph, he's a kindly physician. Eccentric (maybe), real (well, yeah, but ...), gets away (no way), loveable, kindly, physician . . . arrrgh! On The Wolf Man [p 62], were told that Talbot's family lives in Transylvania, and that he's out for a moonlight stroll when "He breaks up a fight between a werewolf and a beautiful young girl." Talbot's pentagram is said to appear in the palm of his hand. He takes pains to describe the protagonist as a twenty-six-year-old college boy. Where he got that figure I don't know: Talbot's grave marker in the sequel says he was 31. In the next film, The House of Frankenstein (1944), the monster "returns the favor and brings the wolf man back to life." [p 65] The chapter on Self-Made Monsters ends with a discussion of The Fly, and states that "The fly with the human head ends up as a spider's dinner." [p 68] How could he forget that Herbert Marshall squished the hybrid critter? [Edit: Had to put back some punctuation that was lost as special characters.] Last Edited By: DonM435 Mar 11 12 4:48 PM. Edited 2 times.
Rick		#39	[-]
Mar 11 12 5:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	On The Wolf Man [p 62], were told that Talbot's family lives in Transylvania, Drake Douglas makes the same mistake. Even as a kid I never thought Universal's Wales seemed anything like Transylvania.
dcwillis9		#40	[-]
Mar 11 12 5:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In my own worst bit of daftness, in print at least, I had Shelley Winters killed off in "Winchester '73". Saw it again some time later--she was only wounded. If I see it again, I hope that's not wrong, too....
	Remove this ad

<< Previous Topic Next Topic >>

Add Reply

Yuku free message boards

Daft mistakes in film books