Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

De: Gary J. Svehla, A. Susan Svehla

Narrado por: Tom Proveaux, Forrest J. Ackerman, Christopher Lee, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Janet Leigh, Gregory W. Mank

Part one of a multi-part series with distinguished actors, directors, writers, composers, and special effects mavens examining the history of the horror, fantasy, and science fiction films from the groundbreaking silent 1920s through the Golden Age of Universal, the Silver Age of Hammer and up through the 1980s and beyond. The Golden Age chapter covers the silent classics of Lon Chaney, to the great Universal Studios monsters of the 30s and 40s. Join Tom Proveaux, Forry Ackerman, Christopher Lee, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Janet Leigh, and historian Gregory W. Mank, perhaps the foremost expert on the subject of classic horror films, as they discuss such classics as: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, The Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and countless others. Grab the popcorn and take a deep breath as we conjure up the thrills, chills and magic of the movies!

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It was ok

I loved the actors interviews but it felt like it was the audio from a video but I think it was worth the price and time

Audible should be ashamed

This isn’t a book or a podcast or a lecture. It’s audio ripped from a video—a short one, at that. There’s no context given of any of the speakers (because as a video, you get on screen text so you know who’s talking), but this is like listening to a YouTube video while you’re in the other room. No idea who is saying what. Huge sections of the content are nothing but sound effects or the soundtrack from the movies that are being discussed. Which, again, is fine for video, NOT FOR AUDIO ONLY.

This is an underhanded and lazy way to add more content to the site, but this content is weakly presented and a ripoff at the cost of a full-price book. Same goes for the other offerings from this series. Don’t get them. And complain to Audible for a lackluster screening process.