Questions about Fantasias devil erotic-thriller goddess Shannon Whirrey and moreSend your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkQuestion I know this sounds crazy but I saw the Walt Disney movie Fantasia for the first time recently and I swear the big demon in the mountain sequence reminded me of someone Something about the hands I think Do you have any idea what Im talking about OonaFlickChick This so doesnt sound crazy to me because theres a familiar actors body language behind the magnificent demon who presides over Fantasia s 1940 Night on Bald Mountain segment set to music by Modest Mussorgsky Its none other than Bela Lugosi 1882-1956 Disney hired Lugosi the Hungarian actor most associated with the movie incarnation of Bram Stokers Count Dracula to act as a live-action reference model for the bat-winged Chernabog The chief animator for the sequence Vladimir Billread more
Has the Saw franchise's Tobin Bell joined the ranks of Bela Lugosi and Robert Englund by becoming the newest famous face in frightdom? Judging by his MTV Movie Award in the best-villain category, it would seem so. (For good measure, Bell also had the likes of Frank Spotnitz, who worked with the actor on both The X-Files and read more
Question: I'm just curious about why Paul Thomas Anderson's production company is named Ghoulardi Films. Was he a big fan of Channel 8's Shock Theater when he was a kid?
Answer: Here's a hint: Hipster Cleveland-area TV horror host Ghoulardi's real name was Ernie Anderson. Yes, Paul Thomas Anderson is his son. The director actually grew up in California; his father moved from Cleveland in 1966 to pursue work as a voice actor and became an extremely successful TV announcer. For younger readers who think the history of horror hosts begins with Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Ghoulardi was only one in a long line of oddball characters who introduced TV showings of old horror movies. They're all descended from "Vampira," a wasp-wairead more