Humbug

1. A: something designed to deceive and mislead
    B: a willfully false, deceptive or insincere person

2. An attitude or spirit of pretense and deception

P. T. Barnum

    Joice Heth

    Fiji mermaid

Ballyhoo

    1. A noisy attention getting demonstration or talk
    2. Flamboyant, exaggerated or sensational advertising or propaganda

The Biograph Girl
    Florence Lawrence
Carl Laemmle

Boring publicity

Heart Throbs

Kroger Babbs

    Four Walling

    “Mom and Dad”

    Exploitation

William Castle

    William Schloss Jr.
    Bela Lugosi
   “ Macabre’”
    “House of Haunted Hill
        Vincent Price
        Emergo
    “The Tingler”
        Vincent Price
        Judith Evelyn
        Percepto
        Lysergic Acid LSD25
        Shill
        “The Nun’s Story”
     “Thirteen Ghosts”
         Illusion-o
      “Rosmary’s Baby”

Alex Nicol
    “Screaming Skull”

3D
Alfred Hitchcock
    “Dial M for Murder”

“House of Wax”
“Creature from the Black Lagoon”
“Monsters Crash the Pajama Party”

“Terror in the Haunted House”
    Psycho-rama

“Horror of the Black Museum”
    Hypno-Vista

“The Hypnotic Eye”
    Hypno-Magic
    “The Great Imposter”
    Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr.
    Allison Hayes



“Scent of Mystery”
    Smell-O-Vision

Polyester
    John Waters
    Odorama


“Rug Rats Go Wild”
    Odorama II

Dracula

    1847 Varney the Vampire
    1847 Bram Stoker Born
    1897 Writes Dracula
        1431 Vlad the Impaler
        1890 Summer Vacatioin in Whitby

    Vamp Theda Bara “Arab Death”

    1921 Drakula halala - Karoly Lajthay
    1922 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grausenn - F. W. Murnau
    1923 Stage Play
    1925 Midnight Girl - Wilfred Noy
    1927 London After Midnight - Tod Browning
    1931 Dracula - Tod Browning
        I am Dracula
        Soy Dracula
        Meet the Wives

    Wise Guy

    Philip Glass

    Bela Lugosi

        Problems

        Decline

    1936 Dracula’s Daughter
        Lambert Hillyer & Gloria Holden
    1958 The Horror of Dracula
        Terence Fisher & Christopher Lee
    1972 Blacula
        William Grain & William Marshall
    1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre
        Werner Herzog & Klaus Kinski
    1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula
        Francis Ford Coppola & Gary Oldman
    1995 Dracula: Dead and Loving It
        Mel Brooks & Leslie Nielsen