In this very special Old Soul episode we discuss the amazing worlds of Sci-Fi and Horror with Dr. Roger Solberg! Dr. Solberg is a Professor Emeritus of English at Pennsylvania Western University-Edinboro. Before retiring in June 2022 he taught at Edinboro since 1989. In addition to teaching Literature and Film courses, he is also a three-time Jeopardy! champion (aka he knows A LOT!). Dr. Solberg walks us through the earliest creations of Horror and Sci-Fi novels/novellas and the transition to adapting these works into early films. We overview some of his favorite features and how the genres have evolved throughout the years. We are so grateful to learn more from him on the highlights (and lowlights) of some of Hollywood's most creative, inventive films!
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Movies
Frankenstein (1910) – Thomas Edison
Life without Soul (1915)
Frankenstein (1931)– Boris Karloff
Nosferatu (1922)
Dracula (1931) – Bela Lugosi
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) – Lon Chaney
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Doctor X (1932)
London After Midnight (1927)
The Mummy (1932) – Universal
(Westworld Series (2016-) / Jurassic Park (1993))
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
This Island Earth (1955)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
The Mole People (1956)
The Deadly Mantis (1957)
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) / aka The Creeping Unknown
Quatermass 2 (1957) / aka Enemy from Space
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) - Hammer
Horror of Dracula (1958) - Hammer
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) - Hammer
The Mummy (1959) - Hammer
The Phantom of the Opera (1962) - Hammer
The Brides of Dracula (1960) - Hammer
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Psycho (1960)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) – Frances Ford Coppola
Dracula (1979) - Frank Langella
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) – Kenneth Branagh / Robert De Niro
(Henry V (1989) - Kenneth Branagh / Hamlet (1996) – Kenneth Branagh)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) – Fredric March
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Island of Lost Souls (1932) – Charles Laughton [Note – Yes! Wally Westmore was involved with makeup!]
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) – Burt Lancaster
Hardware (1990)
(The Manchurian Candidate/The Birdman of Alcatraz/The Train)
The Time Machine (1960)
(Back to the Future (1985))
The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Thing from Another World (1951)
The Time Machine (2002)
War of the Worlds (2005)
2005 – H.G Wells’ War of the Worlds / Pendragon Pictures
The Great Martian War – YouTube
2005 – H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds or The Worlds in War or Invasion/ Asylum Pictures
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Spider Baby (1964)
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Books
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau – H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells