In partnership with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Miskatonic is proud to present this panel on the Universal Monsters as part of a all-day special event.
What truly created the classic Universal Monsters? The iconic figures of the Frankenstein Monster, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy and The Creature from the Black Lagoon were the not only the results of great performance, make-up and filmmaking skill, but a response to the events of the world around them. From the movie monsters birthed by the Great Depression to the creatures who emerged from the atomic age of the 1950s, director Joe Dante (The Howling, Gremlins), author Mallory O’Meara (author, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick) and special guest Sara Karloff will discuss these origins and more on a panel moderated by author and screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner and curated/presented by the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies.
This panel is part of the Natural History Museum’s annual “Haunted Museum” event, in conjunction with their Natural History of Horror exhibit, running through October 2019. Your $25 ticket includes activities at the Museum from 4pm-8pm – including complimentary appetizers and non-alcoholic refreshments, a ghostly scavenger hunt, access to the spider pavilion, a taxidermy demonstration and the panel discussion hosted by the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies from 7-8 pm.
There is free parking on site and a cash bar will be available.
Note: Tickets are VERY limited so get yours before they run out!
Images of the Universal Monsters courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing LLC.
C. Courtney Joyner is a novelist, journalist and screenwriter whose first major output was a string of more than 25 movie screenplays beginning with The Offspring (AKA From a Whisper to a Scream) starring Vincent Price, and Prison, directed by Renny Harlin, and continuing in the ’90s with Class of 1999, the CBS telefilm Distant Cousins, and Full Moon features like Dr. Mordrid, Trancers III, and H.P. Lovecraft’s The Lurking Fear, the latter two of which he also directed.
A film historian, Joyner’s articles and criticisms have appeared in more than twenty different publications, ranging from The Hollywood Reporter, Famous Monsters of Filmland to True West, where he served as Film and TV editor for three years. His critically acclaimed film book, The Westerners has been followed by contributions to biographies of John Wayne and Lon Chaney, and histories of horror and western movies. His two latest filmbooks, Unsung Heroes and Warner Brothers Fantastic will be published in 2020. In the world of fiction, Joyner is an award-winning author of short stories and novelist, many of them Westerns, having created the Shotgun mass market paperback series for Pinnacle Books. He is also the author of the sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Nemo Rising (2018), which has recently been adapted as a boardgame. Website: ccjoyner.com
