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The Secret History Of Hollywood

A Universe Of Horrors: Part 8

The Secret History Of Hollywood

Adam Roche

Tv & Film, Film History

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Especially for Halloween Month... Delving deep into the darkest corners of horror movies this series explores the highs and lows of the blood and gore genre following, in particular, the changing fortunes of Universal Horror. From Dracula and Frankenstein to The Black Cat, a movie that even Universal executives deemed "too vile for public consumption", and beyond to the influences of science fiction and the new breed of horror films... To gain instant access to the entire series, along with twelve more full length multi-hour series' on Hollywood and its history, sign up now at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time. They'll be on it all the time. He could walk to school by himself. She could see something, she shouldn't. He could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls. They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet. So, should I give my kid a phone?

0:22.5

Growing up with phones isn't always easy.

0:24.6

Introducing EEE safer Sims.

0:28.3

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0:29.9

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0:31.9

Only on the UK's best network.

0:34.5

To verify best network see E.e.com.uk slash claims. This newly mastered version of a universe of horrors is one of 12 series of the secret history of Hollywood.

0:42.0

New episodes are being written and created all the time.

0:45.8

If you'd like full access to every drama, every thrill, every story, then sign up now

0:51.5

at patreon.com slash ataboy's secret or follow the link in the show notes of this episode

0:58.4

and thank you. Universal's next horror experiment was captive wild woman starring the enigmatic

1:08.0

Aquanetta as Paula Dupree, a woman created by a mad scientist after he grafts

1:13.5

glangula material onto a gorilla named Chile.

1:18.3

This turns a normal gorilla into a sultry leggy brunette, complete with bikini, who was able to

1:24.1

control her fellow animals using her mind.

1:28.2

However, unbeknown to the mad scientist played by John Caradine,

1:32.1

Chila the gorilla was in love with her captor, an animal trainer named Fred Mason.

1:37.7

As a gorilla, he had no romantic feelings for her, but as a leggy, sultry brunette and a bikini,

1:43.4

he has no feelings for her.

1:46.8

He's too busy being in love with his fiancée, Evelyn Ankers.

1:50.8

Jealousy, it seems, has an odd effect on Paula the ape woman.

1:54.0

It causes her to transform back into an ape at least a little bit.

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