Rick Baker & David J. Skal

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

It’s Halloween in July as Gilbert and Frank celebrate the 90th anniversaries (1931-2021) of Universal Studios' original "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" by welcoming Oscar-winning makeup creator Rick Baker and author-historian David J. Skal for a fascinating conversation about sympathetic monsters, mad scientists (real and imagined), the origin of horror films, the genius of Jack Pierce and the premature deaths of Colin Clive, Dwight Frye and Lon Chaney. Also, David interviews Carla Laemmle, Rick turns Martin Landau into Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange appears in Boris Karloff's obit and Bram Stoker's widow tries to kill off "Nosferatu." PLUS: Ghoulardi! "Man of a Thousand Faces"! The influence of Forrest J. Ackerman! Bette Davis (almost) plays the Bride of Frankenstein! And the boys (once again) try to make sense of "The Black Cat"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:18.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast
0:24.0	with my co-host Frank Santopodre. Well 90 years ago this year Universal Studios
0:33.0	released two motion pictures that starred a pair of virtually unknown actors
0:40.0	named Baylilagosi and Boris Karloff. Those pictures were Dracula released
0:48.0	in February of 1931 and Frankenstein released in November. Both films would go
0:58.0	on to become beloved classics of the genre, terrifying audiences,
1:04.0	inspiring horror fans as well as other filmmakers and paving the way for
1:12.0	dozens of imitators, homages and even parodies. And because we're discussing
1:20.0	two unforgettable films, we need two experts to get the job done. Rick Baker
1:28.0	is an occasional actor and designer, a gorilla expert, a monster maker,
1:35.0	an Emmy winner and a seven time Academy Award winner and perhaps the most
1:43.0	admired and celebrated makeup and special effects artist in the history of cinema.
1:51.0	His contributions to the form take hours to list but here are some.
1:58.0	The exorcist, it's alive, King Kong, an American Werewolf in London,
2:05.0	Harry and the Hendersons, Edward, Men in Black, Grimble and Stu,
2:12.0	Gorillaz and the Miss, Planet of the Apes, Hellboy and the Wolfman.
2:19.0	The man even worked on a movie we love to talk about on this show,
2:26.0	The Thing with Two Heads. He's also the author of the 2019
2:35.0	Rick Baker Metamorphosis of full color, two volume, 700 page extravaganza,
2:47.0	highlighting his 50 year journey through Hollywood. David J. Skull is a cultural
2:57.0	historian, critic, filmmaker and the author of numerous books that are required
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