About the Author:
Tom Weaver, who lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York, has been interviewing actors and directors since the early 1980s and has contributed to numerous magazines, including Fangoria, Starlog, Cult Movies and Video Watchdog. He is the author of a number of McFarland books, including Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks (1998), Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes (1999 McFarland Classic [1988/1991]), Poverty Row HORRORS! (1999 McFarland Classic [1993]), John Carradine (1999), and I Was a Monster Movie Maker: Conversations with 22 SF and Horror Filmmakers (2001).
From Booklist:
For I Was a Monster Movie Maker (2001), Weaver conversed with producer-director types. In its companion, he talks to the stars. So slip into the warm bath of the sci-fi (a term viable only in movieland) and monster-movie world of his 23 subjects as they seriously, though not solemnly, discuss crafting escapist entertainment during the 1950s, when audiences eagerly discarded their disbelief to be scared by the likes of The Blob and The She-Creature. Meet Kasey Rogers (Larry Tate's long-suffering wife Louise on TV's Bewitched), included here mainly for her role in Two Lost Worlds. Marvel at the painstaking make-up and costuming regimen David Hedison endured while making The Fly. Swing with star Denny Miller through the sets of Tarzan the Ape Man (1959), a movie experts have deemed a "BOMB" and dubbed "Tarzan the Worst." Cheerfully upbeat, generously illustrated in glorious black-and-white, this is fine fodder for B-movie fans. Mike Tribby
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