Welcome to the Forgotten Horrors cinematic world of weird mysteries and patent oddities, if not outright chillers, from low-rent, independent, North American filmmaking companies. Hold on to your hats as we cover gems such as: The Lion Man; Thunderbolt; The Leavenworth Case; Prison Shadows; Kliou (The Tiger); Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island; African Holiday; Blake of Scotland Yard; Larceny on the Air; The Devil Diamond; Hit the Saddle; The Girl from Scotland Yard; It Happened Out West; Killers of the Sea; Angkor, or Forbidden Adventure; Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde; The 13th Man; Rod La Rocque’s "Shadow"; Shadows of the Orient; Outlaws of the Orient; S O S Coast Guard; Sky Racket; Special Agent K-7; Safari on Wheels; Love Life of a Gorilla; Telephone Operator; Orphan of the Pecos; Wolves of the Sea; The Black Doll; Hollywood Stadium Mystery; Forbidden Adventure; Fury Below; The Adventures of Chico; Zamboanga; Life Returns; Durango Valley Raiders; It Happened in Chicago; The Night Hawk; The Karloff "Mr. Wong" Pictures; Shadows over Shanghai; Titans of the Deep; Mystery Plane; The Mystic Circle Murders; S.O.S.—Tidal Wave; Death Goes North; Daughter of the Tong; Adventures of the Masked Phantom; Torture Ship; Hitler—Beast of Berlin; The Devil’s Daughter; The Invisible Killer; Son of Ingagi; Phantom Rancher; Drums of Fu Manchu; Sky Bandits; On the Spot; The Leopard Men of Africa; Haunted House; Billy the Kid Outlawed; The Ranger and the Lady; The Ape; Midnight Shadow; Phantom of Chinatown; The Devil Bat; The Blood of Jesus; The Lone Rider Rides On; You’re Out of Luck; The Great Train Robbery; The Forgotten Village; Mr. District Attorney; City of Missing Girls; Adventures of Captain Marvel; Federal Fugitives; Bride of Buddha; Invisible Ghost; King of the Zombies; The Shark Woman; The Gang’s All Here; Murder by Invitation; Criminals Within; Up Jumped the Devil; Saddle Mountain Roundup; Mercy Island; Jungle Man; Spooks Run Wild; The Devil Pays Off; I Killed That Man; Four Shall Die; Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case; Private Snuffy Smith; Law of the Jungle; Lucky Ghost; Professor Creeps; Black Dragons; The Man with Two Lives; Spy Smasher; House of Errors; The Panther’s Claw; Home in Wyomin’; The Corpse Vanishes; The Mad Monster; Jungle Siren; Tomorrow We Live; Phantom Killer; The Devil with Hitler; Criminal Investigator; Bowery at Midnight; Outlaws of Boulder Pass; Hitler—Dead or Alive; Valley of Hunted Men; The Living Ghost; Secrets of the Underground
Michael H. Price is director of movie-theatre operations and programming for the Sundance Square Entertainment District in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, where he presides over the Fort Worth Film Festival and broadcasts a weekly film-review and discussion program over KRLD NewsRadio 1080.
Price earned accreditation as a working film critic—back in the day when one actually had to work at becoming a film critic, rather than just contrive to imitate Entertainment Weekly’s pernicious name-dropping snark-isms—as an apprentice to George Turner during the preparation of Turner’s seminal film-history book, The Making of King Kong, during 1968-75. The numerous Turner & Price ventures began in earnest during 1975-79 with the development of the Forgotten Horrors project––a groundbreaking volume whose 20th anniversary the authors marked in 1999 with Forgotten Horrors: The Definitive Edition for Midnight Marquee Press. From the springboard of Turner’s rough notes and partial manuscripts, Price has carried on with the present sequels. He is at work on subsequent entries in the Forgotten Horrors series and meanwhile has retooled The Making of King Kong as a more expansive genre study called Spawn of Skull Island—forthcoming from Midnight Marquee Press.
George E. Turner (1925-1999) was the guiding force behind the original Forgotten Horrors collection during the 1970s. He graduated from there to a distinguished career in Hollywood as a cartoon animator, special-effects and scenic-design technician, storyboard artist and occasional character actor and scenarist––in addition to holding forth as editor of American Cinematographer magazine and abiding historical conscience of the American Society of Cinematographers. Turner’s prior career had been no less distinguished but altogether less cosmopolitan, as a newspaper illustrator and writer, magazine publisher and art-gallery proprietor during 1950-78 in West Texas, where his work caromed wildly between the finer arts and thousands of gloriously lowbrow postal-card gag cartoons. His movie-town work is best represented by the rambunctious main-title sequence of Carl Reiner’s Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid; the storyboarding and on-location supervision of many episodes of network television’s Friends; and a starring role in the European-made superscreen-70mm horror film, Dangling Death. Turner had begun work on a contents list and a dozen chapters for Forgotten Horrors II and Forgotten Horrors III shortly before his unexpected demise.
