Author: Tom Weaver

David Hedison, who plays a tiny human-headed insect menaced by a spider at the climax of The Fly (1958), says the moviemakers spoiled the scene ...

I talked with a zombie--it DOES seem like an odd thing to say! But for more than 25 years, Tom Weaver has been chatting up zombies and many othe...

Universal Studios created the first cinematic universe of monsters--Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and others became household names during th...

Back in the era of black-and-white horror and sci-fi movies, we didn't have special effects, or the money for 'em, says Peter Graves, one of the...

Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studio...

Phil Brown, who played Luke Skywalker's uncle in Star Wars, said, In my long life in films, there are ones I'm proud of and those I'm not proud ...

He was the final addition to Universal's royal family of movie monsters: the Creature from the Black Lagoon. With his scaly armor, razor claws a...

These men and women saved the planet from aliens, behemoths, monsters, zombies, and other bloated, stumbling threats--in the movies, at least--a...

Twenty horror and science fiction moviemakers--both in front of and behind the camera--reminisce about some of their great (and not so great!) f...

In this jam-packed jamboree of conversations, more than 60 movie veterans describe their experiences on the sets of some of the world's most bel...