Halloween is over, and people are packing their decorations away for another year. But what about the monsters: what happens to them, when everyone loses interest? Read on!
1. The Wolf Man. After his run in Hollywood, the Wolf Man returned to journalism, where he worked for local newspapers, most recently at the Arkansas Gazetteer, until they were purchased by Gannett Media in 2011. He ultimately accepted the takeover (which he had initially opposed) with the good humour for which he was known, saying that perhaps he was “getting a little long in the tooth.”
2. The Mummy also left Hollywood behind, fronting several popular Milwaukee bar bands until overdosing in 1958, 1962, 1969, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1992 and, for the last time, in 1995.
3. The Creature from the Black Lagoon. A Black Lagoon creature has accompanied Sea Shepherd ships almost since the organisation’s inception. It is not known if it is the original creature, or one of its offspring, as the creature/Creature remains incredibly secretive. Occasionally, eager Japanese crews will actively seek out Sea Shepherd, offering to abort their whaling missions in exchange for selfies with the creature/Creature.
4. Dracula. The original Dracula works as a Dracula impersonator, specialising in children’s Halloween parties. Dracula is highly skilled in the art of balloon animals.
5. Frankenstein’s monster continues to work in his own piercing and tattoo parlour, and advocating for temperance.
6. King Kong went on to work as a successful casting agent and, later, film producer, until his death in 1971.
7. Godzilla continues to work in films, though he requires increasing amounts of CGI to play his roles. He is now roughly half as large as in his heyday and continues to shrink with age.
8. The Phantom of the Opera lives in Paris, having returned there after narrowly escaping the Jonestown massacre in Guyana.
9. The Bride of Frankenstein (more correctly: the Bride of Frankenstein’s Monster) remains a popular talk show host, with an upcoming podcast she will co-host with Oprah Winfrey.
10. The invisible man. I don’t know, but someone sniggers whenever I come out of the shower.
Don’t forget tomorrow, November 5th, is Bandcamp Friday, when Bandcamp waive their fees. Buying music tomorrow via the Bandcamp website therefore means more of your money goes straight to your favourite independant musicians!
Don’t have any favourite independant musicians? No problem, you can support mine.
I’ll be pre-ordering IDLES new album Crawler.
Converge and Chelsea Wolfe are collaborating on Bloodmoon. You better believe I’ll be pre-ordering that.
There’s every sign that Random Hand might be releasing new music shortly. In the meantime, there’s this remix of their Hit Reset album. A remix album? Are the 90s cool again already?
