Movie monsters

A prominent New England family suffering under a two-hundred-year-old curse is plagued by greed, vengeful acts, and violent death.

Jodi Adams has landed her dream job as a summer intern at the local city paper, The Montgomery Times. This killer summer job will launch her senior year with a bang as she goes after the hard angle on an investigative piece on area hospitals. But when Jodi's reporting reveals information her employer doesn't want to hear-much less publish-Jodi and Stan Taylor find that the information trail is vanishing before their eyes. Lives are at stake, and it looks like theirs could be next.

Manguel gives a detailed and highly sensitive account of the film's felicities of inventive film-making. He also traces the literary roots of the Frankenstein myth, the creation of a living being by a man usurping the powers of a jealous God. And he finds echoes in the work of modern artists such as Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp of the Bride as a kind of femme fatale, monstrous and threatening.

Countess Zaleska, the daughter of Dracula, pursues her own vampire activities after her father's death.

A team of archeologists digging in the Middle East discovers an undergound civilization of mole people.

Dr. Frankenstein's monster returns from a pit of liquid sulphur to create new havoc.