{"id":16159,"date":"2016-08-22T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16159"},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T20:04:17","slug":"night-monster-1942-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16159","title":{"rendered":"Night Monster (1942) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z082216zview_nightmonster_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"718\"><strong>Night Monster (1942)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Ford Beebe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Clarence Upson Young<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson<\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong>Irene Hervey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pitch: &#8220;How can we go wrong with people stranded in an old, creepy house with mysterious murders?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tagline: &#8220;NIGHT MONSTER with Mystery&#8217;s Greatest Thrill Team: Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dr. King<\/strong> [Atwill] gets three doctors out to his secluded, remote mansion under false pretenses. &nbsp;<strong>King<\/strong> has been left paralyzed and blames the doctors he invited. &nbsp;<strong>Dr. Lynn Harper<\/strong> &nbsp;[Hervey] is also there but for another reason. &nbsp;When one-by-one doctors begin turning up strangled, <strong>Harper<\/strong> and her new friend, <strong>Don<\/strong>, must figure out who is doing the killing and how they&#8217;re able to do it before they become the next victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Craig says: This one just didn&#8217;t work well for me. &nbsp;Low on humor, suspense and when all is said and done, not that convincing of a killer aka <em><strong>Night Monster<\/strong><\/em>. &nbsp;It was fun seeing <strong>Leif Erickson<\/strong> at such a young age. &nbsp;It seemed to me that <strong>Bela<\/strong> was there just to throw suspicion his way. &nbsp;I may be in the minority on this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z082216zview_nightmonster_pic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night Monster (1942) Director: Ford Beebe Screenplay: Clarence Upson Young Stars: Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson and&nbsp;Irene Hervey. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24057,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16159\/revisions\/24057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}