{"id":28784,"date":"2022-01-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28784"},"modified":"2022-01-12T18:26:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T23:26:18","slug":"universal-monsters-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28784","title":{"rendered":"Universal Monsters Trivia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexrossart.com\/products\/universal-monsters-the-mash-giclee-on-canvas\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z011322universalmonsters_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"706\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mark Mancini at Mental Floss came up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/653961\/universal-monster-movies-facts-trivia\">11 Facts About The Universal Monster Movies<\/a>.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a fan of the Universal Monsters you probably know all eleven.\u00a0 (Is there anyone who isn&#8217;t a Universal Monsters fan? Ah, but I digress.)\u00a0 Before you click over, here are my top three and thoughts on each&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LON CHANEY JR. BECAME THE ONLY ACTOR IN THE FRANCHISE TO PLAY DRACULA, WOLF MAN, FRANKENSTEIN\u2019S MONSTER, AND A MUMMY.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>(Lon Chaney, Jr. is often considered one of the lessor actors to star in Universal Monster movies, yet he is the only actor to play the big four!\u00a0 &#8211; Craig)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em> FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN<\/em> ARGUABLY INVENTED THE IDEA OF A \u201cCINEMATIC UNIVERSE.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong> (What a genius idea! I can remember the excitement I had as a kid when one of the monster team-up movies was set to appear on Sammy Terry&#8217;s Nightmare Theater! &#8211; Craig)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BELA LUGOSI WAS BURIED IN HIS DRACULA CAPE.<\/strong>\u00a0 (<em>Dracula<\/em> was the role that made Lugosi a star.\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting that Bela Lugosi only played Dracula twice (<em>Dracula<\/em> and <em>Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein<\/em>)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Mancini at Mental Floss came up with 11 Facts About The Universal Monster Movies.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a fan of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[58,53,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28784","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=28784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28785,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28784\/revisions\/28785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}