It's inexcusable I went this long without bringing up these guys.

Time for some good ol' fashioned spooks. Sorry for the brevity of this post, but some things have turned up in life around here. But I won't leave you completely hanging.

- First things first: I know Frankenstein's Monster isn't actually named Frankenstein, but screw it, that's what you all call him, so Imma refer to him as that for this post, m'kay?

- Lon Chaney is renowned as one of the greatest silent film actors ever. His parents being mute had trained him to communicate through pantomime and purley physical means, which came in use in a field where hand gestures and facial expressions were everything.

- Boris Karloff always referred to Frankenstein as "the dear old boy".

- Neither of the stuntmen playing the Creature from the Black Lagoon could see out of the costume. One of them had to swim in it.

- There was fear that young actress Marilyn Harris (the little girl Frankenstein throws into the lake) would be frightened by Boris Karloff's full makeup, but she actually ended up thinking it was freaking awesome and actually rode with him to the set.

- Lon Chaney famously did all his own makeup; his knowledge of the art was so vast, he actually contributed to the makeup section of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

- Bela Lugosi turned down the role of Frankenstein, on the grounds that he would have little to no dialogue while his makeup design was rejected.

- Oddly enough, the Creature from the Black Lagoon's appearance was molded after an Oscar trophy,

- Lon Chaney would have been the first choice to play Dracula had he not died before production began.

- The head piece to the cane in The Wolf Man was made of rubber, as to not injure Lon Chaney Jr. when he was beat with it near the end of the movie.

- Dracula was only allowed to attack woman, because the studio felt that for him to attack men would be "a little gay-ish."

- A total of 17 shots were dissolved across each other to achieve the werewolf transformation effect at the end of The Wolf Man.

- The exact same electrical equipment in Frankenstein's lab scenes were used for Young Frankenstein.

- Karl Freund, the director of The Mummy, hated lead actress Zita Johann so much, he went as far as to sticking her unprotected in a room with lions for a scene that didn't even make it into the movie.

- Boris Karloff, despite playing the monster that got butts into the theaters, wasn't invited to the premiere of Frankenstein because he was seen as just some anonymous actor. However, his breakthrough role in The Mummy got him popular enough that he was given top billing any movie he was in from that point forward.

- Despite what you may here, Bela Lugosi knew perfectly good English when he filmed Dracula.

- Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, and Imhotep were all designed by Jack O. Pierce, the godfather of makeup effects.

- Bela Lugosi was buried in the cape he wore as Dracula.

Eh, might as well end this with something freaking hilarious.