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This included a series featuring actor Rondo Hatton as "the Creeper". [1] The authors of Universal Horrors suggested this report of a higher budget was either fabricated or the state of the production changed when House of Horrors was developed, it did not have a larger budget than the average Universal B-film production. [1]
The Scooby Doo cartoon series character The Creeper, who vaguely resembles Frankenstein's Monster, is likely based on Universal Studios' own "Creeper" from the 1946 film The House of Horrors, who was portrayed by Rondo Hatton, with Scooby Doo's Creeper seemingly being a caricature of Rondo in terms of hand size and facial features.
House of Horror is a 1929 American sound part-talkie comedy mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc
Music in the Horror Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-99202-2. Rosar, William H. (1983). "Music for the Monsters: Universal's Pictures' Horror Film Scores in the Thirties". The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. 40 (4). Thrower, Stephen (August 18, 2011). "From Goblin to Morricone: The Art of Horror Movie Music". The Guardian
Scream 4 (soundtrack) Scream for Help (album) Smile 2: The Skye Riley EP; Spiral: From the Book of Saw Soundtrack; The Strangers (soundtrack) Stree (soundtrack) The Substance (soundtrack) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The Motion Picture Soundtrack
In 2015, Rue Morgue Magazine cited Midnight Syndicate's continued influence in the haunted attraction industry as well their "entrenchment" in the celebration of the Halloween season among their reasons for including Out of the Darkness (Retrospective: 1994–1999) among their 50 Essential Horror Albums - Discs That Created, Evolved, or Defined ...
In 2002, the founders of the website The Classic Horror Film Board created the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards to honor horror works in film, television and publishing. The awards were named after the actor, and award recipients received statuettes with miniature busts of Hatton as he appeared portraying the Creeper in House of Horrors and ...
[4] [5] His House of Horror music was used in TV productions such as Prisoner Cell Block H and SpongeBob SquarePants. [6] There was also some concert music, including Symphonic Variations On A Rock 'N Roll Theme (the theme being from 'Rock Around the Clock'), which was issued on a Melodisc LP in 1958, [7] and the three movement Stranger in ...