While researching The History from The Creature of The Black Lagoon, I came across the impressive life of Milicent Patrick. Patrick is the designer behind The Gill-man’s costume in the film. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of her accomplishments. In 1915, Milicent Patrick was born in El Paso, Texas. During her lifetime she was an animator, actress, model, costume designer, children’s book illustrator, makeup artist and special effects makeup artist. And despite her imp

This week on Lunatics Radio Hour we are continuing our exploration of the classic Universal Monster films and diving into The Creature from The Black Lagoon franchise. The first film was released in 1954, but the mythology behind the story can be traced back much, much further. There are three main Central American mythological creatures that most historians point to when they look at films like The Creature from The Black Lagoon or Shape of Water. The Ipupiara, The Iara (or

I recently watched the film Benedetta (2021) and it blew me away. I loved it. And I was especially fascinated that it was based on the life of an actual 17th century nun. Is it horror? Not really, but it is an interesting history that has a mystical element to it. Carlini was a nun who claimed to see mystical visions from God, and after many trials the Vatican deemed her fraudulent. The investigations also uncovered that she had a sexual relationship with anotner nun. Let’s g