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Some memorable, entertaining,
and enlightening places to visit!
The Official Bob Burns Web Site
Web site of the one-and-only Bob Burns, legendary sci-fi expert!
Masatoshi Mitsumoto
Web site for Monstrous Movie Music’s immensely-talented conductor
Robert Aragon
Web site of Monstrous Movie Music’s wonderful cover artist
Godzilla & Other Monster Music
Phenomenal site devoted to great Japanese film composers like the late great
Akira Ifukube and Masaru Satoh. Incredibly-detailed discography for those obsessed with giant shrimp, gargantuas, enormous moths, and other Asian delights!
Phil Edwards Cinema Arts
Australia’s premier source of original film posters, lobby cards, stills, and
cinema-related memorabilia. What a fabulous site, full of treasures to look at and purchase!
Laurel Records
Renowned record label specializing in a wide range of world-premiere
classical recordings. Founded by legendary film and television composer, the late Herschel Burke Gilbert. They deserve their reputation of producing technically-superb recordings.
Janina Faye
Web site for the talented British actress known to monster lovers for her roles in The Day of the Triffids, Dracula, and The Two Faces of Doctor Jekyll
Werner Richard Heymann
Web site devoted to the supremely-talented composer who wrote for classic films including Ninotchka, One Million B.C., To Be Or Not To Be, Hail The Conquering Hero, and so many others, and whose
music was re-used in an incredible number of additional pictures such as the science fiction thrillers The 27th Day, It Came From Beneath the Sea, and 20 Million Miles to Earth.
The Musical Saw and Theremin Page
Thereminist Robert Froehner serenades you with his amazing musical prowess!
Cheeta the chimp
Visit the home of Cheeta, the chimpanzee who starred in all those wonderful Tarzan movies! Autographed pictures,
paintings done by the artistic simian, and much more! Help support our closest relatives!
Vincent DiFate
Web site of the renowned science fiction artist, including a gallery of his work, limited-edition prints,
and a link to buy his landmark book, “Infinite Worlds.”
Johnny Weissmuller Site
Geoff St. Andrews’ informative tribute to legendary Tarzan actor. Great place to hear Tarzan’s famous yell!
Jeff Foskett
One of the best pop musicians in the world today. Flawlessly written,
performed, and produced music, not to mention a whole lot of fun to listen to. The perfect tunes to add some California sunshine to your life!
Ray Harryhausen Web Site
Jim Rodkey’s comprehensive Ray Harryhausen tribute site
Widescreen Movies
Very informative and enjoyable magazine devoted to long pictures (size, not
length), but they also cover other film-related topics.
Film Score Monthly
THE place to get the latest film music information. If you want to hear males
in their mid-twenties argue over who’s better -- Jerry Goldsmith or John Williams -- when they really should turn off the CD player from time-to-time
and go out on a date with a woman, you won’t want to miss FSM’s message board.
Carla Ventresca
A tremendously talented and funny greeting card writer/cartoonist. Skip that trip to the mall and buy superior cards here!
Film Music Discussion List (FILMUS-L)
Great way to follow film-music-obsessed people
arguing about all sorts of trivial soundtrack topics
Matt Winans’ Tarzan Movie Guide
The best Tarzan site on the internet. Make a cup of tea while you wait for the
marvelous images to load
Revilo’s Wacky Cartoon Page!
Web site of one of the most gifted and disturbed cartoonists on the planet
The Astounding B Monster
Astounding site devoted to classic “B” films, which means lots of sci-fi classics and not-so-classic pictures
Don Gates
Web site showcasing the artistry of talented photographer Don Gates
Film Music Review - The Web Magazine
Highly-enjoyable site devoted to film music. Offers extremely lengthy and
detailed reviews as well as contests, opinion pieces, and much, much more. One of the best soundtrack sites on the internet, covering lots of great Golden Age scores in addition to more contemporary offerings
Soundtrack Cinema
Weekly internet radio show hosted by Ford Thaxton. An invaluable and entertaining source for getting acquainted with all sorts of film music, both modern and vintage.
Astronomy Picture Of The Day
Terrific NASA site showing the Wonders of the Universe
1000 Film Composers
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1000 compositeurs de cinéma” is a new book from France by Jean-François Houben. Over 800 pages in length(!), it contains filmographies on almost
every film composer in the history of the movies, from the renowned (Bernard Herrmann) to the obscure (Lord Berners). A tremendous amount of research
went into this French-language book, which also contains film titles in English.
Scarlet Street
The Magazine of Mystery and Horror -- they have lots of fun chat groups on
their web site devoted to genre films, music, etc. If you can’t find a topic of interest to talk about on their site, you aren’t a very interesting person!
David Miller’s Theremin Page
Even if you’re not a Theremin nut, this is a great site to learn not only about
the magical Theremin, but the Electro Theremin, which was used in The Giant Gila Monster, Lost In Space, and “Good Vibrations.” Fabulous audio
samples will help make you an expert in the field of electronic musical instruments!
The Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette
Amazing site devoted to all-things Dinosaurian. Here’s one of their pages reviewing our Monstrous Movie Music CDs
John Scott’s Web Page
Web Site devoted to the great film music composer (Greystoke, King Kong Lives)
Mara Corday
Web site of the sexy star of Tarantula, The Black Scorpion, and The Giant Claw. That spider had good taste!
Theremin World
Learn all about the electronic instrument used in It Came From Outer Space and other classic films
Filmfax
The Magazine of Film and Unusual Television is one of the most enjoyable
reads of any film-related magazine on the market. Never a boring issue!
Embassy of the Slovak Republic
All about the lovely country where Monstrous Movie Music recorded three film music CDs
Cool And Strange Music!
Web site for fabulous magazine profiling the wild, wacky, and sometimes tacky world of records. More enjoyable than a dozen music magazines put together, they cover such
important recording artists and genres as The Three Stooges, Exotica, Space Age Pop, Spike Jones, Robert Moog, Allan Sherman, Julie London, and much, much more!
Cinema Concerto
Marc Harwood’s fun film music review site
Scrabo.com
Rich Scrivani’s Front Row (in Real Video) at this movie site
Film Music On The Web
The best and most comprehensive film music site in England, they not only
review new and old soundtrack CDs very thoroughly, there are also book reviews, articles, composer profiles, a chatroom, and even reviews on jazz CDs
Horror-Wood.com
The webzine for classic and cult horror and monster film fans. Here’s a link to Horror-Wood’s page on Tarantula
Video Watchdog
Journal features reviews and articles about all sorts of films, CDs, videos, DVDs, and on and on.
Starburst
Even though they’re all the way over in Britain, this enjoyable science fiction
magazine still wanted to review us! Are they great or what?
Monster Horror Chiller Theatre
Site devoted to classic movie monsters has ‘top ten” lists, a bulletin board,
and all sorts of funs things for the monster devotee! If you can think of a way to make their web site name longer, let me know!
Box of Monsters
Classic monster fan site with great coverage devoted to Aurora models, and
my favorite page -- listing all the upcoming monster flicks on American Movie Classics. They call themselves the “The web site that GLOWS in the dark,”
and it really does. If you turn off your lights (but leave your computer on), you can actually see the glow coming from your monitor!
Outlanders
Leicester, England science fiction, fantasy, and horror group.
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