JUST SAY BO

Avengers: Age of Ultron opens this weekend, so in honor of the Frankenstein-like Ultron…

Monster-of-the-Week: …this week let’s acknowledge the Frankenstein Monster as played by Bo Svenson…

…in this Dan Curtis production from 1973, also starring Robert Foxworth and Susan Strasberg. I haven’t seen this “Wide World of Mystery” special since it originally aired, but as I recall it was grim and effective.

VLAD TO THE BONE

With Dracula Untold opening tomorrow…

Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s acknowledge another fine Dracula: Jack Palance, who played the Count, quite well, in this 1973 TV-movie version leanly scripted by Richard Matheson and directed by Dan Curtis…

Palance’s high eastern-European cheekbones give him something of a resemblance to the famous portraits of Prince Vlad, aka Vlad the Impaler, aka Vlad Dracula, the vampire prince’s historical namesake…