ALFRED THE GREAT

Halloween reading: Check out my list, on The Robot’s Voice, of the top horror and sci-fi roles of the great Michael Gough.

For the current generation Gough is probably best known as Alfred the Butler in the Batman movies of the ‘90s, but I’ve long thought that he deserves to be ranked up there with Lugosi, Karloff, Lee, Cushing and so forth as one of the all-time horror greats—he may have been the most unmitigated, purely evil S.O.B. of the lot.

MONKEY TO THE CITY

Again in honor of the London Olympics…

Monster-of-the-Week: …here’s another beast that made his name running amok in that town: The title character from Konga, producer Herman Cohen’s side-splitting saga of 1961…

…an ape made gargantuan by the particularly heartless and lecherous mad scientist Michael Gough. I bet the growth shots poor Konga gets throughout would have gotten him disqualified from Olympic competition.