| If you're a fan of horror movies of years past then the name Forrest J. Ackerman should be a very familiar one. The writer, editor and literary agent who has been credited with first coining the term "Sci-Fi" in the 1950s, Ackerman has inspired generations of young horror movie fans and some of Hollywood's most successful film-makers with what will always be known as 'the first movie monster magazine', Famous Monsters of Filmland.
Through the use of archival footage, film clips and interviews with Ackerman and some of the biggest names in fantasy films he inspired, (Roger Corman, Ray Harryhausen, Ray Bradbury, John Landis, Joe Dante, and George Clayton Johnson, among others) Famous Monster charts Ackerman's journey from a kid reading Amazing Stories magazine and watching movies like Metropolis and Phantom of The Opera, to a literary agent to the biggest names in fantasy writing, to the editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland.
Famous Monster will be released on UK DVD on 23rd March 2009 by Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment at the RRP of £12.99. Extra features (unconfirmed at present) shpuld include:
- Director's Commentary;
- Deleted interviews;
- A tour of the infamous 'Ackermansion', which houses Forry's 300,000 piece collection of horror memorabilia.
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