Serpentor's Lair

The Birth of Cinematic Horror Before Bela Lugosi’s cape, before Universal’s castles, there was Count Orlok — the rat-faced specter of death who stalked across silent film frames in 1922. Nosferatu, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, wasn’t just the first vampire movie — it was the birth of horror cinema itself. A shadowy adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (made without permission), Nosferatu took gothic terror from the page to the screen with nightmarish imagery that still chills over a century later. Because Stoker’s widow sued the producers for copyright infringement,…

Story by Mitchell Smith Today I’m taking a look at a name that might not ring a bell. Marilyn Lightstone was born in 1940 in Montreal, PQ. One of most famous rolls was voicing Crasher in the animated series GoBots, but she has had quite a career and has voiced many animated rolls along with live rolls. Lightstone graduated from Montreal’s McGill University which I thought about attending myself but I had a hard time learning French. After that Lightstone attended National theater school and she was on her way.…