{"id":2175,"date":"2025-11-24T12:47:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:47:39","slug":"creature-feature-creators-by-tom-weaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature Creators by Tom Weaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TW-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TW-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TW-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TW-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TW.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Those who have relished Tom Weaver&#8217;s lively and informative interviews with a variety of genre creators over many years (and in many books), will need no persuasion to pick up this toothsome latest volume, subtitled \u2018Conversations with Genre Greats of the 1940s \u2013 1970s\u2019. The best known names here include filmmakers Roger Corman and John Landis, but Weaver\u2019s reach is, as ever, wide \u2013 including a fun interview with one of the earliest of Lois Lanes, Noel Neill, who played the doughty reporter girlfriend of Superman in the long-running television series. But every interview here has something to offer, and there is always a particular pleasure with one of Weaver&#8217;s books: encountering someone with whose work one might be only vaguely familiar \u2013 and the effect \u2013 as always \u2013 is to send one out to look for their films. <em>Creature Feature Creators<\/em> is Tom Weaver on typical form \u2013 and that&#8217;s all that it is necessary to say.<\/p>\n<p><em>Creature Feature Creators<\/em> by Tom Weaver is published by McFarland<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who have relished Tom Weaver&#8217;s lively and informative interviews with a variety of genre creators over many years (and in many books), will need no persuasion to pick up this toothsome latest volume, subtitled \u2018Conversations with Genre Greats of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=2175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}