Dr. Steve Haberman is a screenwriter, author and film historian. He has written stories and screenplays for four feature films, three of which with Mel Brooks, including Life Stinks (1991) and Dracula, Dead and Loving It (1995). He has also received Prime Time Emmy Award nominations for producing HBO comedy specials featuring Mel Brooks, wrote and directed an award winning short film, and has taught film courses at colleges and universities in Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. He received his PhD in Film Studies from De Montfort University in Leicester, England, and earned his BA in Cinema from the University of Southern California.
Steve, along with producer Constantine Nasr, wrote a documentary on the films of the legendary producer of horror movies at RKO in the 1940s, Val Lewton, called Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005); and also wrote a documentary on movies based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, called Dreams Within a Dream: The Classic Cinema of Edgar Allan Poe (2019).
Steve has also contributed interviews to several documentaries and DVD supplements as an expert on cinema history and aesthetics, in addition to providing numerous Blu-ray and DVD audio commentaries on classic movies for Universal, Warner Brothers, MGM, Fox, Kino-Lorber, Shout Factory and others—winning the Rondo Award for Best Commentary for his audio with Rick Baker and others on Universal’s 1932 classic, The Mummy. Steve has also published a book on the history of silent horror films, Silent Screams: Chronicles of Terror, and more recently, has written a critical study on Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death, as part of the Devil’s Advocates series of books.
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***Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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****Dracula
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****The Mummy
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***The Black Cat
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***The Black Room
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***Mad Love
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***The Raven
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***The Devil-Doll
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**The Return of Doctor X
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***Tower of London
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**The Seventh Victim
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***The Curse of the Cat People
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***The Body Snatcher
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***Hangover Square
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***Isle of the Dead
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***The Picture of Dorian Gray
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***Dragonwyck
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***The Curse of Frankenstein
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***Quatermass 2
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***The Fly
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***The Revenge of Frankenstein
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***House on Haunted Hill
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***The Tingler
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***The Brides of Dracula
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***The Fall of the House of Usher
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***Village of the Damned
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***The Curse of the Werewolf
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***Pit and the Pendulum
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***Taste of Fear
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***The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
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***The Phantom of the Opera
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***The Premature Burial
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***Diary of a Madman
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***The Kiss of the Vampire
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***The Raven
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***The Terror
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***The Masque of the Red Death
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***The Night Walker
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***Strait-Jacket
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***Curse of the Fly
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***Chamber of Horrors
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***Dracula: Prince of Darkness
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***The Plague of the Zombies
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***Rasputin: The Mad Monk
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***The Reptile
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***Frankenstein Created Woman
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***Quatermass and the Pit
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***The Devil Rides Out
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****Witchfinder General
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***The Oblong Box
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***Cry of the Banshee
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***The Dunwich Horror
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***An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
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***The Vampire Lovers
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***The Abominable Dr. Phibes
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***Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb
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***Murders in the Rue Morgue
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***The Return of Count Yorga
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***Demons of the Mind
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***Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
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***Kolchak: The Night Stalker
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***To the Devil a Daughter
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****Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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***The Dead Zone
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***The Doctor and the Devils
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***Transylvania 6-5000
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***Life Stinks
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***Dracula: Dead and Loving It
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