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Gordon and Bullock investigate a coldblooded body snatcher named Victor Fries.

"The Body Snatcher" is available from Amazon Prime, Google Play, Vudu, and YouTube.

"Father Thing" Another episode that's overly generic, drawing on the usual "body snatcher" clichés.

For instance, the skeleton of body-snatcher William Burke is at the Edinburgh Anatomical Museum.

A body snatcher in his own right, he'd beaten Poot in two previous encounters on points.

A good body snatcher could dig up a body and replace all the dirt in about 10 to 15 minutes.

British heavyweight Dillian 'The Body Snatcher' Whyte beat Poland's former world title challenger Mariusz Wach on a unanimous points decision.

The other two titles are "The Body Snatcher" (19291) and "Bedlam" (19291), both more horror-conventional in subject matter and star power.

Baldwin peered through the thuggish stereotype—largely media made—and saw in Liston, the hulking body snatcher, a troubled, complex and contradictory figure.

But after that, it feels like it was made on the cheap, as if the body-snatcher idea was just an excuse to avoid designing actual aliens.

"Human Is," with Mr. Cranston as a sour military commander who is replaced by a more personable alien body-snatcher, moves double-time to an unsurprising conclusion.

Though notorious Wisconsin body-snatcher Ed Gein was arrested in connection with the slayings of two women, the discoveries made in his farmhouse suggested he had many other victims.

The Making of a Criminal "A man by himself isn't honest for long," thinks the wily, impulsive, unemployed narrator in Patrícia Melo's grimly amusing thriller "The Body Snatcher," translated by Clifford E. Landers.

Karloff and Lugosi made their last joint appearance for RKO in "The Body Snatcher" (1945), a typically literate Val Lewton production, adapted from a Robert Louis Stevenson short story and directed by Robert Wise.

"The Body Snatcher" is derived from the Robert Louis Stevenson story and stars both Boris Karloff of "Frankenstein" and Bela Lugosi of "Dracula" fame — it's one of only six movies the horror heavyweights made together.

The ongoing "Friday Night Double Feature" series, for instance, featured two classic films that complement one another (like Arsenic and Old Lace and The Body Snatcher, for instance) paired for easy viewing, with some text explaining the link.

Regional pride was excuse enough to bring up notables like the "Plainfield Ghoul," Ed Gein ("a serial killer and body snatcher whose crimes inspired the Robert Bloch novel and subsequent Alfred Hitchcock film, 'Psycho,' as well as the comparatively down-market 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' franchise that followed"), and the "Milwaukee Cannibal" Jeffrey Dahmer.

After knee boxing his way to victory against the legendary body snatcher Sakad Petchyindee in June 1984 (who had beat Dieselnoi in two previous encounters), and unable to find any more domestic contenders, he took the show on the road and fought the likes of Japanese kickboxer Shogu Shimazo, Canadian karate champ Peter Cunningham and the American John Moncayo.

Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell was released in Japan on 14 August 1968. It was released by Shochiku Films of America in the United States in 1969. When released to television and home video, the film was re-titled Body Snatcher From Hell. Other titles for the film include Goke the Vampire.

Overall, she appeared in a dozen films, including The Body Snatcher (1945), the film noir The Locket (1946), Child of Divorce (1946), Banjo (1947), and Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948).

The film was released on DVD in 2005 by Warner Home Video as a double-feature disc with The Body Snatcher (1945). This disc was featured in a Val Lewton box set released the same year.

Ladrón de Cadáveres (lit. Corpse Thief; known in the United States as The Body Snatchers or The Body Snatcher), is a 1957 Mexican horror film directed by Fernando Mendez who also co-wrote the film with Alejandro Verbitzky.

Genocide was co- written by Susumu Takaku, an anime and live-action screenwriter. The films staff includes Shizuo Hirase as the cinematographer who also worked on the Shochiku films The X from Outer Space and Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell.

During the run of Resurrection Man, Abnett and Lanning also wrote an Elseworlds graphic novel called The Superman Monster which retold the story of Frankenstein as a Superman story. This featured an actual "resurrection man" (i.e. a body- snatcher) who was drawn to closely resemble Mitch Shelley.

Other parts of the film were shot in Plainfield, Wisconsin. Herzog had planned to meet documentary filmmaker Errol Morris in Plainfield to dig up the grave of infamous killer and body snatcher Ed Gein's mother, but Morris never showed. The concluding scenes were shot in Cherokee, North Carolina.

Robert Louis Stevenson stayed at Fishers Hotel in June 1881 with his wife Fanny and mother. The party then moved to Kinnaird Cottage in nearby Moulin. Here Stevenson worked on “Thrawn Janet” (1881), “The Merry Men” (1882) and “The Body Snatcher” (1884). In 1947 Pitlochry became a burgh.

Domestic audio recordings of the otherwise missing episodes "The Lost Stradivarius", "The Body Snatcher", "The Tractate Middoth", "Lost Hearts", "The Canterville Ghost" and "Room 13" also exist. Network has released all eight remaining episodes on a four disc DVD set along with the surviving clips of 'Casting the Runes'.

"The Body Snatcher" is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). First published in the Pall Mall Christmas "Extra" in December 1884, its characters were based on criminals in the employ of real- life surgeon Robert Knox (1791–1862) around the time of the notorious Burke and Hare murders (1828).

The Living Skeleton was released on 9 November 1968 in Japan. It was released as a double feature with Genocide. It was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection in a box set on November 20, 2012. The other films in the box set included The X from Outer Space, Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell, and Genocide.

By Mann: Jewell (1982), pp. 202, 205, 212, 219. Robson and Wise received their first directing assignments with producer Val Lewton, whose specialized B horror unit also included the more experienced director Jacques Tourneur. The Lewton unit's moody, atmospheric work—represented by films such as Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), and The Body Snatcher (1945)—is now highly regarded.

Tissue gained in this way is medically unsafe and unusable. The broadcaster Alistair Cooke's bones were removed in New York City and replaced with PVC pipe before his cremation.Sam Knight, "Bodysnatchers steal Alistair Cooke's bones", Times online December 22, 2005, retrieved 18 May 2006. The director Toby Dye made a documentary titled Body Snatcher of New York about this case in 2010.

Straczynski then began development on a show called Spiral Zone but left after only one script, taking his name off the series, because management drastically altered his conception of show. substituting the pseudonym "Fettes Grey" (derived from the names of the grave robbers in The Body Snatcher) Straczynski also wrote for CBS Storybreak, writing an adaptation of Evelyn Sibley Lampman's The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek.

In season 14's "Gods and Monsters," Castiel talks about Jimmy with Lucifer's former vessel Nick. Castiel admits that while Jimmy was willing to be his vessel, he is dead, causing Nick to call Castiel a stone- cold body snatcher that is no better than Lucifer. Castiel tells Nick that in his millennia of existence, what befell Jimmy and his family is Castiel's greatest regret.

Edward Theodore Gein (; August 27, 1906Vital Records, Pre-1907 Wisconsin. "Birth Index Record: Gien, Edward". – July 26, 1984), also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American convicted murderer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin.

The film begins where the first one left off, with a flashback to Robert "Rob" Schmadtke's suicide (Daktari Lorenz), whose corpse Monika (Monika M.) retrieves from a church's graveyard after the opening credits. This introductory scene establishes that Monika is not simply the local gravedigger. The body snatcher is depicted with a particularly feminine appearance: red nail polish on her fingernails, pencil skirt and polka dot blouse.Kerekes (1998), p.

Doro is the story's antagonist. He too is a mutant, born near Egypt, in Kush during the reign of the Pharaohs. As he approaches puberty, Doro learns quite accidentally that he is a "body snatcher," meaning that his life is extended by killing the nearest person to him and subsuming his/her physical body. His immortality, therefore, is fueled by cruelty, and a desire for power and control.

Ed Gein was a killer and body snatcher, active in the 1950s, who made trophies from corpses he stole from a local graveyard. When he was finally arrested, a search of the premises revealed, among other disturbing artifacts, a lampshade made out of human skin. Gein appears to have been influenced by the then-current stories about the Nazis collecting body parts in order to make lampshades and other items.

He acted in several films: The Body Snatcher (1945), Specter of the Rose (1946), The Mask (1961) and Is There Sex After Death? (1971). He was a panelist on the 1954 TV quiz show What's in a Word? along with Clifton Fadiman, Audrey Meadows, Faye Emerson and Mike Wallace. Moran appeared on The Mike Douglas Show in 1964, and one of his last appearances was promoting the movie Yellowbeard (1983) on Late Night with David Letterman.

The Body Snatcher was one of three films that Boris Karloff did with RKO Radio Pictures from 1945 to 1946, which were produced by Val Lewton. The other two films were Isle of the Dead (1945) and Bedlam (1946). In a 1946 interview with Louis Berg of the Los Angeles Times, Karloff discussed his reasons for leaving Universal Pictures and working with Lewton. Achieving stardom with Frankenstein (1931), he felt that the franchise had run its course.

Filming began for about two weeks in July 1944 until production was suspended when Karloff required a back operation. It was completed in December 1944. In the interim, after Karloff had recovered from the surgery but before the cast of Isle of the Dead could be reassembled, he and Lewton made The Body Snatcher. The film had a troubled production, and the central female character of the original script (named "Catherine") was deleted entirely from the tale.

He also has completed two new books on specific classic films based on literature: The Body Snatcher: Cold-Blooded Murder, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Making of a Horror Film Classic and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes at Universal (1942-1946), a collaboration with collector Kris Marentette. Jacey Goetzman, "Nollen's Life is One of Many Talents and Challenges," Harlan Newspapers Special Section. February 27, 2018. Alternately, he narrates "audio book" versions of his own works and those of other authors.

Russell Wade had provided a disembodied voice in The Leopard Man, and this was his first starring role in a Lewton production. His performance here led him to be cast in Lewton's later The Body Snatcher (1945). Edith Barrett, Ben Bard, Dewey Robinson, and Charles Lung all had worked with Lewton before. Skelton Knaggs, Edmund Glover, and future film noir star Lawrence Tierney, whom Lewton had seen modeling clothing in a Sears, Roebuck catalog, all made their motion picture debuts in the movie.

Corpses and parts thereof were traded like any other merchandise: packed into suitable containers, salted and preserved, stored in cellars and quays and transported in carts, waggons and boats. Encouraged by fierce competition, anatomy schools usually paid more promptly than their peers, who included individual surgeons, artists and others with an interest in human anatomy. As one body snatcher testified, "a man may make a good living at it, if he is a sober man, and acts with judgement, and supplies the schools". Resurrection Men, by Thomas Rowlandson.

Boyd has a one-night stand with Eve Reston (Jess Holly Bates), who is later employed as the hospital's new oncologist and becomes Boyd's new love interest as well as pregnant with his twins. When the twin boys, Romulus and Remus, were born, he discovers that Eve was, in fact, the body snatcher. Boyd commands Eve to confess the crimes, but not until Remus recovers from congenital hypoxia as he was starved of oxygen and nutrients compared to Romulus. On September 8, Eve returns with Remus and Romulus.

These included Britain's Gainsborough melodramas (including The Man in Grey and The Wicked Lady), and films like Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Heaven Can Wait, I Married a Witch and Blithe Spirit. Val Lewton also produced a series of atmospheric and influential small-budget horror films, some of the more famous examples being Cat People, Isle of the Dead and The Body Snatcher. The decade probably also saw the so-called "women's pictures", such as Now, Voyager, Random Harvest and Mildred Pierce at the peak of their popularity. 1946 saw RKO Radio releasing It's a Wonderful Life directed by Italian-born filmmaker Frank Capra.

Karloff returned to film roles in The Climax (1944), an unsuccessful attempt to repeat the success of Phantom of the Opera (1943). More liked was House of Frankenstein (1944), where Karloff played the villainous Dr. Niemann and the monster was played by Glenn Strange. Karloff made three films for producer Val Lewton at RKO: The Body Snatcher (1945), his last teaming with Lugosi, Isle of the Dead (1945) and Bedlam (1946). In a 1946 interview with Louis Berg of the Los Angeles Times, Karloff discussed his arrangement with RKO, working with Lewton and his reasons for leaving Universal.

In June 2007, the company formed a joint venture with RKO Pictures to remake four films from the latter's library, namely Five Came Back (1939), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), The Body Snatcher (1945) and Bedlam (1946). In October 2009, Twisted Pictures landed a deal with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre rights holders, Bob Kuhn and Kim Henkel, after discussions with the film's production company, Platinum Dunes, fell apart. The deal was stated to cover multiple pictures. On June 28, 2012, Twisted Pictures opened Twisted Television, a new television division that would produce an eponymous television adaptation of the movie Anger Management.

The project was originally named The Body Snatchers after the Finney serial. However, Wanger wanted to avoid confusion with the 1945 Val Lewton film The Body Snatcher. The producer was unable to come up with a title and accepted the studio's choice, They Come from Another World and that was assigned in summer 1955. Siegel objected to this title and suggested two alternatives, Better Off Dead and Sleep No More, while Wanger offered Evil in the Night and World in Danger. None of these were chosen, and the studio settled on Invasion of the Body Snatchers in late 1955.

Weldon appeared in the original San Francisco production of Hair and directed and acted in many regional theaters. For the Denver Theater Center, he appeared in twelve productions. His last project was the short film Paris Blues in Harlem, which he co-produced and starred in with Nadhege Ptah and Michele Baldwin, who cast him in the project. Weldon starred in the role of the Jamaican Grim Reaper (the body-snatcher) in Sophia Romma's (playwright and Literary Manager of the Negro Ensemble Company from 2012) allegorical satire, The Blacklist at the 13th Street Repertory Company in 2016.

A native of the streets of London, Ontario, he fought a lot in the streets as a young kid. "...Being naturally good [at fighting], I figured I should make something of it instead of doing it on the streets and potentially getting arrested or charged." A wrestler in high school, he decided to start training in kickboxing and boxing in 2006 and switched over to MMA not long after. He got his nickname, "Body Snatcher," in 2006, after he had 3 fights in 3 days and won all three by first-round TKO with body shots.

Born in Maplewood, New Jersey where his family was working in the fledgling movie industry, he was the nephew of film actor Sam De Grasse. Robert De Grasse began his career as an assistant cameraman then moved on to become a full-time cinematographer by the time he was 21 years old. He worked on over 100 movies including Vigil in the Night (1940), The Leopard Man (1943) and The Body Snatcher (1945) as well as classic television shows such as I Love Lucy and The Dick Van Dyke Show. In 1939, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film Vivacious Lady.

From TV's Love on a Rooftop: Back row, L-R: Pete Duel, Judy Carne Front: Edith Atwater, Herbert Voland (1966) Edith Atwater (April 22, 1911 – March 14, 1986) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Born in Chicago, Atwater made her Broadway debut in 1933. In 1939, she starred in The Man Who Came to Dinner. Her film career included roles in The Body Snatcher (1945), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), It Happened at the World's Fair (1963), Strait-Jacket (1964), Strange Bedfellows (1965), True Grit (1969), The Love Machine (1971), Die Sister, Die! (1972), Mackintosh and T.J. (1975), and Family Plot (1976).

The hospital staff were shocked when deceased patient bodies started going missing and Eve lead speculation toward Deb Randal (Gabrielle Henderson) who was a recovering drug addict. Boyd began to notice suspicious behaviour in Eve and when following her one day, discovered she was the body-snatcher, operating on the bodies out of her fathers property where she was storing his brain. She sought to find medical miracles through researching dead patients. Eve pleaded with Boyd to keep her secret for their childrens sake, but shortly after giving birth to their twin boys Remus and Romulus, she fled the country taking the babies with her.

In the CGI episode Brittany the Body Snatcher, Alvin overheard two girls, named Annie and Tracy, insulting Brittany and he stood up for her, displaying his gentle side once again. Like his brothers, Alvin was originally voiced by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. In the animated series and film, he was voiced by Ross Bagdasarian Jr. Justin Long voiced Alvin in the live-action/animated film series. On July 30, 2002, Alvin was No. 44 on TV Guide's list of "Top 50 Best Cartoon Characters of All Time". His personality was based on one of Ross Jr.'s brothers, Adam Bagdasarian, who had a rebellious streak.

It was at TAP where Randal met his lifelong friends Wayne Knight and Jeff Grettler who also wrestled for TAP. Just before his 19th birthday Randal performed in his second match and his first televised match in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for Grizzly Smith and Five Star Wrestling beginning his TV career. Randal continued working on the independent wrestling circuit for the next year or two eventually landing a regular spot at Global Wrestling Federation, which was televised daily on ESPN. Randal first worked under the ring name Body Snatcher for Joe Pedicino but later enjoyed much success at the GWF under the ring name Big Bad John, given to him by the late "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert.

Schatz (1999), p. 173, table 6.3. From a latter-day perspective, the most famous of the major studios' Golden Age B units is Val Lewton's horror unit at RKO. Lewton produced such moody, mysterious films as Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), and The Body Snatcher (1945), directed by Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, and others who became renowned only later in their careers or entirely in retrospect.Schatz (1999), p. 232; Finler (2003), pp. 219–20. The movie now widely described as the first classic film noir—Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), a 64-minute B—was produced at RKO, which released many additional melodramatic thrillers in a similarly stylish vein.Finler (2003), p. 216.

Regardless of controversy, five films at Universal — The Black Cat (1934), The Raven (1935), The Invisible Ray (1936), Son of Frankenstein (1939), Black Friday (1940), plus minor cameo performances in Gift of Gab (1934) and two at RKO Pictures, You'll Find Out (1940) and The Body Snatcher (1945) — paired Lugosi with Boris Karloff. Despite the relative size of their roles, Lugosi inevitably received second billing, below Karloff. There are contradictory reports of Lugosi's attitude toward Karloff, some claiming that he was openly resentful of Karloff's long-term success and ability to gain good roles beyond the horror arena, while others suggested the two actors were — for a time, at least — good friends.

He called House of Frankenstein (1944), the last installment, a "monster clambake" that includes Frankenstein's monster, Count Dracula, The Wolf Man and a hunchback. Finding it ridiculous, he decided not to renew his contract with Universal, though the film performed well at the box office, and stated that Lewton at RKO was "the man who rescued him from the living dead and restored, so to speak, his soul." The production of the film took place around the same time as Isle of the Dead, with Lewton having a role as a screenwriter in both films. Lewton, along with British screenwriter Philip MacDonald, adapted the 1884 short story "The Body Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The events of the West Port murders have made appearances in fiction. They are referred to in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1884 short story "The Body Snatcher" and Marcel Schwob told their story in the last chapter of Imaginary Lives (1896), while the Edinburgh-based author Elizabeth Byrd used the events in her novels Rest Without Peace (1974) and The Search for Maggie Hare (1976). The murders have also been portrayed on stage and screen, usually in heavily fictionalised form. David Paterson, Knox's assistant, contacted Walter Scott to ask the novelist if he would be interested in writing an account of the murders, but he declined, despite Scott's long-standing interest in the events.

He returned to Broadway for a revival of Hedda Gabler (1942). Daniell was villainous in Watch on the Rhine (1943), Jane Eyre (1943), and The Suspect (1944), as Charles Laughton's blackmailing next-door neighbour. On Broadway he was in Murder Without Crime (1943) and Lovers and Friends (1943-44) with Katherine Cornell. Daniell had a lead role in The Body Snatcher (1945), with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, followed by Hotel Berlin (1945) and a third Holmes, The Woman in Green (1945) playing Professor Moriarty. Daniell was King William III in Captain Kidd (1945). He had the lead in a TV version of Angel Street (1946) then was William of Pembroke in The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946) at Columbia.

Not the blacksmith who opened the lock; nor the > glazier who mended the pane; nor the jobber who let the carriage; nor the > groom who drove it; nor the butcher who provided the leg of mutton; nor the > coals which roasted it; nor the cook who basted it; nor the servants who ate > it: and this I am given to understand is not infrequently the way in which > people live elegantly on nothing a year. It is also mentioned by Charles Dickens in his novel A Tale of Two Cities, where Jerry Cruncher of Tellson's Bank moonlights as a body snatcher. The Italian Boy by Sarah Wise has an account of the murder by Williams, Bishop and May to provide anatomical subjects for surgeons.

In the 1940s, RKO—the weakest of the Big Five throughout its history—stood out among the industry's largest companies for its focus on B pictures. From a latter-day perspective, the most famous of the major studios' Golden Age B units is Val Lewton's horror unit at RKO. Lewton produced such moody, mysterious films as Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), and The Body Snatcher (1945), directed by Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, and others who would become renowned only later in their careers or entirely in retrospect. The movie now widely described as the first classic film noir—Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), a 64-minute B—was produced at RKO, which would release many melodramatic thrillers in a similarly stylish vein during the decade.

Film historian Eddie Muller called it a "classic poster" that captured the character dynamic of attraction matched with distrust, noting that Greer's "dangling gun is a masterstroke: Is she about to toss it away—or open fire?" Muller cited the poster for Born to Kill(1947) as another important visual touchstone. In the Historical Dictionary of Film Noir, Andrew Spicer praised the Born to Kill poster for its depiction of Lawrence Tierney as a "tough guy" with "stony features" and a "ubiquitous hanging cigarette" in his mouth beside Claire Trevor as "the femme fatale... in the customary long, sheathlike dress". In the horror genre, Rose is credited with the posters for RKO's string of B movies produced by Val Lewton, including Cat People(1942) and The Body Snatcher(1945).

The score of the film, along with those of I Walked with a Zombie, The Seventh Victim, The Body Snatcher and Bedlam, was re- recorded by The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and released on compact disc in 1999. In his review of the album, Bruce Eder wrote for AllMusic noting that both Cat People and The Seventh Victim's scores "represent distinctly non- traditional suspense scores, built around memorable core motifs, dealing with their central characters' struggle with the forces of evil within and without". Prior to its official release, the higher-up executives at RKO saw the film at a studio projection room and expressed disapproval. Early test screenings took place in October at the RKO Hill Street Theatre, a testing site for sneak previews, with the cast and crew in attendance.

After screen tests at 20th Century-Fox and Columbia Pictures, Clarke landed a berth as a contract player at RKO Radio Pictures. His first credited role was The Falcon in Hollywood (1944), then went on to play small roles in The Body Snatcher (1945), Bedlam (1946), and Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947). When RKO dropped his option three years later, he began freelancing. In the 1950s, in addition to acting in genre films of all types, he is known for having appeared in several classic science fiction films, including The Man from Planet X (1951), The Incredible Petrified World (1957), The Astounding She-Monster (1957), From the Earth to the Moon (1958, narrator), Beyond the Time Barrier (1960), and The Hideous Sun Demon (1958), which Clarke wrote, directed and produced.

The Body Snatcher (1945) quotes this scene when Dr. Macfarlane dissects a cadaver in front of his medical students. In Asterix and the Soothsayer (1972), Uderzo and Goscinny referenced the painting at the bottom of page 10, where the characters observe the disembowelment of a fish. The 2011 video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution references the painting in both in-game portraits that can be found on the wall and in a certain cinematic trailer, featuring the main protagonist Adam Jensen as the cadaver as Dr. Nicolaes and his students study his charred and ruined arms, which in the actual story become amputated and replaced with mechanical limbs. In the 2012 German film Barbara, there is a scene in which a doctor offers his interpretation of the painting to a colleague (the protagonist) when she points out the inaccuracy of Aris Kindt's left hand.

Designed for uppercut practice, jabbing, curl punching and quick bursts of high and low punching practice, it allows the fighter to punch at different lengths, different speeds and different forces compared to the standard average 4-foot straight PU (polyurethane) punching bags. Some types of uppercut bags: Angle Bag a variant of uppercut bag used for training hooks and uppercuts, Uppercut Horizontal Punching Bag, Teardrop Bag, Body Snatcher/Wrecking ball bag and Bowling Pin Bag used for training knees and uppercuts. A Wall Bag which is a type of bag that is attached to a wall and can be used for training hooks and uppercuts. A "body opponent bag" on a pedestal mount Body-shaped training aids such as the modern "body opponent bag" are made primarily of synthetic materials, and punching bags are sometimes mounted on a weighted pedestal rather than hanging from above.

In the 1940s, Val Lewton became a well known figure in early B-horror cinema for making low-budget movies for RKO Pictures, including Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), The Leopard Man (1943) directed by Jacques Tourneur, Curse of the Cat People and The Body Snatcher (1945) directed by Robert Wise, a film deemed by the United States' National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The decade also sees the continuation of Universal Pictures' consistent releases of horror, suspense and science fiction films. This comes to be later known as the cult classic Universal Classic Monsters series which began in the 1920s and would later dissipate in the 1950s. In this decade Lon Chaney Jr. became the studio's leading monster movie actor supplanting the previous decades' leading stars Karloff and Lugosi by a wide margin in terms of the number of leading roles that he played.

The society is named in honor of John James Audubon, a Franco-American ornithologist and naturalist who painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America in his famous book Birds of America (1827–1838). Despite these accolades, John James Audubon's legacy has been tarnished by numerous accusations of plagiarism and scientific fraud, which his biographers (and Audubon's leadership) have routinely dismissed or minimized, even while admitting to his troubling history of racism and slavery. John James Audubon was also a body snatcher who collected human skulls to assist the race supremacist work of Samuel G. Morton. In the wake of the protests following the death of George Floyd, there have been public appeals to strip the name Audubon from the society and change the names of species that honor him. While Audubon has publicly supported the removal of Confederate monuments, including acknowledging that "it’s not just an issue of physical monuments", the organization has not commented about its plans to remove (or retain) the name Audubon as its namesake.