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Ard­beg & LWLies Present: The B‑Movie Mon­sters That Time Forgot!

20 Oct 2020

Words by Little White Lies

A large, grotesque frog-like creature towering over a person in a black and white photograph.
A large, grotesque frog-like creature towering over a person in a black and white photograph.
Watch our spine-tin­gling new video essay and win a Mon­ster Night In this Hal­loween with Ard­beg Wee Beastie.

In 1950s Hol­ly­wood, hor­ror movies all but turned their back on the genre’s clas­sic Goth­ic cre­ations. Instead of Drac­u­la and Frankenstein’s Mon­ster came new night­mares for the mod­ern Atom­ic Age – in all man­ner of strange shapes and sizes.

In The B‑Movie Mon­sters That Time For­got!, Leigh Singer explores the weird and won­der­ful crea­ture fea­tures that con­quered the genre more than half a cen­tu­ry ago, and whose sense of inven­tion, dar­ing and sheer fun have helped keep them alive longer than any­one might have dared imagine…

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This Hal­loween, we’ve teamed up with Islay sin­gle malt Dis­tillery Ard­beg and their new whisky Ard­beg Wee Beast­ie to cel­e­brate the gold­en age of the B‑movie mon­ster and give fans in Lon­don, Man­ches­ter, Edin­burgh and Islay the chance to win a spine-chill­ing Mon­ster Night In kit.

There’s a 10cl bot­tle of Wee Beast­ie, a bag of salt­ed caramel pop­corn, four cock­tail recipe cards and a pre-mixed Beast­ie cock­tail, plus haunt­ing Hal­loween masks, an exclu­sive poster and a tick­et that takes you to a spooky surprise.

For your chance to win enter now at ard​beg​.com/​e​n​-​g​b​/​h​a​l​l​oween

Spooky green and red bottle of Ardbeg whisky, surrounded by silhouetted figures running, with text "Wee Beastie" and "Monster Dram" overlaid.

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