Compared to some of his Universal Monsters stablemates, the Frankenstein’s Monster has had quite the smooth franchise. While Dracula’s follow ups concerned all sorts of
Category: Universal Monsters
Phantom Of The Opera
Considering how fertile Gaston Leroux’s classic tale of obsession, murder and opera is, I’m not surprised that Universal took another crack at it after their
Son Of Frankenstein
The task of following up the knockout, one-two, combo of Frankenstein and Bride Of Frankenstein must have been the 30’s horror equivalent of Tarantino receiving
Werewolf Of London
When it comes to fanged and furry fury of a classic Universal werewolf movie, you’ll be more than forgiven for thinking immediately of Lon Chaney
The Creature Walks Among Us
Audiences may not have realised it at the time, but when the final credits rolled on The Creature Walks Among Us, the third and final
She-Wolf Of London
If you scroll through the various titles that make up the collection of movies known as the Universal Monsters collection, you can’t help but notice
Abbott And Costello Meet The Invisible Man
Starting with 1948’s Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein, it’s a fair statement to claim that doing a movie with the two notorious jokesters was the
The Invisible Man’s Revenge
According to Invisible Man lore, once you go vanish, your sanity will banish – meaning of course that after undergoing the injection, a common side
The Invisible Woman
It’s not particularly unusual for a franchise to pop the clutch and yank the handbrake in order to pull a complete change of tone –
Revenge Of The Creature
Even though he’s proudly lumped in with his other horror contemporaries as a fully paid up member of the Universal Monsters gang, it’s easy to
Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy
“How stupid can you get?” Demands the long suffering Bud Abbott to his even longer suffering partner Lou Costello at one point during this last
The Mummy’s Curse
Fifth time round on the raggedy, dusty carousel that is the classic Universal Monsters Mummy series and we find a movie that’s very appropriately titled
The Mummy’s Ghost
While you could accuse the majority of the sequel outings of the Universal Monsters gang of being noticably deficient in the originality gene, the continuing
The Mummy’s Tomb
When Universal Studios decided to up-shift the amount of movies that featured their stock horror characters, you get the genuine impression that the Mummy might
House Of Dracula
After a relentless release schedule that saw Universal hock its horror characters onto audiences at a punishing rate, it was getting pretty clear that some
House Of Frankenstein
After dropping Frankenstein’s Monster and the Wolf Man into a predictably brutal double date with 1942’s aptly named Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man, it obviously
The Mummy’s Hand
After finding success with further sequels to their Frankenstein and Invisible Man franchises, Universal decided to plunder the sarcophagus of their horror back catalogue and
Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
A more jaded man than I could suggest that Universal’s plan to start merging their horror characters into one big story like a giant, gothic
Son Of Dracula
Considering how much fun Universal obviously had from eventually mixing their selection of classic monsters together like the contents of a particularly macabre toy box,
Dracula’s Daughter
You can’t really say that Universal were particularly swift on capitalising on the first Dracula movie, especially when you consider that A) the first movie
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