Classic movie monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolf Man didn’t originate in cinema; they first ...
which were essentially canonized in the public consciousness by the Universal monster films of the 1930s and 1940s, even the best werewolf movies are never quite given the luster or ...
Opinion: Just like with Nosferatu, the classic 1925 horror movie The Phantom of the Opera deserves to be remade ...
Even the most famous cinematic werewolf, the titular Wolf Man introduced by Universal Pictures in 1941, has struggled to stand out. Watching these movies back-to-back forces you to confront a reality ...
The Universal Monster movies have not always been considered a franchise. In his book Media Franchising (2013), cultural studies scholar Derek Johnson suggests that, despite “monster concepts ...
This weekend sees the latest in a new generation of “Universal Monster” movies with Wolf Man. Director Leigh Whannell previously struck gold with his adaptation of The Invisible Man and while ...
There's no doubt that we're in the era of Universal Monsters ... But there is one monster missing, The Phantom. Just this year, we have a new Frankenstein movie from Guillermo del Toro heading ...