If a bunch of white jerks invading your home and riddling you with bullets isn’t enough to warrant revenge then I don’t know what it is. That is the basic premise of Universal’s Revenge of the Creature, which is the second entry of The Creature from the Black Lagoon Trilogy where once again a group…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
She-Wolf of London (1946) – Review
After Henry Hull’s turn as a lycanthrope in Werewolf of London had resulted in a box office disappointment it was Lon Chaney’s The Wolf Man that became Universal Pictures‘s default creature of fur and fangs, but in 1946 the studio released a werewolf movie that starred June Lockhart as a woman who believes that she…
The Mummy’s Curse (1944) – Review
The poster for Universal’s The Mummy’s Curse promised viewers “New Thrills! New Terror!” but this third and final sequel to The Mummy’s Hand provided nothing new or much in the way of thrills for that matter, and while it did include “Two mummies for the price of one” it was just another stock retread that…
The Mummy’s Ghost (1944) – Review
You would think being set aflame twice would have ended the reign of the Mummy, or at least dampened his spirits a tad, then again, maybe that explains why the title of this entry is The Mummy’s Ghost, could Kharis have actually perished and this is nothing but a vengeful spirit? Surprisingly, that is not…
The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944) – Review
Discounting the comedic outing of Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, this would be the last in the series of Invisible Man movies from Universal, and we can be thankful for that because this water-downed installment was more a psychotic pot-boiler about revenge than it was a decent science fiction flick about an invisible…