If you can’t trust a murderous lab assistant named Igor, who can you trust? While Bela Lugosi returns as the troublesome Igor, The Ghost of Frankenstein marks the first time The Wolf Man star Lon Chaney Jr. would step in to fill those over-sized shoes of the Monster, and it is also at this point…
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Son of Frankenstein (1939) – Review
How do you follow up not only one of the greatest sequels of all time but one of the greatest horror movies of all time? This was the problem facing director Rowland V. Lee when he was tasked with helming the sequel to James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein, made even trickier by the fact that…
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) – Review
Long before Stephen King became the first name in horror that title belonged to author Edgar Allan Poe, who was not only a master of the macabre but also considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, and like King, his stories have found their way onto the silver screen many times over…
White Zombie (1932) – Review
The idea of a zombie apocalypse, with hordes of the undead roaming the Earth, is something the world owes to George Romero because his Night of the Living Dead took the basic idea of the zombie and left behind all of the mystical aspects of the zombie mythos, ditching the creature’s Haitian roots and their…
The Wolf Man (1941) – Review
“Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright” with those immortal words Universal Pictures would launch another horror franchise that would rival that of its contemporary cousins Dracula and Frankenstein, but where The Wolf Man…