If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Rankin/Bass, of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer fame, decided to host a monster convention with a touch of Scooby-Doo logic and a side order of slapstick, well—congratulations, you’ve found it! Instead of reindeer and elves, this one delivers a ghoulishly goofy gathering of classic movie monsters, all wrapped…
Tag: Dracula
House of Frankenstein (1944) – Review
When the idea of pairing various Universal Monsters together proved successful with Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man the people at Universal Pictures put this formula into high gear and thus the “Monster Rallies” would become both the backbone of the series and also its downfall as the comedy team of Abbott and Costello would eventually…
Son of Dracula (1943) – Review
In the long list of Universal Monster movies, there is one odd duck entry in the form of Son of Dracula, a film that does not take place in the same continuity as Dracula and Dracula’s Daughter and the events within are never referenced again, weirder still is the casting of Lon Chaney Jr. as…
Dracula’s Daughter (1936) – Review
You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family, this is a sentiment that the title character of Universal’s Dracula’s Daughter certainly understands in this sequel to the 1931 smash hit Dracula, which deals with a woman trying to escape the shadow of her infamous parentage, of course, being a vampire herself, this…
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…