With Marvel and DC comics continuing to duke it out as to who can create the biggest cinematic universe one almost forgets that back in the 1930s Universal Pictures unknowingly launched their own franchise with their adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, long before the idea of a cinematic universe even existed.
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Frankenstein (1931) – Review
1931 was certainly a great year for horror as not only did it see Bela Lugosi bringing his performance of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the big screen the world was also treated to a more sympathetic monster in the form of James Whales’ adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, starring the great Boris Karloff, and where…
Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988) – Review
Continuity has never been Scooby-Doo’s strong suit, with ghosts and monsters switching between fake and real depending on the particular run of the show, but Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf hits new lows by completely ignoring the previous film; one that came out the same bloody year! In Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, our heroes…
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988) – Review
When it comes to the idea of employment, the Scooby-Doo franchise has been rather loose with how our cast of characters earns gas money. Shaggy and Scooby weren’t selling pot on the side to pay for all those immense Submarine Sandwiches — despite this being a fair assumption — though they were often seen to…
Victor Frankenstein (2015) – Review
When it comes to adaptations of classic monsters Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is only surpassed by Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and that is mainly because most films portray the monster as a mindless brute, which is not the way he was depicted in the original novel.