As a production house, American International Pictures was mostly known for quick and cheap films that would capitalize on a current fad or the latest popular movie, often with plots centring around teenagers as they were a key demographic to the studio, and when Universal Pictures had great success with their adaptation of Richard Matheson’s…
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War of the Colossal Beast (1958) – Review
Producer Bert I. Gordon was never one to let a good idea die – or a bad idea for that matter – so after the mild success of his film The Amazing Colossal Man it stood to reason that a sequel would be a foregone conclusion, of course, there was the small problem of the…
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…
How to Make a Monster (1958) – Review
The idea of a horror movie sequel is certainly nothing new, the concept is pretty much as old as the genre itself, but with the film How to Make a Monster American International Pictures took it to a new level with what could be best described as a “Behind the Scenes” meta-monster-movie as it is…
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) – Review
When it came to making a follow-up to AIP’s box office hit I Was a Teenage Werewolf, the studio did something rather unusual, and a little gutsy, as they could have simply gone with an easy sequel and rolled out something like Return of the Teenage Werewolf, instead, they took a different monster from the…