With the success of Universal’s Dracula and Frankenstein, as well as Paramount’s own Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the studio must have felt that film adaptations of classic literature were a surefire road to success, unfortunately, to adapt H.G. Wells’ novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, a tale of true body horror, they had to…
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) – Review
In the early days of cinema studios quickly realized that the public’s fascination with horror and adapting classic works of literature to the screen was almost a surefire recipe for box office success, Universal had amazing results with their adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, so in 1931 Paramount Pictures released a picture that was even…
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) – Review
Despite being shot to death at the end of both previous instalments the Gill-man is back for this third and final entry in the Creature from the Black Lagoon Trilogy, where they bring the creature out of the “Rampaging Monster” category, where he’d found himself trapped in for Revenge of the Creature, and now he’s…
Revenge of the Creature (1955) – Review
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…
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…