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…
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The Abominable Snowman (1957) – Review
Of all the creatures of myth, the Abominable Snowman has never quite received the respect it deserves, it certainly hasn’t had the same amount of big-screen appearances as other monsters have had, often stuck in lesser offerings such as 1977’s made-for-television horror film Snowbeast or in more family-friendly versions such as the Bumble in Rankin…
Snowbeast (1977) – Review
The amount of films that attempted to cash in on the success of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Jaws is quite staggering, unfortunately, the number of them that turned out to be bad is quite staggering as well. But as many of these low-budget shark films hoped to get some of that sweet Jaw’s money there were…
Werewolf of London (1935) – Review
When one thinks of Universal Pictures and werewolves images of Lon Chaney Jr. stalking Evelyn Ankers through the dark European woods is probably what first comes to mind and with that particular werewolf becoming one of the star players in the Universal Monsters franchise that is quite reasonable, but years before Jack Pierce was gluing…
Universal Classic Monsters: A Cinematic World of Horror
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.