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…
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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) – Review
What could be better than a movie featuring Frankenstein or the Wolf Man, well, the obvious answer is a film starring not one but both of these classic Universal Monsters and with Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man that is exactly what audiences were treated to back in 1942 in what would later be known as…
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) – Review
If you can’t trust a murderous lab assistant named Igor, who can you trust? While Bela Lugosi returns as the troublesome Igor, The Ghost of Frankenstein marks the first time The Wolf Man star Lon Chaney Jr. would step in to fill those over-sized shoes of the Monster, and it is also at this point…
The Wolf Man (1941) – Review
“Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright” with those immortal words Universal Pictures would launch another horror franchise that would rival that of its contemporary cousins Dracula and Frankenstein, but where The Wolf Man…
One Million B.C. (1940) – Review
When one thinks of classic movies that pit cavemen against dinosaurs the title that first comes to mind would normally be that of Hammer Film’s epic picture One Million Years B.C. but what many don’t realize is that film was actually a remake of an old Hal Roach Studios picture starring Victor Mature and Carol…