This era in cinema saw many threats against mankind from a rampaging atomic awoken dinosaur in The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms to rampaging atomic dinosaur in Gojira – you may detect a theme –we’ve seen numerous attacks on “civilization” by irradiated monsters but with the movie we are looking at today, not so much, let’s…
Tag: monster movie
Man-Made Monster (1941) – Review
Directed by George Waggner and starring Lon Chaney Jr, this low-budget Universal Pictures production showcases the enduring fascination with the perils of scientific experimentation and the boundaries of human control, a film that would usher in a new wave of mad science.
Island of Lost Souls (1932) – Review
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…
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…
Son of Frankenstein (1939) – Review
How do you follow up not only one of the greatest sequels of all time but one of the greatest horror movies of all time? This was the problem facing director Rowland V. Lee when he was tasked with helming the sequel to James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein, made even trickier by the fact that…