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.
Tag: The Wolf Man
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…
The Howling (1981) – Review
There aren’t a lot of great werewolf movie out there, in fact, when compared to vampire movies there aren’t all that many werewolf films period, but in 1981 we were treated to two competing werewolf films that have become the benchmark for the genre, first, there was the John Landis dark comedy An American Werewolf…