A Universal film taking place in an opera house and starring Boris Karloff as a deranged killer must have, at the outset, seemed like great ingredients for an excellent horror movie with its obvious elements being lifted from The Phantom of the Opera, but what we have here is actually more melodrama than horror. Thus…
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The Mad Ghoul (1943) – Review
Decades before George Romero would turn the zombie film into a horror genre unto itself, Hollywood was still trying to figure out how to utilize this particular shuffling dead menace. The 1932 Bela Lugosi film White Zombie was the closest representation at the time but with Universal Pictures’ The Mad Ghoul we get a mindless…
The Mummy’s Tomb (1942) – Review
With this sequel, Universal Studios not only told the world that there was still life in the shuffling bandages of the Mummy but that they would also bring Lon Chaney Jr. back into the fold, the man who had created the role of The Wolf Man, rocked it as The Son of Dracula and he…