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…
Tag: Universal Monsters
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…
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) – Review
Long before Stephen King became the first name in horror that title belonged to author Edgar Allan Poe, who was not only a master of the macabre but also considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, and like King, his stories have found their way onto the silver screen many times over…
Dracula’s Daughter (1936) – Review
You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family, this is a sentiment that the title character of Universal’s Dracula’s Daughter certainly understands in this sequel to the 1931 smash hit Dracula, which deals with a woman trying to escape the shadow of her infamous parentage, of course, being a vampire herself, this…
White Zombie (1932) – Review
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…