Universal Pictures had such success with its horror movies that the logical assumption was the more monsters, the merrier. Starting in 1943, with the release of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Universal embarked on a series of creature-crossovers, in which ...

“Thirty years ago- The Mamiya family had a long-awaited baby. Ichirou Mamiya was overjoyed. He planned to draw his baby’s growth on these walls. However, his happiness didn’t last very long. One day, Lady Mamiya went to the cellar to turn on ...

Far before the MCU or DCEU, the original stable of Hollywood giants were the Universal Monsters. Just like any other pantheon, a caste system exists. Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstein’s Monster charged onto the scene in the early 1930s and ...

“They say that one evening, during a strong snowstorm, the spirit of the snow turned into the terrible snow witch, and roamed the mountains and plains. And if a man accidentally spied her, the snow woman immediately took possession of ...

“Can anybody make sense of what’s happening here?”  asks Jong-goo, innocently, and for many viewers of The Wailing, the answer is a resounding no. Many of the attempted explanations of Na Hong-jin’s The Wailing (2016) make the same mistake: they ...

“There are far worse things awaiting man than death…” – Bela Lugosi as the Count in Universal Pictures’ Dracula (1931). Dracula, the fabled Count of the Carpathians, has thrilled audiences on an intercontinental scale since his literary origination in 1897 ...

There’s no need to praise Hammer Films. Been done. The explanation of why is something personal. It’s hard to explain to a generation raised on DVDs, and sad they have nothing exactly like the sacred experience called “Going to the ...

The Gothic is a vast literary and cinematic mode, incorporating the supernatural terror of ghosts, ghouls, mummies and werewolves, as well as ‘real horror’ of insanity, murder, torture and necrophilia, with settings ranging from shadowy corridors in isolated castles, to ...

Over 120 years ago early cinema pioneer Georges Méliès made Le Manoir du diable (1896), an ambitious film considered now by many to be the first example of cinematic horror because of its Gothic themes, even if the genre of ...

When people think of scary things, they often think of monsters. The monster under the bed. The monster in the closet. The monster that destroys Tokyo. It’s the latter that we’re concerned with here, monsters that at their normal size ...