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 ...

“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 ...

In 1932, Universal Pictures released The Mummy. The studio was coming off a financial high from 1931, when Frankenstein and Dracula were substantial hits. Capitalizing on a heightened interest in ancient Egyptian antiquities, that was triggered by the 1922 discovery ...

Download MP3 On episode 46 of Captive Eye, David Kleiler, Jean-Paul Ouellette and Steve Head consider the enduring qualities of James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and bring to light some rarely talked about stories from its making and original release.

I’d like to preface this review by noting that while I’m sure there’s a beautifully designed jacket out there for Ken W. Hanley’s satirical self-help book The I in Evil: Accepting and Embracing the Monster You Are, I can only review ...

While Horror cinema can safely be said to have originated in Europe with Méliès’s Le Manoir du Diable, Paul Wegener’s Der Golem, FW Murnau’s Nosferatu, and Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari—among a few other remnants of early cinema—, it ...