From IMDB- ‘Dr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor.’ Lon Chaney must have felt the pressure on him filling the very big boots (literally) of Boris Karloff regarding depicting The Monster but he needn’t have worried. He's fine, as are the rest of …
Continue reading Universal Classic Monsters Reviewed- Day 18- The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Larry Talbot returns to Wales from America after being away for 18 years. He's back to attend his brothers funeral and reunite with his estranged father. One night when he's taking a walk with a pretty woman he's chatted up, she is attacked by a wolf until Larry intervenes to save her. He is bitten …
Continue reading Universal Classic Monsters Reviewed- Day 17- The Wolf Man (1941)
A model, Kitty Carroll, is the first guinea pig for a machine which can turn people invisible which has been invented by the eccentric Professor Gibbs. But the machine is then stolen by three gangsters who want to use it on their boss. This isn’t horror even though it’s the third film in their ‘invisible’ …
Continue reading Universal Classic Monsters Reviewed- Day 16- The Invisible Woman (1940)
A pair of bumbling amateur archeologists go treasure seeking but unfortunately, after plundering a tomb, are terrorised by a high priest and a mummy who are its guardians. This isn’t a sequel to The Mummy but, instead, the first film in a new series of films. It’s clear the wisecracking would-be archaeologists are modelled on …
Continue reading Universal Classic Monsters Reviewed- Day 15- The Mummy’s Hand (1940)
Geoffrey Radcliffe is on death row, sentenced to hang for a murder. But when he mysteriously disappears from his cell, it’s discovered that he’s the brother of the original Invisible Man and was given the same formula. It’s now a race against time for Geoffrey to find the real killer. Another sequel but this time …
Continue reading Universal Classic Monsters Reviewed- Day 14- The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
From IMDB- ‘Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.’ Any film that stars Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff has …
Continue reading Universal Classic Monsters Reviewed- Day 12- Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Dracula is dead, as is Renfield as this film continues straight after the ending of the original movie. We get to meet an enigmatic woman who wants to see the Count’s body at the scene of the crime as she claims she is his daughter. Dracula’s Daughter is an interesting follow-up which isn’t some anaemic …
Continue reading Universal Classic Monsters Reviewed- Day 11- Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
The action starts in Tibet, where botanist Wilfred Glendon is searching for a rare flower but is attacked by a werewolf. After being bitten and then back in London, he finds himself turning into a werewolf himself and carrying out grisly murders. I’m loving the fact that this phase of Universal horror films are only …
Continue reading Universal Classic Monsters Reviewed- Day 10- Werewolf of London (1935)
From IMDB- ‘Baron Henry Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil-experiment business, but when mad scientist Dr. Pretorius kidnaps his wife, Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature, a woman, to be the companion of the monster.’ …
Continue reading Universal Classic Monsters Reviewed- Day 9- Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
A doctor invents a drug that makes him invisible. It also, unfortunately, makes him murderously insane. The Invisible Man amazed me in a ‘how the hell did they do that’ kinda way. Some of the special effects here are seriously impressive. And this was decades before the dreaded CGI. Claude Rains turns in a great …
Continue reading Universal Classic Monsters Reviewed- Day 8- The Invisible Man (1933)
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