Monster Mayhem

There comes a point in every mad scientist's career when somebody really needs to grab him by the shoulders and say, "Maybe don't touch the glowing meteorite." Unfortunately for Dr. Janos Rukh, nobody gets ...

Let's get the disappointment out of the way first: Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi are in the same damn movie and never share a scene. That's almost criminal. Universal had two of horror's greatest icons sitting ...

In which The Invisible Man fights Nazis. Universal could have easily cranked out another movie about a scientist losing his mind after turning invisible. Instead, with World War II raging across the globe, the studio looked at  ...

There are movie stars, and then there's Bela Lugosi staring at you with those hypnotic eyes like he's already decided how the evening is going to end. After Dracula, Universal could've played it safe. Give Lugosi another cape ...

If Dracula made Bela Lugosi a legend and Frankenstein made Boris Karloff immortal, then The Black Cat answered the question horror fans didn't know they were asking. What if they are in the same horror ...

There is absolutely nothing subtle about The Raven. Thank God. By 1935, Universal had Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi under contract, Edgar Allan Poe's name sitting there begging to be exploited, and audiences apparently willing...

Well, this took a left turn. After Claude Rains laughed his way into homicidal insanity and Vincent Price spent an entire movie trying not to lose his mind, Universal looked at the Invisible Man series and apparently decided, "You ...

You know what's funny about invisibility? Everybody thinks it's a superpower. Nope. It's a curse. Sure, for about five minutes you'd rob a bank, sneak into a movie theater, scare the hell out of your coworkers, and  ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber may have turned The Phantom of the Opera into one of the most recognizable musicals on Earth, but for horror fans, there has only ever been one Phantom. ...

By the time The Ghost of Frankenstein rolled into theaters in 1942, Universal's favorite oversized corpse had already been shot, burned, drowned, buried, and generally treated like the world's least appreciated science experiment. ...