![The Pearl of Death (Universal 1944)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pearl-of-Death-The_01-170x120.jpg)
Based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s story The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, Sherlock Holmes mystery The Pearl of Death was the ninth outing for […]
![Phantom of the Opera (Universal 1943)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Phantom-of-the-Opera_main-170x120.jpg)
Phantom of the Opera, Universal’s lavish 1943 Technicolor remake of the 1925 Chaney classic, was quite a departure from the studio’s usual classic monsters […]
![The Phantom of the Opera (Hammer 1962)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Phantom-of-the-Opera_01-170x120.jpg)
Hammer’s version of The Phantom of the Opera was released on the 7th of June, 1962, with Captain Clegg as its supporting feature. The […]
![The Phantom of the Opera (Universal 1925)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Phantom-of-the-Opera-The_08_main-170x120.jpg)
Universal’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) had proved immensely successful for both the Laemmles and its star, Lon Chaney. Chaney’s grotesque make-up for […]
![The Plague of the Zombies (Hammer 1966)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Plague-of-the-Zombies-MAIN-170x120.jpg)
By the mid 1960s, Hammer had reinvented pretty much all of the original Universal monsters; although the age of the sequel was still in […]
![Plan 9 from Outer Space (Reynolds 1959)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Plan-9-From-Outer-Space_main-170x120.jpg)
Ed Wood’s sci-fi horror film Plan 9 from Outer Space was released by Reynolds Pictures on the 22nd of July, 1959 and took immediate […]
![Phantom of the Opera montage](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Phantoms2-170x120.jpg)
Of all our favourite classic monsters, Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera has proved almost as enduring as Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster. Filmed […]