![Horror of Dracula (Hammer 1958)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Dracula-Hammer_main_Horror-170x120.jpg)
When Hammer released their production of Horror of Dracula on 8th May, 1958, they redefined not only Bram Stoker’s iconic novel, but also the […]
![House of Dracula (Universal 1945)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/House-of-Dracula_07_main-170x120.jpg)
House of Dracula (1945) was the natural result of the success of the previous year’s monsterthon, House of Frankenstein. Universal were determined to wring […]
![House of Frankenstein (Universal 1944)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/House-of-Frankenstein_main-170x120.jpg)
House of Frankenstein expanded the successful formula of its predecessor, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), sufficiently to include no less than five ‘monsters’. […]
![Nosferatu (Prana 1922)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Nosferatu_main2-170x120.jpg)
Although made in 1921, and released in Berlin on the 4th of March, 1922, F W Murnau’s seminal vampire film, Nosferatu, didn’t see the […]
![The Satanic Rites of Dracula (Hammer 1973)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Satanic-Rites-of-Dracula_main-2-170x120.jpg)
By the time The Satanic Rites of Dracula was in production, many had fallen out of love with Hammer’s beloved bloodsucker franchise, not least […]
![Scars of Dracula (Hammer 1970)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Scars-of-Dracula_11-170x120.jpg)
There is a belief, even among the most devout fans of Hammer horror, that as their Dracula franchise progressed, the films became steadily worse. […]
![Son of Dracula (Universal 1943)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Son-of-Dracula-18_main-170x120.jpg)
Universal had been keen to make sequels featuring almost all of their classic monsters. Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy and the Wolf Man had all […]