
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 (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 expanded the successful formula of its predecessor, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), sufficiently to include no less than five ‘monsters’. […]

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 […]

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 […]

There is a belief, even among the most devout fans of Hammer horror, that as their Dracula franchise progressed, the films became steadily worse. […]

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 […]