![The Invisible Man Returns (Universal 1940)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Invisible-Man-Returns_main-170x120.jpg)
Universal Studios released The Invisible Man Returns on January 12, 1940 (USA). It is the third horror film in the “second wave of horror […]
![Black Friday (Universal 1940)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Black-Friday_lobby_02_main-170x120.jpg)
Universal’s Black Friday, released in 1940, is a slick, science fiction thriller starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Much has been made over the […]
![I Walked with a Zombie (RKO 1943)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/I-walked-with-a-Zombie_main1-170x120.jpg)
The Val Lewton RKO shocker, I Walked with a Zombie, was released on the 30th of April, 1943. Directed by Jacques Tourneur, it was […]
![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’. […]
![Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (Universal 1943)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Frankenstein-Meets-the-Wolf-Man_01-170x120.jpg)
Sounding more like comic-book japes than a serious classic monster film, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is surprisingly good. Anecdotal evidence from screenwriter Curt […]
![The Wolf Man (Universal 1941)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Wolf-Man-The_main2-170x120.jpg)
by Nige Burton To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the true beginning of the horror film, Universal commissioned a new monster. Desperate to find […]
![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 […]