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Not considered a mainstay of Universal’s prolific horror output of the 1940s, The Mad Ghoul does offer a pleasingly minxish and original yarn, with […]
by Nige Burton To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the true beginning of the horror film, Universal commissioned a new monster. Desperate to find […]
After the budgetary extravagances of Son of Frankenstein (1939), the new brooms at Universal were determined to play it safe henceforth, despite that film […]
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 […]
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 […]
Evelyn Ankers, star of numerous horror movies throughout the 1940s, was born in Valparaiso, Chile on the 17th of August, 1918, to English parents. […]
