
Reginald Lawrence Knowles was born in Horsforth in the West Riding of Yorkshire in England on the 11th of November, 1911. Making his screen […]

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’. […]

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 […]

After the budgetary extravagances of Son of Frankenstein (1939), the new brooms at Universal were determined to play it safe henceforth, despite that film […]

Maria Ouspenskaya, the willowy Eastern European actress who never weighed more than 90lb all her life, created one of the most satisfying characters in […]

Return of the Ape Man was released by Monogram on the 17th of July, 1944. Starring Bela Lugosi and John Carradine, the film also […]