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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 […]
