![Hans J Salter](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Hans-J-Salter-170x120.jpg)
Born in Vienna on the 14th of January, 1896, Hans J Salter trained at the city’s Academy of Music and served as assistant director […]
![Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal 1954)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Creature-from-the-Black-Lagoon_main-170x120.jpg)
Universal’s most effective new traditional classic monster came in the shape of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Although the film was billed at […]
![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 Ghost of Frankenstein (Universal 1942)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Ghost-of-Frankenstein-The_main-170x120.jpg)
After the budgetary extravagances of Son of Frankenstein (1939), the new brooms at Universal were determined to play it safe henceforth, despite that film […]
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Son of Frankenstein, Universal’s third episode in their Frankenstein series, was the last to feature Boris Karloff and the first to feature Bela Lugosi. […]