![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 […]
![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 […]
![The Return of the Vampire (Columbia 1944)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Return-of-the-Vampire-The_03-main-170x120.jpg)
More Victoria Wood than victorious vampire flick, The Return of the Vampire was also the return of Bela Lugosi. The ageing star had long […]
![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 […]
![The Mummy's Tomb (Universal 1942)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Mummys-Tomb-The_main-170x120.jpg)
Of all Universal’s classic monsters, the Mummy was surely the one treated with the least respect, being mercilessly put out to graft in its […]
![Phantom of the Opera (Universal 1943)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Phantom-of-the-Opera_main-170x120.jpg)
Phantom of the Opera, Universal’s lavish 1943 Technicolor remake of the 1925 Chaney classic, was quite a departure from the studio’s usual classic monsters […]