We’ve all heard the old cliche, “Man is the greatest monster.” Screenwriters deploy it to shock the audience or make a larger ...

The relationship between horror movies and horror literature goes way back. In fact, some of the best and most terrifying ...

Pratt, better known to the world as Boris Karloff—and best known as the Frankenstein ... because I have sentimental affection for the character. I owe him so much that I owe him a little respect ...

(Confusingly, Hunchback has nothing to do with the title character in Universal’s ... with the stories linked by Boris Karloff as evil scientist Dr. Gustav Niemann (the Mad Doctor).

BRINGING the Wolf Man to life is a monumental feat, and wanting to honor the original 1941 classic of the same name, director Leigh Whannell channels inspiratio ...

One of the most lucrative sources of revenue for Universal Pictures in the 30s and 40s was the horror movie. With their meager budgets and C-list actors, the films were ...

We’ve stuck to the humanoid variety, in which the monster character has (or at least ... who pushed for his inspired compatriot, Boris Karloff, instead. The tenderness astonishes just as much ...

From little acorns, mighty oak trees grow. Or put another way, from a handful of script pages, gargantuan multimedia ...

With Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell ... yet Karloff brings his customary richness of character to this tricky role, cutting through all the ghoulish murder and blackmail with humor and literate ...

Our first official image of Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein is the realization of a dream for Guillermo del Toro.

He followed the Universal Monsters’ now-classic takes on Dracula, Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein, and the Invisible Man into theaters, but Lon Chaney Jr. makes an indelible impression as ...

With Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater ... yet Karloff brings his customary richness of character to this tricky role, cutting through all the ghoulish murder and blackmail with humor and ...