For a Hammer film, and with a title like this, The Old Dark House is not all that dark. Perhaps it would have seemed more so if the comedy had been toned […]
Spend a Night in… – The Old Dark House (1963)
The Soul of a Monster – The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
In Hammer’s 1962 production of The Phantom of the Opera, it would see Herbert Lom step into the shoes of the tragic figure and it would be both a captivating and haunting […]
Van Helsing Goes to China – The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires was made during Hammer’s twilight years and also happened to be co-produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. The end result of that collaboration is a […]
Beware… The Mummy’s Curse (1944)
Universal, who after making four movies with this one being the fifth, decided to retire Kharis and their mummy franchise in favour of other things as it seemed that people perhaps, were […]
More Real Than You Think – The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)
The Mummy’s Ghost begins like the two previous films with the old priest passing on the responsibilities of looking after Kharis, who is indeed still alive, and the Princess Ananka to a […]
Be Careful Should You Violate… – The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)
Continuing almost directly from where the previous film left off, The Mummy’s Tomb finds Kharis alive and well, or at least as alive and well as he could ever hope to be. […]
You Would Be a Fool to Take… – The Mummy’s Hand (1940)
The first sequel to The Mummy from Universal actually has nothing to do with the original in almost any way and it is a little strange that the studio would do as […]
Do You Dare Wake… – The Mummy (1932)
Joining Dracula, Frankenstein and The Invisible Man back in 1932 from Universal Studios was The Mummy and it would go on to be successful enough to garner itself a number of sequels […]
Nothing Will Stop Him – The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)
With the final film in the Invisible Man franchise, it finally returns to its roots, that horror which was proliferated in the first two films and then abandoned in the third and […]
Watch Your Back, It’s…. – The Invisible Man (1933)
After the success of Frankenstein, Universal wanted to keep the momentum going and so it was that The Invisible Man was brought to life. One of the more interesting aspects of the […]
