Recent Posts Tagged With 'legacy collection'

• The Last Prowl for the Classic Universal Monsters

  Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 11:57 in Dracula, 1950s, 1940s, bela lugosi, abbott and costello, legacy collection, lon chaney jr, franchise collection

  As the 1940s gave way to the 1950s, Universal Pictures had driven the monsters that had saved the studio from oblivion during the Great Depression--Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Mummy--pretty much into the ground. A series of ever-worsenin...

• The Wolf Man Legacy Collection

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 20:25 in 1930s, 1940s, bela lugosi, legacy collection, lon chaney jr, evelyn ankers, lionel atwill

  The Wolf Man was the last addition to the Universal Monster Pantheon that truly impacted pop culture. Like the Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster, and like Kharis the Mummy, the Universal Wolf Man became the prototype for most werewolf li...

• Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection

  Posted on Saturday June 13th, 2009 at 11:32 in boris karloff, 1930s, 1940s, bela lugosi, john carradine, mad science, legacy collection, lon chaney jr, james whale, cedric hardwicke, evelyn ankers, george zucco

  Perhaps the very best entry in Universal's "Legacy Collection" of DVD multipacks compiling their classic monster movies in handsome, archive-quality packages, is the "Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection." In this post, I review the five films include...

• The Mummy Legacy Collection

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 11:18 in boris karloff, 1930s, 1940s, the mummy, john carradine, legacy collection, wallace ford, lon chaney jr, george zucco, david manners, zita johann, turhan bey

  Universal's 1932 "The Mummy" remains one of the best mummy movies ever made. If you're a film buff and haven't seen it--even if you're not a particuarly big fan of horror--you have a great experience in store.The "sequels" from the 1940s go from medi...

• Dracula: The Legacy Collection

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 00:04 in Dracula, 1930s, bela lugosi, john carradine, tod browning, legacy collection, lon chaney jr, evelyn ankers, david manners, edward van sloan

  I've long held the opinion that the original Universal Studio's "Dracula" film, one of the very important first building blocks of the cinematic horror genre is overrated.Watching it in close promixity to the sequels from the 1930s and 1940s and, mor...

• The monster is the hero in 'Creature from the Black Lagoon'

  Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 23:44 in 1950s, legacy collection, gill man

  Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)Starring: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Antonio Moreno and Richard DenningDirector: Jack ArnoldRating: Five of Ten StarsA group of scientist travel into the Amazon jungle to retrieve an unusual fossil, but instead...

• The Invisble Man Legacy Collection

  Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 16:10 in Vincent Price, john howard, 1930s, 1940s, invisible man, claude rains, peter lorre, john carradine, legacy collection, james whale, cedric hardwicke, evelyn ankers

  Over the past few years, Universal has been releasing some fantastic DVD collections, prime among these have been the "Legacy Collection" series. While I can quibble with some of the choices of what was included in a couple of the sets, there is no q...