Whenever we hear of the Universal Studios Monsters brand, images of Boris Karloff's Frankenstein's Monster or Mummy, Bela Lugosi's Dracula, and Lon Chaney Jr.'s Wolf Man pop into mind. Combined with ...

If you want to count “Universal Monsters” as an ongoing cinematic franchise, then it’s about as long-running as they get. The first big movies classifiable as such pre-dated even the first King Kong, ...

I hated horror as a kid. Growing up, I didn’t have anyone to introduce me to old black and white films, either. And the only time I saw movies released before I was born was when local TV channels ...