Universal Monsters...Why They Should Stay The Ultimate Anti-Hero!

The Universal Monsters we have all come to know and love!

Ok, so I am sure that if you are a movie fan, that you have probably heard that Universal is turning the horror franchises ultimate anti-heroes, (Universal's monsters) in to heroes!

Well if you are like me, you are probably wondering who is smoking what in the Universal think tank that has decided to take a truly legendary classic set of stories like these monsters, and butchering the holy hell out of them!

Trust me when I say that you are not alone!

This guy is pretty unhappy with it...

Now I realize here that maybe I should explain to those that are new to the world of horror, who the, 'Universal Monsters' are...

Well simply, there is a group of monsters that essentially where adapted by Universal Studios in the early days of film for film, but that were based on victorian era monsters from some of horror's greatest novels.

Some of these monsters are: Frankenstein's Monster, The Wolf Man, Dracula and The Mummy, and that is to name a few!

This is an image of actor: 'Bela Lugosi' as, 'Count Dracula' in the movie of the same name... Dracula is based on the novel by Bram Stoker. 

Anyway, in a lot of respects, you could say that these monsters are sort of the ancestors of the modern horror movie villain, and it would be incredibly stupid to turn them from their darker roots in to some kind of hero, and I will tell you why.

First off let me say this, modern Hollywood has tended to seriously butcher their remade horror movies, (not all of them, but I would say pretty much a good 99% of them are pretty useless...) 

The next thing that I wanted to say is that where as it is true that new ideas are definitely what Hollywood needs to keep infusing in to the world of movies. Taking a classic like, 'Dracula' is like taking, 'Michael Myers'and making him a super hero fighting alongside the X-Men... It is a stupid idea that would frankly piss off the Halloween and X-Men core audiences respectively!

This, 'A Nightmare On Elm Street' remake movie was a great example of a horrible remake of an awesome movie series!

Now before I continue on, I will say that it is always a good idea to have a new set of audience coming in to enjoy any classic... Universal needs to figure out how to get a new audience in there for these classics, while not annoying their core audience.

For those of you who are new to the world of horror, please enjoy these trailer for some of these classic movies... You will see what I mean!

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Frankenstein Vs. The Mummy... Can I Get A, HELL YA!

The Universal monsters were the trailer blazers of the modern horror movie!

The Universal monsters... These creepy crawly monsters have always been evil, (or in the case of, 'Frankenstein'... 'misunderstood'...) But these monster have always been hell bent on mass destruction, ever since they burst out of the pages of the novels they came from, and on to the big screen!

That is why I have to admit that I was extremely disheartened when I discovered that, 'Universal' (the film studio that not only brought these monster out of the book, not only brought them to prominence, but made them the un-contested horror movie villain/monsters of all time,) are trying to bring these monsters back to the big screen, but... And, 'yes'... I am ashamed to say it, 'as heroes!'

I mean can you imagine? Well I was recently reading an article on: Fangoria, and it looks like not everyone is buying in to the classics becoming... 'Good Guys'!

The movie poster for: Frankenstein Vs. The Mummy (2015)!

What I mean by this is that the movie, Frankenstein Vs. The Mummy (2015) tells the story of: Dr. Victor Frankenstein and Egyptologist Naihla Khalil who are both professors at a medical university. Victor’s latest grisly ‘experiment’ is the reanimated corpse of a sadistic madman and Naihla’s most recent find is the cursed mummy of an evil pharaoh. When the two monsters face off in an epic showdown, no one is safe from the slaughter!

Sounds good yeah? Well enjoy this exclusive clip courtesy of: Fangoria!

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The Mummy's Curse (1944) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

Before Ghostface, Before Pinhead, before Freddy, before Jason... Hell, even before Norman, the masters of horror were not what most of the time is now considered the standard in horror movie villain, as a matter of fact... They were a lot more Victorian... They were the monsters that were first made popular (with the exception of Dracula, who had been made popular in movie form as, 'Count Orlok' in F.W. Murnau's classic, Nosferatu eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922),) by, 'Universal Pictures' back in the 30s and 40s!

Personally, as a a serious horror fan, I have to admit that up until a few years ago (when I finally happen to be able to watch, Dracula (1931),) and I have to say that I was extremely impressed with how true to the original novel the cast and crew kept in that movie! And so I endeavored to eventually make a study of these movies... And the latest one I am proud to report having watched being, The Mummy's Curse (1944)!

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Written by: Bernard Schubert (Mark Of The Vampire), Leon Abrams (Sunset In El Dorado), Dwight V. Babcock (She-Wolf Of London), Oliver Drake (The Sky Dragon), Ted Richmond (Red Sun) & Directed by: Leslie Goodwins (My Favorite Martian). Starring: Lon Chaney Jr. (The Mummy's Tomb), Peter Coe (House Of Frankenstein), Virginia Christine (The Killers), Kay Harding (Weird Woman), Dennis Moore (Raiders Of Ghost City), Martin Kosleck (The Flesh Eaters), Kurt Katch (Watch On The Rhine), Addison Richards (Flying Tigers), & Napoleon Simpson (Jungle Queen).

This movie... Which as it turns out was the second sequel in this series of mummy movies that helped to cement Lon Chaney Jr. (High Noon), (like his father), as a trailblazing horror movie icon... Tells the story of how after the events of, The Mummy's Tomb (1944)...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400"] The small town residence are about to get a rude awakening![/caption]

The year is 1995... Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) and the damage that he caused 25 years ago has begun to fade in to superstition... never the less, the people of the small Louisiana town are scared to go in to the Bayou regardless... And when things at a work camp that is working on an irrigation project at that Swamp start to go awry... Well that doesn't help!

But when Doctor's James Halsey (Dennis Moore) & Ilzor Zandaab (Peter Coe) show up in this small town to do, 'some excavation work' for a Museum... Things start to get really strange...

You see Dr. Zandaab and his assistant, 'Ragheb' (Martin Kosleck) have actually come to the small town, not just to dig up the mummy and his bride, but to also resurrect them and bring them back to Egypt...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="525"] Zandaab & Ragheb with the mummy, as they start they're unholy quest![/caption]

In the end, it will be up to Dr. Halsey, and the irrigation team to and stop Zandaab, his team, and the mummy he has resurrected, before the mummy can be reunited with his beloved!

In the end, this may have been the last time that Lon Chaney Jr. would don the role of, 'Kharis' (It turns out that he was not a huge

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