BoyScoutKevin
Frightening Fanatic of Horrible Cinema
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« Reply #15 on: March 04, 2010, 07:58:38 PM » |
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Well, generic horror films are not a recent invention. They actually may have started with the Universal horror films. The Universal Frankenstein series and Universal's "The Wolf Man" was so successful, some Universal suit decided let's put Frankenstein's Monster with the Wolf Man and you have 1943's "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man." And that was apparently so successful that they decided to add even more horror characters, such as Dracula, a hunchback, a mad doctor, etc. and they came out with 1944's "House of Frankenstein" and 1945's "House of Dracula." And when the whole series began to verge, unintentionally, into comedy, they made the intentional comedy "Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein," which didn't have a mad doctor or a hunchback, but did have the Invisible Man.
I have seen most, if not all, of these films, and while they may be generic, they are alot of fun to watch.
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