When Did You Last Watch A Classic Universal Monster Movie?

[Mord]

"Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein"  -  I'm not sure how many times I watch this every year...it's my "go to", feel-good film. You can't watch this without a smile on your face.

[McDougals House of Horror]

"Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein"  -  I'm not sure how many times I watch this every year...it's my "go to", feel-good film. You can't watch this without a smile on your face.

As everyone knows, it's my all-time favorite movie (gee, really?). I'll bet I watch it once a week -- there's just no other movie like it, with Universal's three legends of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman, and those two morons who lost my exhibits!! A great animated opening, an unforgettable score by Frank Skinner (incredibly, still never re-recorded or released!), and great childhood memories waiting for it every year and watching it on Halloween before going trick-or-treating. Simply the best. Here's the opening sequence if you've never seen it (a mortal sin in and of itself)...

Mr. McDougal

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein Opening Title

[Mord]

As everyone knows, it's my all-time favorite movie (gee, really?). I'll bet I watch it once a week -- there's just no other movie like it, with Universal's three legends of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman, and those two morons who lost my exhibits!! A great animated opening, an unforgettable score by Frank Skinner (incredibly, still never re-recorded or released!), and great childhood memories waiting for it every year and watching it on Halloween before going trick-or-treating. Simply the best. Here's the opening sequence if you've never seen it (a mortal sin in and of itself)...

Mr. McDougal

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein Opening Title

Lets not forget the lovely ladies and the Invisible Man. I think I saw some of your exhibits for sale on E-bay. I guess those two idiots learned how to use a computer. I saw what I saw when I saw it.

[zombiehorror]

Ok, you guys talked me into it!  Watched Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein for the first time....well for the first time this year anyway!  The HD print from 2012 is definitely the way to go; now that I have my Blu-ray player I'll be re-examining all of the Universal monster HD prints, which I have burned on dvd.

Everytime I watch A&C meet Frankenstein I just can't help but feel what a missed opportunity it was not making this a 3D feature, this film would have been the perfect vehicle!

[Mord]

Well, it was made in 1948, so 3-D AND color were both an interesting option (though it really is perfect the way it is).

[zombiehorror]

Well 3D certainly wouldn't make it any less perfect but it would make it even more awesome; the depth of McDougal's House of Horror, the castle (from the oppulant grand hall to the "broom closet" to the cavernous depths of the underground tunnels) and woodland scenes beg to be brought to multiple-eye popping layers through the "magic" of 3D!

[horrorhunter]

Bullet bras would benefit from the 3-D treatment, as well. Triple D in 3-D would be even more spectacular. 

[Mord]

Dracula's Daughter (if this were remade today, it would be a total lesbo orgy-fest)

[Count_Zirock]

Dracula's Daughter (if this were remade today, it would be a total lesbo orgy-fest)

You say that like it's a bad thing! From what I've read, the script James Whale wanted to shoot was a real S&M orgy, with the Countess whipping male victims while Dracula (in flashback scenes) gleefully watched.

When I used to write the "News from the AlternaVerse" column for Fandom.com/Cinescape Online, one of the ideas I had was Universal dusting off that old script as a vehicle for Alyssa Milano, with Frank Langella having a cameo as Dracula in the flashback scenes. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to write the article.

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[jimm]

Sven and The invisible Ray, last night...

[Mord]

You say that like it's a bad thing! From what I've read, the script James Whale wanted to shoot was a real S&M orgy, with the Countess whipping male victims while Dracula (in flashback scenes) gleefully watched.


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I think you must have misunderstood me. A "lesbo orgy-fest" is ALWAYS a good thing in my book (right up there with the communal shower scene that has been missing from most of today's movies).

[horrorhunter]

  I think you must have misunderstood me. A "lesbo orgy-fest" is ALWAYS a good thing in my book (right up there with the communal shower scene that has been missing from most of today's movies).

[Anthony Caranci]

Saturday:

House of Frankenstein – 1944 – Universal.
The Mummy's Ghost – 1944 – Universal.
The Invisible Man's Revenge – 1944 – Universal.

Sunday:

The Mummy's Curse – 1944 – Universal.
House of Dracula – 1945 – Universal.

[Mord]

The Invisible Agent

[Anthony Caranci]

Monday:

She Wolf of London – 1946 – Universal.
Bedlam – 1946 – RKO.
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Tuesday:

This post is not meant to offend anyone, but there are times when things need to be put in their proper context. Just because one may have the 'title or label" of new recruit here -- it doesn't always mean that they are one.

Bud Abbott & Lou Costello meet Frankenstein  – 1948 – Universal. That is the "official title, however, it is always referred to as Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein. Why is that? Is it laziness or is everyone abiding by pop culture?

I could see shortening it if one was referring to it in a book or manuscript many times, but if one has two eyes in their F*(*at*)king head -- then all they have to do is use them and read the damn title!  I get annoyed when "so-called aficionados" can't even get the title of a film correct.

It is like the Ygor syndrome - how many of you have seen reviews of Son of Frankenstein (on-line), that state that Ygor is a "hunchback shepherd, when in fact he is a "broken necked blacksmith.  Apparently these reviewers forgot to use their ears -- as Ygor tells Wolf "I - blacksmith" (duh).
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Wednesday:

Mighty Joe Young – 1949 – RKO.
House of Wax – 1953 – Warner Bros.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon – 1954 – Universal.