Bride of Frankenstein

#3 in my ranking of the Classic Universal Monster movies. This is what every B-movie monster mash wanted to be: a mixture of heady thematic ideas and pure entertainment, but very few ever got it as right as James Whale did in Bride of Frankenstein. Alternatively intelligently advancing the ideas presented in the first Frankenstein…

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The Invisible Man

#1 in my ranking of the Classic Universal Monster movies. Carl Laemmle Jr. finally got James Whale to come back to make another horror picture, having tried to get him to direct The Mummy, and Whale ended up making one of the least typical of these early films. It's something between a thriller and a…

Frankenstein

#2 in my ranking of the Classic Universal Monster movies. Dracula was a big success for Universal and producer Carl Laemmle Jr. set out to follow up the gothic romance with something similar in terms of tone and reputation. What he ended up picking was an adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel about man conquering…