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Meeting Air The anger of Invisible Man’s Revenge fully subsides in this spoof send-off. Although Bud Abbott and Lou Costello ran into Universal’s monsters prior, the camp value in …

Visible Madness There is no hero in The Invisible Man’s Revenge. Everyone is struck by greed. The final sequel to the 1933 original wipes everything clean with an angry, …

For the Homeland Post-Pearl Harbor, Americans despised the Japanese enough that Hungarian Peter Lorre could pass as Asian. “I can’t tell you Japs apart,” spouts star Jon Hall, the …

Womanizing the Genre Despite its place in time, The Invisible Woman is something more than a teasing, playful titillation extravaganza. Virginia Bruce is allowed to take her male co-stars …

Well Envisioned After a strong push for labor rights in the ’30s, Universal’s first sequel to their Invisible Man stashes a murder mystery in a sci-fi thriller about a …

Short-handed By 1940, the Universal horror cycle already became entwined in its own cliches – so much so, the lore and story beats were shared between films. The Mummy, …

Entombed It’s nearly 10 minutes into this mere hour long Mummy’s Hand sequel before it actually begins. Dick Foran, returning from the previous adventure, recounts his story via stock …

Afraid of No Ghost The poster for The Mummy’s Ghost promises, “All new terror!” an important distiction since the previous Mummy plunged 10-minutes of stock footage into the opening …

Accursed Mummy Monster rises, monster falls. So it goes with the fifth predictable run through The Mummy series, as it has for each sequel prior. Dodging continuity, Mummy’s Curse …

Mummification There’s more intrigue to Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy than in any of the actual Mummy sequels. Swirling around a MacGuffin, the comedians accidentally outwit three sects …

Driven mad by his retirement from the Paris Opera, a dirty publisher, and an acid bath, Enrique Claudin (Claude Rains) dons the mask of the Phantom. Universal was here …

Few people were ever situated to better play the Wolf Man than Lon Chaney Jr.