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  ' Universal Horror Week
by Chris Hughes
October 23, 2006
Dracula, Frankenstein, The
Mummy, The Wolf Man and The Creature from the
Black Lagoon. There are no more iconic characters in the
history of horror on film than Universal's stable of monsters.
The simple mention of any of these names immediately brings
to mind a recognizable image. Dracula with his cape and high
collar; Frankenstein with bolts in his neck and huge, lumbering
frame; The Mummy with bandaged head and creepy, piercing eyes.
the list goes on. These characters are such a vital thread
in our cultural fabric that it's almost impossible to imagine
a world without them.
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 Dracula - The Legacy Collection
by Shawn McLoughlin & Cary Christopher
October 23, 2006
Inspired by the novel by
Bram Stoker, this is the story of Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi),
a 500-year-old vampire who moves from his castle in Transylvania
to England in search of better hunting grounds. With the help
of Renfield (Dwight Frye), he acquires a new residence near
a mental asylum and begins preying on local women. Only Professor
Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) knows how to stop the vampire
and he must convince his comrades to take up the cause before
Dracula can make the lovely Mina (Helen Chandler) his next
bride. Directed by Tod Browning and shot by Karl Freund, this
movie established Bela Lugosi as a household name and is considered
a true horror classic.
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 Frankenstein - The Legacy Collection
by Shawn McLoughlin & Cary Christopher
October 24, 2006
Based on the book by Mary Shelley and the play
adaptation by Peggy Webling, James Whale's film tells the
story of Henry Frankenstein, a scientist obsessed with finding
the key to creating life. He assembles a body from parts of
corpses and reanimates it using electricity. Repulsed by his
creation, he rejects the monster. It roams the countryside,
creating a wave of terror. Released the same year as Tod Browning's Dracula, Frankenstein made Boris
Karloff a star and became the launching pad for a number of
sequels.
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 The
Mummy - The Legacy
Collection
by Shawn McLoughlin & Cary Christopher
October 25, 2006
The Mummy, directed by Karl
Freund, begins with the discovery of a tomb in Egypt in 1922
where the high priest Im-Ho-Tep is accidentally awakened and
escapes into the wilderness. Ten years later, Im-Ho-Tep has
cleaned up and taken on a new identity as Ardeth Bey. Pretending
to help an expedition looking to uncover another tomb, he
is actually working to reanimate the body of the woman he
died for 3000 years ago.
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 The
Wolf Man - The Legacy
Collection
by Shawn McLoughlin & Cary Christopher
October 26, 2006
Larry Talbot returns to Wales in order to live
on his father’s estate. While trying to save a local
woman from a vicious wolf attack, Talbot is bitten and is
soon saddled with the curse of the werewolf Upon the rise
of each full moon, he changes into a wolf and seeks to kill
the people he loves. This classic Universal monster movie
features state of the art effects and a fantastic cast, including
Lon Chaney Jr. and Claude Rains.
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 The
Creature From The Black Lagoon - The Legacy Collection
by Shawn McLoughlin & Cary Christopher
October 27, 2006
On an expedition in the Amazon, scientists uncover
what appear to be the remains of a missing link between fish
and man. Soon a new expedition is launched in an effort to
find out if a living specimen can be located and captured,
but the expedition encounters more than it bargained for.
Entering a habitat known as The Black Lagoon, where legend
has it no one has successfully returned from, the scientists
find what they are looking for but the creature has plans
of its own, involving a beautiful young female scientist.
Julie Adams and Richard Carlson star in this Universal classic.
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