When baggage clerks Chick (Bud Abbott) and Wilbur (Lou Costello) deliver Dracula‘s (Bela Lugosi) coffin and Frankenstein’s monster (Glenn Strange) to a local wax museum, they are pulled into a world of monsters, which also includes Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.) aka The Wolfman, who is trying to stop Dracula from making Frankenstein’s monster more subservient. … Continue reading »
Wowsa! How’s that for an article title? That’s a monster! Anyway, Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel) is in talks to helm Harker, a film with Russell Crowe (Gladiator, The Quick and the Dead) attached. In the film, Dracula is being tracked by Jonathan Harker, a Scotland Yard detective. What makes this interesting is that, playing against … Continue reading »
On October 2, 2012 Universal will release the biggest of the big, the baddest of the bad, the classic Universal monsters on blu-ray. This 8 disc set is pure awesome-sauce. The films included are: Dracula (1931) Drácula [Spanish-language version] (1931) Frankenstein (1931) The Mummy (1932) The Invisible Man (1933) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) The Wolf Man (1941) Phantom of the Opera (1943) … Continue reading »
Viggo Mortensen (Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Prophecy) has been offered the lead role (not Dracula) in the film The Last Voyage of the Demeter, a film covering the events of Dracula’s voyage to London. The film is told from the perspective of the doomed crew and passengers. Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent,Doomsday) is attached … Continue reading »
