Clint and Jared (along with returning guest Craig) polish off Horror Octorbor with their final double feature of
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Clint and Jared (along with returning guest Craig) polish off Horror Octorbor with their final double feature of
a Universal classic monster movie and its modern counterpart!
Best DVD / BD Release: Touchback Best DVD / BD Special Edition Release: Little Shop Of Horrors: The Director's Cut Best DVD / BD Collection Release:
Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection Best DVD / BD Television Series Release: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1 & 2
Speaking of Universal, Bits reader Gregory R. has alerted us to the fact that Best Buy is going to have an exclusive new series of
Universal Classic Monsters Blu - ray releases on 9/12 in Steelbook packaging, each featuring cover artwork by comic book artist Alex Ross.
Not exact matches
It started with
Universal, which spent decades creating and refining its roster of
classic monsters.
The plot of the film is not very different from the
Universal classics: mad scientist, longed to resurrect the dead, comic character much alike Abbott and Costello, beauty who of course is taken by the «
monster» (which is the Wolf Man), the climax with a burning building, while the battle of protagonists with a
monster is going on and, of course, a happy ending.
Inspired by the 50's
Universal monster classic, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, Guillermo del Toro provides a twist that received the Oscar for best picture of 2017.
This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various
classic Universal Studios
monsters.
The reason for the push probably has something to do with the fact that
Universal's Dracula Untold will be opening on October 2, 2014 so it could have been a move simply to distance itself from another
classic monster movie.
Before
Universal insisted on rebooting their
classic monsters movies Marvel - style, there was 1999's The Mummy.
The Mummy: The process of turning
Universal Pictures»
classic monster movies into a new franchise — a «monsterverse» — begins here.
Dracula Untold was said to be the start of a new shared universe centered on
Universal Studios»
classic movie
monsters.
The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema, including Avengers: Infinity War's name change, young Han Solo being cast in the Star Wars spin - off movie,
Universal's
Classic Monster MovieVerse continues to grow, and much, much more... The Week in Movies is an excerpt from the weekly Flickering Myth Super Newsletter.
Universal has revealed more about their plans for a revived Shared
Monster Movie Universe with
classic characters like Dracula and the Mummy.
I'm a fan of the
classic Universal monsters, but this is a disappointing start.
The Wolf Man may not look like the
classic Universal monster that we all know and love, but he's still effective.
When it comes to Blu - ray,
Universal Pictures»
classic monster movies remain locked in the digital dungeon.
Universal is hard at work on building a shared cinematic universe for its
classic stable of
monsters, having claimed a release date for a third, as yet untitled movie just yesterday.
Inspired by the 1954
Universal Studios
monster movie
classic Creature from the Black Lagoon, del Toro's take on the unique relationship between a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) and an amphibian man (Doug Jones) held captive in a research facility has dominated this awards season with a Best Picture win at the Critics» Choice Movie Awards, and a Best Director win for del Toro at the Golden Globes.
Bride of Frankenstein will be part of
Universal's shared
Classic Monsters universe, which launches this summer with The Mummy.
However, when the lid is taken off the coffin that will unleash a new series of
classic Universal horror
monsters for a rebooted «Mummy,» the striking music that issues forth isn't the kind of Tyler score we've come to know.
In addition, special collections will be released throughout the year, culminating in the highly anticipated Blu - ray releases of
Universal's
Classic Monster and Alfred Hitchcock series.
Universal is desperate to create a franchise out of the
classic «
monsters» that ruled the studio from the 1920s to 1960.
This does not bode well for
Universal's plans for launching a
classic monster cinematic universe.
They've also announced dates for some forthcoming films like the sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey, and also shifted some films arriving over the next few years, such as the video game adaptation Warcraft from Duncan Jones, the sci - fi sequel Pacific Rim 2 from Guillermo del Toro and the first official movie that kicks off
Universal's
classic movie
monsters franchise reboot, The Mummy.
Hotel Transylvania isn't really for the average Bloody Disgusting reader, but fans of the
classic universal monsters will enjoy seeing their favorite creature on screen, and the jokes that accompany them.
Universal's
classic monster movies all existed in the same world, Kevin Smith built his View Askewniverse that was connected by shared characters such as Jay & Silent Bob, Quentin Taranito's movies all have little connections to each other, and they even shared some connections with the interconnected films of Grindhouse co-director Robert Rodriguez.
It's been a horrible year for
classic «
Universal»
monsters.
The first (and probably the best) horror film from master Mario Bava works as both an homage to the
Universal monster classics and an early harbinger of the graphic violence that would eventually become a large part of Italian horror cinema.
Far and away the best of Guillermo del Toro's English language features, The Shape of Water, like Dr. Frankenstein stitching together disparate appendages, conjoins the romanticism of the 1930s
Classic Universal Monsters Movies, the conspiratorial grit of the 70s Hammer Films and a splash of Max, Mon Amour to craft a truly one - of - a-kind, genre - bending splat of modern
monster cinema.
A loose remake of the 1941
Universal monster film The Wolf Man, this new incarnation of the
classic werewolf story initially looks like an enticing blend of the original film, Hammer Horror films and Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow.
The next mega gallery show from Mondo will profile the
classic Universal Monsters from dozens of world - renowned artists including Martin Ansin, Rick Baker, JC Richard, Kevin Tong, Ken Taylor and many more.
Universal City, CA, May 22, 2017 —
Universal Pictures announced today that its series of films reviving the studio's
classic monster characters for a new generation will be known as «Dark Universe.»
After a brief stint in comics in 1993 under the name of Emerald City Comics & Collectibles, Creature Features officially opened its doors to the public in Burbank on Halloween, 1994 and helped usher in an explosion of interest in garage kits, the resurrection of the
classic Universal Monsters, the return of Famous
Monsters of Filmland Magazine and the rabid interest in Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas.
Universal is determined to plug ahead with remakes of their
classic monster movies even though the only one that's made it to the big screen, Dracula Untold, tanked and vanished.
Universal Studios is making yet another go at rebooting their
classic monster movies with the in - the - works Dark Universe.
Universal's
classic monsters are about to return in a big way.
Like Van Helsing, this film makes use of most of the
classic Universal movie
monsters, with the exception of the Bride of Frankenstein.
This Friday Tom Cruise battles The Mummy,
Universal's re-reboot that will launch their «Dark Universe» filled with all the
classic monsters...
Universal Pictures announced today that its series of films reviving the studio's
classic monster characters for a new generation will be known as «Dark Universe.»
Universal Pictures is about to re-launch all of its
classic movie
monsters in a new series of interconnected franchise films and today they have revealed that the official title of that connection to be «Dark Universe», along with a brand new photo of the principal cast members, including The Mummy «s Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, and Russell Crowe, who plays Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr.
Yet, for a child inspired by the
classic monster movies from
Universal Pictures growing up, the writer / director has never had an opportunity to realize his dream of remaking The Creature from the Black Lagoon, which featured the prehistoric Gillman (Ben Chapman on land, Ricou Browning for the underwater sequence)- and his fascination with Kay (Julie Adams), who is part of a group of scientists on an expedition in the Amazonian jungle.
May the potential of
Universal Pictures» planned «Dark Universe» rest in peace, the resurrection of
classic movie
monsters like Frankenstein's Creature, The Wolf Man, The Creature for the Black Lagoon and The Invisible Man completely destroyed all thanks to this unfocused, idiotically incoherent Tom Cruse vehicle.
Gothic horror was in the air, you might say, in those days: Witness the roughly coeval resurgence of the genre at England's Hammer Films, with their muscular and bloody take on
classic Universal monsters (Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula), as well as the cycle of gaudily decadent Edgar Allan Poe adaptations helmed by Roger Corman (House of Usher).
Universal is proud of its
monsters - from the
classic horror pictures with Boris Karloff and Claude Rains to recent reboots with Hugh Jackman...
I suppose as a longtime fan of
Universal monster movies and other forms of
classic horror, as well as being, you know, an old man, I can be forgiven for having hoped that this newfangled origin story of a fabled
monster maker would be something not entirely awful.
The final Mummy trailer hypes the film's status as the beginning of a «dark universe» for
Universal's
classic monsters.
Monsters: A Celebration of the
Classics from
Universal Studios.