Decades before Marvel re-wrote the modern blockbuster rule book, the Golden Age of Hollywood found major success with horror, and nowhere was this more evident than with Universal’s Monsters Universe. This loosely connected series of films spanned four decades of the studio’s history, beginning in the silent era with Lon Chaney’s Phantom of the Opera and wrapping up in the late 50s with The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Over this period, Universal made some of the most iconic films of all time, including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Wolf Man. While this work remains one of the studio’s calling cards, many of the films are now in public domain and as such cannot ...
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