The Universal monster movies notably ignored modern events–when World War II came around, the clocks turned back on all their European-set monster movies to some indistinguishable point. The Return of the Vampire, a Columbia cheapie, on the other hand, sets the events directly in contemporary settings, both after the First World War and during the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Bela Lugosi'
The Return of the Vampire (1944, Lew Landers)
February 14th, 2007 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloDracula (1931, Tod Browning)
January 23rd, 2007 No Comments
I never got Dracula. Even as a kid, I never watched it over and over, like I did the other Universal monster movies. When I went back and saw it in the late 1990s–after Ed Wood–Bela Lugosi’s performance horrified me. He makes funny faces and does Charles Atlas exercises for scary body language and woodenly […]
