Frankenstein: 200 Years Later, It’s Alive

Jacob Elordi. Photo: Netflix The ”Dark Universe” project that Universal started crashed and burned with the release of The Mummy (2017), a critically maligned box-office flop. However, it’s nice to…

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania

A lie from Dracula makes Jonathan want to become a monster; a ray invented by Van Helsing turns out to be helpful. Change can indeed be scary, and in the…

Victor Frankenstein 

In 19th-century London, medical student Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy) helps a hunchback (Daniel Radcliffe), who has great knowledge of human anatomy, escape from a circus. We’ve seen the Mary Shelley…

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation 

Mavis books a cruise for Dracula and the whole gang; after reluctantly boarding the ship, the old vampire falls head over heels for its human captain. The third chapter introduces…

Hotel Transylvania 2 

Mavis and Jonathan are raising a little boy, but grandpa Dracula worries about him not growing fangs… The sequel moves a few years into the future and sends the Count…

Hotel Transylvania 

Count Dracula has built a luxurious hotel in Transylvania to serve as a getaway for the monsters of the world… and as a way to protect his daughter from mankind.…

Bride of Frankenstein: They Belong Dead

Elsa Lanchester and Colin Clive. Photo: Universal Perhaps the filmmakers felt that their original adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" came up short. The 1931 film left out much of the…

Frankenstein: Dethroning God

Boris Karloff. Photo: Universal Mary Shelley was only 19 years old when she finished writing the story of Frankenstein. I don't know what kind of childhood she had that led…