Just released to DVD and Blu-ray from Olive Films, Return of the Ape Man is Bela Lugosi‘s most interesting collaboration with Monogram Pictures — for whom he made several films in the early 1940s. Looking to prove their widely decried…
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Poll: Karloff or Lugosi?
With Halloween just a few weeks away, this week’s poll asks you to answer which of the following horror icons you like more: Boris Karloff or Bela Lugosi. Vote below, and tell us why you chose who you did in…
Read more →Is “Son of Frankenstein” the Best of Universal’s Series?
Universal Monsters Week races towards its conclusion tomorrow with this examination of one of the finest sequels ever made… The general consensus among film critics and classic movie fans is that Bride of Frankenstein (1935) is the high point of…
Read more →Abbott & Costello Meet the Frankenstein Monster…and Dracula…and the Wolf Man
Universal Monsters Week here at MovieFanFare continues with a look at the funniest cinematic team-up ever. Ask a classic movie fan to name their favorite comedians and I suspect only a few would list Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. More…
Read more →Karloff & Lugosi: A Friendship Between Rivals
They were two of the biggest boogeymen who ever lived: Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. They terrified millions with their signature roles as Frankenstein’s monster and Count Dracula. Even today, few horror stars have the name recognition that these two…
Read more →Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Much To The Audience’s Delight!
In Abott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, the popular comedy serve up scares and laughs (mostly the former). Universal tossed their most popular fiends ─ Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein’s monster ─ at their top comedy team for this slapstick…
Read more →Bela Lugosi: Ten Things to Know About the Iconic Star
It was a heart attack, not sunlight or a stake, that claimed the life of Bela Lugosi 59 years ago this week. To honor the screen’s most famous Dracula, we offer this classic list by Movies Unlimited founder Jerry Frebowitz of 10 facts about the horror legend.
Read more →Karloff vs. Lugosi: Whose Charlie Chan Movie Wins?
We all know the old “Karloff vs. Lugosi” horror film debate. MovieFanFare offers another take on the rivalry by asking who made the better Charlie Chan series appearance, Bela in 1931’s “The Black Camel” or Boris in 1936’s “Charlie Chan at the Opera.”
Read more →What Music the Restored Dracula Soundtrack Makes
When I heard in 2012 that the soundtrack to the Lugosi classic would be tinkered with, I went nuts. Is the restored Dracula soundtrack historical revisionism, or simply clearing away the cobwebs so we can fully enjoy it as if it were first unspooling on a 1931 movie screen?
Read more →Happy Black Friday (1940) with Boris and Bela!
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi went shopping for scares in the 1940 Universal thriller Black Friday, an odd tale of mad doctors, mobsters and brain transplants. Read on to see if the terror titans’ final team-up for the studio was a bargain or a bust.
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