With the recent resurgence of black-and-white cinema, it has become increasingly popular for high-profile filmmakers to embark on distinguished pictures that use the medium to highlight the powerful stories they’re hoping to tell.
Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse, David Fincher’s Mank, and Joel Coen’s solo debut The Tragedy of Macbeth all come quickly to mind, and we can hardly imagine any of these pictures in any other light.
Even the Marvel Cinematic Universe has gotten in on the action with their made-for-streaming special presentation of Werewolf by Night, invoking classic Universal Monster Movies such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Wolf-Man in the process.
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