(Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.)Universal Pictures set the standard for movie monsters from the 1930s-1950s, turning characters like Count Dracula, The Wolf Man, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Mummy, The Gill Man, The Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, and The Bride of Frankenstein into pop culture staples, and making legends out of actors like Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., and John Carradine. Universal would make seven monster movies before finally introducing a monstrous femme…The post Year of the Vampire: Dracula’s Daughter is the True Queen of the Universal Monsters appeared first on /Film.
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