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Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping the Universal Monster movies into the ol’ VCR.

Many have tried and few have succeeded to replicate the magic of the original Universal Monster movies. From the countless remakes of The Wolfman to Guillermo del Toro’s Coitus from the Black Lagoon, er, The Shape of Water, the originals just can’t seem to be replicated. 

They also laid the groundwork for the modern-day horror movie. We owe the horror genre as we know it to the likes of Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker for writing horror novels that laid the groundwork for the Universal Monster movies and films like Nosferatu. 

There’s a lot of queer-coding within the Universal Monster films, i.e. Bride of Frankenstein,  proving, yet again, that horror and the LGBTQIA+ community have eternally gone hand-in-hand. 

Moving forward, this is the only light I’d like to be photographed in. 

Additionally, movies like Renfield and The Last Voyage of the Demeter have returned to Universal Monster roots.

When I was a little baby horror fan, I didn’t understand the importance of Universal Monster movies. I thought they were boring because I was a naive teenager who didn’t realize how these films shaped all of the horror movies I loved. 

Vampires and werewolves wouldn’t be as well-known without the help of horror trailblazers and all of those who came before us. 

So the next time you pop on What We Do In The Shadows or even the Boulet Brothers’ Halfway to Halloween Special, pay your respects to the horrors of old. 

Me trying to sing every note in “Bohemian Rhapsody.”