Frankenstein's monster gets his name in the title, but Lon Chaney's Wolfman and Bela Lugosi's Dracula are here, too. As the trailer notes, the laughs are MONSTERous!

Boris Karloff! Bela Lugosi! A black cat! Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Black and white.

Directed by Tod Browning at a funereal pace, and starring Bela Lugosi with flashlights shining in his eyes to aid him in looking intense. The choice moment in this embalmed classic is the demented laugh Dwight Frye sends up from the ship's hold.

Conventional Hollywood "biopic" on an unconventional subject of study: the ignored, ridiculed, and campily canonized director of Plan 9 from Outer Space. The disrepute, or nonrepute, of the central figure liberates the film to engage in the kind of myth-making in which the "biopic" once engaged with impunity, but which …

Boris Karloff in the career-making role that Bela Lugosi turned down, the famous composite clumper who has a heavy-handed way of dealing with his Master and a little girl picking daisies. Directed by James Whale, who, despite the evidence of this grim trudge, had it in him to be quite …

Fans of Adam Sandler will want to have a neighbor read them the following: the latest from Sony Pictures Animation has all the stylistic innovation and visual niceties of a Count Chocula commercial. An unduly protective vampire daddy (Sandler) who runs a restricted resort — the clientele is limited to …

What is the law? Are we not men? Have you forgotten the house of pain? Is that Bela Lugosi underneath all the weremonkey makeup? The answers to these questions and countless more will be revealed if you dare to see Island of Lost Souls.

Garbo should have laughed sooner. It would have spared us from suffering through all those dreadful M-G-M costume dramas. It took Ernst Lubitsch to thaw Garbo and for my money, this is the only one of her pictures you need see. With Melvyn Douglas, Bela Lugosi, and Sig Ruman.

There’s just enough of a movie here to sustain the working out of its splendid central dynamic: the sick relationship between a bad man and a devoted enabler. The bad man in question is very bad indeed, the self-described “Lord of Death” Dracula (Nicolas Cage, deadpanning Bela Lugosi to great …

Bela Lugosi's classic turn as the cruel Count, in English, and then in Spanish! Directed by Tod Browning of Freaks fame. Black and white.

Vampires can not cavort in direct sunlight. That comes part and parcel with the legend, whether you’re Kathryn Bigelow looking for an easy way to cap Near Dark or now Mark Waters directing his senior class of St. Vladimir’s Academy through umbrella-covered strolls in the midday sun. The wanton trashing …