See the Classic Monsters as you've never seen them before!

During Universal Picture's Golden Age of Horror, lots of mad scientists were conducting bizarre experiments with even more bizarre results. Click on the "Mad Science" index link in the column to the right, and you'll see lots of examples.

Modern-day B-movie maven Charles Band (best known as the guy who created Full Moon Entertainment and helped lay the foundation for the direct-to-video market as it exists today) made a movie in 1997 that not only features a mad scientist who could give any one of the old-timers a run for their money as far as unforeseen consequences go, but he also reincarnates Universal's Classic Monsters in a way that we've never seen them before....


Yes. Those ARE midgets.

If you're a fan of classic horror flicks and possess a sense of humor, I think you might enjoy Charles Band's "The Creeps."

Click here to read my review of "The Creeps," and to check out a preview of the film. (If you like what you see, I even provide a handy-dandy link to Amazon.com, so you can see more reviews or even grab a copy for yourself.)

Trivia: Around the time he made "The Creeps," Band produced two TV films directed at kids that also revolved around the classic monsters: "Frankestein Reborn!" and "The Wolf Man Reborn!"

Welcome to the Univeral Monster Archive!

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For nearly four years, I posted reviews to Rotten Tomatoes. I posted something nearly every day. I loved their indexing feature. I loved the way I could place and size photos. I loved everything about their blogging service.

Then they redesigned their site, changed their blogging formatting and pretty much demolished by carefully constructed review blog.

So, I'm hoping to make a new home for my reviews on a series of blogs here. We'll see how it works out. The presentation of the reviews will be a little different than at Rotten Tomatoes, but hopefully even more user friendly for you and just as enjoyable for me.

As the title of the blog implies, this will be home to all the moster and horror movies released by Universal Studios that I review. (The reason I'm choosing to give a studio their own category is because of Universal's foundational role in the horror movie genre... and because they've continued to be the releasing vehicle for nifty horror films up to the present day, in a time when the genre is dying.)

Comments on the reviews are welcomed!