Universal Monsters

The son of a servant assaulted by a beggar becomes a wolfman in 18th-century Spain.

A doctor (Beverly Garland) and an adventurer (John Bromfield) head for the Amazon, where a guy (Tom Payne) in a bird suit is scaring natives.

A U.S. colonel (Craig Stevens) and a paleontologist (William Hopper) track a huge praying mantis from the North Pole to Manhattan.

A mad doctor (Albert Dekker) in Peru reduces a woman (Janice Logan) and three men to one-fifth their normal size.","large":"To assist with his work due to his failing eyesight, renowned biologist Dr. Alexander Thorkel invites two prominent scientists and a mineralogist to his hidden Amazon jungle laboratory. Thorkel remains evasive about the nature of his experiments, and after the team evaluates

A real-estate man (Dwight Frye) visits the Transylvania castle of a 500-year-old vampire (Bela Lugosi).","large":"The dashing, mysterious Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), after hypnotizing a British soldier, Renfield (Dwight Frye), into his mindless slave, travels to London and takes up residence in an old castle. Soon Dracula begins to wreak havoc, sucking the blood of young women and turning them in

Van Helsing (Laurence Olivier) investigates as the vampire count (Frank Langella) scales walls and visits bedrooms at an English manor.","large":"A man washes ashore in England after a shipwreck and is found by Mina Van Helsing (Jan Francis). The man introduces himself as Count Dracula (Frank Langella) of Transylvania, and proceeds to integrate himself into the lives of Mina and her friend Lucy Se

This was made at night using the same sets and script as the Bela Lugosi classic but with a Spanish cast.","large":"Soon after beginning work for Conde Dracula (Carlos Villarias), the clerk Renfield (Pablo Alvarez Rubio) learns that his employer is, in fact, a vampire who lives on human blood. Now under Dracula's spell, Renfield helps his master travel to London, where the vampire takes another vi

A vampire countess (Gloria Holden) in black falls in love with a psychologist (Otto Kruger) and kidnaps his fiancée (Marguerite Churchill).","large":"Although Count Dracula was destroyed by Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), who is now being tried for his murder, Dracula's daughter, the Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden), is still alive -- and her father's death has brought her no closer to eradi

The baron (Peter Cushing) and a hypnotist (Peter Woodthorpe) bring the creature out of ice, horrifying villagers of Karlsbad.","large":"Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) returns destitute to his home village to recommence his experimental research into the reanimation of dead tissue, and stumbles upon his old monster suspended in ice. Though he revives the creature, Frankenstein must seek the help

Baron Frankenstein creates a monster from cadavers and a killer's brain.

Tormented werewolf Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) calls on Dr. Frankenstein and finds his monster (Bela Lugosi) instead.","large":"Lawrence Stewart Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) is plagued by a physical oddity that turns him into a crazed werewolf after sundown. His desire to rid himself of this ailment leads him to the castle owned by mad scientist Dr. Frankenstein. Frankenstein, it turns out, is now de