The most iconic movie monsters will cause terror on YouTube. Universal has decided to offer for free, for a limited time, several of its classic genre films such as ‘Dracula’ or ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ on the popular video portal. A unique opportunity to revisit or meet for the first time those characters who marked the History of Cinema.
According to NME, it will be on January 15 when ‘Dracula’ and ‘The Mummy’ will be available on YouTube. A day later ‘Doctor Frankenstein’ and ‘Frankenstein’s Bride’ will arrive. On January 17, ‘The Invisible Man’, ‘The Werewolf’ and the horror comedy ‘Abbott and Costello Against Ghosts’ will arrive. All titles will arrive on the video portal at 3:00 pm in the time zone of the east coast of the United States (9:00 pm Spanish time).
Each of the films can be watched for free for a week, in addition to a discount on the download of the digital copy. Although horror films began to be made in the silent film era, it was ‘Dracula’, directed by Tod Browning in 1931, which defined the success of the genre in the industry. cinematographic.
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Following the success of ‘Dracula’, Universal released ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ that same year. The two productions turned their protagonists, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, respectively, into celluloid stars. Karloff later played another iconic monster, The Mummy, in the 1932 film. Other titles that marked the horror film lines were ‘The Invisible Man’, ‘Frankenstein’s Bride’ and ‘L’. Home Llop ‘, produced between 1933 and 1941.
In 2017, Universal tried to create a cinematic universe around these characters, the Dark Universe, which was unsuccessful due to the box office failure of the reboot of ‘The Mummy’. However, the new version that the company released of ‘The Invisible Man’ in 2020, as an individual film and far from the concept of shared universe, was a resounding commercial success, as it also achieved applause of criticism.