Classic Horror - 1940s

1940s

During the 1940s, the most successful of the new series of Universal Horror movies was The Wolf Man (1941), which also established Lon Chaney, Jr., as the new leading horror actor for the studio, following in his father's foot steps.

In 1943, the studio created a remake of Phantom of the Opera, this time starring Nelson Eddy and Susanna Foster in a film that was as much musical as horror. Claude Rains played the Phantom.

The Frankenstein and Wolf Man series continued with The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) while Son of Dracula (1943) featured Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Count. The Mummy, too, continued to rise from the grave in The Mummy's Hand (1940) and The Mummy's Tomb (1942). Eventually, all of Universal's monsters, except the Mummy and Invisible Man, would be brought together in House of Frankenstein (1944) and House of Dracula (1945), in which Dracula was played by John Carradine. As the decade drew to a close the comedy Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) proved an instant hit for the studio, with Bela Lugosi starring alongside Lon Chaney, Jr. as Larry Talbot (the Wolf Man), and Glenn Strange as Frankenstein's monster.

  • Black Friday (1940)
  • The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
  • The Invisible Woman (1940)
  • The Mummy's Hand (1940)
  • Man Made Monster (1941)
  • The Wolf Man (1941)
  • The Black Cat (1941)
  • Horror Island (1941)
  • The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
  • Invisible Agent (1942)
  • The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
  • Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
  • Phantom of the Opera (1943)
  • Son of Dracula (1943)
  • Captive Wild Woman (1943)
  • The Mad Ghoul (1943)
  • Calling Dr. Death (1943)
  • Weird Woman (1944)
  • Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
  • The Climax (1944)
  • House of Frankenstein (1944)
  • The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
  • The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
  • The Mummy's Curse (1944)
  • House of Dracula (1945)
  • The Frozen Ghost (1945)
  • Strange Confession (1945)
  • Pillow of Death (1945)
  • House of Horrors (1946)
  • The Brute Man (1946)
  • She-Wolf of London (1946)
  • Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

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