The most iconic monsters in cinema 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 “Doctor Frankenstein”, on the popular video portal. A unique opportunity to see or meet for the first time those characters who marked the history of cinema.
As reported by 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 Wolf Man” and the horror comedy Abbott and Costello vs. ghosts “. All titles will arrive on the video portal at 15:00, the eastern time zone of the United States (21:00, Spanish time).
Each of the movies can be seen for free for a week, as well as a discount for downloading the digital copy. Although horror films began to be made in the silent era, “Dracula,” directed by Tod Browning in 1931, defined the genre’s success in the film industry.
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Following the success of “Dracula”, Universal released “Doctor Frankenstein” in the same year. Both productions turned their advantages, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, respectively, into celluloid stars. Karloff later played another iconic monster, Mummy, in the 1932 film. Other titles that marked the lines of horror cinema were “The Invisible Man,” “Frankenstein’s Bride,” and “The Wolf Man,” 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 to restart “The Mummy”. However, the new version released by the company “The Invisible Man” in 2020, already as an individual film and far from the concept of a common universe, was a resounding commercial success, as well as critical acclaim.