Review – Universal Horror

This is a reasonably good documentary about the heyday of Universal Studios’ monster movies, particularly Dracula and Frankenstein. The production features some interesting tidbits and plenty of good interviews with experts, stars’ relatives and even a few direct participants (mostly women, oddly enough). I was hoping they’d get a little farther into the history, at least into the 50s so they could have said something about The Creature from the Black Lagoon. I would have been willing to give up at least some of the stuff about non-Universal productions from the silent era in order to make room. Otherwise this delivers what it promises. Mildly amusing