When I was younger, I used to pretend to be the Wolfman. Oh, to be thirty again.

Something else weird and noteworthy about these old 30's horror flicks that you didn't mention, .. . they often feature NO MUSIC, or VERY LITTLE of it. And I often find that it actually WORKS - making them creepier!

In high school, I had a great English teacher. And although I had seen a Lot of Universal horror movies, I never saw the original Frankenstein. She comes in and sets up a projector and plays the 1931 Frankenstein. I was enthralled. The feeling I had that day never left. Many thanks to great teachers!

Bride of Frankenstein is such a fun watch. Creature of the Black Lagoon I enjoy seeing that black & white underwater photography. Fun video. Best day & Best wishes to you & yours.

I agree with you that the Universal Monster Movies established America's celebration of Halloween. At 86, I have nothing but fond memories of the Universal Monster Movies in growing up. I am impressed with your excitement of the Universal Monster Movies as a modern young person. I guess what we are saying is that these movies will live forever and were an elemental foundation for the movies that have shaped our lives through the years!

I find the Universal Monsters movies immensely re-watchable. Even to this day. I have strong memories of watching these on TV years ago as a kid. and i hear what you're say about some seeming slow today's standard. But that's part of the charm i think. I have been really enjoying the Icons of Horror series. top content dude! And Happy Halloween!

I grew up watching Creature Features on wgn tv in chicago in the late 60s and 70s. These were the best horror films in my opinion because of Saturday night creature features. They are entertaining now but as a kid these scared the crap out of me. I love the classics.

Thank you for bringing back to life a wonderful memory!

Universal Monsters we're and are the best. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing ur love of the universal monsters with us. It's nice hearing what another fan's opinion about them. These monsters r the foundation of so many aspect of our pop culture. I love how u mentioned that these movies can sort of exist across different time periods at the same time. It could be renaissance, gothic, medieval, sci fi, industrial, even in just one movie. It's all melded tgt as if the whole movie is a dream where u jump from one place or time to another.

I really enjoyed all of your Icons of Horror videos, Heath. The Universal Monsters was a great way to conclude the series, at least until next year :-). Thank you for all the time and effort it took to make them. Happy Halloween!

The first time I saw one of these movies was when I saw Frankenstein in high school in 2010. It was a media studies class, and we were being taught about classic horror. The teacher put on Frankenstein, and I just completely blanked on it. It was in black and white, it had no music, it was on a small TV, I got bored fast. Then early last year, I got curious and bought the Frankenstein Legacy Collection, and I actually sat down to watch the full series, and I actually grew to like them. I think, with these classic movies, you need to be in the right mood. You have to want to watch them. Now I own the UM Classic boxset, that one with all the Legacy Collections, and my favourites have to be the Karloff Frankenstein trilogy, Dracula and The Invisible Man, that last one being my fiancée's favourite. Son of Frankenstein is probably my favourite Universal Monster's movie, and as for Dracula, it's very hokey and definitely very stagey, but it's great to watch whenever it's on TV. There's just something magical about it...

I bought the Blu-ray box set of all the legacy collections a few months ago. I'd collected the DVD sets over the years, but I love the way these movies look on Blu-ray!

You certainly have good taste for these movies. I definitely look forward to seeing the worth-watching Universal Monsters films, specifically Bela Lugosi's Dracula. Now, the Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters films are definitely a fun crossover film series you can introduce yourself to the Universal Monsters. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is probably the best out of the bunch and how it's now 75 years old. Frankly, I'd check out a video of you discussing your opinion on the Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters film series.

The Invisible Man is pretty entertaining.

Awesome stuff mate! Love your collections

I have the boxset you introduced,I still haven't watched them all yet. Not like I haven't already seen them all. I also used to have the second set with the old movies. The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of Notre Dame are true classics that cant be watched very easily because they are silent. But any true horror fan owes it to themselves to watch these.

This has become one of my favorite KZfaq channels.

Love your insight into these movies! You're right on, and I've been watching these moves a lot longer than you. Great job!

I recently was an eBay auction on a box set of ALL the Complete Legacy Collections (30 films), and have taken to watching one film a night in chronological order. I just finished up "The Wolf Man"-tomorrow, it's "Ghost of Frankenstein".

There was other monster films before these that are lost pieces of media that can't be found, but I love the universal monsters my favorite is the bride of Frankenstein

Great Video dude I absolutely love your Icons of horror series keep up the fantastic work also Frankenstein is my favorite Universal monster Boris Karloff is amazing ! ;)

Hey Heath, great show about universal monsters videos. It just would not be Halloween without them.

Relatively new fan of the Monsters but I adore them all so much! My favorite is Dracula but I seriously do love them all! Great video, love seeing other's passion for these films!!!

Us Monster Kids owe Forry Ackerman and "Famous Monsters From Filmland" Magazine from the 1960's for keeping the Universal Monsters in our consciousness.

I own them all, managed to complete the collection fully early this year :P Love them dearly, glad to see you show some love for this Oldie monsters :P

I have The 40-Film Set! And, I love each and every one of them!

Great video thanks brother 🙏

I snagged this set awhile ago. Couldn't pass it up. Awesome set!!! Those cards are the shiznit!!

I really like your videos! Keep it up. Greetings from Germany.

Universal Classic Monsters (1931-1956) famously began with Dracula 1931, and Frankenstein (1931) and the studio branded them as such, it introduced a new way of film making, and the first few talking pictures to the audience, the audiences were enthralled and rightly so. And in 1931, most of the public had only the radio for entertainment, what a great way to introduce film to them. Absolute classics and far superior to many of today's movies and horror productions, because they relied on suspense primarily. Who can forget the introduction of Dracula, The mummy, The Wolfman or Frankenstein.

Got all of those and the other universal horror. Collections.love the classics.and hammer as well !

Creature from the Black Lagoon is included in all Universal Monster collections, home video series, and merchandise line-ups. It is definitely not “lower tier.” It is on the level with the other classic Universal Monsters.

I remember being about 6 years old around 1997 and going to the video store to rent the Wolfman, Dracula, and Frankenstein

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OMG Love the channel name! And now I am hungry. Morticia

Hi Heath I have a lot of the original Universal horror movies myself. I have Dracula, The Mummy , Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein,The Invisible Man , the Wolf Man, the Fly ( all 3 movies) and The Creature From The Black lagoon ( all 3 movies) . I also have 13 Ghosts, the Thing ( Howard Hawks).The Invisible Man,Frankenstein,The Creature movies are all in the Universal Studios Home Of The Original Monsters (I suppose you'd cal it a collection). But the collection has extra features such as a documentary about the movie.And I absolutely every one of them.

We saw the Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D that was really great I throw a big Halloween party and I show them all to everyone and they love them.

The Reason that Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera aren't released by Universal is because they are in the public domain. Anyone can sell them, and Beat Universal's price.

I was just tweeting yesterday about Creature from the Black Lagoon. He hasn't gotten the reboot love the other characters did. Sure, John Carpenter tried, and a few other folks have tried, but it feels like time for more Creature from the Black Lagoon. Of course, I picture that story in a swampy, nearly Swamp Thing setting.

Great video, Heath! While the Mummy series does seem to descend in quality, I do give one of the sequels credit for one of the most shocking endings. I had to rewind it the first time I saw it to make sure I didn’t miss something.

I love the universel monsters you did a grate job buddy

love the universal monsters i have some them on dvd

After watching your slashers video I figured you'd do this too! Loves the video and subbed. And is this the last one in the series?

Also you should check out monster force and the Dreadful Hallowgreen Special .

I would recommend you checking out "Frankenstein" 2015. Its Directed by Bernard Rose (CandyMan) it has Xavier Samuel as the monster, Tony Todd as the Blind Man, Danny Houston as Victor Frankenstein, and Carrie Ann Moss as his wife. It all takes place in Modern day and pays respect to the source material. (With a few liberties of course every movie does.) I think Universal should do what this movie did with its Universal Monsters for today with their "Dark Universe". Because if you like or hate the new "Invisible Man" and/or "The Mummy" ... Doesn't matter they don't really follow the story of these characters AT ALL. Which sucks because Unlike MCU and DCEU these things don't have sources and sources to pull from. They have the original books (For the characters that are based on books) and the Universal Films that they own the rights to. (So obviously they can't start stealing things from HammerFilms) So it sucks when these new films don't have ANYTHING to do with the source material besides one aspect. (It has an Invisible Person(s), Vampire, or a Mummy) Look at "The Shape of Water" for example (Hate or Love it) Its a very decently made film, but its just the directors Fan Fiction of the Gill-Man. Now if that movie was a remake of "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" You would have some higher expectations. (It needs to take place at the Black Lagoon in the Amazon for example.) It just having a Gill-Man wouldn't make it a good "Creature" movie. Then look at "The Mummy" 1999 or "Young Frankenstein" Both are completely different style and genre of film. But still pay respect to those stories/plots even more than the past 3 reboots have. Its not like everything that comes out with an Invisible character takes from the source either. "HollowMan" was the last thing to resemble the original storyline of "The Invisible Man" and that was 20 years ago after 70 years. So its not like these stories have been ran into the ground. (Example: Hotel Transylvania has Dracula in it and doesn't follow his story ya know lol) So even if these characters design are still alive and well today, their stories are pretty much lost, so a modern casual audience could also enjoy them without pissing of the target demographic.

Christopher lee is actually my favourite Dracula by far

i got the legacy collection box set. did an unboxing for it. may review for halloween

I really like the dreamlike quality films of this era have, particularly the pre-war stuff.

Universal Classic Monsters for ever cool.

Great video, I have that Universal monsters boxset and The mummy film, my question would be, can you recommend some Universal horror films that are not based on the monsters? I have The old dark house which is brilliant. thanks

It's so funny that even if I feel like I know this monsters so well watching this made me realise I can't really say I remember the plots of thoes films. I need to fix this soon :)

The Wolf man remake was excellent, but the Tom Cruise Mummy stunk.

Jack Pierce also did the make-up for The Werewolf Of London.

Great video, but I disagree about the Creature. That one is in my top two for sure.

I really enjoyed your video on the Universal horror films. I have seen a number of people on the computer giving there opinions on the movies. After watching yours I think your was the best. Towards the end of your show you talked about the Creature series. I couldn't agree more with what you had to say. I feel the creature series belongs with the 1950's S.F. Universal films that came out between 1953-1960. I love all of these films that Universal did during those years. They should be talked and written about separately and not be included in the films from the 1930's-1940's. In my opinion the Creature series has been talked and written about to much. Some of these authors and so called experts in their books blasting Bella's acting in Dracula and all the other universal horror films, tearing them down; pointing out; in their opinions all the faults in the films production and the acting by the players. It seems to me that to many of these so called experts have forgotten the main reason these films were made. They were made to entertain the public and they didn't criticize or look for moral reasons the films were made. Oh well I guess I feel these movies should be watched for there entertainment value and enjoyed just for that reason alone. Keep up the good work. I will watch your other videos and comment on them. In the future..

Personally, I love The Phantom of the Opera! Claude Rains did such an amazing job as Erique Claudin!!! I love The Phantom so much!

nice heath on another note mego relaunch debacle continues they picked the wrong store in target to carry theses figures its a nightmare to find wave 1 forgot about wave 2 and 3 and i made mego aware of the bs personally i gave up

There’s a dvd you might want to get cause all universal monster movie trailers Grampa’s monster movies hosted by al Lewis as grampa Munster . It’s on KZfaq .if you want to check it out first

I bought the 30 film collection on DVD.

I was raised on the Universal Monsters as a kid and believe the last GOOD movie was The Mummy Returns in 2001.

When I was 8 I went ga ga over Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman!!! My mom was puzzled!!!

The universal version of frakenstine the first adaptation of frakenstine that’s available and easy to get hold of. Technical Edison did the very first Frankenstein adaptation but the film is virtual impossible to obtain the nerd some how got a little footage of it but not much. The Spanish Dracula is easier to get hold off. I don’t know how all the dark universe remakes keep bombing but they our do some how. The wolf man remake had dal Turo involved.

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Fun fact: I went to a classic movie monsters musuem which is owned by Cortlandt Hull whos dad Henry Hull was the werewolf in Werewolf of London!

Did you know there is a program to fix the blu ray of creature from the black lagoon

Great show! If only they would have pitted Sherlock Holmes against the monsters!!

Frankenstein is the chairman of the board...

I feel like you have to be interested In filmmaking and respectful when watching these films because I see so many people who I’m guessing are around my age (15) who just haven’t seen or just shit on these films or both. They dismiss them because they’re in black and white and that kinda pisses me off.

What a good way to cap off the icons of Horror! When did you first see a universal monster movie?

What's your take on the Monster Squad? The one by Fred Drekker.

Can't wait to get my Universal Monster set. Should be next week, but with the Canada Post strike, who knows

1 bela Lugosi never said I vant to suck yer blood. 2 lon senior phantom is not in the set because it’s in the public domain and partially lost 3 the gill man is the most tragic one in my opinion. He has a great arc through the 3 films.

I like Frankenstein and Dracula, I want Universal to make, Them, FIGHT

Bring back Dynamo Dan!!

The Spanish version of Dracula was a excellent movie I got the Creature movies and there was no problem playing with it the classics had style, Nosferatu was the ultimate vampire he was a ugly killer.

They exist in their own thing, a Dark Universe as it was.

So, what's the problem with 'The Creature from the Black Lagoon' Legacy set?

The Bride of Frankenstein is, in my opinion, the Citizen Kane of horror.

Have you seen the recent Invisible Man movie?

Can anyone guess which Universal Classic Monster Movie I take my Name from? You each get three guesses.

i love the universal monsters but am not made of money. how many times can i afford to buy them.

Have to say i agree with most of these, however with the mummy movies i Will sadly have to disagree with you, when it comes to the first mummy movie i skip to the scenes with Boris Karloff as well as the flashback scene as I find the rest of it so dreadfully boring, and I actually Think the sequels Are Much more entertaining

That annoying Nostalgia Critic would definitely have gone for the cheap intro option... This guy on the other hand obviously has a little more integrity. I'll Subscribe to that. Regards from Scotland.

You forgot Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde movie

jaws should be added to the icon

Trying to hard to sound like a critic.

In high school, I had a great English teacher. And although I had seen a Lot of Universal horror movies, I never saw the original Frankenstein. She comes in and sets up a projector and plays the 1931 Frankenstein. I was enthralled. The feeling I had that day never left. Many thanks to great teachers!