In 2025, the Halloweenies are celebrating the storied legacy of the Universal Monsters. Dracula, Wolf Man, Frankenstein, his Bride, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the...
The Criterion Collection is celebrating Halloween with a brand new lineup of horror releases this October, and we’ve got the full scoop straight from Criterion’s website....
Credited as a pioneering director who helped create the horror film genre, Tod Browning‘s influence can be seen in the work of David Lynch, John Waters,...
When he was sixteen years old, Tod Browning ran away with the circus. Technically speaking it was a travelling show called the Manhattan Fair & Carnival...
The voice, the gestures, and those eyes. Few actors in the history of cinema are so instantly recognizable as Bela Lugosi or have had such an...
In Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Pretorius, played by the inimitable Ernest Thesiger, raises his glass and proposes a toast to Colin Clive’s Henry Frankenstein—“to a new world...
Hello, fellow horror fans! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Ari, a relatively new contributor and critic at BD. I helped cover SXSW 2017 this...
You’ve seen the above image countless times, but I guarantee you’ve never seen the movie. A few years before directing Dracula and Freaks, Tod Browning made...
The 1932 horror film Freaks is one of cinema’s notoriously controversial titles. While it may have been seen as taboo at most had it been released...
Horror is a genre that has never had a truly terrible period or faded out of the scene, like musicals tend to do. We have fads...
While they were always present in my life as a small child, particularly the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Universal Monsters didn’t fully come creeping...
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