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Hey everybody.

I did a segment on the life and work of Jack Pierce on my LA history podcast and thought you all might be interested in hearing it. Here's the link if you wanna check it out: https://www.lameeklypodcast.com/episodesegments/jack-pierce?rq=jack%20pierce

Hope you enjoy!

Im just curious is there any differences between the novel and the movie(claude rains version), if so what are they?

Greetings, fellow monster lovers! I’m a longtime fan of the Universal Classic Monsters, and I believe I have created the ultimate viewing order to experience the films as a more cohesive cinematic universe than even the creators intended. The release order was chaotic because Universal did not plan for crossovers until the 1940’s, so a chronological viewing requires that movies be grouped by plot point. Dark Genesis depicts the arrival of the Monsters, and Dark Generation shows how families are haunted by the Monsters. Darkness Rising follows an explosion of Monster activity, while Dark Wars sees the end of evil.

Phase 1, Dark Genesis: Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913), the Invisible Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula. Dr. Frankenstein’s experiments kick off a new world of gods and monsters, with each film introducing a monster and the tone/themes of each series. Henry Frankenstein, Jack Griffin, and Henry Jekyll meddle in things they shouldn’t have, unleashing terrible Monsters on society, while Mark Williams obsessively hunts the primordial Gill-Man. The Phase culminates in the arrival of the ultimate Monster, Count Dracula, as he leaves behind the realm of myth and invades the modern world. Phase 2, Dark Generation: Dracula’s Daughter, The Invisible Man Returns, Revenge of the Creature, Son of Frankenstein. This sequence explores the impact of Monsters on relatives or other people involved. Dracula’s daughter Zaleska stalks the streets of London after failing to find a cure for her vampirism. Jack Griffin’s brother uses the invisibility formula to help a friend escape a trial for murder, with the same terrible consequences. Scientists take the Gill-Man to a seapark in Florida, but humans can’t contain it. Finally, Wolf Frankenstein and Ygor raise the Monster from the grave, only for the sins of Henry to revisit them. Phase 3, Darkness Rising: The Mummy, Invisible Agent, The Creature Walks Among Us, The Invisible Man’s Revenge, Son of Dracula, The Invisible Woman, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man. An explosion of Monster activity rocks the world. Four different people become Invisible, Mr. Hyde’s reign of terror in London has gone unchecked, obsessive scientists capture the Gill-Man again, the Mummy of Imhotep walks, Dracula rises from the grave, and Ygor reanimates Frankenstein’s Monster once more. The final Monster to arrive is the Wolf Man, a creature whose power arrives on exposure to Wolfsbane flowers, one of the few substances toxic to vampires. Phase 4, Dark Wars: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, The House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon. As Monsters attack the world, a reluctant hero rises to destroy evil once and for all. Larry Talbot is unwittingly resurrected by grave robbers, and his journey in search of death leads him face to face with the world’s greatest Monster, a creature that can be killed only by the Wolf Man. I finish with Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon, a promotional sketch on a 1954 episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour. Abbott and Costello are invited to Universal Studios in LA to see the bodies of the Classic Monsters that are being used to inspire movie costumes, only to find that the creatures are not so dead after all.

What do you all think about the viewing order?

• Note about Jekyll & Hyde and The Mummy: A 26-minute Jekyll and Hyde silent film was produced by Universal’s predecessor in 1913, and a history museum in the Abbott and Costello film shows statues of Dracula and Frankenstein’s Monster. Furthermore, Mr. Hyde’s corpse is listed as one of the Monsters that Universal’s props department is using to inspire costumes for horror films in the short “Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon. The Mummy is considered just as big as the Universal Monsters, and features some of the actors in Dracula and Frankenstein, though the only real reference to this Monster is the presence of Imhotep’s sarcophagus in the museum from Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (admittedly flimsy). Finally, the Phantom of the Opera is equally famous from this time period, but there are no references to it in the other films. “Murders in the Rue Morgue” mentions Dracula, but nothing in the film is mentioned in any of the core Monster films.

you guys remember those?

I didn't I'm only 13

Guys ,One doubt if Universal monsters is rebranded as a media brand with new films instead of being a franchise like what happened with the "dead on arrival" Dark universe,It will be just like the Disney Princess brand except that it focus on the line up of horror monsters and villains from horror franchise distributed originally by Universal as in the merging of the old and new and will probably be renamed Universal Horrors or something .

Here is my take on the line up

First off the classic universal monsters

Note-Originally I thought The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) would be the first but seeing that it's a romantic tragic movie its not part of the list.

Another note- Invisible agent, she-wolf of London and Abbot and Costello not included because the invisible agent is just regular science fiction war propaganda movie, she wolf of London is a film noir and Abbot and Costello monster films are just comedy not horror.

• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• Dracula (1931)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• The Mummy (1932)
• The Invisible Man (1933)
• The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Werewolf of London (1935 )
• Dracula's Daughter (1936)
• Son of Frankenstein (1939)
• The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
• The Mummy's Hand (1940)
• The Wolf Man (1941)
• The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
• The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
• Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man (1943)
• Phantom of the Opera (1943)
• Son of Dracula (1943)
• The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
• The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
• The Mummy's Curse (1944)
• The House of Frankenstein (1945)
• House of Dracula (1945)
• Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
• Revenge of the Creature (1955)
• The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

And now the new ones

Note- the following films like Jaws and Jurassic Park films are only options in this list since they are just creatures not horror monsters which are only used for thrills and House of Frankenstein (1997) is not included because it's a TV movie ,Dracula Untold might be optional as well.

Another Note - The mummy trilogy (1999-2008),Van helsing and The mummy (2017) are not included in this list because The mummy trilogy (1999-2008) is adventure fantasy film trilogy series ,Van helsing is considered an action film and The mummy (2017) is just an MCU wannabe instead of being a horror film which wants to launch a shared cinematic universe but didn't

• Psycho (1960) (Note originally Paramount distributed this film ,currently this along with other Hitchcock films are now distributed by universal)
• Jaws (1975) (optional)
• Jaws 2 (1978) (optional)
• Dracula (1979)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• The Thing (1982)
• Psycho 2 (1983)
• Jaws 3-D (1983) (optional)
• Psycho 3 (1986)
• Jaws: The Revenge (1987) (optional)
• Jurassic Park (1990) (optional)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) (optional)
• Jurassic Park III (2001) (optional)
• The Wolfman (2010)
• The Thing (2011)
• Dracula Untold (2014) (optional)
• Jurassic World (2015) (optional)
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) (optional)
• The Invisible Man (2020)
• Jurassic World: Dominion (2021) (optional)

What do you think?