Ihated horror as a kid. Growing up, I didn’t have anyone to introduce me to old black and white films, either. And the only time I saw movies released before I was born was when local TV channels randomly aired them on the weekend. Classic Universal Monster films were never on, so combined with everything else, I never watched them. And then as an adult, for no good reason, I kept not seeing them… until now. I finally filled a seismic gap in my cinematic resume by watching the eight most famous entries from that iconic era in Hollywood history.

After a lifetime of knowing about these movies, seeing many of their remakes and knockoffs, and experiencing them in a million other ways via pop culture , I went in with plenty of assumptions. What did I get right? What caught me off guard? Di

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