(Photo by Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection. The Mummy Returns.)

50 Universal Classic Monster Movies Ranked

The latest: Can you smell what The Scorpion King is cooking? It joins our list of Universal Classic Monster movies!

Before your cinematic universes and extended galaxies and interconnected constellations, there were the Universal Classic Monster movies. A loose confederation of sequels and spinoffs, they were the biggest motion picture events in the early life of cinema. The 1920s kicked things off with The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera before the franchise moved into its 1930s golden era. Dracula , Frankenstein , The Mummy , and The Invisible Man all released between 1931 and 1933, and they remain masterpiece sta

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