A few years after the collapse of the Dark Universe, the most famous of movie monsters are enjoying a second life.
The big, bad count of this winter’s Nosferatu goes by Orlok, but you know his real name. And though the title character of Wolf Man isn’t Lawrence Talbot, he hails from the same lycanthropic lineage that had Lon Chaney Jr. howling at the full moon. Depending on where you live, and if you hurry, you can go to the movies right now and see both Dracula and the Wolfman on the big screen once again.
Recommended Videos If a thousand social media jokes don’t ring a bell, the Dark Universe was Universal’s short-lived plan to give its roster of Golden Age beasties the Avengers treatment via a series of movies that would reunite them all on screen.
The Dark Universe died before it really got started. But you can’t keep a good monster down. From the grave of that failure has risen a new line of vehicles for Universal’s veteran fright class. The studio bounced back quickly from The Mummy with a scary standalone: Leigh Whannell’s sharply suspenseful take on The Invisible Man, which rebooted the most canonically scummy of Universal Monsters for a new era in a much smarter way.
The Dark Universe’s miscalculation was thinking that some of cinema’s oldest villains needed to be superheroes. That was a square peg in a round hole. There’s a way to adapt these monsters for a new generation without turning them into something they’re not. The Invisible Man, which brought the translucent menace into a new era of tech-bro misogyny, handily demonstrated as much.
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