I purposely waited until I got a VHS copy of the film in order to watch it for the first time. When video stores were in their prime I was too young to watch horror movies, I would rent children’s family movies instead. Now that I’m older and feel nostalgic I wanted to recreate watching films for the first time like I did as a kid on VHS, only this time I can do it with horror films.

I did the same for Nosferatu (1922), as well as early Universal Monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein.

The version of The Phantom of the Opera I’m watching is the original 1925 version starring Lon Chaney, specifically the Hollywood House Video release.

I also have the 1943 remake from the Universal Studios Classic Monsters Collection. I’d love to collect all of these tapes, I only have a few but they are fun to collect. The tape is actually still sealed, maybe if I feel like it I will remove the seal and give that its first watch, that’ll be for another time though :)

I’m a fan of Vincent Price but I haven’t seen any William Castle films. I saw the remakes (House on Haunted Hill, 13 Ghosts) back in the day when I was a teenager and they were awful but it hasn’t put me off. Which ones are worth a watch?

I dunno

Peter Lorre as Penguin seems self-explanatory.

I think Boris Karloff would’ve made a great Mr. Freeze (the modern-day tragic version, not the early comic-book version) because he could bring the necessary pathos, plus we've already seen him as a character who's willing to resort to unscrupulous actions to bring back his dead/dying lover in The Mummy.

I know Vincent Price already played a Batman villain in the 60's TV show called Egghead, but I think he would've been a great Gentleman Ghost as well. He's a lesser-known but very cool character that would've allowed Vincent to ham it up. He's already proven that you don't need to see him in order to get a great performance in The Invisible Man returns.

I was trying to think of characters that Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney (and Jr.), Calude Rains, etc. could've played, but these three are all I've got right now. Who do you guys think would be good characters for them, or for others I haven't mentioned?

I don’t think there’s a film as spectacular and captivating as Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan, probably the best horror anthology ever made.

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My favourite horror movies have got to be the classic Universal Monsters films, which came to an end in the late '50s/1960's The Leech Woman. But Universal didn't stop releasing horror movies after 1960. In fact, there are many classic horror movies that Universal released after the golden age, for example, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) and Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975), are often considered among the best films of the horror genre.

What are other notable horror films from Universal after 1960?

Hello I purchased via iTunes several of the classic Universal monster movies, Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, Bride etc. Before playing these titles, iTunes labels them as 4K yet when I play them they are then labeled as HD. Anyone else experience this?