Universal Monster Movie Masterpost
"Universal Monsters or Universal Horror is the name given to a series of distinctive horror, suspense and science fiction films made by Universal Studios from 1923 to 1960." [x]
All movie descriptions were pulled from IMDB.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913) [archive.org]
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) [archive.org] [youtube]
In 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with the Romani queen.
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) [archive.org] [youtube]
A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
The Cat and the Canary (1927) [archive.org] [youtube]
Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.
The Man Who Laughs (1928) [archive.org] [dailymotion]
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
The Last Warning (1928) [archive.org]
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
The Last Performance (1929) [archive.org] [youtube]
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
Dracula (1931) [archive.org]
Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
Drácula (1931) [archive.org]
Centuries-old vampire Dracula preys upon the innocent Eva and her friends.
Frankenstein (1931) [archive.org]
Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster out of lifeless body parts.
The Mummy (1932) [archive.org]
An Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he thinks is his long-lost princess.
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) [dailymotion]
A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.
The Old Dark House (1932) [archive.org]
Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
The Invisible Man (1933) [archive.org]
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
The Black Cat (1934) [archive.org]
American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
The Raven (1935) [F2movie]
Dr. Vollin is a brilliant but unstable surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture. He saves the life of Jean Thatcher, a beautiful young socialite injured in an automobile accident and becomes increasingly attracted to her.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) [ok.ru]
An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.
Werewolf of London (1935) [archive.org]
After botanist Wilfred Glendon travels to Tibet in search of a rare flower, the Mariphasa, he returns to a London haunted by murders that can only be the work of bloodthirsty werewolves.
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) [archive.org]
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
Dracula's Daughter (1936) [archive.org]
When Countess Marya Zaleska appears in London, mysterious events occur leading Dr. Von Helsing to believe the Countess must be a vampire.
The Invisible Ray (1936) [archive.org]
A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
Night Key (1937) [F2movie]
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
The Phantom Creeps (1939) [archive.org]
A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world.
Son of Frankenstein (1939) [lookmovie]
Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.
Tower of London (1939) [wat32]
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Black Friday (1940) [archive.org] [youtube]
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
The Invisible Man Returns (1940) [archive.org]
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
The Invisible Woman (1940) [archive.org] [youtube]
An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.
The Mummy's Hand (1940) [archive.org]
Archaeologists defile the tomb of mummified Kharis, who was buried alive for falling in love with an Egyptian princess.
Man Made Monster (1941) [dailymotion]
A mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
The Wolf Man (1941) [archive.org]
Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious fortune teller.
The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1941) [archive.org]
A mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco when his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local populace. The survivor of a shipwreck washes ashore on the island, sees what is happening and determines to free the natives from his rule.
The Black Cat (1941) [archive.org]
Elderly Henrietta Winslow lives in an isolated mansion with her housekeeper and beloved cats. As her health fails, her greedy relatives gather in anticipation of her death.
Horror Island (1941) [wat32]
A down-on-his-luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) [lookmovie]
Dr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor.
Night Monster (1942) [m4uHD]
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Invisible Agent (1942) [archive.org]
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
The Mummy's Tomb (1942) [archive.org]
The ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) [archive.org]
The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation.
Phantom of the Opera (1943) [m4uHD]
An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy's career.
Son of Dracula (1943) [lookmovie]
When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.
Captive Wild Woman (1943) [m4uHD]
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
The Mad Ghoul (1943) [archive.org]
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul.
Calling Dr. Death (1943) [vimeo]
A doctor is not sure if he murdered his beautiful but wicked wife, and has his attractive nurse try to find the truth by hypnotizing him.
Weird Woman (1944) [dailymotion]
While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love and marries an exotic native woman. What he doesn't know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to be some kind of supernatural being.
Dead Man's Eyes (1944) [archive.org]
When an artist is blinded, his fiancée's father offers an operation to restore his sight. When the benefactor suddenly dies, the artist becomes a suspect.
The Climax (1944) [F2movies] [m4uHD]
A demented physician becomes obsessed with a young singer whose voice sounds similar to his late mistress.
House of Frankenstein (1944) [archive.org] [lookmovie]
A deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf.
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) [archive.org] [lookmovie]
An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.
Jungle Woman (1944) [youtube]
Paula the ape woman is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, also reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
The Mummy's Ghost (1944) [archive.org]
Kharis the mummy is given a sacred potion that grants him eternal life to search for his lost love, Princess Ananka, despite the unending curse that haunts them.
The Mummy's Curse (1944) [archive.org]
Shipped to Louisiana, the mummy Kharis from Egypt roams the bayou, tormented by his forbidden love for Princess Ananka.
The Jungle Captive (1945) [m4uHD]
Once again, Paula Dupree, the Ape Woman, is brought back to life, this time by a mad scientist and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps his female lab assistant in order to have a female blood donor. By this time, Paula has brain damage from her experiences in the last film, so there's not much for her to do except wander around.
House of Dracula (1945) [archive.org] [lookmovie]
The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse.
The Frozen Ghost (1945) [archive.org]
A stage mentalist involved in a mysterious death and a discredited plastic surgeon are among the assorted characters involved in mysterious goings-on in an eerie wax museum.
Strange Confession (1945) [vimeo]
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in tragedy.
Pillow of Death (1945) [archive.org]
An unfaithful attorney is suspected of murdering his wife.
House of Horrors (1946) [dailymotion] [m4uHD]
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
The Brute Man (1946) [ok.ru]
A facially deformed and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those who deformed him with a series of brutal murders.
She-Wolf of London (1946) [archive.org]
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
The Strange Door (1951) [d-archive.org]
Noble-born cad Denis has been tricked into a forced stay at the eerie manor of the Sire de Maletroit, an evil madman who can't get over the death of his beloved, twenty years after she married his brother instead and subsequently passed away during childbirth. Maletroit is determined to have his revenge: the brother has been stowed away in the dungeon for two decades, while he's convinced his disreputable house guest will make a suitably hellish husband for his niece. As luck would have it, the young couple manage to fall in love, and with the help of manservant Voltan, they try to make their escape, but not before a final confrontation with Maletroit in the dungeon's crushing deathtrap.
The Black Castle (1952) [youtube] [youtube]
A man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
It Came From Outer Space (1953) [archive.org] [lookmovie]
A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) [archive.org]
A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
Revenge of the Creature (1955) [archive.org] [watchseries]
Men capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.
Cult of the Cobra (1955) [putlocker]
American G.I.s who trespass on a Hindu ceremony are hunted down by a beautiful woman who has the power to transform herself into a cobra.
This Island Earth (1955) [archive.org] [youtube] [lookmovie]
Aliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war.
Tarantula (1955) [archive.org] [lookmovie]
A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) [archive.org]
A scientist captures the Creature and turns him into an air-breather, only for him to escape and start killing.
The Mole People (1956) [archive.org]
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) [archive.org]
When Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
The Deadly Mantis (1957) [F2movie]
A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.
The Land Unknown (1957) [m4uHD]
Three men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world.
The Monolith Monsters (1957) [archive.org] [dailymotion]
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) [F2movie]
A psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt's ranch. Opening it, her family discovers the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper who was beheaded by Sir Francis Drake.
Monster on the Campus (1958) [archive.org]
The blood of a primitive fish exposed to gamma rays causes a benign research professor to regress to an ape-like, bloodthirsty prehistoric hominid.
Curse of the Undead (1959) [dailymotion] [lookmovie]
While a malady is claiming the lives of young women in a Western town, a sinister gunslinger-for-hire Drake Robey is really a vampire, and it's up to Preacher Dan to save the town and girlfriend Dolores Carter.
The Leech Woman (1960) [archive.org]
An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.
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