Episode 313: The Invisible Man/Bram Stoker’s Dracula

What this episode covers

Forget the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Conjuring Universe or any of the copycat money grabbing universes that have popped up in the 21st Century. The first, and in some people’s opinions, the best shared universe was the Universal Monsters from the 1930s-60s. Time after time after time, filmmakers want to re-imagine perhaps the most famous villains of all time for the big screen. There have been animated versions, comedy versions, gritty rebooted versions, action versions, every type of film you can imagine has had the Universal Monsters involved. Today is no different, so for the month of March 2020, Ron and Little Miss Horror Nerd look at remakes of Universal Monster films. First up is a film from just last month that would probably still be in theaters if not for the current pandemic happening around the world, Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man… An updated take on the mythology of the Invisible Man, this Blumhouse production was supposed to be the beginnings of a new Dark Universe. Instead, the decision was made to keep it as a stand alone film. Second up, from 1992, the all but forgotten star-studded Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a strangely stylistic film that pledges to be more true to the original source material than any of the films that have come before it. Join Ron and Jessica as they traverse these rough waters of remakes of classic horror!

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