Classic Horrors Club

Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween.

Remember, when we designate films before 1931 as horror, we are doing it retroactively. Before Frankenstein, horror was an ambiguous emotion or element, not a marketing category. Instead, at the time, these movies were referred to as, fantastic, mysterious, or weird. They relied on atmospheric terror and fear of the supernatural.

Frankenstein (1931) changed all that. It introduced the horror of man’s hubris and the dangerous possibilities of unchecked scientific ambition. But it also introduced a new kind of monster. Terrifying, yes. But… sympathetic… a victim that causes us to question, “Who is the real monster?”

Hear more about it in today’s video on @ClassicHorrorsTV:

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