Universal Horror shared Universe (2017-soon)

“You know, there is one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered and that’s the graveyard,” a teary-eyed Davis began. “People ask me all the time — what kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola? And I say exhume those bodies. Exhume those stories — the stories of the people who dreamed big and never saw those dreams to fruition, people who fell in love and lost.”

Last night I briefly saw this thing on TV where one of the voice actors in the new Smurfs movie was talking about finding the motivation of the Smurf he was voicing. I guess like trying to figure out why the Smurf likes farts and dancing to Meghan Trainor songs over the closing credits of computer animated movies. I dunno, I think the motivations of a Frankenstein actor are probably similarly complex and nuanced.

What do my neck bolts mean? How do these enormous shoes inform my personality? What secret longings am I trying to express when I say 'raaarr' and clumsily swipe my arms at things?

Does little girl float like flower?

Recently learned this bit of trivia: when Bela Lugosi turned downed the Frankenstein's Monster role it was a completely different and inferior script that barely resembled the finished film.

frankenstein is dumb. and so not scary. everyone just goes well here comes frankenstein again. how frightening.

His monster is kind of scary.

oh god i just remembered aaron eckhart's badass frankenstein in i, frankenstein

3% fresh on rotten tomatoes, which seems v generous

they should make a movie about a mad guy who wants to keep his circus going so he makes a little person frankenstein and its tom cruise. then tom cruise could be in the hall of fame for playing a tiny vampire and a tiny frankenstein and a tiny mummy killer.

Also Universal sometimes planted people to run out screaming. Wonder how many stories of audience responses to old horror films were really just people being payed to act scared or appalled.

crisis actors

the true horror is real life do u see

i did that when i saw V.I. Warshawski at the movies, but nobody paid me.

I thought "I, Frankenstein" was universal but it's not.

barely global tbh

I think SNK said they wanted .couka shared film universe but I don't see that ever happening. Apparently lots of companies are aiming for something like that. Hope it's a fad, please please be a fad.

".couka"? I meant "a".

shared universe probably just means Van Helsing shows up in all the movies or something

people keep talking about that stuff that went down in Egypt

Hunchback remake definitely not happening.

― Robert Adam Gilmour,

From Universal, probably not, but I wouldn't but it past Disney, who have twelve remakes in the works.

if this doesn't lead to a Monster Squad reboot then they will have blown it.

not really interested tbh. there are so many great classic monster movies to see why even waste your time? i don't need to see a CGI Dracula.

this is why i watch so much t.v.

Adam Bruneau- I don't want any of these new universal series either but I don't agree that there's that many classic monster films, at least in this mode. Bride Of Frankenstein is the best of the Universal set but it goes in a completely different direction, it's more like an old Disney film with horror imagery.

Ed Solomon is doing Invisible Man so that might be a comedy.

What if in the new mummy movie they unwrap the mummy at the end and it turns out he's a dracula under the bandages, and then they chase the dracula through his own movie and kill him and then someone turns his dead body into a Frankenstein, and then at the end of the Frankenstein movie his back gets broken so now he's a hunchback, then the hunchback drinks a potion and turns into a jeckle. Would this work do you think.

What if there were no monsters? Just a thought.

Would this work do you think.

Maybe if the jeckle got sent to live in a black lagoon, then got so covered in weed and stuff that everyone thinks he's a mummy.

These are beautiful ideas, I will pitch them.

You could make the no-monsters monster movie just by putting invisible sauce on them like what invisible man did to himself. They could be standing in plain sight and people are running around saying, 'wheres that dracula, wheres that wolfman,' and the only way they'd ever even know there were monsters at all is if they listen for them laughing under their breaths.

Would wolfman's hairs turn visible when he moults? That could be a plot point.

Hmm, yes, you always have to consider little details like that. I anticipate at least a couple of scenes where people can't tell the difference between a mummy and a wrapped-up invisible man, as well. Particularly after the mummy has made himself invisible under his bandages. It will lead to philosophical thoughts of, well, what is the difference between a man and a mummy when you take off their wrappings and they're both invisible?

What if there were no monsters? Just a thought.

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in the final credits, Cruise realizes the monster was him all along.

Or maybe they could name the mummy Miscavige.

the thing I hate about these movies is that the supernatural leads are near-invincible so they're almost always defeated in lame ways

"OH NO YOU SAID THE MAGIC PHRASE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE CAMPBELL'S SOUP LABEL, MY POWERS ARE DRAINING!"

A Dracula falls asleep under a tree in 1869, he wakes up in 2019 and decides to run for President. And get this, his opponent is Van Helsing, who drives a stake through his heart during a debate. The rest of the monsters appear as pundits.

I don't agree that there's that many classic monster films, at least in this mode

what is "this mode"? no idea if Universal horror movies are considered to have a certain style. but there are many classic films, from the originals with Chaney & Lugosi, the iconic Frankenstein monster, etc. and the later era spin offs are even worth seeing (i saw Abbot & Costello recently, it was a riot). then you have 50s/60s Christopher Lee-Peter Cushing era monsters and gothic romance versions of Dracula, which continued into the 70s with many of the same actors and sets but in a post-Manson Family post-Rosemary's Baby world, when it kind of became more about murder cults.

is Hammer Horror really different than Universal i have no idea

What is the proper collective noun for multiple draculas?

more boobs...

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draculae

Adam- Worth seeing yes, but not many great films. And I say this as someone who's really really into all this stuff. Still some gaps to fill in like House Of Wax, Spanish Dracula, Tower Of London (Karloff version). I don't want to be exhaustive though, because there's a lot that nobody seems to like.

I would consider Hammer similar enough in their monster films.

xp, no, is it like, "A gaggle of draculas?" A pride? A herd?

An exsanguination of draculas, iirc.

(i saw Abbot & Costello recently, it was a riot)

There are at least six(?) Abbott & Costello Meet a Horrific Beast that Unaccountably Fails to Murder Them movies.

a mouthful of draculas

Collective noun
'Coven' has been used as a collective noun for vampires, possibly based on the Wiccan usage. An alternative collective noun is a 'house' of vampires.(128) David Malki, author of Wondermark, suggests in Wondermark No. 566 the use of the collective noun 'basement', as in "A basement of vampires."(129)

Wiccan usage, like those loons could even spell their own names

just reading up on this because I was finally subjected to the mummy trailer. these movies are going to be a money bonfire.

Let's all laugh at the Universal Dark Universe

i'm sure Frankenstein is going to be a superspeedy brute force killing machine that says monosyllabic one-liners

http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/universal-has-reportedly-given-up-on-its-monsterverse.html