Scariest scene of all the Universal Monster Movies
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
hossey5 — 19 years ago(August 22, 2006 09:52 PM)
Simply put, the very beginning of the movie in the Talbot Crypt. The fall evening,the glowing moon,the eerie music,and the Wolfman's transformation,as the moon outside the crypt shines through. TOO COOL.
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noveltylibrary — 19 years ago(October 26, 2006 09:38 AM)
Imagine being a child and not yet having the ability to ff! Doubly scary! I definitely loved watching all these movies on Saturday afternoons when local affiliates would run them. (chiller theater, creature double feature, thriller, etc.)
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fireball718 — 19 years ago(November 09, 2006 02:21 PM)
Weren't those the days? Growing up during the 1960s and 1970s was "monster kid" heaven, what with the movie showcases you mentioned, as well as the monster magazines, music, toys, models, cartoons, comics, etc. I always find myself trying to recapture some of that.
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messick_us — 19 years ago(November 13, 2006 11:16 AM)
Loved the scene where Talbot's hand reaches out and grabs" Freddy Jolly "( Cyril Delevanti )in the Talbot crypt. I can still remenber the look on actor Tom Stevenson's face( the other vagrant ) when Freddy says" It's on me..Help me help "I also grew up watching all those great Universal Horror Films every Friday and Saturday night throughout the 60s and to the mid 70s. It didn't get any better than that. Alas, at about that time, they started vanishing from the television stations in our area. AMC resurrected them back the late 1980s around Halloween. When " Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman " first became available on VHS back in the fall of 1986, I pre-ordered that thing about a month in advance. Couldn't wait to get it. Now we have the whole bunch on DVD from 1931's" Dracula " to 1945's " House Of Dracula " and Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein thrown in for good measure. Great movies and childhood memories
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noveltylibrary — 19 years ago(March 15, 2007 07:33 AM)
One summer as kids in a rented cottage we found a large deck of picture cards of the Universal Monsters. We could not have been more thrilled! I wish I could find them on ebay. I can still see the poses. We always referred to that place as the Monster Card house.
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sclvr — 18 years ago(April 20, 2007 12:44 PM)
Ah, yes. I loved the later afternoon Horror movies they used to show in LA back in the early 1960s. Before my parents would let me watch these movies, I'd sneak next door to watch them with my friend (his mom had no problems with these movies). One of the stations played a different Universal horror film each week. Great fun.
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Grant_Gardner — 19 years ago(January 05, 2007 11:58 PM)
I also think the scene where the creature comes to life and gets that sinister smile and look in his eyes is pretty spooky.
Actually, I figured out whay he looks so scary at that moment, and why it is a "moment". In the original shoot, the monster was suppposed to be blind, at least to some degree. In that particular moment I believe he regains full sight for the first time. Scary! -
Harold_Robbins — 19 years ago(January 27, 2007 10:44 AM)
I'm watching this again and that opening sequence is a gem - the opening tracking shot featuring the graverobbers goes on for about 2 minutes or so, revealing the cemetery and its graves, finally coming to the Talbot mausoleumvery well done, considering that this was essentially a low-budget programmer affair.
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YankeeDood — 19 years ago(March 15, 2007 01:09 AM)
To me, the Wolfman is the scariest of all Universal Monsters. Frankenstein and the Mummy are too slow, Dracula is too handsome, the Invisible Man is too human and the Creature is too confined to water. But the Wolfman, yowsa! The image of him wandering around in misty darkness and peeking in windows scares the hell outta me. Brrr!
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noveltylibrary — 19 years ago(March 15, 2007 07:35 AM)
That's funny, I always found the wolfman the least threateninghe seemed kinda cute lol. Most of the others freaked me out with Frankenstein at the top. There was something about the slowness that made it even freakier, like when you'd try to run in your nightmares but can't.
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gema6 — 10 years ago(March 12, 2016 10:26 PM)
Have you seen the low budget 70s movie "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf"?
If you don't like the idea of the werewolf wandering around and looking in windowsthen don't watch this movie. I recently saw it for the first time on Svengoolievery creepy! -
wallerworld — 18 years ago(April 20, 2007 12:26 AM)
Yes, the opening of FMTWM is one of the greatest scenes in Universal monster history. I rode through Disneyland's Haunted Mansion recently and was struck by the way the scene was recreated on the ride. I'm talking about the moment when you're moving down from the attic of the Haunted Mansion to the backyard cemetary (like the crane shot from FMTWM). You pass by the cemetary gate and there's a tall lanky guy there, shaking as he holds up a lantern to light the way. You almost expect him to say, "What d'ya think it'll look like, after so many years?"
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jquirk-1 — 18 years ago(May 13, 2007 07:58 PM)
I always thought the opening of the original "Frankenstein" in the cemetery was the scariest scene. The mourners crying, the grim reaper statue, Henry Frankenstein and Fritz hiding, the fat guy shoveling dirt in the grave, the thud of a rock hitting the casket, and then the grave robbers digging it back up again and the casket creaking as they pull it out of the ground, and the crazed look in Henry's face when he says it's waiting for a new life to begin. You guys are nuts - FMTWM doesn't come close to "Frankenstein."