The Return of the Universal monsters
I’m nervous. I don’t think the current heads of Universal respect or appreciate the classics or their original atmosphere and ambiance. In example look at the 2004 Van Helsing or more recently NBC’s God-awful Dracula and the upcoming Syfy Van Helsing series (Syfy is owned by NBC / Universal). They just want to cash in on an old film trend rekindled by the Marvel franchise and they are even now fixating on the concept of “Goth action” indicating that they learned nothing from the 2004 Van Helsing movie.
And there’s also the dread that they have such little faith in these characters standing on their own merit they will all “coincidentally” all have October “seasonal” releases as Dracula Untold did. Never mind the best Dracula films were released in November (Bram Stoker’s Dracula), July (Frank Langella Dracula), and February (1931 Dracula).
