Let's Thank Universal Pictures for Monster Movies!

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Oct 1, 202643:45Society & Culture

Basically everything you think of when you think of vampires, mummies, werewolves, and Frankenstein all come from a spate of films made in the 1930s, and every one of them by Universal Pictures. Amazingly, they are still...

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