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Jake's book THE DEVIL'S LEAGUE is available now: tinyurl.com/tdljc

MONSTERS UNBORN IS AVAILABLE NOW: https://a.co/d/0h4tVodF

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro

2:32 Jake's Collection Expands: A Frank Langella SIGNED Dracula '79 Photo

3:58 Dracula 1931's ORIGINAL OUTRO Has Been Restored!

9:44 "Very Young Frankenstein" Pilot Ordered at FX, Mel Brooks Returning

12:23 MONSTERS UNBORN: THE LOST UNIVERSAL MONSTER REMAKES

1:02:31 HORRIFIED: Jake and Xander vs the Emerald Quill Studios Monsters

Step into the shadowy world behind Hollywood’s most iconic creatures with Monsters Unborn! Drawing on unproduced scripts and decades of behind-the-scenes history, author Bruce Kilkowski Jr. uncovers a treasure trove of “lost” stories from haunting gothic reimaginings to bold futuristic reinventions that never made it to the screen. Packed with new research, this book brings to life abandoned visions of legendary monsters like the Bride of Frankenstein, the Mummy, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, revealing just how close they came to rising again. Equal parts film history and thrilling “what might have been,” Monsters Unborn is an essential, fun, and eye-opening journey for horror fans and cinephiles alike.

Bruce here, telling you that you're probably better off just watching this one on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3lttp56wjQ

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro

1:04 MINIGAME: What Universal Monster Movies are Officially Preserved?

6:55 FAN MAIL!

18:15 Xander's Wolf-Man Merch HAUL

21:26 WTF is Mighty MonsterWheelies?!

34:18 Lee Cronin's The Mummy Review

55:19 What Monsters Will Appear in Scooby Doo x Universal Monsters?

57:57 TITLE TOPIC: HORRIFIED vs the Wolf-Man and the Creature from the Black Lagoon!

Horrified is a co-operative game where players battle the classic Universal movie monsters. Players win or lose together. Players win when all Monsters are defeated but will lose if the Terror track reaches the skull space OR the Monster deck is empty when a card is needing to be drawn.

On a player’s turn, they will do their Hero phase actions. Then the Monsters act in the Monster phase. Event cards determine which monster is in play.

Horrified includes high-quality sculpted miniatures (Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon). Its innovative, easy-to-learn, cooperative gameplay has players working together against the monsters with varying levels of difficulty. Just as each monster is unique, they require different strategies and tactics to be defeated.

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Dracula is a 1979 gothic horror film directed by John Badham. The film stars Frank Langella in the title role as well as Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence and Kate Nelligan.

The film is based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula and its 1924 stage adaptation, though much of Stoker's original plot was revised to make the film more romantic, as advertised by the tagline "A Love Story". The film received mostly positive reviews and was a moderate box office success. It won the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film.

The Mummy is a 1959 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. It was written by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Michael Carreras and Anthony Nelson Keys for Hammer Film Productions. The film was distributed in the UK on 25 September 1959, and in the U.S. in December, 1959 on a double bill with either the Vincent Price film The Bat or the Universal film Curse of the Undead.

Though the title suggests Universal Pictures' 1932 film of the same name, the film actually derives its plot and characters entirely from two 1940s Universal films, The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb, with the climax borrowed directly from The Mummy's Ghost. The character name Joseph Whemple, the use of a sacred scroll, and a few minor plot elements are the only connections with the 1932 version.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff is a 1949 horror comedy film directed by Charles Barton and starring Abbott and Costello and Boris Karloff.

In 1956, the film was re-released by Realart Pictures as a double feature with Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

The film is set in a hotel. Following the murder of a prominent lawyer within the hotel, the hotel's bellboy is kept in custody at his room. The other suspects in the murder case manipulate him into signing a false confession, and then try to eliminate him. Meanwhile, the corpses of two more victims are found hidden in the bellboy's closet.

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0:00 Intro

0:55 The Worst Universal Monster Film Ever Made: She-Wolf of London

3:39 The Mummy 4 Slated for 2028, ‘Abigail’ Directors Helming the Project

7:43 BREAKING NEWS: Nine Universal Monsters Arrested, Facing Trial

18:20 The Trial of Count Dracula

31:05 The Trial of Frankenstein’s Monster

51:09 The Trial of Larry Talbot

1:08:35 TECHNICALITY: The Creature Walks Free

1:09:51 The Trial of Paula Dupree

1:12:45 The Trial of Imhotep

1:19:52 The Trial of Kharis

1:30:24 The Trial of the Brute Man

1:34:04 The Trial of Jack Griffin

1:48:06 SUMMARY: Who’s Going to Jail and Who’s Not?

The Universal Monsters (also known as Universal Classic Monsters and Universal Studios Monsters) is a media franchise comprising various horror film series distributed by Universal Pictures. It consists of different horror creature characters originating from various novels, such as Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde, the Phantom of the Opera, Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, and the Invisible Man, as well as original characters the Wolf Man and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

The original series began with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913) and ended with The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). While the early installments were initially created as stand-alone films based on published novels, their financial and critical success resulted in various cross-over releases between the monsters, as well as other properties such as Abbott and Costello. Following the positive response to various viewings of these films via television redistribution which began airing in the 1950s, the studio began developing the characters for other media. In the 1990s, it became priority for Universal to promote their catalogue with official packaging that presented films with the official franchise title. Through a number of VHS editions, their popularity continued into contemporary entertainment. This included additional development through modern-filmmaking adaptations, beginning with Dracula (1979) and most recently Wolf Man (2025).

Modern analyses describe the titular characters as "pop culture icons", while the franchise as a whole is often cited as the prototypical example of the shared universe concept in film. In addition to the films, the franchise has expanded to include novels, comics, and theme park rides.

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Jake's book THE DEVIL'S LEAGUE is available now: tinyurl.com/tdljc

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro

2:44 @officialuniversalhorror on Instagram Has De-Emphasized Classic Monsters

7:03 The Wolfman (2010) Newspaper Prop FOR SALE on PropStore.com

9:22 One More Small Piece of News...

11:07 TITLE TOPIC: Skybound's Universal Monster Comics!

11:53 Dracula

22:13 Creature From the Black Lagoon Lives!

33:49 Frankenstein

42:03 The Mummy

52:15 The Invisible Man

1:03:33 RANKING Skybound's Universal Monster Comics

The Universal Monsters (also known as Universal Classic Monsters and Universal Studios Monsters) is a media franchise comprising various horror film series distributed by Universal Pictures. It consists of different horror creature characters originating from various novels, such as Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde, the Phantom of the Opera, Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, and the Invisible Man, as well as original characters the Wolf Man and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

The original series began with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913) and ended with The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). While the early installments were initially created as stand-alone films based on published novels, their financial and critical success resulted in various cross-over releases between the monsters, as well as other properties such as Abbott and Costello. Following the positive response to various viewings of these films via television redistribution which began airing in the 1950s, the studio began developing the characters for other media. In the 1990s, it became priority for Universal to promote their catalogue with official packaging that presented films with the official franchise title. Through a number of VHS editions, their popularity continued into contemporary entertainment. This included additional development through modern-filmmaking adaptations, beginning with Dracula (1979) and most recently Wolf Man (2025). Until recently, Bruce and Xander thought I typed all of this crap out, as if copy and pasting a Wikipedia article wasn't infinitely easier to do. Those absolute buffoons.

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