Dark Corners Next Classic Franchise (Patreon)
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Our next classic franchise will be The Universal Invisible Man, released next month to coincide with the new film. After that we haven't decided, so we're throwing it open to you to vote on what should be our next franchise special, which will probably come out in late summer.
As we've said before, we do plan to work our way through all the Universal and Hammer series but we've thrown something new into the mix with the Val Lewton RKO horrors (11 films including Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie).
The Universal Wolfman will probably also follow the career of Lon Chaney jr, (in the same way that the Hammer Dracula looked at Christopher Lee) but it will still include The Werewolf of London and potentially She-Wolf of London.
The Universal Dracula will probably focus on Lugosi, even though he only appeared in two films film (we will look at The Return of the Vampire as well), dealing with the iconography of Dracula that he created as well as looking at the sequels.
We definitely want to do the Hammer Mummy films but I couldn't tell you yet what approach we'll take because they are four stand-alone films. One thing I'm considering is spending some time on the people behind the scenes (mainly because I got the excellent Hammer Films: The Unsung Heroes for Christmas). The Mummy films might be a way to look at Hammer's amazing team.
So those are your options. Choose wisely - you're deciding what I spend the next 6 months doing!