Boris Karloff as Frankenstein Credit ... Lugosi – who had played Count Dracula on stage – insisted on doing the makeup himself, which caused friction between Lugosi and Pierce.

BRINGING the Wolf Man to life is a monumental feat, and wanting to honor the original 1941 classic of the same name, director Leigh Whannell channels inspiratio ...

The indisputable master of cosmetics responsible for Rita Hayworth’s red curls and the look of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein. He invented liquid-foundation makeup, put lipstick into its present form ...

He followed the Universal Monsters’ now-classic takes on Dracula, Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein, and the Invisible Man into theaters, but Lon Chaney Jr. makes an indelible impression as ...

The 1930s saw the birth of fantasy cinema, with makeup that has become legendary. Bela Lugosi as Dracula (1931) and Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster, made up by Jack Pierce, established the ...

Unfortunately, House of Frankenstein is less graveyard smash and more poorly paced anthology, with the stories linked by Boris Karloff ... s Oscar-winning werewolf-makeup effects.

Wolf Man”—a reboot of Universal Studios’ classic movie monster—is new in theaters this weekend. Find out where you can stream its classic werewolf predecessors. theaters this weekend.

Not only did Chaney devise his own make-up, but he insisted on playing monsters ... who pushed for his inspired compatriot, Boris Karloff, instead. The tenderness astonishes just as much as ...

Boris Karloff in Frankenstein would never have sent shivers down filmgoers' spines as William Pratt. Yvette Stevens, James Osterberg, Marvin Aday and Vincent Furnier sound like partners in a ...

Pratt, better known to the world as Boris Karloff—and best known as the Frankenstein monster—died Sunday in London in King Edward VII Hospital of a respiratory ailment. He was 81. Though he ...