Universal Monsters - Viewing Order

[SpiderMan1232025]

If it ain't licenced, that definitely would make things way easier.

That's a good point. Licensing can definitely complicate things, especially when it comes to using stills from films. It's interesting to see how these issues are navigated in different publications.

 

[JudgeDreddpool]

Don't forget, there's literally two Alvin and the Chipmunks crossovers too. Talbot's lycanthropy was cured, although I take it that was very much temporary as is par the course for these things.

Say what?!

 

[Pro Bot]

Is Van Helsing set in 1887 or 1888 because it's different between the two lists along with We Will Be Monsters being split between 2021 and 2022

Both. There's a time jump.

 

[Pro Bot]

Say what?!

Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman - Wikipedia

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Technically they're actual Universal Monsters content. There's a unique version of Victor Frankenstein who creates a new Frankenstein's monster inside a Frankenstein's castle attraction, and there's the original Larry Talbot Wolfman after he's brought back in the Return of the Wolfman novel.

 

[Maciej Jankowski]

Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman - Wikipedia

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Technically they're actual Universal Monsters content. There's a unique version of Victor Frankenstein who creates a new Frankenstein's monster inside a Frankenstein's castle attraction, and there's the original Larry Talbot Wolfman after he's brought back in the Return of the Wolfman novel.

The best crossovers ever made! XD

 

[Pro Bot]

Bram Stoker's Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi and Mary Shalley's Frankenstein Starring Boris Karloff comics added, which are essentially the original books but with the UM actors. I suppose you could argue that the original Dracula novel happened with Bela Lugosi... before happening to him again in 1931.

 

[Pro Bot]

Mighty Monsterwheelies added... don't look it up.

 

[iceman109]

It would be funny to see a Spanish version of Renfield which would act as a sequel to the Spanish Dracula set in Latin America

 

[iceman109]

Is it possible that the Spanish Dracula went through similar events that his English counterpart did?

 

[Pro Bot]

Is it possible that the Spanish Dracula went through similar events that his English counterpart did?

I would only argue that the 1931 events are somewhat similar, if you want my take.

 

[iceman109]

It would be cool to have a versus movie between English Dracula and Spanish Dracula with Antonio Banderas playing the Spanish Dracula

 

[Pro Bot]

The Bride of Frankenstein: Pandora's Bride

The Bride of Frankenstein: Pandora's Bride is a 2006 novel by Elizabeth Hand. It is part of Dark Horse's mid-2000s line of tie-in novels to the popular Universal Horror franchise and is a direct sequel to Bride of Frankenstein, but it exists in …

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Pandora, of course, is the Bride of Frankenstein.
Cesare from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is Dr. Pretorius's assistant and valet instead — and it turns out he's a pretty nice young man when he's not being brainwashed into committing murders while sleepwalking.
Henry Frankenstein presses Hans Beckert, the whistling child-killer from M, into his service.
Dr. Rotwang builds his robot girl on the outskirts of Berlin in the 1920s rather than in the fantastical future of Metropolis.
And Lulu from Pandora's Box performs at a club with his robotic creation.
Christopher Isherwood (himself a Historical Domain Character) offers to introduce Pandora to a friend of his who performs at another club, an American singer.

Uh... so Metropolis, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M and Pandora's Box are connected in some way. This novel doesn't really contradict the Frankenstein films other than the 1920s timeline, but this does contradict the aforementioned films in some ways.

 

[Pro Bot]

Metropolis' Dr. Rotwang can be rationalised as a relative of the Pandora's Bride character, since one lives in 1899 and the other in 2026. That or it's the same as The Mummy's Hand characters in Dark Universe Stories or Sherlock Holmes' apparent lack of aging.

 

[iceman109]

Would the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's Dracula be a variant of Armand Tesla's Dracula or would it be someone else?

 

[Maciej Jankowski]

Would the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's Dracula be a variant of Armand Tesla's Dracula or would it be someone else?

It's not connected to Universal Monsters in any way besides being based on the same characters who are public domain, so he's someone else

 

[iceman109]

This article says that the original Dracula book is supposed to be set in 1893

The timeframe of the Dracula novel

Many readers have wondered in which year the events described in Dracula could have taken place. The novel itself mentions various elements that happened in 1893: the death of the French psychiatrist Charcot, the Westminster Gazette that was founded in that year, and the term “New Woman,” coined...

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[Pro Bot]

If this is referring to Bram Stoker's Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi, that places itself explicitly in 1890. Otherwise, yeah that's interesting. Only the unofficial Christopher Lee Count Dracula film is set there.