https://vo.rs/tags/boris-karloff/Latest from the Boris Karloff desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-universal-monsters-canon/<p>Every monster you have ever loved carries a Universal serial number somewhere in its DNA. When Carl Laemmle Jr took over production at his father&rsquo;s studio in 1929 and started chasing the horror trade, he did something the genre had never managed before: he turned the monster into a franchise property, a recurring character with a look, a walk, a grief. The makeup man Jack Pierce built faces you can still draw from memory. The directors, chiefly the Englishman James Whale, worked out how to make a sound-era horror film move. The result is a house style so complete that the entire genre has spent ninety years either obeying it or rebelling against it.</p>Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:00:00 +0000