Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Werner Herzog remakes Murnau as a tragedy, and Klaus Kinski's Dracula is the genre's saddest monster. The vampire here is not merely frightening.
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1970sBlacula (1972)
William Marshall plays a tragic vampire prince with Shakespearean dignity in this landmark Black-led horror film. Is Blacula as silly as its title?
1970sBlood for Dracula (1974)
Paul Morrissey reimagines Dracula as a dying aristocrat starving for virgin blood in a changed world. The film's central joke is also its central tragedy.
Book ReviewsOthello
The noble Othello is poisoned by the malice of Iago, perhaps the most chilling villain Shakespeare ever wrote, in a devastating tragedy of jealousy and manipulation. Tightly built and startlingly modern, it is a study in manipulation and one of…
AmericaThe Great Gatsby
Very nearly a perfect short novel, and a model of prose style and compression: gorgeous language, indelible characters, and a deep critique of the American Dream in two hundred unwasted pages. Its quiet, craft-driven greatness rewards the right approach over…
1980sAn American Werewolf in London (1981)
John Landis' 1981 horror-comedy. Rick Baker transformation effects won first Best Makeup Oscar.
1950sScrooge (1951)
Alastair Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge. Sim's Scrooge is the definitive screen version of the character.
1980sA Christmas Carol (1984)
Scott plays Scrooge in a faithful television adaptation that became a holiday staple after theatrical release. A Christmas Carol is Clive Donner's 1984 American television adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella, depicting the Christmas Eve transformation of Victorian London miser…
1980sThe Fly (1986)
David Cronenberg's body horror about a scientist whose teleportation experiment merges his DNA with a housefly. The Fly is David Cronenberg's 1986 American body-horror film, a substantial remake of the 1958 Kurt Neumann original, depicting a scientist whose teleportation experiment…
1930sFrankenstein (1931)
Boris Karloff plays the creature stitched together from corpses and animated by a scientist who quickly loses control of his creation. Frankenstein is James Whale's 1931 American horror film adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel and the 1927 Peggy Webling…
1930sBride of Frankenstein (1935)
James Whale's sequel where the resurrected creature demands a mate, leading the doctor back to his laboratory. Bride of Frankenstein is James Whale's 1935 American horror film, sequel to his 1931 Frankenstein, depicting the resurrected Monster's demand that Dr. Henry…
1940sThe Wolf Man (1941)
The Wolf Man is George Waggner's 1941 American horror film depicting Larry Talbot, an American returning to his ancestral Welsh village, who is bitten by a werewolf in the local woods and discovers he has been infected with the curse…