Tag: Tod Browning


  • Dracula (1931)

    Dracula (1931)

    Dracula: The Creature of the Night In today’s world, vampires are taken for granted in horror. We see them in movies, play them in games, and read about falling in love with them in books, but this wasn’t always the case. Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897, a successful and widespread book; before that vampire…

  • Freaks (1932): “One of Us” and the Birth of Cult Horror

    Step right up, boils and ghouls! Adjust your 3D glasses, ignore the smell of stale popcorn and damp sawdust, and prepare to witness the ultimate forbidden fruit of Pre-Code Hollywood. We aren’t talking about some guy in a rubber suit or a puppet with a bad attitude. No, we are diving headfirst into the murky,…