Chronology of Classic Horror Films

<p>Author Donald Willis continues his insights into horror film history with his new tome on the 1940s. Yes we had vampires and </p><p>the Frankenstein Monster mummies a new villain-the Wolf Man dark moody Val Lewton films and a slew of comic monster rallies.</p><p>If the 1930s was Universal and monsters the 1940s was RKO and mood-states of mind. The Palladists in The Seventh Victim Kyra (Helene Thimig) in</p><p>Isle of the Dead and (outside RKO) Count Fosco (Sydney Greenstreet) in The</p><p>Woman in White-all work on their victims psychologically-to the point of death.</p><p>They wear down their chosen prey mentally. Meanwhile Universal in the 1940s could be seen </p><p>to have been spinning its wheels for about seven years until the logical comic outcome in 1948: Abbott and</p><p>Costello Meet Frankenstein. </p><p><br></p>