grgstv338 wrote:
That said, I still don't think Uni did any of the series any favors, with the general public anyway, by making the monsters bufoonish dupes of a comedy team.
In fact, since A&C Meet the Mummy comes out in 1955, it's much closer in time to what came after - Hammer's version in 1959 (and the spoof didn't seem to have hurt that any).


But do you really see the Universal monsters and the Hammer monsters as related? If so, I think you are the first.

No one ever lost sleep at night wondering what happened to Dracula between A&C Meet Frankenstein and The Horror Of Dracula and how the films were connected before that I ever heard of. They were different monsters in a vastly different presentation, whereas A&C were attempting to echo the same Universal Universe.