Other than Teenage Werewolf/Teenage Frankenstein/How To Make A Monster, I think people here are also forgetting another important horror trilogy that predated it. In 1954 a guy named THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON made his appearance. I think it is important to note that The Creature and VAMPIRA showed up within a month of each other. There was something in the air alright.

Universal's The Creature From The Black Lagoon was popular enough it couldn't be ignored by rivals 20th Century Fox... That was the movie Tom Ewell took Marilyn Monroe to see in THE 7 YEAR ITCH, just previous to the skirt billowing scene and in fact Marilyn and he spoke the title by name at least two other times in the movie.

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