How Universal Should Try To Reboot Its Monster Movies

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Every month, it seems like studios push out a new cinematic universe hoping to bank off of the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For the most part, they fail for reasons varying from trying to rush into the big team-up epic or just being a terrible movie to start off the universe. One that has been forgotten about by fans and even seems to have been forgotten by the studio is Universal Studios' The Dark Universe.

The goal was for future movies to revive Universal's classic monster movies from the grave, starting with 2017's The Mummy starring Tom Cruise. This would very soon after bomb critically and commercially, thusly burying the future of what the Dark Universe would have been.

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One of the main problems with past adaptations of monsters like Frankenstein's monster and Dracula is the genre in which the characters are presented. In the nineties, they were dramas that were intent on remaining faithful to the original source material, with mixed results. Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula was very eccentric and fun at times but does fall flat at moments.

The 2000s saw monster movies like I, Frankenstein, and Van Helsing that were, for the most part, just action movies. Both ways have their audiences and could work, but the problem is how audiences remember and see these characters. To many fans, they are horror movies like their early Universal adaptations. In a world where almost every movie is an action movie and everyone is trying to make a drama that is Oscar-worthy, nobody is really presenting the monster movies to their target audience of horror lovers. But there could be a happy medium with past adaptations, especially from those in the nineties.

Most of the horror in these movies