 Welcome to today's edition of Frightfully Forgotten, and today we're going to be finishing up our Universal Monster Mania, and we're going to rate the Universal Monsters. We're going to have a rating system, one out of five, of four categories, and the monster with the best rating is going to win, so let's start with Dracula, 1931. Scariness. How scary is Dracula? One to five, say it two. Yeah, so would I. He's not that scary if you're comparing him to the rest. Others, he's more seductive and hypnotizing, he's not scary. Yeah, it's more alluring. The next category is effects, so makeup effects. We gave him a one. Yeah, because there just isn't that much to him. If any. Yeah. The third category, how murderous slash menacing is Dracula? You gave him a three, and a lot of that is because he needs to kill to survive, but he's not that menacing as where he goes out wanting to destroy. Yeah, he just needs to do it just to live. The last category that we have is legacy. What is the legacy of the Universal Monster Dracula, and we give him a five out of five. Can you get any more iconic than the Bella Lagosso Dracula? Not really. He gets 11 out of 20. Frankenstein's monster, how scary did we rate him? We rated him out of five, a two. To look at him, I guess at a glance, he'd be pretty frightening. But once you get to know the monster, he wants to be loved, he wants to be understood, and he only gets mad or kills when he's poked. Next is effects. We gave him a four out of five for effects, because Jack Pierce basically created an icon. Classic. Yeah, and poor Boris Karloff paid for that for the rest of his life. How murderous or menacing is Frankenstein's monster? We gave him a two for this because we had already sort of touched on it, but he doesn't set out to kill. He just kind of wanders the countryside looking for love, he just wants exception. He's really not that bad of a guy, so he gets two. What's really his legacy? Well, like Dracula, the legacy of the Boris Karloff Frankenstein will have to be a five, because he is the iconic Frankenstein. If you think of Frankenstein, you think of that Frankenstein. And only that Frankenstein, all the others are just coffee house crap. Out of 20? Frankenstein gets a 13 out of 20. The mummy. Again, Boris Karloff is the mummy. Scaryness. How scary is the mummy? Give him a three, scarier than both Frankenstein and Dracula. It's this kind of dead thing after you zombie type thing who's kind of got no mind and just wants to wreak havoc. The effects. We gave the mummy a three. When we were talking about this, all I could think about was the bandages, which if that was the case, well, maybe a one or a two. But we forgot his face and it's actually really very cool. It looks like something that's been withered up and dried out over years. It's a great effect and it's a scary effect. Exactly. And how murderous and menacing is the mummy? Well, we gave the mummy a three. This mindless thing, right? This creature or whatever that's kind of roaming around. Yeah, there's no reasoning behind. You can't reason with this or you talk him down or anything, right? The legacy. The mummy's legacy is not nearly as much as Frankenstein or Dracula. We gave him a two. And the only reason he got a two and not a one is because he got some sequels. You know, there was the Brennan Frasier mummy movies. The Tom Cruise one. Which leaves the mummy with a score of 11 out of 20. Who's tied with Dracula and Frankenstein's in the lead. The Invisible Man. Yeah. Where Justin wrote on the board, Invisible Wang. I'm glad you noticed that. So how scary is the Invisible Man? Well, we gave him a three. Not scary, looking because you can't see him. But the fact that you can't see him is scary. That's the scary part. That's the scary part. And then we also took an account how he looks in the bandages and the goggles. That's kind of a scary sight. Next is the effects. Even though you can't see him, we gave him a five. Because it is the most cutting edge stuff you'll see ever in a movie for this time period. Yeah. Unraveling the bandages and the mirror and nothing there. That's awesome. For its time, it's completely mind-blasting. So how murderous or menacing is the Invisible Man? For this one, we gave him a five again because he's setting out to rule the world. And really that's about as far as you can go. Yeah. And he's killing people in mass quantities. He derails a whole train. And he has a master plan. Sadly, for legacy, Invisible Man only gets a one because nobody really ever talks about the Invisible Man in the same breath as they do Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy, Wolfman or a creature from the Black Lagoon. So that leaves him with a score of? 14 out of 20. So Invisible Man's in the lead. So that leads us to the next one, the Wolfman. Played by Lon Cheney Jr. Yeah. Soon the moon will be full again. And I'll become a wolf again. Don't you understand? That's a good one. So for the Wolfman played by Lon Cheney Jr., at a scariness we give the Wolfman a four because a wolf coming after you is frightening. Yeah. He's pretty scary. And he's strong. Yeah. And fast. Yeah. And he kills anything. And you'll tear your complete ribbons. The effects. Gave the Wolfman a three out of five for effects. Very, very good. And comparing him to Frankenstein and creature from the Black Lagoon, which we haven't mentioned yet, he kind of falls just below those. Face is great, but the rest isn't. Yeah. Yeah. How murderous and menacing is he? How menacing is he, Jonathan? Menacing? Yeah. And he's quite murderous and menacing, actually. He menaces the whole town. Yeah. And he kills whatever. For that, he gets a four. The legacy. What is the legacy of the Wolfman? He gave the Wolfman a three. Not quite as famous as Frankenstein and Dracula. Still very well known. You know what, if you say Wolfman, you know what the Wolfman is. Yeah. You kind of picture even still to a little bit the Lon Cheney Jr. and he had a lot of sequels, which leaves the Wolfman at the score of 14 out of 20. So he's tied with the invisible man. Last on our list is the creature from the Black Lagoon. So how scary is the creature from the Black Lagoon? Pretty fucking scary. We gave him a four out of five. Water creatures are scary, you know? A known world down there. Exactly. Yeah. You don't know what's down there. It's like manned creature thing coming from there. It's like, holy shit. Effects? We had to give a creature from the Black Lagoon four from head to toe. It's effective. It looks great. And then you add the fact that they had to shoot that underwater. And the guy had like a little tank built into the back with the little Fingo super cutting edge. Yeah. And very effective too. Yeah. How murderous and menacing is the creature from the Black Lagoon? Well, we gave him a four just like the Wolfman because he's the same as the Wolfman. He just has no concept of right or wrong. Yeah. He's just out to defend his territory. Right. But then, like you're saying in the sequels, right? He goes into the city, you know, and wreaks havoc on not just the lagoon, but wherever he is. He kills and manes and whatever is in his way, you know? Yeah. So the legacy for the creature from the Black Lagoon. We had to give him a tube. It did spawn sequels. Yeah. They're unknown. And then it's sort of tapered off and ended there. The creature really never has come back. The episode of the X-Files with that sewer creature, that's probably the closest thing to the creature from the Black Lagoon kind of coming back in the modern times. And that is terrifying. That gave me fucking nightmares. Or he pukes out that worm in the tub. The fluke monster, that's what he is. Which leaves a creature from the Black Lagoon at? 14 out of 20. So we have a three-way tie. So how are we going to break this tie? And we thought, well, what happens if you put these three guys in a Mortal Kombat style pit fight? Who's going to come out on top? As long as the Wolfman could catch the Invisible Man, then he'd win. Yeah. The Invisible Man is smarter. The Wolfman is quicker. And eventually he'll get the Invisible Man, you can just do this, and eventually he'll kill him. Yeah, exactly. Well, as long as you can find him somehow. The Wolfman as a Wolf, he'd probably have better hearing. So scent? Yeah, better scent, yeah. So it's like the Invisible Man would have to just stay, just still. And then eventually you'd have to take a big shit, turn to the shit his drawers and Wolfman will smell that out. Preacher from the Black Lagoon, I think is just as strong as the Wolfman, but he's too slow. Yeah, Wolfman's got him on that. So yeah, I think the Wolfman tops the list. Yeah. If you're to put them all in a fight, he'd probably win. Yeah, yeah. Because Dracula wouldn't be able to do anything. He'd just run away. Yeah, he'd just turn to the bat and take off. Yeah, exactly. And then he'd come back and just the Wolfman all grabs the bat. Yeah, like at the end of Apocastello, Frankenstein just grabbed the bat and fall off that ledge or whatever. Yeah, grabs the bat, grabs the bat and just pulls the wings off and then eats it. That'd be the end of Dracula. Yeah, it's funny actually, like when you think about it, like this big legacy of Dracula just ends up in Wolfman's gut. And the bat, him turning into a bat, is fucking useless. Yeah. What the hell, good as a bat, he doesn't do anything. So there's our universal monster face off and Wolfman comes up on top. Wolfman does have nards. I'm sure some of you may have various different opinions, so let us know what you guys think, who would come up on top in your list of universal monsters. Yeah, it'd be interesting to see what everybody chooses out of those categories. Just to see what the reasoning is behind them maybe. Until next time and until Halloween. Keep drinking.