Universal Studios Home Video Classic Monsters Collection Trailer (1999)

This was an advertising campaign for Universal Studios Home Video, Classic Monster Collection. The Universal Classic Monsters is a film franchise, that includes fictional monsters that feature in various horror, suspense and science fiction movies made by Universal Studios and released from the '20s to the '50s. The studio began their long run of horror films with, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera; both of which are silent films starring Lon Chaney. Universal's success in the horror genre continues with films including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man and Creature from the Black Lagoon. The films often starred Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Lon Chaney Jr. with additional films featuring a combination of the characters. Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers. Glass describes himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures", which he has helped evolve stylistically. Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, with which he still performs on keyboards. He has written numerous operas and musical theatre works, twelve symphonies, eleven concertos, eight-string quartets and various other chamber music, and film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards. The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. They have been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for over forty years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classical music. More than 900 works have been written for them. Keywords Dracula, Frankenstein, Edgar Allan Poe, Mummy, Invisible Man, Werewolf, Wolf Man, Paula Dupree the Ape Woman, Gorilla Girl, Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Creeper, Abbott & Costello, Gill-Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Man Who Laughs, The Last Warning, The Last Performance, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Jack Pierce, Wallace Worsley, Rupert Julian, Paul Leni, Paul Fejos, Son of Frankenstein, Tower of London, Dracula's Daughter, The Cat Creeps, La Voluntad del muerto, The Secret of the Blue Room, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Night Key, The Phantom Creeps, Black Friday, Man-Made Monster, Horror Island, The Mad Doctor of Market Street, Night Monster, The Mad Ghoul MUSIC "New Beginnings" Francis Monkman Virtual Classics ℗ 1993 MUSIC HOUSE (INTERNATIONAL) LTD "Adrenaline" Universal Production Music ℗ 1996 FirstCom Music Composer, Writer: Bruce Chianese Composer, Writer: Geoff Levin "Double Threat" - High Tension (FC-D16) Universal Production Music ℗ 1996 FirstCom Music Composer, Writer: Bruce Chianese Composer, Writer: Geoff Levin ©1999 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. (https://www.universalstudios.com/) Posted for entertainment and educational purposes only. No copyrights were infringed. All works are the property of the company listed above. Please do not reproduce without their expressed written consent. #UniversalPictures #UniversalClassicMonsters #UniversalStudiosMonsters #UniversalStudios #UniversalCityStudios #Dracula #Frankenstein #PhantomOfTheOpera #Mummy #InvisibleMan #WolfMan #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon #UniversalMonsters #TVSpot #CowMissing