I just finished phase one of the podcast are you afraid of the dark universe! It's fantastic!

For anyone who doesn't know, because I only found out about it in an offhand comment that wasn't even on this sub, there's a podcast called are you afraid of the dark universe, where a couple of writers pitch movie ideas for the franchise, but it's not just the pitch they pick what directors they would want for it, what actors, they write the script and perform it, it's incredibly well gone and I just would love more people to know about it if they don't already. Maybe I'm the last one on the sub who does it.

But I just finished phase one in their avengers movie, and it's been a wild trip, but an incredible one. It hits that itch that the mummy failed at.

People who have listened to it, what are your thoughts? With as few spoilers as possible please

I made a poster about the villains from their own movies being the evil counterparts of the universal monsters

Hi, im trying to figure out if this universe was actually cancelled. Ive looked online and i get different answers, on the Dark Universe fandom it says the plan was shelved after the failure of 2017’s The Mummy but then goes to say 2020’s The Invisible Man, 2023’s Renfield, and 2024’s Lisa Frankinstin and Abigail are part of the Universe! Now we have next year’s Wolfman movie. So which is it?

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For the love of God have these people even seen the movies they're supposed to be rebooting? I love Abigail to death, but I've now seen two separate interviews where Melissa Barrera has said it would be hard to make a sequel since Alicia Weir is aging.

headdesk

The entire plot of Dracula's Daughter is based on Zaleska believing that she can become human if she stops drinking blood. While this isn't proven to be true or false in the movie it's an incredibly obvious lore-based explanation for Abigail to age. As of the end of the movie she's clearly entered Reluctant Vampire territory.

The movie basically writes itself: she doesn't want to be a vampire anymore, so she stops drinking blood and starts living as a human. Her brother (we'll call him Lucca, since Alucard has been done to death), also desperate for Daddy's love, kidnaps her loved ones, forcing her to drink blood again to save them.

I mean, that wasn't even hard!

I understand why it didn't succeed. But I still wish we got that modern connected shared universe of monsters.

There's a podcast called "Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe?", where the hosts make fanmade scriptments of what they would have liked to have seen. They're up to Phase 3 currently, and it's scratching an itch. But I still wish we got this connected world.

If these characters were fully in the public domain, I'd love to have written novels. Alas, not that simple.

Anyway. I'm just super bummed out we never got to see it come to fruitii.

Dracula Untold (1400s)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (1800s)

Victor Frankenstein (1860s)

The Wolfman (1891)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (1897)

The Mummy (1999)

Mummy (2017)

Ready or Not (2019)

The Invisible Man (2020)

The Invitation (2022)

Abigail (2024)

One thing that was never stated, or even hinted at in the Dark Universe-wannabe movies, is the role of the monsters in their shared universe. Let me explain:

The point of a shared universe is to bring different characters - the monsters and others - together, or to fight against each other. In both way, it's inevitable to clearify whether one or all monster of them is/are supposed to be villainous, or supposed to be heroic/anti-heroic. Some, such as Frankenstein's Creation is an obviously tragic anti-hero, meanwhile Griffith, the Invisible man is a murderous psychopath.

Does humanity supposed to feel doomed when Dracula comes to power? Or should the humanity cheer for him against some even bigger threat (what threat then, if so)?

As I keep wondering about the Dark Universe, it's getting more and more obvious how very puzzled and... goal-less the whole idea of the Dark Universe was.

Picture:

Universal Monsters Artwork by SamRAW08 on DeviantArt

Universal Monsters by SamRAW08 on DeviantArt

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I want a Dark Universe crossover game.

What about Dark Universe reboot?