Let's Thank Universal Pictures for Monster Movies!
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Let's Thank Universal Pictures for Monster Movies!

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 202643 min
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Basically everything you think of when you think of vampires, mummies, werewolves, and Frankenstein all come from a spate of films made in the 1930s, and every one of them by Universal Pictures. Amazingly, they are still among the best films ever made. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Roland is here with us too. And this is Stuff You Should Know, kicking off the great month of October. That's right. one of our favorite months.

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I just watched Backrooms last night. Didn't you tell me to see that? Yeah, what did you think? You know, I thought it was kind of cool

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