Mad Scientist movies

Werewolf of London (1935)

Werewolf of London (1935)

While on a botanical expedition in Tibet Dr. Wilfred Glendon is attacked in the dark by a strange animal. Returning to London, he finds himself turning nightly into a werewolf and terrorizing the city, with the only hope for curing his affliction a rare Asian flower,...

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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate, they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight...

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The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)

The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)

An eager scientist tests his new formula for invisibility on an escaped fugitive. When the formula works the criminal runs off to terrorize a family he believes cheated him out of a fortune years earlier. Starring Jon hall, Evelyn Ankers, and Alan Curtis. This is the...

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The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

ramed for the murder of his brother, Geoffrey Radcliffe is scheduled to hang. After a visit from his friend Dr. Frank Griffin, he vanishes mysteriously from prison. Police inspector Sampson realizes that Griffin is the brother of the original Invisible Man and has...

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Manos-Hands of Fate (1966)

Manos-Hands of Fate (1966)

A family is driving across the country when they stumble across a mysterious house inhabited by the satyr-man Torgo. When the family decides to stay over at the house, mother Margaret is now the object of desire for Torgo and the owner of the house, The Master: a...

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Creature of the Walking Dead (1965)

Creature of the Walking Dead (1965)

A mad scientist, who discovered the secret of eternal youth by draining of blood from a young woman, gets executed. His ancestor moves into the home, eventually discovering the scientist's body. He revives him, and the terror continues. Starring Rock Madison, Ann...

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Flash Gordon and Akim the Terrible (1954)

Flash Gordon and Akim the Terrible (1954)

The Space Patrol sends Flash’s best friend to investigate a planet where it is reported that mercy is a crime and the weak are exploited. The agent is captured, brainwashed and sent back to murder Flash. Thanks to Dale's timely intervention, Flash survives the attack,...

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Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)

Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)

When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android....

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House of Black Death (1965)

House of Black Death (1965)

Two brothers, both of whom are warlocks, use their powers and covens of witches to battle over the family fortune. Starring Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, and Andrea King. Supposedly based on an actual novel, as the credits claim, it has to be filmdom's sorriest...

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Abraxas (1990)

Abraxas (1990)

An alien "policeman" arrives on Earth to apprehend a renegade of his own race who impregnates a woman with a potentially destructive mutant embryo. Starring Jesse Ventura, Sven-Ole Thorsen, and Damian Lee. Wrestler and former governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura stars...

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Lady Frankenstein (1971)

Lady Frankenstein (1971)

When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter, Tania Frankenstein and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in...

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Robot Vs the Aztec Mummy (1958)

Robot Vs the Aztec Mummy (1958)

The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl’s jewels, builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries-old living mummy. Starring Ramón Gay, Rosita Arenas, Crox Alvarado. One of...

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Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957)

Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957)

The evil Dr. Krupp, trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl’s jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels’ location—Xochitl’s tomb. Confusion reigns as Krupp and his thugs are opposed by Flor’s lover, Dr. Almada,...

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The Lucifer Complex (1978)

The Lucifer Complex (1978)

An intelligence officer working for the United Nations is sent to investigate events surrounding some of the world's leaders. He discovers a plot by former Nazi scientists who are intending replacing the leaders with brainwashed clones in order to return the Third...

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself. The first screen adaption of the Robert Louis Stevenson book. Starring John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, and Brandon Hurst. Drew...

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Torture Ship (1939)

Torture Ship (1939)

A mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship. This curious movie is taken from a story by Jack London “A Thousand Deaths.” George Wallace Sayre. Starring Lyle Talbot, Irving Pichel, and Julie Bishop....

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Man in the Attic (1953)

Man in the Attic (1953)

After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper. London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist,...

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The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the...

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The Manster (1959)

The Manster (1959)

An American reporter in Japan is sent to interview an eccentric Japanese scientist working on bizarre experiments in his mountain laboratory. When the doctor realizes that the hapless correspondent is the perfect subject for his next experiment, he drugs the...

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The Head (1959)

The Head (1959)

A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his...

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Maneater of Hydra (1967)

Maneater of Hydra (1967)

Also known as Island of the Doomed, this Spanish-German co-production about a group of tourists who travel to an island to see its exotic botanicals. There they meet Baron von Weser (played by Cameron Mitchell), a reclusive scientist studying rare horticulture and...

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Atomic Age Vampire (1960)

Atomic Age Vampire (1960)

A stripper is horribly disfigured in a car accident. A brilliant scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty and falls in love with her. To preserve her appearance the doctor must give her additional treatments using glands taken from murdered women. His...

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Shadow of Chinatown (1936)

Shadow of Chinatown (1936)

A consortium of American businesses are disturbed by the loss of profits due to Chinese businesses located in Chinatowns in the United States. They hire a pair of Eurasians and their criminal organization to eliminate their competition. Starring Bela Lugosi, Victor...

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The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)

The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)

A mad Russian doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death. A remake of an earlier silent serial. Starring Warner Oland, June Collyer, and Lloyd Hughes. The lights go out more than once. The phone is dead. A...

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Son of Ingagi (1940)

Son of Ingagi (1940)

A wealthy old recluse wills her fortune and exceedingly-gloomy house to a pair of newlyweds, Robert and Eleanor Lindsay. Years before, Dr. Jackson had been in love with Eleanor's father, who was younger than her and did not return her love. N'Gina, an ape-man, Dr....

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Terror Island (1920)

Terror Island (1920)

Houdini stars in this exciting silent movie! An inventor travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl. The girl's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns a pearl that belongs to one of their idols. Starring Harry...

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The Man From Beyond (1922)

The Man From Beyond (1922)

The body of a man, Howard Hillary, frozen for a hundred years, is found in the Arctic ice. Thawed out and awakened, Hillary insists that a young woman, Felice, is his fiancée from a century before. Hillary is interned in a mental institution but escapes and realizes...

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Frozen Alive (1966)

Frozen Alive (1966)

A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder. Starring Mark Stevens, Marianne Koch, and Wolfgang Lukschy. Maybe you want to be frozen alive or...

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Counterblast (1948)

Counterblast (1948)

The story is about a Nazi doctor and escaped prisoner-of-war who goes to London. There, via the Nazi underground, he poses as an Australian bacteriologist, whom he has killed and taken his place, assigned to do some medical research. His plot is, using British labs...

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Captain Z Ro and Tales of Tomorrow (1955)

Captain Z Ro and Tales of Tomorrow (1955)

From his secret laboratory, Captain Z-Ro and his associates use their time machine, the ZX-99, to learn from the past and plan for the future. Starring Roy Steffens, Bruce Haynes, and Jack Cahill. Plus: Tales of Tomorrow-Verdict From Space (1951) Gordon Kent is on...

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I Eat Your Skin (1965)

I Eat Your Skin (1965)

A playboy adventure novelist joins his publisher on an expedition to Voodoo Island in the Caribbean, where a cancer researcher is being forced to turn the tribes-people into zombies. The cancer researcher discovers that by treating the natives with snake venom he can...

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Dr. Tarr’s Torture Dungeon (1972)

Dr. Tarr’s Torture Dungeon (1972)

Based on an Edgar Allen Poe story, a mysterious man is sent deep into the forest to investigate the bizarre behavior of the notorious Dr. Tarr. What he stumbles upon is the doctor's torture dungeon, a hellish insane asylum completely cut off from civilization and...

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Death Warmed Up (1984)

Death Warmed Up (1984)

Ten years before, Michael was hypnotized by a very unstable doctor into killing his own parents. Then he is locked up in the mental institution for it. In the present (or the present time of the movie) Michael, his girlfriend Sandy, and their friends Lucas and Jeannie...

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Stryker (1983)

Stryker (1983)

The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs being guarded by a group of Amazons. A "Road Warrior" like crew captures her and tries to make her talk through brutal torture....

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The Revenge of Doctor X-1970

The Revenge of Doctor X-1970

A mad scientist tries to create a man-eating plant to prove that the origin of the human race comes from the sea. "The earth is your mother, lightning is you father, rain is your blood" says the madman who creates the thing as the Baron Frankenstein, with a Japanese...

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Nightmare in Wax (1969)

Nightmare in Wax (1969)

A former Hollywood make-up artist who now runs a wax museum after his face is disfigured by a movie mogul seeks revenge on all those he feels have wronged him. He becomes the curator of a wax museum and murders his enemies—turning their bodies as exhibits in his...

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Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

In a community near a swamp, a local dweller sees a couple of giant monsters but nobody believes him. Later, the cuckold Dave Walker finds his slut wife Liz Walker cheating on him with his friend Cal Moulton. He chases the couple through the swamp, and forces them to...

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Government Agents Vs Phantom Legion (1951)

Government Agents Vs Phantom Legion (1951)

Two federal agents battle a gang that hijacks trucks carrying materials vital for the security of the country and sells them to foreign powers. Starring Walter Reed, Mary Ellen Kay, and Dick Curtis. Great early '50s cars, and lots and lots of fistfights (usually on a...

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Track of the Moon Beast (1976)

Track of the Moon Beast (1976)

Professor “Johnny Longbow” Salina, a man who really knows his stews, introduces Paul Carlson to the practical-joking Kathy Nolan. Paul and Kathy seem to hit it off rather well but, during a meteor storm, a meteorite fragment strikes Paul, burying itself deep in his...

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The Bloody Brood (1959)

The Bloody Brood (1959)

Two beatniks get their kicks by dealing drugs and violence. Said the movie poster: Your shocked eyes will see it... your stunned mind won't believe it... Never before... has vice and violence struck with such frightening force! An early movie for Peter Falk. At one...

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Atomic Rulers of the World (1965)

Atomic Rulers of the World (1965)

Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil! Starring Ken Utsui, Sachihiro Ohsawa, and Junko Ikeuchi. This movie is basically two Japanese movies with their popular Starman...

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Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952)

Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952)

Security agent Larry Martin, who can fly with an experimental rocket suit, investigates clandestine visits to earth by a Martian spaceship. Meanwhile, villainous Martians conspire with a traitorous atomic scientist to blast earth out of its orbit and replace it with...

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Jungle Jim – Savage Mutiny (1953)

Jungle Jim – Savage Mutiny (1953)

Jungle Jim is assigned to relocate some natives on an island off the coast of Africa so the Americans can stage a nuclear test there. Problem is, some of them refuse to leave and there are also enemy agents interfering. After overcoming these problems, the test goes...

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King of the Rocket Men (1949)

King of the Rocket Men (1949)

An evil genius of unknown identity, calling himself “Dr. Vulcan” plots to conquer the world. He needs to first eliminate, one by one, the members of the Science Associates, an organization of America's greatest scientists. Using the flying jacket and helmet and other...

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The Killer Shrews (1959)

The Killer Shrews (1959)

A disparate group are trapped on a remote island by a hurricane. On the island, a doctor works to make humans twice as small as we already are. This, apparently, will help prevent over population. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created some giant shrews. As...

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Clutch Cargo – Pirate Isle (1959)

Clutch Cargo – Pirate Isle (1959)

In this first of three episodes, Clutch gets a mysterious telegram telling him to go to the Galapagos Islands. Next the gang is off another adventure called The Dragon Fly. One of Clutch's old friends is being tormented by a giant dragonfly, or so he thinks. In the...

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Gang Busters (1942)

Gang Busters (1942)

Detective Lt. Bill Bannister has the assignment to run down an unknown gang of terrorists spreading a net of crime over the city. Aiding him is Detective Tim Nolan, news photographer Vicki Logan and reporter Happy Haskins. Bill finds that the gang's leader is a...

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Mr Wong in Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Mr Wong in Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Mr. Wong in Phantom of Chinatown-1940. In the last of the Mr. Wong movies, Boris Karloff is replaced by Keye Luke as his nephew Jimmy Wong. In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton the famous explorer,...

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Mr Wong in Chinatown (1939)

Mr Wong in Chinatown (1939)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca8O8LktYiQ A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa,...

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Mr Wong in Doomed to Die (1940)

Mr Wong in Doomed to Die (1940)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wez8SM6WB7c Mr. Wong is Doomed to Die-1940. Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office… at the...

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The Mystery of Mr Wong (1938)

The Mystery of Mr Wong (1938)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTQOL5eGjp4 The Mystery of Mr. Wong-1939. San Francisco detective James Lee Wong tries to solve the murder of antiques collector who was in possession of a famous jewel known as "The Eye of the Daughter of The Moon." Starring Boris...

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Flash Gordon and the Planet of Death (1954)

Flash Gordon and the Planet of Death (1954)

This television movie is the combination of a number of Flash Gordon TV shows, made in West Germany, from the early 1950s. Diverging from the storyline of the comics, the series has Flash, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov in the year 3203. As agents of the Galactic Bureau of...

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War of the Robots (1978)

War of the Robots (1978)

An alien civilization, which is facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims. Starship troopers look out! Starring Antonio Sabato, Yanti Somer, and...

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The Alpha Incident (1977)

The Alpha Incident (1977)

A contained deadly organism from Mars is being transported via train. Once released, a group of people will have to survive The Alpha Incident. The film starts by revealing that a microorganism from Mars has been brought to Earth and is being delivered by a train. One...

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The Evil Mind (1935)

The Evil Mind (1935)

Also known as The Clairvoyant and taken from a book by that name and made in England. Claude Raines is Maximus, a small-time music hall mind reader and a fake psychic, suddenly has frightening flashes of precognition; but he cannot predict or control them …until he...

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Horror Express (1972)

Horror Express (1972)

In 1905, an English anthropologist has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He brings the creature back to Europe aboard a trans-Siberian express, but during the trip the monster thaws out and starts...

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Dracula vs Frankenstein (1970)

Dracula vs Frankenstein (1970)

Also known as Assignment Terror. Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer Earth by preying on man's superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various monsters, including the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky,...

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Embryo (1976)

Embryo (1976)

A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days. However, the "adult" fetus turns into a homicidal psycho and looks for a new formula to prevent her from aging further. Starring Rock...

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Laser Mission (1989)

Laser Mission (1989)

Mercenary Gold is sent from the CIA to seize the laser expert Braun in Cuba, before the KGB catches him. A recently stolen giant diamond could be used together with Braun's knowledge to construct a laser cannon which could bring power over the whole world. Who will...

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Batman and Robin (1949)

Batman and Robin (1949)

Antisocial Professor Hammil's Remote Control device, which enables the user to take over any motor vehicle within 50 miles, is stolen by The Wizard, black-hooded mastermind, and his gang. Batman and Robin must prevent the Wizard from obtaining diamonds, needed as fuel...

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Twisters Revenge (1987)

Twisters Revenge (1987)

Three bumbling criminals have been trying to get their hands on the computerized control system of Mr. Twister, a talking monster truck with a mind of its own. This is one of those made-in-Wisconsin movies about heavy machinery (maybe the only one). Yep, before heavy...

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The Return of Dr Mabuse (1961)

The Return of Dr Mabuse (1961)

German Commissioner Lohmann is planning his holidays when an unexpected phone call calls him back to work. A member of Interpol has been murdered. The head of an organization wants to come into contact with the gangster organization of Chicago. But who is this?...

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Unknown World (1951)

Unknown World (1951)

Dr. Jeremiah Morley becomes convinced that the world is headed to an inevitable worldwide nuclear war. He organizes an expedition made up of a team of expert scientists and an atomic-powered rock-boring vehicle called a "cyclotram" to find a subterranean environment...

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The Devils Hand (1962)

The Devils Hand (1962)

Rick Turner is engaged of Donna Trent and is having nightmares with a beautiful blonde woman dancing in the sky. One night, he is mysteriously driven to a doll shop, and in the next morning he returns to the place with Donna. He finds a doll that resembles his fiancé,...

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Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)

Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)

Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of towns folk in a...

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The Ape (1940)

The Ape (1940)

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing towns people....

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The Ape Man (1943)

The Ape Man (1943)

Conducting weird scientific experiments, mad scientist Dr. James Brewster, aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human...

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The Master Key (1945)

The Master Key (1945)

The Master Key-1945-Part 1. Set in 1938 with Nazi agents kidnapping scientist Professor Ellwood Henderson in order to get his Orotron machine that can extract gold from seawater. Operating under the secret leadership of “The Master Key,” with the operatives headed by...

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The Bat (1959)

The Bat (1959)

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has...

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Mandrake the Magician (1939)

Mandrake the Magician (1939)

Crafty underworld leader “The Wasp” will stop at nothing to steal Professor Houston's radium-energy machine. The Wasp wreaks havoc on a radio station, a dam, and a power plant in his attempts to get the invention, but luckily master Magician Mandrake is there every...

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The Fighting Devil Dogs (1945)

The Fighting Devil Dogs (1945)

In Singapore, two Marine Lieutenants, Tom Grayson and Frank Corby, uncover the threat of a masked terrorist called The Lightning, who uses an arsenal of powerful lightning-based weaponry in his bid for world conquest. These electrical fireballs are similar to the Foo...

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Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951)

Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951)

Set in Earth's distant future, this serial tracks the adventures of a group of fighters for truth and justice, known as The Video Rangers. They are led by Captain Video (no first name ever was mentioned). The Video Rangers operated from a secret base on a mountaintop...

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Secret Agent X9 (1945)

Secret Agent X9 (1945)

On a neutral island in the Pacific called Shadow Island run by American gangster Lucky Kamber, both sides in World War II attempt to control the secret of Element 722, which can be used to create synthetic aviation fuel. The U.S. sends in Secret Agent X-9 to foil the...

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Manhunt on Mystery Island (1945) trailer

Manhunt on Mystery Island (1945) trailer

A breakthrough scientific device will revolutionize the world's energy usage if the kidnapped creator can be found. To rescue her father, Claire Forrest enlists the help of private detective, Lance Reardon. Clues lead them to a remote Pacific isle known only as...

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Scapolamine Shock (1946)

Scapolamine Shock (1946)

Starring Vincent Price and Lynn Bari. This is the first movie to show the effects of the powerful mind-control drug scopolamine. Scopolamine was used in Nazi Germany as an interrogation tool and is widely used by intelligence agencies around the world. Lynn Bari is an...

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The Phantom (1943)

The Phantom (1943)

The Phantom is a 1943 Columbia Pictures 15 chapter black-and-white cliffhanger superhero serial, produced by Rudolph C. Flothow, directed B. Reeves Eason, and starring Tom Tyler in the title role. It is based on Lee Falk's comic strip The Phantom, first syndicated to...

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The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1941)

The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1941)

A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide. Wealthy publisher Britt Reid and his trusted Korean valet and sidekick disguise themselves as the crime fighting vigilantes, The Green Hornet...

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Jack Armstrong: The All American Boy (1947)

Jack Armstrong: The All American Boy (1947)

John Hart stars as Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, who battles the evil Dr. Grood, who has placed a death ray aboard his spaceship orbiting Earth. In this exciting serial, Jack Armstrong and his friends attempt to rescue a renowned scientist, the inventor of a...

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Captain Midnight (1942)

Captain Midnight (1942)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5w8EJv_o_E Secret Service Major Steel (Joseph W. Girard), is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright (Dave O'Brien) is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and...

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Red Barry (1938)

Red Barry (1938)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhej-aAwiT0 Starring Buster Crabbe, as a famous detective who sets out to discover who stole $2 million in bonds. The plot soon evolves into a game of “Bonds, Bonds, Who Has the Bonds?,” it has so many groups, and their armies of...

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and...

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Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the...

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Queen of the Jungle (1935)

Queen of the Jungle (1935)

Young David Worth and Joan Lawrence are children with a group of explorers that are seeking African radium deposits. They are playing in the basket of the party’s air balloon when the bag takes off with Joan aboard, last seen sailing over the back-lot jungle. A flash...

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Mesa of the Lost Women (1953)

Mesa of the Lost Women (1953)

Mesa of Lost Women-1953. A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom. Starring Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, and...

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Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory (1962)

Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory (1962)

The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott, with a mysterious past, arrives in an institutional boarding school for female troublemakers. That night intern Mary Smith, who is blackmailing another teacher —Sir Alfred Whiteman—with some love letters, is slaughtered. The...

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Spy Smasher Returns (1966)

Spy Smasher Returns (1966)

Kane Richmond plays Alan Armstrong—a masked super-hero. He just happens to have an identical twin brother, Jack, who THINKS Alan was killed in a plane crash. However, it turns out the crash was staged--in order to allow Spy Smasher to work undercover to destroy the...

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Killers From Space (1954)

Killers From Space (1954)

Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given a truth serum, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by...

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Invisible Ghost (1941)

Invisible Ghost (1941)

Charles Kessler (Bela Lugosi) is plagued by homicidal urges. His wife (Betty Compson), who had left him for another man, gets into a car accident that leaves her brain damaged and is kept in a cellar in secret, by Kessler's gardener. When an innocent man is executed...

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The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

On the day of Alice Wentworth's wedding, mad scientist Dr. Lorenz sends the young bride an unusual orchid, the scent of which places the young woman in a state of suspended animation resembling death. He then spirits her body away to the basement laboratory of his...

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The Devil Bat (1941)

The Devil Bat (1941)

Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the...

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Bowery At Midnight Bela Lugosi (1942)

Bowery At Midnight Bela Lugosi (1942)

Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Karl Wagner uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things get out of hand, Wagner kills his henchmen, who wind up as zombies in the cellar...

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Bela Lugosi Meets The Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)

Bela Lugosi Meets The Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)

Entertainers Mitchell and Petrillo (Martin & Lewis clones) parachute into the jungles of the Pacific island of Cola-Cola, where they meet primitive tribesmen, the chief's sarong-clad daughter Nona, and a mad scientist named Dr. Zabor who is conducting experiments...

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The Mad Monster (1942)

The Mad Monster (1942)

The mad scientist Dr. Cameron has succeeded in his experiments with a serum that will turn a man into a wolf-like monster, and is ready to avenge himself on the men who caused his professional failure. He uses it on his gardener Petro and one after the other is killed...

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The Legend of Bigfoot (1976)

The Legend of Bigfoot (1976)

Animal tracker Ivan Marx opens by mentioning the film is the culmination of 10 years of research. He says that the Eskimos called the creature "bushman," the Colville Indians "Sasquatch," and the Hoopa "Om-mah," but is most commonly known as Bigfoot. A notorious movie...

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Mad Scientist Presents – The Phantom Creeps (1939)

Mad Scientist Presents – The Phantom Creeps (1939)

A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a mad scientist (Bela Lugosi) whose inventions can destroy the world. First use of a crazed robot used in the movies. Yow! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yxijqD8K4M

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Black Dragons (1942)

Black Dragons (1942)

During World War II a secret society of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb (Bela Lugosi). It is only until detective Dick Martin is assigned to the case that...

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Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1937)

Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1937)

Agent Mala, an intelligence operative, investigates sabotage on remote Clipper Island in the South Pacific. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which Mala is blamed. He convinces the native Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a...

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Undersea Kingdom (1936)

Undersea Kingdom (1936)

THE UNDERSEA KINGDOM: THE MOVIE. This great 1936 serial, now an edited and digitally enhanced movie, is the story of Ray “Crash” Corrigan, Athlete and Navy Lieutenant, who joins Professor Norton in a Rocket Submarine to inspect an enigmatic location beneath the...

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The Shadow vs International Crime (1937)

The Shadow vs International Crime (1937)

The Shadow vs International Crime (1937) stars Rod LaRoque as The Shadow., a man with mysterious powers that he acquired in Tibet. In the radio drama, which debuted in 1937, The Shadow was an invisible avenger who had learned, while "traveling through the Orient,"...

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The Shadow Strikes (1937)

The Shadow Strikes (1937)

The Shadow Strikes (1937) stars Rod LaRoque as The Shadow., a man with mysterious powers that he acquired in Tibet. In the radio drama, which debuted in 1937, The Shadow was an invisible avenger who had learned, while "traveling through the Orient," "the mysterious...

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