In the dead of night, Donovan drives with his girlfriend, Lucy and several friends to a secret rendezvous in the woods. They believe they are meeting a "healer" who can cure Lucy's cancer, but they grow suspicious when a booby-trap in the road forces them to stop short of their destination. when the driver gets out to investigate he is brutally killed and dragged from the car. Terrified, the remaining friends run for their lives to a deserted cabin, dodging the paramilitary commandos that hunt them as well as the deadly creatures that slaughtered their friends. As the friends die, one by one, they realize too late that Donovan has set them up as bait in exchange for a magic elixir he believes will heal Lucy, but even Donovan is not prepared to pay the price for Lucy's cure. Starring Liam McMahon, Anna Moore, and Elizabeth Anweis. Made in Hollywood this film has its moments!
Several murders have been committed in a London park and the victims have been savagely clawed about the throat. The police believe that a woman is a killer, and perhaps she is a (she) werewolf. Heiress Phyllis Allenby, fears she is the criminal, based on the family legend of the "Allenby Curse" which was the belief that members of the family at times assumed the form of a wolf. Her aunt's constant reminders to her of the "Allenby Curse" only serves to keep her niece's fears alive. Starring June Lockhart, Don Porter, and Sara Haden. Yes, that is June Lockhart from Lost In Space. Is she a werewolf?
Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with village girl Jenny Williams, who is attacked by Bela, a gypsy who has turned into a werewolf. Larry kills the werewolf but is bitten during the fight. Bela's mother tells him that this will cause him to become a werewolf at each full moon. Larry confesses his plight to his unbelieving father, Sir John, who then joins the villagers in a hunt for the wolf. Transformed by the full moon, Larry heads for the forest and a fateful meeting with both Sir John and Gwen Conliffe. Starring Claude Rains, Warren William, and Lon Chaney Jr. The classic werewolf movie, but where are the skinwalker movies? Coming Soon!
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 last of the Invisible Man movies where Mad Scientists rule supreme.
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. Starring Robert Lowell, Mary Beth Hughes, and John Miljan. Yep, one of those kids gone bad movies from the 1940s. I guess things were pretty screwed up back then, not like now.
Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a tribe of South American Jivaro Indians is still in effect and that he himself is the probable next victim. That night he is awakened by the approach of an Indian, his lips sewed together with string, and wielding a curare-tipped bamboo knife. Starring Edward Franz, Valerie French, and Grant Richards. One of the few movies about shrunken heads and headhunters. Better get rid of that shrunken head in your collection! “Your money not refunded if you faint!” said the original poster.
A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call, the train pulls away without him on it, and that's the last his wife sees of him. Years later after a long search she finally tracks him down on his family's southern estate where she discovers that a failed medical treatment has turned him into an alligator mutant. Starring Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, and Lon Chaney Jr. Terror on the Bayou! This is one medical center to totally avoid!
After being falsely accused of being insane and put in a asylum so his wicked aunt and her daughters could steal his money, a recently released young man returns to seek the ultimate revenge against them. Starring Renaud Verley, Viveca Lindfors, and Alfredo Mayo. A Spanish horror film with some good moments. Director Claudio GuerĂn fell from the tower housing the title bell on the last day of shooting and was killed. The film was then completed by Juan Antonio Bardem. This is the sort of a horror film fulfilling its own prophecy. A curiosity for horror film fans.
Wilford Butler returns home on Christmas Eve and his house had been turned into a mental institution for the criminally insane. But the day of his return, he is set on fire and dies. The locals believe his death was an accident, and the institution-house is later closed down. Wilford leaves the house to his grandson Jeffrey. A few years later, Jeffrey finally decides to sell this grandfather's house, but the towns people including the Mayor have mixed feelings on keeping people away from the house, especially when a serial killer escapes from another institution and finds refuge there. The killer makes frightening phone calls and kills anyone coming near the house. But what does the killer have in common with what happened to Wilford Butler years before? Staring Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, and John Carradine. One of the early crazy axe-killer movies. Wait till Halloween comes around! This movie was rated R when it came out, not for sexual content but for the gore. Today it is PG.
Nurse Charlotte Beale arrives at the isolated Stephens Sanitarium to work, only to learn that Dr. Stephens was murdered by one of the patients and his successor, Dr. Geraldine Masters, is not very eager to take on new staff. Charlotte finds her job maddeningly hard as the patients torment and harass her at every turn, and she soon learns why Dr. Masters is so eager to keep outsiders out. Starring Bill McGhee, Jessie Lee Fulton, and Robert Dracup. The perfect retro-drive-in feature! Careful with that axe Eugene! Before the Texas Chainsaw Massacre there was Don’t Look in the Basement!
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 Barrymore is not in this movie.
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.
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, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her aunt's suspicions merely a red herring? Starring Jack Palance, Constance Smith, and Byron Palmer.
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 unfortunate man and injects him with a serum that gradually transforms him into a hideous, two-headed monster. Starring Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, and Tetsu Nakamura. That weird eye on the shoulder is pretty creepy!
London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing wife is also French, and she finds that her brother has been arrested by the Republic to try and get her to find out who "that damned elusive Pimpernel" really is. Starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey.
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 unexplained ability to turn into a hideous monster helps with this problem but does nothing to win her love. The doctor's woes multiply as the police and the girl's boyfriend begin to close in on him. Starring Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret, and Sergio Fantoni. An Italian mad scientist movie with a poor title translation, because there are no vampires in this movie—just mad scientists!
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 Poten, and Herman Brix. This was originally a serial and then was made into a movie. Interesting pre-WWII stuff here.
