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Director: Nick Grinde    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett, Edward Van Sloan, Ben Taggart, Pedro de Cordoba, Don Beddoe, Kenneth MacDonald, Frank Richards

 Doctor John Garth (Boris Karloff) receives a blood transfusion and then finds that he is taking on the emotional characteristics of the donor.

Director: Arthur Lubin    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne, Virginia Brissac, Edmund MacDonald, Paul Fix, Joe King, Jack Mulhall

 Doctor Ernest Sovac (Boris Karloff) transplants the brain of a criminal into his friend who, in turn, takes on a new personality.

Director: Walter Summers    More Info
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Edmon Ryan, Wilfred Walter, Alexander Field, Arthur E. Owen, Julie Suedo, Gerald Pring, Bryan Herbert

 Dr. Orloff (Bela Lugosi) runs an institution for the blind. But his real business is selling insurance policies to his patients and then having his disfigured and blind assistant (Wilfred Walter) murder them for the insurance money. As more and more bodies are pulled out of the Thames River, Scotland Yard investigates.

Director: Jean Yarbrough    More Info
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien, Guy Usher, Yolande Donlan, Donald Kerr, Edmund Mortimer, Gene O'Donnell, Alan Baldwin, John Ellis

 Deranged scientist Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) sets out to destroy the cosmetics firm where he is employed. (They don't pay him enough!) His "bats" kill people who wear a certain cologne. There is a sequel: "Devil Bat's Daughter."

Director: William Nigh    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds, Melvin Lang, Guy Usher, Tristram Coffin, William Stelling, Catherine Craig, Henry Brandon, Richard Loo

 With help from reporter Bobby Logan (Marjorie Reynolds), ace detective Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff) investigates the murder of a shipping magnate and finds more than just murder. Fifth in the Mr. Wong series and the last one starring Karloff. One more would follow: "Phantom of Chinatown."

Director: Norman Lee    More Info
Starring: Leslie Banks, Lilli Palmer, Romilly Lunge, Gina Malo, David Horne, Richard Bird, Cathleen Nesbitt, J.H. Roberts, Aubrey Mallalieu, Harry Hutchinson

 Mad Dr. Manetta (Leslie Banks) lures heirs to a fortune into his mansion and eliminates them through torture. But the latest heir, Judy (Lilli Palmer), might be a little harder to eliminate, and the doctor's days may be numbered.

Director: Christy Cabanne    More Info
Starring: Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford, Eduardo Ciannelli, George Zucco, Cecil Kellaway, Charles Trowbridge, Tom Tyler, Sig Arno, Leon Belasco

 Unemployed archeologists Steve (Dick Foran) and Babe (Wallace Ford) receive funding from a magician, The Great Solvani (Cecil Kellaway), and his daughter Marta (Peggy Moran). Steve and Babe join forces in Egypt and find themselves living with the Mummy (Tom Tyler) and threatened by a high priest (George Zucco) in this good comedic horror film. Humor helps relieve the tension.

Director: Richard C. Kahn    More Info
Starring: Zack Williams, Laura Bowman, Alfred Grant, Daisy Bufford, Spencer Williams, Arthur Ray, Earle Morris, Jesse Graves

 A newlywed is visited by an old woman who reveals secrets of the young woman's father. But there is more to the tale when the old woman's monster ape man breaks free. An early film with an all-Black cast.

Director: David Butler    More Info
Starring: Kay Kyser, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, Helen Parrish, Dennis O'Keefe, Harry Babbitt, M.A. Bogue, Ginny Simms, Alma Kruger

 Wealthy heiress Janis Bellacrest (Helen Parrish) celebrates her birthday with Kay Kyser's band for the entertainment. The party takes a decided turn when three bizarre characters (Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Bela Lugosi) show up to join in the festivities in the haunted house, which is the scene of the party.

Director: Stuart Heisler    More Info
Starring: Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey, Frances Farmer, Gordon Jones, Jean Phillips, Maude Eburne, Frank M. Thomas, Harlan Briggs, Archie Twitchell

 Twin brothers John and Paul Raden are both played by Albert Dekker in this chilling drama of mistaken identity in the blame for a series of murders.

Director: Albert S. Rogell    More Info
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Bela Lugosi, Gale Sondergaard, Anne Gwynne, Gladys Cooper, Alan Ladd, Claire Dodd, John Eldredge

 When cat-loving dowager Henrietta Winslow (Cecilia Loftus) dies, her greedy relatives converge on her haunted mansion for the reading of her will looking for their fortunes. Now, they must deal with screams in the night and hidden passages.

Director: William Dieterle    More Info
Starring: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon, James Craig, Gene Lockhart, John Qualen, George Cleveland, Jeff Corey, Anne Shirley

 Set in the1840s, Mr. Scratch (Walter Huston) is the Devil with whom Jabez Stone (James Craig) traded his soul for riches. Now, Stone refuses to live up to his part of the bargain and insists on a legal trial. Daniel Webster (Edward Arnold) represents Stone in this classic Stephen Vincent Benet tale. Walter Huston received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor.

Director: Edward Dmytryk    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, Richard Fiske, Amanda Duff, Anne Revere, Ralph Penny, Dorothy Adams, Walter Baldwin, Kenneth MacDonald

 Using a lethal brainwave machine, Dr. Julian Blair (Boris Karloff) pulls out all stops in his efforts to contact his deceased wife.

Director: Victor Fleming    More Info
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, Barton MacLane, C. Aubrey Smith, Sara Allgood, Peter Godfrey, William Tannen

 The focus of this version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel is on the psychological problems involved with Jekyll's two personalities. After the good Dr. Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) drinks his potion and the evil Mr. Hyde emerges, his violent and sexual side is drawn to floozy barmaid Ivy Peterson (Ingrid Bergman). Later, when the father (Donald Crisp) of Beatrix (Lana Turner) gives permission for Dr. Jekyll to marry her, Dr. Jekyll decides that he must tell them about his evil side of Mr. Hyde. But, his decision may be too late when he discovers that Mr. Hyde is taking over his personality.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis    More Info
Starring: Bela Lugosi, John McGuire, Polly Ann Young, Clarence Muse, Terry Walker, George Pembroke, Betty Compson, Fred Kelsey, Jack Mulhall, Ernie Adams

 Gentle Dr. Kessler (Bela Lugosi) lives with his adult daughter Virginia (Polly Ann Young) and household staff in his large mansion. He grieves the loss of his wife (Betty Compson) who was believed killed in an auto accident. But she did not die, and the butler (Clarence Muse) has kept her locked away until she recovers from her amnesia that resulted from the accident. She routinely gets out, and when she looks in the doctor's window, he is put in a trance and kills people he runs across. Cheap, but the good direction helps keep an eerie atmosphere.

Director: Jean Yarbrough    More Info
Starring: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor, John Archer, Patricia Stacey, Guy Usher, Marguerite Whitten, Leigh Whipper, Madame Sul-Te-Wan

 A U.S. agent, his pilot, and his man-servant are sent to the Caribbean to locate an admiral whose plane crashed. They also crash on a tiny island where a German doctor is making zombies out of the inhabitants through hypnosis. He had also caused the admiral's plane to crash, planning to hypnotize the admiral and then extract secrets from him. But our heroes stop that nonsense in this World War II propaganda film–though the U.S. had not yet entered the war.

Director: George Waggner    More Info
Starring: Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson, Samuel S. Hinds, William B. Davidson, Ben Taggart, Constance Bergen, Ivan Miller, George Meader

 Lon Chaney Jr. plays "Dynamo" Dan McCormick who is a carnival side-show performer using his immunity from absorbing large volts of electricity as his act. After riding on a bus that crashes into an electric pole, Dan is the sole survivor. Dan recuperates at the home of mad scientist Dr. Paul Rigas (Lionel Atwill) where Rigas uses him for experiments and turns Dan into a "man made monster" controlled by Rigas. When Rigas' colleague Dr. John Lawrence (Samuel S. Hinds) wants him to stop the experiment, Rigas orders Dan to kill him. The deed is done, but Dan is arrested and sentenced to the electric chair where he absorbs the electricity and again becomes a superhuman–now ready to seek revenge.

Director: Phil Rosen    More Info
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, David Gorcey, Ernest Morrison, Donald Haines, Dave O'Brien, George Pembroke, Angelo Rossitto

 While the East Side Kids are camping in the mountains, they hear that a monster-killer is on the loose. Muggsy (Leo Gorcey) suffers a gunshot wound, and the boys seek shelter in an old mansion, which happens to be owned by Nardo (Bela Lugosi). Later, the kids see Muggsy walking around in a trance and think that Nardo has turned him into a zombie. But, is Nardo a monster-killer, or is he simply a magician–only the horrors experienced within the walls of the old mansion will reveal the answer.

Director: George Waggner    More Info
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Bellamy, Warren William, Patric Knowles, Fay Helm, Maria Ouspenskaya, Leyland Hodgson

 Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.), while attempting to prevent a wolf from mauling Jenny Williams (Fay Helm), is bitten by the animal. When he revives, Larry finds that Jenny is dead and lying by her side is Bela (Bela Lugosi). Bela is a wolf man, and now that he has bitten Larry, Larry will be transformed into a werewolf every time that there is a full moon. Larry confesses his fate to his father Sir John (Claude Rains) and to his sweetheart Gwen (Evelyn Ankers), but they do not believe him–until they are forced to confront the curse one fateful night during a full moon.

Director: William Nigh    More Info
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, Clayton Moore, George Pembroke, Robert Frazer, Edward Peil Sr., Robert Fiske, Frank Melton, Irving Mitchell, Kenneth Harlan

 Doctor Melcher (Bela Lugosi) performs plastic surgery on the "Black Dragons," a group of Japanese who are potential saboteurs in the U.S. during World War II. Disguised as Caucasians, they hope to infiltrate American cities.

Director: Lew Landers    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Jeff Donnell, Larry Parks, Maude Eburne, Don Beddoe, Frank Puglia, George McKay, Frank Sully

 To help with the war effort, Professor Billings (Boris Karloff) and Doctor Lorentz (Peter Lorre) plan to turn corpses into supermen who will fight for the Allies in World War II.

Director: Wallace Fox    More Info
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Wanda McKay, John Archer, Tom Neal, John Berkes, Vince Barnett, Ray Miller, J. Farrell MacDonald, Lew Kelly, Anna Hope

 Respected Professor Frederick Brenner (Bela Lugosi) is a teacher by day and runs a mission soup kitchen at night. But, the mission is a front for his criminal activities, which include killing his victims and burying them in the cellar where they become zombies.

Director: Jacques Tourneur    More Info
Starring: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt, Alan Napier, Elizabeth Russell, Alec Craig, Bud Geary, Eddie Dew

 Following their wedding, Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) learns that his wife Irena (Simone Simon) believes that she is a Cat Woman as a member of an ancient Serbian tribe and has a genetic tendency to turn into a panther when emotionally aroused. Oliver tries to help Irena by getting her psychiatric help from Dr. Louis Judd (Tom Conway), but Oliver runs into major problems. The marriage is failing, and Oliver becomes romantically interested in coworker Alice Moore (Jane Randolph). Now, a jealous Irena's stalking of Alice turns into a night of terror in a swimming pool.

Director: Wallace Fox    More Info
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin, Elizabeth Russell, Minerva Urecal, Vince Barnett, Joan Barclay, Angelo Rossitto, Kenneth Harlan, Gwen Kenyon

 Mad scientist Doctor Lorenz (Bela Lugosi) kidnaps and murders young brides to give his aged wife, the Countess (Elizabeth Russell), eternal youth–until Pat Hunter (Luana Walters) sets the trap that snares the crazed doctor.

Director: Erle C. Kenton    More Info
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, Doris Lloyd, Holmes Herbert, Leyland Hodgson, Dwight Frye

 Ygor (Bela Lugosi) and the Monster (Lon Chaney Jr.) have survived the wrath of the mob of villagers and arrive at a Balkan village where Dr. Frankenstein's son, Ludwig (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), now lives. Igor and Dr. Bohmer (Lionel Atwill) convince Ludwig to place a new brain in the Monster's head. Through sly work on the part of Igor, he manages to get his own brain transplanted into the Monster, which, of course, results in disaster.