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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: Ford Beebe    More Info
Starring: Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton, Anne Gwynne, Frank Shannon, John Hamilton, Herbert Rawlinson, Shirley Deane, Lee Powell, Roland Drew

 Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) is back in action in this 12-episode serial as the "Purple Death," a lethal plague, hits Earth. Flash's nemesis, Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) of the planet Mong, is behind it. So, Flash and friends return to Mong seeking the antidote. Of course, the powers of Ming will make that difficult.

Director: Joe May    More Info
Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, John Sutton, Nan Grey, Cecil Kellaway, Alan Napier, Forrester Harvey, Frances Robinson, Ivan F. Simpson, Mary Field

 This film is nearly as enjoyable as the original. This time around, a man (Vincent Price) accused of murder becomes invisible as the means of tracking down the actual murderer and solve the crime to clear his name.

Director: Nick Grinde    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, Byron Foulger, Roger Pryor, Stanley Brown, Charles Trowbridge, Jo Ann Sayers, Hal Taliaferro, Ivan Miller, Bruce Bennett, Ernie Adams

 A doctor (Boris Karloff), frozen for many years, is thawed out and then accused of unethically freezing a very wealthy patient to use as a guinea pig in his experiment.

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: 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: 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: 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.

Director: Edwin L. Marin    More Info
Starring: Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke, J. Edward Bromberg, Albert Bassermann, John Litel, Holmes Herbert, Keye Luke, Philip Van Zandt

 In the continuation of the "Invisible Man" series, Frank Raymond (Jon Hall) drinks a potion, becomes invisible, and gathers secret information from the Nazis.

Director: William Beaudine    More Info
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford, Henry Hall, Minerva Urecal, Ralph Littlefield, J. Farrell MacDonald, Wheeler Oakman, Emil Van Horn, George Kirby

 Mad scientist James Brewster (Bela Lugosi) is working on a serum derived from the spinal fluid of a gorilla. He injects himself to test the serum and turns into a hairy, gorilla-like being. In order to reverse the process, he and his gorilla cohort must murder humans to get their spinal fluids.

Director: Lambert Hillyer    More Info
Starring: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish, Shirley Patterson, William Austin, George Chesebro, Kenne Duncan, Tom London, Charles Middleton, Sam Flint

 This is the film debut of the dynamic duo Batman and Robin (Lewis Wilson and Douglas Croft), and they go about their business for 15 episodes. Being a wartime movie, it is not surprising that they are battling the dastardly Japanese mastermind, Dr. Tito Daka (J. Carrol Naish), who runs an espionage/sabotage group.

Director: Roy William Neill    More Info
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Ilona Massey, Bela Lugosi, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Maria Ouspenskaya, Dennis Hoey, Don Barclay, Rex Evans, Dwight Frye

 "The Wolf Man" Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) has been resurrected from the dead, and a gypsy lady, Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya), tells him that the only way to stay dead is to talk to Dr. Frankenstein. Maleva joins Lawrence in his search for Frankenstein, and when they find Frankenstein's daughter Elsa (Ilona Massey), they learn that Frankenstein has died. Elsa is engaged to scientist Dr. Manning (Patric Knowles) who tries to cure Larry. But, when Frankenstein's monster (Bela Lugosi) is discovered in a block of ice, Larry chips him out, and a battle ensues.

Director: Erle C. Kenton    More Info
Starring: Boris Karloff, J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Anne Gwynne, Elena Verdugo, Peter Coe, Glenn Strange, Lionel Atwill, George Zucco

 Doctor Nieman (Boris Karloff) escapes from prison and is joined by an infamous group of characters–Wolfman (Lon Chaney Jr.), Dracula (John Carradine), and Frankenstein's Monster (Glenn Strange). The doctor and his hunchback sidekick are on the road posing as horror show operators. Followed by "House of Dracula."

Director: Ford Beebe    More Info
Starring: Jon Hall, Alan Curtis, Evelyn Ankers, Leon Errol, John Carradine, Ian Wolfe, Gale Sondergaard, Halliwell Hobbes, Lester Matthews, Skelton Knaggs

 Robert Griffin (Jon Hall) gets hold of a serum that makes him invisible and creates mayhem for a couple (Gale Sondergaard and Lester Matthews) who once had tried to kill him.

Director: Ralph Murphy    More Info
Starring: Nils Asther, Helen Walker, Reinhold Schunzel, Paul Cavanagh, Edmund Breon, Morton Lowry, Mathew Boulton, Brandon Hurst, Forrester Harvey, Wilson Benge

 Artist and scientist Julian Karell (Nils Ashter) falls in love with Eve (Helen Walker) while painting her portrait. What Eve does not know is that Julian has been receiving gland transplants for 60 years to keep him young. The donors have all died during the gland transplants, and Julian's endocrinologist Dr. Kurt Van Bruecken (Reinhold Schunzel) is refusing to perform the next operation. Julian rescues medical student Allen Guthrie (Morton Lowry) from a suicide attempt and, later, finds another doctor to use Guthrie as his next donor. Guthrie dies during the operation, and Scotland Yard begins an investigation. Meanwhile, Julian confesses his operations to Eve who marries him anyway, and they take off on an ill-fated honeymoon. The film was remade in 1959 as "The Man Who Could Cheat Death."

Director: Harry L. Fraser    More Info
Starring: Ray Corrigan, Lorraine Miller, Frank Merrill, George J. Lewis, Francis Ford, Budd Buster, Charles King

 Starting with a 1927 silent film ("Perils of the Jungle"), new footage was added, which resulted in–you guessed it–one of the very worst films ever. A white gorilla (Frank Merrill, from the 1927 film) is snubbed by the black gorillas because he is white. This makes him sad and angry, but he will soon fight to save the African continent. To make matters worse, the gorilla costumes don't fit all that well.

Director: Jack Bernhard    More Info
Starring: Virginia Grey, Philip Reed, Richard Denning, Barton MacLane, Dick Wessel, Dan White, Phil Nazir, Ray Corrigan

 Hungry dinosaurs are still alive on a remote Pacific island, and an adventurous team want to catch the action (?) in pictures. Lots of bad special effects help make this a loser.

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet    More Info
Starring: Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Jane(2) Adams, Lyle Talbot, Ralph Graves, Don C. Harvey, William Fawcett, Leonard Penn, Rick Vallin, Michael Whalen

 In this 15-episode serial, Batman and Robin (Robert Lowery and Johnny Duncan) must outwit the black-hooded "Wizard" who sets out to use his stolen remote-controlled device to no good. They must also periodically rescue photographer Vicki Vale (Jane Adams) from assorted perils.

Director: Fred C. Brannon    More Info
Starring: Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, I. Stanford Jolley, Don Haggerty, House Peters Jr., James Craven, Douglas Evans, Ted Adams, Stanley Price, Tom Steele

 In this 12-episode serial, a mad traitor, from a group of scientists who have made scientific breakthroughs, is now killing them off so he can have exclusive control of the inventions. But Jeff King (Tristram Coffin) is assigned the task of safeguarding the secrets and dons his Rocket Man costume to fight the dastardly traitor who calls himself "Dr. Vulcan" (I. Stanford Jolley). Let the fight begin, as Dr. Vulcan has his own lethal devices.