The arch-criminal The Bat has just finished his most daring robbery and heads off to the country to a mansion rented by elderly but fierce Cornelia Van Gorder. The house is soon filled with an array of strange characters, including Van Gorderâs niece, a suspected bank robber, a suspicious doctor, a stern police detective, a
The Crying Woman {La Llorona} (1933)
Black Moon (1934)
Juanita Perez Lane (Dorothy Burges) is a dutiful and loving wife and mother, but she feels a call back to the island of her birth, back to the voodoo rituals in the jungle. She decides to take her young daughter and visit the plantation, currently run by her uncle, Raymond Perez (Arnold Korff). Her husband
DrĂĄcula (1931)
Itâs the same story as Dracula, with Conde DrĂĄcula (Carlos VillarĂas) travelling to London with Renfield (Pablo Ălvarez Rubio) where he encounters Eva Seward (Lupita Tovar) and LucĂa (Carmen Guerrero), and faces off against Doctor Seward (JosĂ© Soriano Viosca), Juan Harker (Barry Norton), and Dr. Van Helsing (Eduardo Arozamena). In 1931 there was a major
The Clairvoyant (1935)
Maximus (Claude Rains) performs a mind-reading act with the assistance of his wife, Rene (Fay Wray). They travel with an aging partner (Ben Field) and Maximusâs mother (Mary Clare). When a performance falls apart, he receives an actual prophecy. Predicting the future casts him into the limelight, which brings money but starts to pull his
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
Sir Lionel Barton (Lawrence Grant), who is the definition of an Englishman, has discovered the tomb of Genghis Khan. This news worries the always-worried but also stiff upper-lipped Nayland Smith (Lewis Stone) of the British secret service. He knows that Dr. Fu Manchu (Boris Karloff) wants the mask and sword of Genghis Khan to make
El signo de la muerte {Sign of Death} (1939)
Journalists and romantic couple Carlos (Tomas Perrin Jr.) and Lola (Elena DâOrgaz) investigate the murder of a woman whose heart was cut out, implying she was a sacrifice. Their investigation leads them to the foremost expert on the Aztecs, Dr. Gallardo (Carlos Orellanda) of the museum. Heâs also secretly a member of an Aztec cult
El misterio del rostro pĂĄlido {Mystery of the Ghastly Face} (1935)
Forceful and obsessed Doctor Forti (Carlos VillarĂas ) carries out strange medical experiments in his home, aided by his weak-willed son, Pablo (JoaquĂn Busquets). Pablo wanted only to play the violin and marry Fortiâs beautiful ward AngĂ©lica (Beatriz Ramos) but instead does what Forti commands. Both Pabloâs Aunt Doña Engracia (Natalia Ortiz) and the butler
Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
In the castle of Robert von Helldorf (Lionel Atwill) they are celebrating the 21st birthday of his daughter Irene (Gloria Stuart). In attendance are her three suitors, Captain Walter Brink (Paul Lukas), reporter Frank Faber (Onslow Stevens), and brash Thomas Brandt (William Janney). The castle and grounds also contain a groups of extremely suspicious-acting servants.
Alraune (1930)
Crooked Privy Councillor ten Brinken (Albert Bassermann) has had some success with his experiments with artificially inseminating rats, and wants to take it to the next level: inseminating a prostitute with the sperm from a dead murderer. Seems like that shouldnât be the next level, but hey, Iâm not a mad scientist, so what do
El superloco {The Super Madman} (1937)
The mysterious Dr. Dienys (Carlos VillarĂas) is both feared and mocked by the medical scientific community. And why not, when he experiments with psychic powers with which he has kept himself from aging. He also can directly effect others and controls a monster (RaĂșl Urquijo) that he keeps in a cell, but no one knows
Night of Terror (1933)
A maniac is killing people, and attaching news clipping to their bodies. Those news clipping must be an important plot point… Nope. Never mind. Anyway, the Maniac is of little interest to Professor Arthur Hornsby (George Meeker), who has discovered a secret formula which allows a person to survive in suspended animation. At his lab