Foster on Film

Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill), a master artist of wax figures, is crippled by a fire that destroyed is greatest works. Unable to use his hands, he now oversees a group of sculptors, but his goal is always to recreate what was lost. Luck comes his way when he sees Charlotte (Fay Wray), who would be

Ten years after the death of eccentric Cyrus Norman, the family converge on his bayou mansion, cared for by Miss Lu (Gale Sondergaard), for the reading of his will by lawyer Crosby (George Zucco). The potential heirs include radio personality Wally Campbell (Bob Hope), beautiful actress Joyce Norman (Paulette Goddard), aunts Susan and Cicily (Elizabeth

Zealous reporter Frank Briggs (Harald Paulsen) hears a scream while driving down a road, and hops out to investigate, going to the house of inventor Mörder (Paul Wegener) who had just murdered his wife. This begins a chase that has the two passing through events from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat and The System

A Joker pulls the emergency cord to stop the train in order to retrieve his hat that had flown out a window. This causes the train to arrive at the station late, and with no other trains coming until morning, stranding a group of passengers. Besides the Joker, the group include a newly Married Couple,

Dr. Tim Mason (Roger Pryor) is at the forefront of frozen therapy, but his demonstration promised more than it could deliver, so he and his nurse/fiancée Judith Blair (Jo Ann Sayers) head to the long abandoned, secluded home of the inventor of frozen therapy, Dr. Leon Kravaal (Boris Karloff). There, in a hidden underground camber

Years ago, Professor ten Brinker (Erick von Stroheim) artificially inseminated a prostitute with the sperm of a hanged murderer in order to test his theories on heredity. He figured that by using the dregs of society, it would be easier to spot their degenerate traits when they are passed down, and besides, evil people are

Svengali (John Barrymore) is a talented musician living in an artists community that include his follower Gecko (Luis Alberni), and painters The Laird (Donald Crisp), Taffy (Lumsden Hare), and Billee (Bramwell Fletcher). He’s also a cad, who uses his charisma and hypnotic powers to gain what he wants, and in one case, to cause a

While Hunter Eric Gorman (Lionel Atwill) is on an expedition to bring back animals for a zoo, he tortures and murders a man who made a pass (or more) at his wife, Evelyn (Kathleen Burke). She seems to get a lot of attention from men, though it is not clear how much of that she

Cruel, elderly Julia Endicott (Blanche Friderici), matriarch of a dying family, walks through the cemetery, trailed by Philip (Irving Pichel), her feeble-minded, brutish son and Miss Roberts (Martha Mattox), the housekeeper. Julia claims they are going to the family crypt to lay flowers, but really it is to check the moaning alarm horn she’s had

At a horror museum, while the tour guide (John Abbott) gives speeches on werewolves, Doctor Charles Morris (Fritz Leiber)—doctor of…history maybe, or voodoo—researches a werewolf woman. He’s murdered, seemingly by a wolf, and his scientist son (Stephen Crane) and the son’s semi-sister/girlfriend (Osa Massen) play detective to find the murderer. Police detective (Barton MacLane) also

Walter Stevens (Lionel Atwill) owes a great deal of money in some kind of sketchy deal. He has also been threatened with death by The Gorilla, a maniac killer who’s been getting lots of news coverage. His niece, Norma (Anita Louise), who is the other heir to the family fortune, arrives at his house along

At his mountain top castle, Dr. Janos Rukh (Boris Karloff) works to perfect his discovery, the ability to capture a ray from Andromeda, and use it to view the past. Laughed at by other scientists, he lives in seclusion with his young wife Diana (Frances Drake) and his mother (Violet Kemble Cooper), but for validation