Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)

In the most Victorian of Victorian Englands, upstanding Dr. Jekyll (Fredric March) investigates the duel personality of man while waiting in frustration for his delayed wedding to Muriel Carew (Rose Hobart). Her father, Brigadier-General Danvers Carew (Halliwell Hobbes) insists they wait; he’s also not happy with Jekyll’s unorthodox theories. Jekyll’s attempt to separate man’s nature

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

Another telling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of a scientist (Spencer Tracy) who makes a potion to split apart the good and evil sides of man, and ends up with the murderous Mr. Hyde. What is more fun than hearing, over and over, debates between a googly-eyed doctor who claims that we are all made

Dracula (1931)

Dracula (1931)

Renfield (Dwight Frye) travels to Transylvanian to arrange for Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) to move to London. Renfield is turned into an insane slave of the vampire count and together they travel to England, where Dracula settles in a ruined abbey next to Doctor Seward’s (Herbert Bunston) sanitarium, inside which Renfield takes up residence. Dracula

Frankenstein (1931)

Frankenstein (1931)

In a near fevered state, Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) has abandoned his upper-class lifestyle, his fiancée Elizabeth (Mae Clarke), and medical school to carry out secret experiments aided only by the hunchback Fritz (Dwight Frye). His goal is to create a living creature from corpses, which he succeeds in doing the night he is visited

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.), the Wolf Man, is freed from his tomb by grave robbers. His search for a way to die takes him to the remains of the Frankenstein manor and the still-living Monster. The Frankenstein franchise had died a well-deserved death, having less than nothing of interest left (but they wouldn’t let

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

Larry Lawrence (Bob Hope) and Mary Carter (Paulette Goddard) travel to Cuba to the long abandoned mansion she has just inherited.  But many agents don’t want them there, including murderers, a zombie, and a ghost. Quick Review: An interesting mix of horror and comedy, there is a lot to like about The Ghost Breakers.  Bob

The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

In this 4th film in the Frankenstein series, Ygor (Bela Lugosi) takes the wounded Monster (Lon Chaney Jr.) to yet another Doctor Frankenstein (Cedric Hardwicke) who decides that a brain transplant will return the good reputation of his family.  Ygor enlists the aid of Doctor Bohmer (Lionel Atwill) to alter the Monster’s operation to fit

House of Dracula (1944)

House of Dracula (1944)

Count Dracula (John Carradine) and Larry Talbot, aka: The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney) both seek out the great scientist, Dr. Edelman (Onslow Stevens), in order to be cured of their respective curses. Talbot and Edelman find Frankenstein’s Monster (Glenn Strange), which they bring back to Edelman’s laboratory. With three monsters, in the house it is only a matter

House of Frankenstein (1944)

House of Frankenstein (1944)

All of the Universal monsters, Frankenstein’s Monster (Glenn Strange), Dracula (John Carradine), Wolf Man (Lon Chaney), a hunchback, and a mad scientist meet in a monster mash.  The evil Dr. Niemann (Boris Karloff) and a hunchback murderer (J. Carrol Naish), who acts as his servant, escape from prison to continue Frankenstein’s work, and stumbles upon

I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

Betsy Connell (Frances Dee), a beautiful, young nurse, takes a job on the island of St. Sebastian in the West Indies to care for Jessica (Christine Gordon), the wife of a plantation owner (Tom Conway).  Is the wife sick or is she a zombie, and will her cure come from medicine or voodoo? A strange

The Invisible Agent (1942)

The Invisible Agent (1942)

The grandson of the original Invisible Man, Frank Raymond (Jon Hall), has kept the invisibility serum secret until the attack on Pearl Harbor.  He becomes a new invisible man, spying for the U.S.A.  While on a mission in Germany, he romances Maria Sorenson (Ilona Massey) and foils the plans of Conrad Stauffer (Cedric Hardwicke), Karl

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

Framed for his brother’s murder, Geoffrey Radcliffe (Vincent Price) is saved from the gallows by his fiancée, Helen Manson (Nan Grey), and Dr. Frank Griffin (John Sutton), brother of the original Invisible Man, who supply Geoffrey with the invisibility serum. Geoffrey escapes and searches for the real killer, knowing that it won’t be long before the