Select people are resurrected immediately after death to take part in a survival “game” that has real consequences for the world. They are sent out to kill actual monsters in the cities of Japan. If they fail within the time period allotted, they are killed. If they kill enough monsters, they can choose greater weapons,
Rob (Cian Barry) is broken and suicidal. His girlfriend, Nina (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) died in car accident. He’s given up his dreams, as someone who is in mourning does, taking a job at a supermarket and visiting weakly with Nina’s parents. His shy co-worker and paramedic in training, Holly (Abigail Hardingham), sees something in him and
Years after Samuel (Anthony LaPaglia) and Esther Mullins’s daughter is killed, the Mullins invite a nun and six orphans—including crippled Janice (Talitha Bateman) and her friend, and a pair of mean girls—when the orphanage is closed. Janice is driven to enter the dead girl’s room and encounters the doll, Annabelle. Thereafter, creepy and supernatural things
Recently divorced Edgar Easton (Thomas Lennon) returns to his home town to his pleasant mother and needlessly nasty father. He has the uncommon good luck to meet the once pleasant and attractive girl in town Ashley Summers (Jenny Pelicer), who likes him for no reason we’re ever given. In a mostly ignored subplot, Edgar’s brother
Vaguely sinister stuff happens. Not enough of a synopsis? OK, I’ll write more, but “stuff happens” really covers it. So, master criminal The Phantom escapes from jail before his execution, using a train and a plane. He seems to want revenge on DA John Hampton (Wilfred Lucas), and then… He’s out of the picture. Reporter
Klili Gordon (Fredi Washington), a plantation owner and voodoo priestess, has had a two year affair with white man Adam Maynard (Philip Brandon), but on his travels to the United States, he’s gotten engaged to a white woman and is bringing her back to the islands. The black overseer (Sheldon Leonard—yes, Jewish Sheldon Leonard, who’d
Balduin (Anton Walbrook) is a popular student and a skilled fencer, who has won the heart of Lydia, a young innocent girl. At her birthday celebration he becomes obsessed with Juila (Dorothea Wieck), an opera singer. But she already has two admirers, the foppish Baron Waldis and the sinister Dr. Carpis (Theodor Loos). While Julia
High-class escort Jenny Wren (Karen Morley) intends to retire after blackmailing four of her past clients: banker Priam Andes (H.B. Warner), Eddie Mack (Richard “Skeets” Gallagher), William Jones (Gavin Gordon), and Senatorial candidate Herbert Walcott (Robert McWade). She instructs Andes to invite the other three and their significant others to his lodge for a party,
Captain Benjamin Briggs (Arthur Margetson) takes the ship Mary Celeste on a sea voyage to England and has decided to bring along his new wife, Sarah (Shirley Grey). He should have spent more time gathering a proper crew as his current one includes a sadistic first mate (Edmund Willard), the mysterious Anton Lorenzen (Bela Lugosi)
Twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan), return to their home after robbing the major criminal gangs in Chicago, planning to start a juke joint while fending off the local KKK. They employ, for the night, their younger cousin (Miles Caton) whose musical abilities are so powerful that they rip the fabric of reality.
An accident in Hungary lands Peter Alison (David Manners) and his slightly injured wife (Jacqueline Wells) at the home of famed architect and war criminal Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff). Dr Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi), who has befriended the couple, is there for revenge, and to find out what happened to his wife and daughter while
Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter) leaves her boarding school to search for her sister Jacqueline (Jean Brooks), who had been paying her bills and has mysteriously vanished. Mary’s quest leads her to private investigator Irving August (Lou Lubin), who is murdered in a shadowed doorway, and also to helpful failed poet Jason (Erford Gage) and paternalistic