Foster on Film

It’s the same story as Dracula, with Conde Drácula (Carlos Villarías) travelling to London with Renfield (Pablo Álvarez Rubio) where he encounters Eva Seward (Lupita Tovar) and Lucía (Carmen Guerrero), and faces off against Doctor Seward (José Soriano Viosca), Juan Harker (Barry Norton), and Dr. Van Helsing (Eduardo Arozamena). In 1931 there was a major

Obsessed theater doctor Friedrich Hohner (Boris Karloff) murders Marcellina, his opera star girl friend when she rejects him for being too controlling. Ten years later a new singer, Angela Klatt (Susanna Foster) is the new big thing, with a voice that sounds exactly like the dead star’s. This is too much for Hohner, who hypnotizes

Miners discover a giant frozen reptilian tail and hunkiest miner sends it to Professor Marteen of the Copenhagen aquarium. Professor Marteen has two, hot, man-hungry daughters. It doesn’t matter for the story, but the film wants you to know just how male-crazed these two chicks are and how lucky any man is who they get

Four years earlier, Ayana Hirasaka’s parents were crushed by Gamera in his fight against the gyoas. Now she lives with her uncaring aunt and uncle in a miserable little town filled with terrible teens. Within a temple, she finds, and binds with, a strange creature that is related to Gamera and the gyoas. It grows,

Giant monsters rose up all over Earth, with the final one being Godzilla, and destroyed human civilization. Two alien races arrived at the last minute to help—the highly religious Exif and the engineering-obsessed Bilusaludo—but they failed. A single spaceship escaped, with a mixed crew, looking for a new world. Twenty years later, with things looking

A sailor steals a yacht, and with his hesitant companions, goes in search of his lost brother. A storm maroons them on an island where terrorists are making ingredients for nuclear bombs and a giant shrimp patrols the sea. Luckily, King Kong… I Mean Godzilla is napping on the island. QUICK REVIEW: New franchise director

Weird mad scientist Expedito Vitus (Wilson Grey), upset that people laughed at him over his claim of an elixir of life, takes up archeology briefly and discovers the mummy Runamb (Anselmo Vasconcelos). Things are looking up for the professor. His reputation has been repaired, he has a bubbling, curvaceous wife (Clarice Piovesan), and a mummy

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

Dr. Paul Talbot (Phillip Terry), an obnoxious, egomaniacal doctor wants nothing more than the wealth that a de-aging technique would earn him. Besides, he can’t stand old women, or even slightly older women. His wife, June (Coleen Gray), is a self-hating alcoholic (later narcissist). Malla (Estelle Hemsley — later Kim Hamilton) shows up to make

A nun commits suicide at an abbey known for evil activities. The Vatican sends mystery-solving Father Burke (Demian Bichir) and clairvoyant Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) to investigate. The nuns of the abbey are all weird, some paranoid and abrasive and some ghostly and evil. Their only help comes from Frenchie (Jonas Bloquet), a local who

A small passenger plane makes an emergency landing in the middle of nowhere to avoid a storm. The passengers take refuge in a large, empty house. While romances and minor intrigues occupy some of the passengers, one is murdered. It turns out he was carrying diamonds. The security guard hired to protect the stones wants

Medical students Pierre Dupin (Leon Waycoff) and Paul (Bert Roach) take in a traveling carnival with their girlfriends, Camille L’Espanay (Sidney Fox) and Camille’s sister (Betty Ross Clarke). There they see a gorilla, named Erik, kept by the severe Dr.Mirakle (Bela Lugosi). At the end of his lecture the four “youths” approach the cage and