Edward Parker (Richard Arlen) is tossed overboard by a surly and drunken sea captain at the first port-of-call, the Island of Dr. Moreau. The mysterious doctor (Charles Laughton) isn’t happy with his uninvited guest, but soon changes his mind. The island is inhabited by beast-men created by Moreau and his assistant Montgomery (Arthur Hohl) via
The Leopard Man (1943)
Kiki Walker’s (Jean Brooks) boyfriend and manager, Jerry Manning (Dennis O’Keefe), brings a tame leopard to a restaurant as a publicity stunt which backfires when fellow performer Clo-Clo (Margo) frightens it with her castanets. Soon after, the leopard kills a girl, and soon after, more. Museum curator James Bell Dr. Galbraith helps in the hunt
Godzilla Minus One (2023)
During WWII, Skikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki), a cowardly, failed-kamikaze pilot, freezes in fear when given a chance to kill Godzilla, a monster that then kills most of the mechanics on Odo island. Returning to Tokyo, Skikishima meets a young woman, Noriko (Minami Hamabe), with a baby, and to support them, gets a dangerous job clearing mines
Godzilla: Monster Planet (2017)
Giant monsters rose up all over the Earth, with the final one being Godzilla, and destroyed the planet. Two alien races showed up at the last minute to help—one of them religious fanatics—but they failed. A single spaceship escaped, with a mixed crew, looking for a new world. Twenty years later, overly emotional and always
The Trollenberg Terror / The Crawling Eye (1958)
Alan Brooks (Forrest Tucker) is summoned by his friend, Professor Crevett (Warren Mitchell), to a small village at the base of the Trollenberg mountain. He arrives in town at the same time is psychic Anne Pilgrim (Janet Munro—a year before Disney put her into Darby O’Gill and the Little People), who felt compelled to stop
The Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957)
The Flying Serpent (1946)
Dr. Andrew Forbes (George Zucco), an insane archaeologist, has found the treasure of Montezuma, along with a feathered serpent that was guarding it, and is keeping the beast in a cage and using it to kill by planting one of its feathers on intended victims. How he discovered all of that may have been exciting,
The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues (1955)
Peculiar Dr. Ted Stevens (Kent Taylor) and bizarre government agent Bill Grant (Rodney Bell) discover a radiation burnt body on an unusual looking beach. Ted approaches oddball oceanographer Professor King (Michael Whalen) and his attractive daughter who’s the only one who seems human. Meanwhile King’s assistant follows king around and hides in bushes while his
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
A spaceship returning from Venus crashes into the sea off Italy. The gruff and square-jawed Colonel Bob Calder (William Hopper—from The Deadly Mantis) is rescued, but the rest of the crew is lost. A child, Pepe (Bart Bradley), finds a specimen of Venusian life, washed out of the rocket, and sells it to a wandering
Slender Man (2018)
Four generic girls at an unfocused slumber party (Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso) perform an Internet ritual to summon the monstrous Slender Man. They all feel “something,” but mostly deny that. When later one of them vanishes, the others assume it is the work of the evil force, or they deny
The 9th Guest (1934)
Eight of the city’s social elite receive telegrams inviting them to a party in their honor in a penthouse. They are corrupt politician Jason Osgood (Edwin Maxwell), the university dean who is under his thumb Dr. Murray Reid (Samuel Hinds), the man Osgood told Reid to fire for being too radical Henry Abbott (Hardie Albright),