A miss-matched group, including roguish John Finnegan (Treat Williams), his sidekick Joey (Kevin J. O’Connor), a beautiful jewel thief (Famke Janssen), a ruthless business man, and a band of mercenaries, are trapped on a disabled luxury liner with a giant sea monster. They have a lot of guns and the monster has a lot of
A year after the tragic death of her husband and child, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) joins her extreme sports colleagues Juno (as Natalie Mendoza) and Beth (Alex Reid), and three other girls for a weekend of spelunking. Juno says she’s taking them to a well-known spot, but actually brings them to an unexplored cavern. A cave-in
In the far future of 1999, the giant monsters of the world, including Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, and others no one cares about, have been imprisoned on an island cleverly named Monster Land (Monster Island in the subtitled version, which is… better). Of course all is not well as aliens plan to invade Earth using the
Unjustly imprisoned Paul Lavond (Lionel Barrymore), escapes from Devil’s Island with mad scientist, Marcel (Henry B. Walthall), who has discovered a way to reduce animals to one sixth their size. Marcel plans to use this to help humanity, but when he dies, Lavond teams up with Marcel’s wife, Malita (Rafaela Ottiano), supposedly to continue the work,
During the Spanish Civil War, Carlos (Fernando Tielve) is left at an isolated orphanage with an unexploded bomb buried in its courtyard. There he must deal with aggressive students, a violent handyman named Jacinto (Eduardo Noriega), and the ghost of a boy who disappeared the day the bomb hit. The orphanage is a place of
Simon Cordier (Vincent Price), a magistrate and amateur sculptor, is possessed by a demonic Horla. Thinking the voices may just be symptoms of mental illness, Simon reduces his workload and returns to sculpting as therapy. He meets the beautiful Odette (Nancy Kovack), who becomes his model. He believes she’s single and romantically interested in him, when actually
When the police inform Dr. Xavier (Lionel Atwill) that they suspect someone from his Academy of Surgical Research to be the cannibalistic Full Moon Killer, he requests time to do his own “scientific” inquiry, to avoid adverse publicity. However, investigative reporter Lee Taylor (Lee Tracy) overhears the police, and writes a story, forcing Dr. Xavier
A combination archeological dig and research facility on Mars is quarantined for unknown reasons. A Rapid Response Tactical Squad, lead by Sarge (The Rock) and including John Grimm (Karl Urban), is sent in to save the corporation’s data, retrieve personnel if possible, and take out anything dangerous. Once there, they join with Grimm’s scientist sister (Rosamund Pike),
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
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
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