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
Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (2008)
As world leaders meet to discuss—and fail to do anything about—environmental destruction, a spaceship crashes, releasing the giant Guilala on the people of Japan. Realizing this will be great PR, the leaders stick around and come up with one ridiculous (and culturally revealing) scheme after another to defeat the monster. Meanwhile, a cute tabloid reporter
Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion (1996)
A meteor shower brings the Legion to Earth: large insects along with a single true giant. They build nests, that when complete, launch a pod into space to further spread the species—the launch destroying everything in a six kilometer area. Colonel Watarase is on the case, leading soldiers against the bugs. He’s aided by Midori
Godzilla Anime Trilogy: Monster Planet; City on the Edge of Battle; The Planet Eater (2017/18)
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
The Mad Monster (1942)
Disgraced mad scientist Dr. Lorenzo Cameron (George Zucco) has developed a serum that turns humans into werewolves. He plans to use it on his mentally deficient handyman, Petro (Glenn Strange), to seek revenge on the scholars who he feels have ridiculed him. His daughter, Lenora (Anne Nagel) finds their exile to a swamp troublesome and
Pharaoh’s Curse (1957)
In British-occupied Egypt, a band of archaeologists, lead by the loutish Quentin (George N. Neise), have gone on an expedition without permission. With rebellions rising up, the military sends Capt. Storm (Mark Dana), along with Syliva (Diana Brewster), the recently arrived lout’s wife, to find the team before the locals hear of it. On route,
A Cure for Wellness (2017)
Lockhart (Dane DeHaan), a young, unethical businessman, is sent to a mysterious Swiss wellness center to retrieve his company’s CEO, but a car accident lands him as a patient. While the institute’s director (Jason Isaacs) expounds on the wonders of his water cures, Lockhart finds that everything about the place is a little off and
Man Made Monster (1941)
Dan the Electrical Man (Lon Chaney Jr.) is the sole survivor of an electrical accident. He is taken in for study by Dr John Lawrence (Samuel S. Hinds), who has some pretty odd views on electricity. His partner, Dr Paul Rigas (Lionel Atwill), has even stranger views, thinking he can turn people into zombies with
Truth or Dare (2018)
Olivia (Lucy Hale), Markie (Violett Beane), and their college friends go for a final wild spring break in Mexico. There, another partier (Landon Liboiron) tricks them into a game of truth or dare. The game is “possessed” and they are then forced to continue playing or die, where the “truths” are terribly upsetting and the
The Monster Walks (1932)
A strange scientist dies suddenly and his will is read ridiculously quickly in his old dark house on a stormy night. attending the reading, or just hanging around nearby, are the dead man’s odd lawyer (Sidney Bracy), his paralyzed and very suspicious brother (Sheldon Lewis), his two plotting servants (Martha Mattox, Mischa Auer), his constantly
The Raven (1935)
Beautiful, young, and beguiling Jean Thatcher (Irene Ware) crashes her car, leading to brain damage. The only one with a chance to save her is Dr. Richard Vollin (Bela Lugosi), a Poe-obsessed retired surgeon. Her father, stuffy Judge Thatcher (Samuel S. Hinds) pushes Vollin until he agrees. The operation is a success, and Vollin falls
The House of Fear (1945)
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are sent to Drearcliff manner, situated on a coastal cliff in ever-misty Scotland. There, two member of the “Good Comrades” club have died after receiving an envelop filled with orange pits. The members all live together in an aged house, looked after by housekeeper Mrs. Monteith,




