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
Ruth Dale (Shirley Grey) is on her way to collect her inheritance, followed by three thugs, two of whom aren’t even given names because in a movie of this quality, names are an unnecessary indulgence. They plan to stop her. By chance she runs into tractor salesman Dick Bartlett (Richard Talmadge) on a train, but
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
Dr. Tim Mason (Roger Pryor) is at the forefront of frozen therapy, but his demonstration promised more than it could deliver, so he and his nurse/fiancée Judith Blair (Jo Ann Sayers) head to the long abandoned, secluded home of the inventor of frozen therapy, Dr. Leon Kravaal (Boris Karloff). There, in a hidden underground camber
Secretive professor Norman Boyle (Paolo Malco) and his unstable wife Lucy (Katherine MacColl) move into a strange old house, along with their deeply annoying son (Giovanni Frezza) who sees a ghost girl that tells him not to go. The house had been inhabited by a colleague who was doing some unusual research when he killed
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
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
Animal trainer Fred Mason (Milburn Stone) return to the US with lions, tigers, for the circus. He also brings a female gorilla that’s fond of him. While he was away, his girlfriend, Beth Colman (Evelyn Ankers) has taken her sick sister, Dorothy (Martha Vickers) to renowned doctor Dr. Sigmund Walters (John Carradine), who is actually
Years ago, Professor ten Brinker (Erick von Stroheim) artificially inseminated a prostitute with the sperm of a hanged murderer in order to test his theories on heredity. He figured that by using the dregs of society, it would be easier to spot their degenerate traits when they are passed down, and besides, evil people are
Timid and distracted Dr. Carl Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish) is accused of murdering a woman, and an inquest is called. Fletcher, animal trainer Fred Mason (Milburn Stone), and his wife Dorothy (Martha Vickers) testify that Cheela the gorilla survived the bullet wound and has been kept by Fletcher. After a time Cheela disappeared and Paula
Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre), perhaps the greatest surgeon in France, is obsessed with goth actress Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake). Her husband (Colin Clive), a concert pianist, has his hands mangled in a train wreck and although Yvonne is frightened by Gogol, goes to him to try and save her husband’s hands. That’s impossible, so Gogol transplants the
Mad-scientist Mr. Stendahl (Otto Kruger), with the help of two excessively dim, young assistants, and the film’s love interests, Don (Phil Brown) & Anne (Amelita Ward), has brought a rabbit back to life, and now wants to try and something more complex: Paula/The Ape Woman (Vicky Lane). His hulking henchman Moloch (Rondo Hatton) steals the