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
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
In 1929, the eccentric Dr. Anton Phibes (Vincent Price), mutilated in an accident and now wearing an elaborate false face, seeks revenge on the medical team who failed to save his wife. With the help of the beautiful and silent Vulnavia (Virginia North), Phibes carries out elaborate murders, modeled after the ancient plagues on Egypt.
In this second sequel to Re-Animator, Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), in jail since the last film, is still secretly carrying out his research. He believes he has found a way to return reason to the corpses he re-animates. When a new prison doctor (Jason Barry) brings some of West’s old reagent into the prison, it’s time to
The Monster (Boris Karloff), having survived the fire at the mill, wanders the nearby forest, hunted by villagers, until he meets a blind hermit (O.P. Heggie), who treats him well and teaches him to speak. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) also survived the fire, but weakened, and is being nursed back to health, both physically and
Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) and Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) are back, not just to re-animate the dead, but to create new life. As if there weren’t enough problems inherent in that, the evil Dr. Hill (David Gale) is also back, along with a pack of zombies. Quick Review: How did these boys get jobs at the
Beautiful escaped mental patient, Patricia Stanley (Carole Gray), is picked up by Martin (George Baker), a descendent of Andre Delambre, who first created the teleporter. The two fall in love and marry. But Patricia knows nothing of his accelerated aging, or the experiments he carries out with his father, Henri (Brian Donlevy), and brother, Albert.
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,
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
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