Foster on Film

In a flashback that never ends, but does include multiple other flashbacks we learn that Susan Webster (Ellen Drew) left her small town for the big city, only to fall in with gangsters (Robert Paige, Joseph Calleia, Gerald Mohr, Marc Lawrence, and Paul Lukas) who trick her into becoming a prostitute. <Nope, hold on. The

Hammer was always searching for the best way to make a buck, or a pound. The powers that be decided to remake a science-fiction horror BBC series, and mix it with as much showmanship as they could manage, playing off of the new X certificate by naming their film, The Quatermass Xperiment. It was a

Medical students Pierre Dupin (Leon Waycoff) and Paul (Bert Roach) take in a traveling carnival with their girlfriends, Camille L’Espanay (Sidney Fox) and Camille’s sister (Betty Ross Clarke). There they see a gorilla, named Erik, kept by the severe Dr.Mirakle (Bela Lugosi). At the end of his lecture the four “youths” approach the cage and

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

Det. Inspector Larry Holt of Scotland Yard (Hugh Williams) is assigned the case of multiple drowning that appeared at first to be suicides. Dr. Feodor Orloff (Bela Lugosi) is an insurance agent and philanthropist who supports a home for destitute blind men. He also is running an insurance scam that involves having blind, hulking, and

Super scientist Alec Holland (Ray Wise) is joined at his swamp laboratory by government agent Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau). Evil terrorist or scientist—it isn’t clear—Arcane (Louis Jourdan… No. Can’t be. Let me check. Nope. It’s Louis Jourdan. I guess those Gigi residuals had run out) wants Holland’s supper formula, and when he attempts to take

Dr. Meirschultz (Horace B. Carpenter) is a mad scientist. Make that a wacky scientist. He yells and leaps around and yells some more. He’s also working on serum for raising the dead. Helping him, due to a combination of debt and blackmail, is Don Maxwell (William Woods), a vaudeville performer with top makeup skills who

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

At his mountain top castle, Dr. Janos Rukh (Boris Karloff) works to perfect his discovery, the ability to capture a ray from Andromeda, and use it to view the past. Laughed at by other scientists, he lives in seclusion with his young wife Diana (Frances Drake) and his mother (Violet Kemble Cooper), but for validation

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