Picked up in the arctic by an exploration ship, Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Brannagh) tells his tragic story—how he fell in love with his stepsister, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), how his mother died a bloody death during childbirth, how he went to school to become a doctor, and how, in his quest to end death, he
At a piano recital by the accomplished Anthony Lawrence (Ralph Morgan), Mad scientist Dr. Igor Markoff (J. Carrol Naish) spies Lawrence’s daughter (Wanda McKay). Obsessed with her similarity to his dead wife, he injects Lawrence with the disfiguring acromegaly disease as leverage to force her to marry him. Quick Review: One of the more distasteful
In 1974, a secret operation brings back werewolf blood from Eastern Europe. One of the agents injects himself with it, becoming a lycanthrope, but is shot with silver bullets and frozen by his boss (Barry Bostwick). In present day, Doctor Anne De Carlo (Kim Delaney) and a team of scientists researching artificial metal blood, are
Professor Bernard Quatermass’s (Brian Donlevy) experimental rocket crashes in a field in the English countryside. Quatermass, along with a representative of the Ministry of Defense (Lionel Jeffries) rushes to the site to find two of the astronauts have vanished and the third, Victor Carroon (Richard Wordsworth), is hurt in an inexplicable way and unable to speak. Dismissing
After the computer kills all the members of an underground lab, amnesiac Alice (Milla Jovovich) and a team of special agents must enter the lab to shut down the computer and figure out what happened. Along the way, there are zombies, genetically altered monsters, a virus, and traitors. Quick Review: One in a string of
News reporter Walter Garrett (Wayne Morris) discovers the dead body of Angela Merrova (Lya Lys), but when she turns up alive, though strangely pale, he is fired. He goes to his friend, Dr. Mike Rhodes (Dennis Morgan), for help, which prompts Rhodes to investigate strange murders where the victims all had “type 1” blood. This
Years after the events of the original film, Philippe Delambre (Brett Halsey) uses his father’s notes to create a matter transmitter. Aided by his reluctant uncle François (Vincent Price) and his friend, Alan Hinds, he succeeds. But Alan is really a murderer who plans to steal the device. When Philippe learns of the treachery, Alan
After Julie (Melinda Clarke) dies in a motorcycle accident, Curt (J. Trevor Edmond), her boyfriend and the son of a military officer (Kent McCord) working on secret experiments, brings her back using the zombie-making chemical from the first two films. She fights her desire for brains, but in the end zombies are running around in
Another expedition up the Amazon finds a gill man, subdues it, and takes it to an aquarium. There it is gawked at by the public and experimented on until it escapes, taking a beautiful graduate student (Lori Nelson) with him. Quick Review: While it is questionable to place Creature from the Black Lagoon as a
A mad killer is sucking the blood out of young girls. Simultaneously, an officer in a fascist country is killing everyone in his way, even his superiors, and a jogger is having his limbs amputated in a strange hospital. Somehow, all of these events are connected to prestigious Dr. Browning (Vincent Price). Playing like an
Dr. Oh, a mad scientist (Pat Morita), creates an obedient, ninja “clone” (Masakatsu Funaki) to kill his ex-colleagues, Dr. Markov (Gregory Vahanian), Dr. Forster (Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld), and Dr. Hiller (Allan Kolman). The three hire Mitchell Madsen (Sam Bottoms), an assassin with a bad liver, to stop Oh. Things become more complicated when the ninja clone