MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Based on The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White, this Hitchcock thriller is about Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood), who is traveling through Europe by train and soon learns that her fellow passenger, Miss Froy (May Whitty), has disappeared, and no one remembers her. Is Iris just seeing things? Has a hit on her head ruined […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Topper Takes a Trip (1938)
July 28 – Aug 3 Screwball Comedy: Just imagine, the Great Depression is raging and you’re getting less than a fin a week at the rubber boiling factory, but it only costs two bits to go to the movies all day, so let’s watch some quick-talking dames match wits with some dopey joes! The sequel […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)
Roadshow Rarities (June 30 – July 6) In the old days of theatrical releases some of the more lavish movies would be promoted by holding limited screenings in large cities. These roadshow releases would generate hype before the nationwide release and allow producers to tweak the film to the audience’s reaction. This model also worked […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Child Bride (1938)
Directed and written by Harry Revier — who also made Lash of the Penitentes and would come back in the 50s and 60s to re-edit movie serial Buck Rodgers into Planet Outlaws and The Lost City into City of Lost Men — this original exploitation movie was the first produced by Kroger Babb, who would go on to make Mom and Dad. Star […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY BOX SET: Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)
Based on the James Lee Wong series in Collier’s Magazine written by Hugh Wiley, Mr. Wong, Detective is the first in a five-movie series starring Boris Karloff — yes, from that Asian town of Dulwich, Surrey, England — as Mr. Wong. Then again, Karloff had already played Dr. Fu Manchu in The Mask of Fu Manchu […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: The Phantom Creeps (1938)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on February 6, 2020. This Universal movie serial — told in twelve parts — shares some similarities with the earlier serial The Vanishing Shadow, including the inventions of an invisibility belt and a remote-control robot. That makes sense — at the time, Universal was all about recycling. […]
SON OF KAIJU DAY MARATHON: The King Kong That Appeared in Edo (1938)
In 1938, King Kong was reissued in Japanese theaters and smaller studios — like Zenshō Cinema — took advantage of the popularity by making this film, broken up into two silent chapters. On March 31, Edo ni Arawareta Kingu Kongu: Henge no Maki (The King Kong That Appeared in Edo: The Episode of the Monster) played theaters, followed […]
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