CULTPIX MONTH: Dr. Cyclops (1940)
If you love The Incredible Shrinking Man or Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, you need to pay your respects to the granddaddy of them all. Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, the same absolute legend who gave us King Kong, this movie is a landmark for a massive reason: it is the very first American horror […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Devil Bat (1940)
The work of Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) has earned his company millions, and all they give him is $5,000. But didn’t he take a buyout early rather than become a partner? Isn’t that the way corporations work? So why wouldn’t he grow giant bats and have them kill anyone who wears a new aftershave […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
Based on The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, this was directed by George King and written by Edward Dryhurst, Frederick Hayward and H. F. Maltby. It stars Tod Slaughter as a man taking the place of Sir Percival Glyde, trying to take his estate, Blackwater Park. It starts with him hammering a tent stake […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Mummy’s Hand (1940)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Mummy’s Hand was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, February 12, 1966 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, March 1, 1975 at 3:00 a.m., Saturday, July 24, 1976 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, July 29, 1978 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, July 22, 1983 at 2:00 a.m. Universal brought back Frankenstein’s Monster with 1939’s Son of Frankenstein, a […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 4: The Devil Bat (1940)
April 17: Bat Appreciation Day –Watch a movie with a fake bat in it. The work of Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) has earned his company millions and all they give him is $5,000. But didn’t he take a buyout early instead of being a partner? Isn’t that the way corporations work? So why wouldn’t […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Ape (1940)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Ape was on Chiller Theater on February 1, 1964 at 4:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 17, 1966 at 1:00 a.m. William Nigh had already made this movie before as The House of Mystery, but now he had Boris Karloff as the lead. As Dr. Bernard Adrian, he’s trying to cure polio through that […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Man With Nine Lives (1940)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Man With Nine Lives was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, April 23, 1966 at 11:20 p.m., Saturday, June 31, 1969 at 11:30 p.m. Torn from the headlines! Both this movie and The Man They Could Not Hang on Dr. Robert Cornish, a University of California professor who brought a dog. named Lazarus […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 13: The Mummy’s Hand (1940)
13. ALL THINGS BEING SEQUEL: …As long as it isn’t a Part 1. Universal brought back Frankenstein’s Monster with 1939’s Son of Frankenstein, a movie that boasts a deranged Lionel Atwill as a police officer obsessed with his fake arm. It did so well that they reintroduced the Invisible Man a year later in The Invisible Man […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Before I Hang (1940)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Before I Hang was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, June 4, 1966 at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday June 14, 1969 at 11:30 p.m. Another in the series of mad scientist movies starring Boris Karloff for Columbia, this was directed by Nick Grinde and written by Robert Hardy Andrews. Karloff is Dr. John Garth […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY BOX SET: Doomed to Die (1940)
The last of the five William Nigh-directed, Boris Karloff-starring Mr. Wong movies, this one starts when Cyrus P. Wentworth (Melvin Lang), the head of a shipping company, is killed by Dick Fleming (William Stelling), the son of his rival. He had wanted to marry Wentworth’s daughter Cynthia (Catherine Craig), but her father refused. Now, she wants […]
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