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Director Lambert Hillyer’s 1936 movie teams the great horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. It is an intriguing, pretty effective Karloff-Lugosi fantasy sci-fi horror thriller, with Karloff as Dr Janos Rukh, a visionary scientist experimenting […]
Boris Karloff stars in director Mark Robson’s wild, haunting 1945 Val Lewton-produced chiller, set in 1912 on a Greek island marooned by war and bedevilled by plague and maybe demon vampires. Martin Scorsese places it on his list […]
Director Mark Robson’s 1946 horror movie stars the great horror icon Boris Karloff as evil asylum master, apothecary general Master George Sims. Sadly it proved the last in the series of stylish B-movie horror films produced by […]
The 1939 horror movie Son of Frankenstein is the third film in Universal’s superb Frankenstein series, the last to star Boris Karloff as the Monster but the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor. Director […]
Hungarian psychiatrist Dr Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi) plots a hideous revenge on his old friend Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff) in the weird and wonderful 1934 horror movie The Black Cat. Director Edgar G Ulmer’s weird […]
Director Robert Wise’s 1945 tale of horror in old Edinburgh of 1832 is one of producer Val Lewton’s most celebrated macabre thrillers. It’s very much a work of the legendary Lewton, who co-writes the script, […]
The Climax is an excellent, little-known vintage Universal Studios horror movie that finds Boris Karloff back in mad doctor mode as Dr Hohner, a demented physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, who becomes obsessed with a […]