(1952, Upgraded 11/3/21) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Maria Mercedes. Bela went abroad for this wacky British horror comedy and it was the last time he was seen on screen in his Dracula cape.  There's a bit of an espionage plot, which results in the kidnapping of Mercedes at the film's beginning.  However, the real star of the show here isn't Lucan as Mother Riley, but Lugosi as a maniac who...

(1947, Updated 11/8/21) Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton, Molly Lamont, Douglas Fowley, Angelo Rossito. One of the more novel concepts in the history of horror films, the entire story is told by the spirit of a dead lady who's body is lying on a cold slab in the morgue.  A creepy old mansion is the scene where a girl is literally scared to death...

(1943, Upgraded 11/11/21) Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Ava Gardner, Rick Vallin, Bobby Jordan, Wheeler Oakman, Frank Moran. The East Side Kids find themselves taking on a Nazi spy ring (headed by Bela) inside the cozy confines of a "haunted house."  Bela's spy headquarters are in the cellar.  Little do the neighbors suspect that there is a Nazi propaganda unit inside—they just think the house is haunted...

(1943, Monogram) Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Henry Hall, Louise Currie, Minerva Urecal. During a series of bizarre experiments, mad scientist Belai literally goes ape--turning into a half man/half ape monstrosity that needs Human spinal fluid to return to any semblance of normalcy.  His quest for it leads him and his pet ape on a terrifying...

(1942, Monogram, Upgraded 10/28/21) Bela Lugosi, Wanda McKay, Tom Neal, Dave O'Brien, Wheeler Oakman. This was definitely better than most of Bela's Monogram quickies. Zombies and murder highlight this story about a mad professor who uses a bowery mission as the front fro his criminal activities. Check out who's living, (or maybe we should say, 'not living') in the basement...

(1942, Upgraded 10/14/21) Bela Lugosi, Clayton Moore, Joan Barclay, Robert Frazer. A series of grisly murders is committed by a crazed, Nazi plastic surgeon who seeks revenge against a Jap spy ring...

(1942, Upgraded 4/3/21) Bela Lugosi, Tris Coffin, Luana Walters, Elizabeth Russell, Angelo Rossito, Frank Moran. A slick horror opus about a crazed doctor's attempt to rejuvenate his aging, sickly wife. He kidnaps young brides for his experiments...

(1941, Upgraded 8/5/25) Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien, Suzanne Kaaren, Guy Usher. Bela's giant murderous bats are on the loose, attacking and killing everyone wearing a strange shaving lotion concocted by Bela himself. This is one of those...

(1941, Upgraded 4/21/21) Bela Lugosi, John McGuire, Polly Ann Young, Betty Compson. The reappearance of a man's "thought to be dead" wife turns him into a crazed killer.  She peers in the windows of Bela's estate and when he sees her it sets him off into a hypnotic state.  He then shambles about the house killing...

(1939, Upgraded 8/1/21) Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Wilfred Walter, Edmon Ryan, Alexander Field. One of the best shockers of the '30's. Bela gleefully murders people and then throws them out his window onto the mud flats of the Thames--all so he can get their life insurance money.  His cover is an eeire home for the blind next to the mud flats of the murky...

(1939, Upgraded 4-9-21) The Ritz Brothers, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Anita Louise, Patsy Kelly, Edward Norris. A good horror comedy with the Ritz Brothers after the mad killer, "the gorilla," who has been...

(1957, Upgraded 12/22/22) Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Jeanne Tatum, Shirley Kilpatrick, Ewing Brown. A gang of crooks hold a pair of hostages at by in a mountatin cabin when a spaceship lands nearby. The entire group finds themselves threatened by a mysterious...

(1976, Upgraded 6/26/21) Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson.  Oone of the best drive-in movies of the ‘70s. Low budget? Yes. But they really made the most of it.  Two college kids come to a backwater town doing research on a “bigfoot” type creature that’s known to inhabit a gloomy nearby swamp.  Before long they find themselves caught in a sequence of chilling events, culminating with a head-to-head confrontation with the terrifying creature...

(1967, Upgraded 4/16/21) Yeong-il Oh, Jeong-im Nam, Cho Kyoung-min, Kwang Hoo Lee, Moon Kang.  A scientific experiment seemingly sets off a series of earthquakes that ravage central Korea.  However, it turns out that they’re being caused by Yongary, whom the experiment awakened. Yongary just happens to be a gigantic, gasoline-consuming reptilian monster...

(1940, Upgraded 9/10/21) Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Henry Hall, Gene O'Donnell, Ray Corrigan, Philo McCullough. Boris plays a "well-intentioned" mad scientist trying to find a cure for paralysis.  Unfortunately, his research depends on spinal fluid taken from living (soon to be dead) humans.  But when an escaped gorilla crashes into his lab...

(1936, aka THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS MIND—UPGRADED 9/17/21) Bois Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder,  Karloff does in this role, what Lugosi did in his role as Dr. Vollin in THE RAVEN. He lets it all hang out as he plays the mad Dr. Laurience, who invents a fantastic device that...

(1933, UPGRADED 9/16/21) Boris Karloff, Anthony Bushell, Dorothy Hyson, Ernest Thesiger, Sir Cedric Hardewicke, Sir Ralph Richardson. This is the one of the true horror masterpieces of British cinema of the 1930s. Karloff has great fun as a dead Egyptologist who returns from the grave to seek vengeance on those who defiled his tomb. Much of the action takes place in a...

(1977, Upgraded 4/15/22) Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Ferdinand Ledoux.  A great fantasy-horror film.  A woman leaves her husband one stormy night.  She drives on a lonely road, but when her windshield breaks she seeks help from a strange man and his butler who reside in a nearby creepy mansion.  The woman spends the night, but next morning she finds no trace of her hosts.  Finding her car repaired, she tries to leave but soon realizes it’s impossible...