Category: Golden Age

  • Mad Love (1935)

    Mad Love (1935)

    Written by P. J. Wolfson and John L. Balderston From the novel Les Mains D’Orlac by Maurice Renard Directed by Karl Freund Starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive US Release July 12, 1935 RT 68 min. Home Video Warner Brothers Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Mad Love is one of several adaptations of Maurice Renard’s…

  • The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)

    Written by Bertram Millhauser Directed by Ford Beebe Starring Jon Hall, Leon Errol, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Evelyn Ankers US Release June 9, 1944 RT 78 min. Home Video Universal Studios Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 5 (out of 10) This movie should really be called “An” Invisible Man’s Revenge, not “The” Invisible Man’s Revenge.…

  • The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)

    The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)

    Written by Griffin Jay and Henry Sucher Directed by Harold Young Starring Dick Foran, John Hubbard, Elyse Knox, George Zucco, Wallace Ford, Turhan Bey, Lon Chaney Jr. US Release October 23, 1942 RT 60 min. Home Video Universal Studios Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Note: I’ve previously posted reviews of The Mummy…

  • The Body Snatcher (1945)

    The Body Snatcher (1945)

    Written by Philip MacDonald & Val Lewton, Robert Louis Stevenson (short story) Directed by Robert Wise Starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade US Release May 17, 1945 RT 77 min. Home Video Turner Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Cocky Dr. Wolfe “Toddy” McFarlane (Henry Daniell) and his assistant, Donald…

  • She-Wolf of London (1946)

    She-Wolf of London (1946)

    Written by George Brickner, Dwight V. Babcock (original story) Directed by Jean Yarbrough Starring Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden, Jan Wiley, Lloyd Corrigan US Release May 17, 1946 RT 61 min. Home Video Universal Studios Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 5 (out of 10) Spoiler Alert: The following contains revelation of key plot elements, which…

  • Night Key (1937)

    Night Key (1937)

    Written by Tristam Tupper, Jack Moffitt, William A. Pierce (original story) Directed by Lloyd Corrigan Starring Boris Karloff, Warren Hull, Jean Rogers US Release May 2, 1937 RT 68 min. Home Video Universal Studios Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Night Key is in no way, shape or form a horror movie, although it…

  • I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

    I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

    Written by Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray Directed by Jacques Tourneur Starring James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett US Release April 30, 1943 RT 69 min. Home Video Turner Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 8 (out of 10) Betsy Connell (Frances Dee) travels to the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian to play nurse to Jessica…

  • Murders in the Zoo (1933)

    Murders in the Zoo (1933)

    Written by Philip Wylie and Seton I. Miller Directed by A. Edward Sutherland Starring Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick, Randolph Scott US Release March 31, 1933 RT 62 min. Home Video Universal Studios Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) IMDb Synopsis.  A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and…

  • The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)

    The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)

    Written by Curt Siodmak Directed by Robert Florey Starring Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, J. Carrol Naish US Release Feb. 8, 1947 RT 88 min. Home Video Warner Archive Collection Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) IMDb Synopsis.  In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a one-handed, wheelchair-bound pianist, with a…

  • The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

    The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

    Written by Lester Cole & Curt Siodmak Directed by Joe May Starring Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey US Release Jan. 12, 1940 RT 81 min. Home Video Universal Studios Home Video Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) The Universal sequel The Invisible Man Returns (1940) was made seven years after The Invisible Man,…