Category: Golden Age
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)
Written by Griffin Jay & Henry Sucher & Brenda Weisburg Directed by Reginald Le Borg Starring Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Ramsay Ames, Barton MacLane, George Zucco, Robert Lowery US Release Dec.31, 1944 RT 61 min. Home Video Universal Studios Home Video Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) Although they’re not great, the movies…
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The Invisible Woman (1940)
Written by Robert Lees, Frederic I. Rinaldo, Gertrude Purcell Directed by A. Edward Sutherland Starring Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles US Release Dec. 27, 1940 RT 72 min. Home Video Universal Studios Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 5 (out of 10) With the exception of the “Abbott & Costello Meet…” movies, I…
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The Mummy’s Curse (1944)
Written by Bernard Schubert Directed by Leslie Goodwins Starring Lon Chaney Jr., Peter Coe, Virginia Christine US Release Dec 22, 1944 RT 60 min. Home Video Universal Studios Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 6 (out of 10) The Mummy’s Curse (1944) strays ever so slightly from the recipe established in the previous four Universal Monsters…
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The Mummy (1932)
Written by John L. Balderston Directed by Karl Freund Starring Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Bryan, Edward Van Sloan US Release Dec. 22, 1932 RT 73 min. Home Video Universal Studios Home Entertainment Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Of all the wonderful elements in Universal’s The Mummy (1932), there’s one that’s largely…
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The Invisible Man (1933)
Written by R.C. Sherriff Directed by James Whale Starring Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, Una O’Connor US Release Nov. 13, 1933 RT 71 min. Home Video Universal Studios Home Video Classic Horrors rating = 7 (out of 10) Although I often feel like other people don’t see me, particularly when I’m driving, I wonder what it…