Boris Karloff stars in The Climax, a 1944 film about a man who is obsessed with a prima donna so much so that he kills her and years later when another comes […]
A Voice Only For Him – The Climax (1944)
Still Clinging – The Beast With Five Fingers (1946)
Though the poster essentially gives away the eponymous beast, the film still manages to engage and delight the viewer until it rears its very unorthodox head. It all begins benignly enough, but […]
A Will Beyond Death – The Lady and the Monster (1944)
A not quite so mad scientist as played by Eric Von Stroheim is fascinated with the possibility of keeping the human brain alive after death and when the opportunity arrives for him […]
Living Though Dead – Black Friday (1940)
Despite featuring two of horror’s biggest icons in Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and being marketed as such, Black Friday features very little horror, if any. The story concerns Dr. Ernest Sovac […]
Unknowingly, She Became the… – Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
If you completely skip over the credits to this film, you would think that Universal had released it. It looks and feels like a Universal monster movie and it even features Lon […]
Once Upon a Time… – I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
Despite its somewhat ominous title, I Walked With a Zombie, for the most part, is really quite beautiful. A strange thing to say perhaps when talking about a horror film, but this […]
Look Out, Because… – The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
The next movie in Universal’s Invisible Man cannon was The Invisible Man Returns and it would do so without Claude Rains, who was the star of that first film. Instead, taking up […]
The Fight of the Century – Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
The 1950’s were a golden age for science-fiction at the movies. Anything you could imagine would eventually make its way to the big screen. Sometimes it was fascinating, sometimes fantastic and sometimes […]
When Gather Titans – Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man (1943)
In Universal’s next outing for Frankenstein, they would team him up with one of their other properties, The Wolf Man, and together they would make history. This would be the first time […]
The Telltale Mind 