Though Turhan Bey might have gotten top billing in this film, it belonged to George Zucco who would play the mad scientist, enamoured with his student’s girlfriend and turning his pupil into […]
Love During Death – The Mad Ghoul (1943)
Vengeance Upon… – Fog Island (1945)
Fog Island, released by PRC in 1945, begins with an interesting premise where George Zucco’s character invites numerous people to his mansion upon an island, one that is perpetually covered in fog, […]
A Mint on the Pillow and Murder, Only at… – The Black Raven (1943)
On a dark and stormy night, a bunch of strangers are driven towards The Black Raven as the only shelter around, an inn run by the one and only George Zucco, known […]
A Villain, a Treasure and… – The Flying Serpent (1946)
George Zucco is at his best when he plays the villain and he does so here once again as a man who comes upon a fabled treasure and if that was not […]
Born by Science – The Mad Monster (1942)
During the past hundred years of cinema, there have been numerous films about werewolves. Some were good, some were bad and some managed to be iconic. The Mad Monster falls into that […]
More Real Than You Think – The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)
The Mummy’s Ghost begins like the two previous films with the old priest passing on the responsibilities of looking after Kharis, who is indeed still alive, and the Princess Ananka to a […]
Be Careful Should You Violate… – The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)
Continuing almost directly from where the previous film left off, The Mummy’s Tomb finds Kharis alive and well, or at least as alive and well as he could ever hope to be. […]
You Would Be a Fool to Take… – The Mummy’s Hand (1940)
The first sequel to The Mummy from Universal actually has nothing to do with the original in almost any way and it is a little strange that the studio would do as […]
Karloff Comes Home – House of Frankenstein (1944)
With this fifth and final sequel to Frankenstein, it does not necessarily end the adventures of the monster, but it does end the series of films with his maker’s name in the […]
The Telltale Mind 