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)
Playing With Fire – The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)
As far as horror films go, The Mad Doctor of Market Street is a strange beast. It begins with Lionel Atwill playing the mad doctor/scientist on Market Street who looks to perfect […]
Love During Death – The Mad Ghoul (1943)
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 […]
A Bloody Trail – Tower of London (1939)
While there are certainly overtones of horror throughout the film, Tower of London is more of a historical drama than anything else with a little bit of action interspersed throughout. That is […]
Devious, Devilish and Dangerous – The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946)
The Spider Woman Strikes Back is an entertaining chiller from Universal that finds a young woman named Jean Kingsley move to a small town to take up a job as a secretary […]
Do You Dare Cross the Path of… – The Black Cat (1934)
The Black Cat from 1934 would be Universal’s first effort at pairing two of their biggest stars together and it was by all accounts, a success. Those two titans of the silver […]
Madness From the Past – The Invisible Ray (1936)
Boris Karloff would play many a monster in his day, but some of the better ones were human in nature and mad as a hatter. Such is the case with The Invisible […]
Invisibility and Madness – Hollow Man (2000)
Hollow Man, a film made in the year 2000 and directed by Paul Verhoeven, is a science-fiction movie with horror elements that finds itself aligning more with the 1933 big-screen version of […]
Beware… The Mummy’s Curse (1944)
Universal, who after making four movies with this one being the fifth, decided to retire Kharis and their mummy franchise in favour of other things as it seemed that people perhaps, were […]
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 […]
The Telltale Mind 