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 […]
Playing With Fire – The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)
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 […]
From Man to Beast – Monster on the Campus (1958)
When a person thinks of Universal horror, it is often Frankenstein, Dracula or The Wolf Man that often come to mind. It is the classic monster movie, being more to the point, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
