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 […]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Seminole (1953)
Seminole is the story of an army scout who is torn between his duty and what is right, wanting to obey the major under whom he serves, but knowing that what he […]
Only Nightmares Emerge From… – The Black Sleep (1956)
After the Universal Monsters were put to sleep and horror was seemingly taking a back-step to different genres of film in the nineteen fifties, it did not necessarily mean that it would […]
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 […]
The Telltale Mind 