The Gorilla (1939)

The Gorilla (1939)

Walter Stevens (Lionel Atwill) owes a great deal of money in some kind of sketchy deal. He has also been threatened with death by The Gorilla, a maniac killer who’s been getting lots of news coverage. His niece, Norma (Anita Louise), who is the other heir to the family fortune, arrives at his house along

Ouanga (1936)

Ouanga (1936)

Klili Gordon (Fredi Washington), a plantation owner and voodoo priestess, has had a two year affair with white man Adam Maynard (Philip Brandon), but on his travels to the United States, he’s gotten engaged to a white woman and is bringing her back to the islands. The black overseer (Sheldon Leonard—yes, Jewish Sheldon Leonard, who’d

The Student of Prague (1935)

The Student of Prague (1935)

Balduin (Anton Walbrook) is a popular student and a skilled fencer, who has won the heart of Lydia, a young innocent girl. At her birthday celebration he becomes obsessed with Juila (Dorothea Wieck), an opera singer. But she already has two admirers, the foppish Baron Waldis and the sinister Dr. Carpis (Theodor Loos). While Julia

Death in the Air (1936)

Death in the Air (1936)

Airplanes are being shot down by an unknown killer in a biplane maked with a X. Airplane manufacturer Henry Goering (Henry Hall) and his son Carl (Leon Ames) are rightfully upset. Psychologist Dr. Norris (John Elliott) has a theory that it is an ex-World War I flying ace out to prove himself the greatest, and

Menace (1934)

Menace (1934)

In Africa, three bored, wealthy wastrels, Helen Chalmers, Col. Leonard Crecy, and Norman Bellamy (Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagh and Berton Churchill) harangue their friend (Ray Milland) to come and play bridge with them, even though there’s a storm, the dam he’s responsible for could burst, and he’d have to fly his biplane to get there.

The Man with Nine Lives (1940)

The Man with Nine Lives (1940)

Dr. Tim Mason (Roger Pryor) is at the forefront of frozen therapy, but his demonstration promised more than it could deliver, so he and his nurse/fiancée Judith Blair (Jo Ann Sayers) head to the long abandoned, secluded home of the inventor of frozen therapy, Dr. Leon Kravaal (Boris Karloff). There, in a hidden underground camber

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

In the non-groovy past, a de-Jewified Larry Van Helsing (really? Larry? Not Abraham) and Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) both die—a scene that breaks with past films, but Hammer was never consistent. An unknown person wandering by grabs a vial of the Count’s blood, which pops up again in 1972. In that swinging time, some hippies,

Mr. Vampire (1985)

Mr. Vampire (1985)

Master Gau, along with his two bumbling assistants, Man Choi and Chou Sheng, are asked to rebury the patriarch of the Yam family in order to generate good luck, but the patriarch turns out to be a vampire and breaks free. Gau, and in his own way, the dim, obnoxious police captain, attempt to destroy

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)

Divorced and exceptionally drab Robert Bridgestone (Kirwin Mathews) gets a weekend with his thirteen-going-on-six-year-old son, Richie (Scott Sealey) in a forest cabin. Their timing is bad when a passing werewolf starts shaking Richie; why is he shaking Richie? Dad intervenes which results in a dead werewolf and a bitten father. Dad never noticed that it

Kuroneko (1968)

Kuroneko (1968)

During a period of unrest in Japan, a mother and her daughter-in-law (Nobuko Otowa & Kiwako Taichi) are raped and murdered by a band of disheveled samurai. They return as ghosts, seducing and then killing samurai. The local samurai lord Raiko (Kei Sato) tasks newly minted samurai Gintoki (Kichiemon Nakamura) with finding who or what

The Belko Experiment (2016)

The Belko Experiment (2016)

At a mysterious corporation in Colombia, eighty non-native office employees (including John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley, Sean Gunn, and Michael Rooker) are locked in and given orders to kill each other. Written by James Gunn (of Guardians of the Galaxy fame) before he hit it big, The Belko Experiment isn’t

Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)

Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)

Two school boys discover a spaceship which takes off when they get in, leaving a sister behind to fail to convince the adults what’s happened. The ship is almost hit by a meteor, but Gamera, who was perusing space for lost children, saves the day. But the mighty turtle can’t keep up with the spaceship,