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‘Never before… so much wickedness under one roof!’ House of Frankenstein is a 1944 American horror film starring directed by Erle C. Kenton, from a screenplay by Edward T. Lowe Jr., …
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‘Your flesh will creep… at the hand that crawls!!!’ The Beast with Five Fingers is a 1946 American horror film directed by Robert Florey (Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Face Behind the …
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Tore Johansson (19 October 1903 – 12 May 1971), better known by the stage name Tor Johnson, was a Swedish professional wrestler (billed as The Super Swedish Angel) and actor. He …
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The Black Cat is a 1941 American comedy mystery horror film directed by Albert S. Rogell (The Last Warning) from a screenplay by Robert Lees (The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo …
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‘Karloff turns killer in a horror-crammed thriller!’ The Devil Commands is a 1941 American science fiction horror film directed by Edward Dmytryk (Captive Wild Woman; Bluebeard) from a screenplay by Robert …
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‘Creeping terror… kills like a strangler!’ Night Monster is a 1942 American horror film produced and directed by Ford Beebe (The Phantom Creeps; The Invisible Man’s Revenge) from a …
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Buried fury! Stalking to life from the depths of doom!’ The Mummy’s Curse is the 1944 American supernatural horror film directed by Leslie Goodwins from a screenplay by Leon Abrams …
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Angus Scrimm (born Lawrence Rory Guy; August 19, 1926 – January 9, 2016) was an American actor and author, best known for playing the Tall Man in the 1979 horror …
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‘Nameless! Fleshless! Deathless!’ The Mummy’s Ghost is the 1944 American supernatural horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg (The Black Sleep; Voodoo Island; Diary of a Madman) from a screenplay written by …
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Genius at Work is a 1945 American comedy crime thriller film directed by Leslie Goodwins (Murder in the Blue Room; The Mummy’s Curse) from a screenplay by Monte Brice and …
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Horror films and westerns are two of cinema’s great mainstays, having established their distinct identities and sets of conventions in the earliest days of the medium. So distinct from each …
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In Chinese tradition, a ghost marriage (Chinese: 冥婚; pinyin: mínghūn; literally: “spirit marriage”) is a marriage in which one or both parties are deceased. Other forms of ghost marriage are …
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George Zucco – 11 January 1886 to 27 May 1960 – was an English character actor who appeared, almost always in supporting roles, in ninety-six films during a career spanning two decades, from 1931 to 1951. …
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Lionel Alfred William Atwill (1 March 1885 – 22 April 1946) was an English stage and film actor. He was born on March 1, 1885, in Croydon, Surrey. He studied …
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‘Beautiful artists models and a beastly killer!’ House of Horrors is a 1946 released American horror movie directed by Jean Yarbrough (She-Wolf of London; The Creeper; Hillbillys in a Haunted House) …
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The Addams Family are fictional characters created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. The Addams Family characters include Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Grandmama, Wednesday, Pugsley, Pubert Addams, Cousin Itt and Thing. …
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In the lacklustre Milton Subotsky production The Uncanny, Peter Cushing plays a man desperate to expose a sinister cat conspiracy against the human race: ‘They prowl by night… lusting for …
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The Catman of Paris is a 1946 American horror mystery film directed by Lesley Selander (Fury, The Vampire’s Ghost) from a screenplay by Sherman L. Lowe. It stars Carl Esmond, Lenore …
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Bud Westmore (13 January 1918 – 24 June 1973) was a make-up artist in Hollywood and the son of George Westmore, a member of the Westmore family prominent in Hollywood …
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Electronically produced sound has been available to adventurous film composers since the silent era. Among the earliest electronic instruments were the Ondes-Martenot (invented in 1928), which produced a characteristic quivering …
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‘Born of horror to live in terror!’ Captive Wild Woman is a 1943 American science fiction horror film, starring John Carradine, Milburn Stone, Evelyn Ankers, and “introducing” Acquanetta (Lost Continent). It was released by …
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Although the continuity is a little wayward, the events of many of the Golden Age of Universal horror films actually take place in one of two fictional locales – the …
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Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American stage and screen actor, noted for his appearances in the classic horror films Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), and Bride of …
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Noble Johnson (April 18, 1881 – January 9, 1978) was an African-American actor and film producer. He was one of the first black actors in Hollywood to achieve any meaningful level of fame and successfully …
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Evelyn Ankers (17 August 1918 – 29 August 1985) was a British actress, originally born in Chile. She often played variations on the role of the cultured young leading lady in many American horror films during …
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The Frozen Ghost is a 1945 mystery film starring Lon Chaney Jr and Evelyn Ankers. Directed by Harold Young, it is the fourth film in the Inner Sanctum series that …
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Frankenstein’s Cat is a 1942 American animated cartoon that was part of the Mighty Mouse series. It is a Terrytoons production, directed by Mannie Davis. The six minute long story …
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“Bottles move… Things turn… Curtains catch on fire… Anything can happen. Queer, ain’t it?” Things Happen at Night is a 1948 British supernatural comedy about a posh household bedevilled by …
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Lock Up Your Daughters is a 1959 British compilation of clips from American 1940s Bela Lugosi films. It was apparently marketed as the first ‘film quiz’, and had selected bookings …
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Christmas is generally seen as a jolly old time for the whole family – if you are to believe the TV commercials, everyone gets together for huge communal feasts while …
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Jack the Ripper. The very name conjures up clichéd images of fog-shrouded streets, grisly murder and chirpy, voluptuous Cockney street girls spilling out of East End dens of inequity to …
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José Ramón Larraz (born 1929 in Barcelona) was a Spanish director of exploitation and horror films such as the cult classic Vampyres (1974). He died in Malaga on 3rd September 2013 whilst working on a remake of …
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Terror Tales was the name of two American publications: a pulp magazine of the weird menace genre, and a horror comic in the 1960s and 1970s. Terror Tales was originally published by Popular Publications. The first issue was published in September …
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Gossamer is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. The character is a hairy, red monster. His rectangular body is perched on two giant tennis shoes, and his heart-shaped face is composed …
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The Scarlet Claw is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes movie directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. It is the eighth film of the Rathbone/Bruce series. David Stuart Davies notes on the film’s DVD audio commentary that it’s …
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Richard Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He may be known best as the author of I Am Legend, …
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Bedlam is a 1946 American horror film starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee. It was the last in a series of stylish horror B films produced by Val Lewton (who also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym Carlos Keith) …
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Castle Films was a home-movie distributor founded in California by former newsreel cameraman Eugene W. Castle in 1924. The company originally produced business and advertising films. In 1937, Castle branched out into 8mm and 16mm home movies, buying newsreel …
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‘Who said the dead don’t walk!’ I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 American horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur (Night of the Demon). It was the second horror movie …
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The Mummy’s Hand is a 1940 American supernatural horror film directed by Christy Cabanne from a screenplay co-written by Griffin Jay and Maxwell Shane It was produced by Ben Pivar. …
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Rondo Hatton was born with a genetic condition, that of acromegaly which affects the pituitary gland (not the last actor to be afflicted – Richard Kiel – most famous as …
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The Brute Man is a 1946 American horror thriller film starring Rondo Hatton as the Creeper, a murderer seeking revenge against the people he holds responsible for the disfigurement of his face. Directed …
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Stuart Freeborn (5 September 1914 – 5 February 2013) was a veteran British motion picture make-up artist who died recently. He has been referred to as the “grandfather of modern make-up design” and is perhaps best …
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The Ghost Ship is a 1943 American psychological thriller film, with elements of mystery and horror, directed by Mark Robson, starring Richard Dix and featuring Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard …
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The Seventh Victim is a 1943 horror/film noir starring Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter (in her first film), and Hugh Beaumont, directed by Mark Robson, and produced …
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The Wolf Man is a 1941 American horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner. The Universal production stars Lon Chaney, Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn …
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‘She was marked with the curse of those who slink and court and kill by night!’ Cat People is a 1942 American horror film produced by Val Lewton and …
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Hangover Square is a 1945 film noir thriller directed by John Brahm (The Mad Magician), based on the novel Hangover Square (1941) by Patrick Hamilton. The screenplay was written by Barré Lyndon who made a number of changes to …
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The Lodger is a 1944 horror thriller film about Jack the Ripper, based on the novel of the same name by Marie Belloc Lowndes. It stars Merle Oberon, George Sanders …
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The Queen of Spades will be released on Blu-ray and DVD by Kino Lorber Studio Classics on October 15, 2019. The 1949 film is based on Alexander Pushkin’s short story …
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