Maybe it’s because I just watched a ratty old print of The Mad Monster (1942) on YouTube and a crisp new transfer of The Mad Ghoul (1943)...

In the book, “Hollywood’s Pre-Code Horrors 1931-1934,” Raymond Valinoti Jr. reports that during the production of Island of Lost Souls...

When a man (Robert Benchley, I Married a Witch) has a “rough night” combination of a chat with a fortune teller and then a bad dream, his...

Imagine... Dr. Beaumont keeping this heart pumping for over twenty years! Jimmy (Warren Hull) Wish he could do something about making...

Love is greater than illusion, and as strong as death! Prince Sirki/Death (Frederic March) The origin of Death Takes a Holiday as a stage...

Little Phoebe was one of those persons who possess, as their exclusive patrimony, the gift of practical arrangement. It is a kind of...

What do they know? What will they ever know? I'll take them somewhere they've never been. Back into time. It will work well tonight. I'm...

The Devil & Daniel Webster (1941) evokes It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) for me. Both are about men who make unfortunate decisions but...

Midway through his directing career, Fritz Lang is still going strong with The Woman in the Window (1944,) a nearly two-hour noir that...

If Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931) is criticized for being too much like a play, then The Thirteenth Chair (1929) doesn’t have a chance! On...

For a 73-minute movie, Night Monster (1942) has a lot happening! In fact, it took a while for me to get acclimated and understand exactly...

When I think of Michael Curtiz, I automatically associate him with Casablanca (1942.) I forget the number of classic horror films he...

I run to death, and death meets me as fast, and all my pleasures are like yesterday. Holy sonnet VII, Jonne Donne The Seventh Victim...

Universal monster movies from the 1940s have a distinct look. Had I not seen the Paramount logo at the beginning of The Monster & the...

Get out your whiteboards and markers for this one… In 1924, Agatha Christie (you may have heard of her) wrote a short story called,...

It doesn’t take a stretch of the imagination to believe Twentieth Century-Fox was eager to capitalize on the success of Universal’s The...

Added to the many miracles performed by modern science that have accounted for the saving of thousands upon thousands of human beings,...

Talk about a bad rap! All right, The Return of Doctor X (1939) isn’t a fantastic movie; however, with a running time that's barely an...

Return of the Ape Man (1944) opens with an ominous headline: A hand pulls a lever in a laboratory and Professor Dexter (Bela Lugosi)...

The Ape Man (1943) opens with members of the press waiting for a ship to dock. A newspaper story provides further exposition: Doctor...