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The Invisible Ray *** (1936, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Walter Kingsford, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 2675

Director Lambert Hillyer’s 1936 movie teams the great horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. It is an intriguing, pretty effective Karloff-Lugosi fantasy sci-fi horror thriller, with Karloff as Dr Janos Rukh, a visionary scientist experimenting […]

Jul, 06

Isle of the Dead **** (1945, Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer) – Classic Movie Review 2673

Boris Karloff stars in director Mark Robson’s wild, haunting 1945 Val Lewton-produced chiller, set in 1912 on a Greek island marooned by war and bedevilled by plague and maybe demon vampires. Martin Scorsese places it on his list […]

Jul, 06

Bedlam **** (1946, Boris Karloff, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2672

Director Mark Robson’s 1946 horror movie stars the great horror icon Boris Karloff as evil asylum master, apothecary general Master George Sims. Sadly it proved the last in the series of stylish B-movie horror films produced by […]

Jul, 06

Son of Frankenstein **** (1939, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson) – Classic Movie Review 2,506

The 1939 horror movie Son of Frankenstein is the third film in Universal’s superb Frankenstein series, the last to star Boris Karloff as the Monster but the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor. Director […]

May, 20

The Black Cat ***** (1934, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 2504

Hungarian psychiatrist Dr Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi) plots a hideous revenge on his old friend Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff). Director Edgar G Ulmer’s weird and wonderful 1934 horror movie The Black Cat brings together Boris […]

May, 20

The Body Snatcher **** (1945, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell) – Classic Movie Review 2390

Director Robert Wise’s 1945 tale of horror in old Edinburgh of 1832 is one of producer Val Lewton’s most celebrated macabre thrillers. It’s very much a work of the legendary Lewton, who co-writes the script, […]

Apr, 16

The Climax *** (1944, Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey) – Classic Movie Review 1929

The Climax is an excellent, little-known vintage Universal Studios horror movie that finds Boris Karloff back in mad doctor mode as Dr Hohner, a demented physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, who becomes obsessed with a […]

Dec, 07

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