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The Man with Nine Lives [Behind the Door] ***½ (1940, Boris Karloff, Byron Foulger, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers) – Classic Movie Review 5640

Director Nick Grinde’s chilling 1940 horror sci-fi thriller finds dear old Boris Karloff playing with the chemistry set again as yet another in his long line of mad doctors. But that’s good, right? This time […]

Jun, 20

The Mad Doctor of Market Street ** (1942, Lionel Atwill, Una Merkel, Nat Pendleton, Claire Dodd, Anne Nagel, Hardie Albright, Richard Davies) – Classic Movie Review 5534

Cult director Joseph H Lewis’s minor 1942 Universal Studios B-movie horror thriller stars Lionel Atwill as Dr Ralph Benson, the unbalanced doctor who is forced to leave San Francisco and sets off to a remote exotic […]

Jun, 02

Bride of the Monster * (1955, Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy) – Classic Movie Review 5286

This 1955 horror and sci-fi mixture, with many puzzling lines of dialogue and unbelievable moments, is another of Edward D Wood Jr’s hysterical, surreally awful home movies. Bela Lugosi stars as mad professor Dr Eric […]

Apr, 14

Dr Renault’s Secret **½ (1942, J Carrol Naish, John Shepperd, George Zucco, Lynne Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 5074

‘HALF-MAN…HALF-MONSTER!…A strange tale torn out of the depths of terror! His animal instinct cannot be tamed!’ George Zucco stars as the creepy Doctor Robert Renault, who has invented a technique mixing a secret serum with […]

Feb, 27

The Unearthly * (1957, John Carradine, Allison Hayes, Myron Healey, Sally Todd, Marilyn Buferd, Tor Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 3660

John Carradine is typecast yet again in one of his long gallery of mad doctor scientists in director Brooke L Peters [aka Boris Petroff]’s plodding and very silly 1957 Sci-Fi chiller. It says much that […]

May, 04

Indestructible Man ** (1956, Lon Chaney Jnr, Robert Shayne, Marian Carr, Ross Elliott, Casey Adams) – Classic Movie Review 3132

‘The Screen’s 300,000 Volt SHOCKER!’ Or better still: ‘The scream that shocks the screen with 300,000 volts of horror! Inhuman! Invincible! Inescapable!’ Director Jack Pollexfen’s entertaining low-budget 1956 horror movie shocker casts Robert Shayne as […]

Dec, 05

Asylum [House of Crazies] *** (1972, Robert Powell, Charlotte Rampling, Patrick Magee, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd, Peter Cushing, Geoffrey Bayldon, Barbara Parkins, Barry Morse, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 3093

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1972 British horror film is the third Amicus portmanteau movie collection of stories from the pen of screen-writer Robert Bloch (Psycho). An excellent cast underplays the chills and the black humour […]

Nov, 25

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