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The Frozen Ghost 1945 Stage mentalist Gregor the Great becomes enraged when a drunken audience member belittles his act When the man dies suddenly, Gregor convinces himself that his hypnotic powers are to blame Guilt ridden, he retires from performing to Valerie Monets wax museum He becomes increasi

Gallery of Horror 1967 John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending In the first, The Witches Clock sic, The Farrells have purchased an old mansion in Salem Massachusetts, and are warned by the town doctor, Finchley, of the history of witches in the co

Johnny Reno 1966 One of the thirteen low budget westerns produced by A C Lyles in the sixties The premise is a simple one Sheriff Johnny Reno is heading to a small town in order to see his one time sweetheart Nona Williams On the way, he is set upon by two brothers who think he is after them Forced

Of Mice and Men 1939 George Milton and Lennie Small are migrant workers in the 1930s Depression Lennie is mentally disabled and George looks after him While working as hands on a Western ranch, they dream of owning their own ranch and the opportunity may be available Their current ranch is owned by

Weird Woman 1944 While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love and marries an exotic native woman What he doesnt know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to be some kind of supernatural being

The Mummys Tomb 1942 A high priest travels to America with a living mummy to kill those who had desecrated the tomb of an Egyptian princess thirty years earlier

The Mummys Curse 1944 An irrigation project in the rural bayous of Louisiana unearths living mummy Kharis, who was buried in quicksand twenty five years earlier

Monster Madness The Golden Age of the Horror Film 2014 Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy, and the Wolf Man helped build a golden age for horror movies at Universal Studios With talented directors, iconic actors, and shocking scares, Universal

Dead Mans Eyes (1944) An artist (Lon Chaney Jr) is blinded by a jealous assistant/model. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. there's only one hitch. Chaney has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature de

Pillow of Death (1945) Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary are having an affair, so when Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a ...

House of the Black Death (1965) Two brothers, both of whom are warlocks, use their powers and covens of witches to battle over the family fortune.

The Female Bunch (1971) After a string of bad times with men, Sandy tries to kill herself. Co-waitress Libby saves her and takes her to meet some female friends of hers who live on a ranch in the desert. Grace, the leader of the gang, puts Sandy through her initiation and they get on with the real j

One Million B.C. (1940) Tumak, member of the prehistoric Rock tribe, is exiled and makes his way to the more peaceful Shell tribe, where he is taken in and taught manners by the lovely Loana. Forced to leave the Shell tribe for fighting, Tumak, along with Loana, return to the Rock tribe, where Loana

Witchcraft (1964) Since the 17th Century when the Lanier's buried a Whitlock woman alive as a witch and took over the Whitlock estate, the Whitlocks have hungered for revenge. Against the wishes of both families, Amy Whitlock and Bill Lanier are planning on getting married. The Laniers have sent bul

ManMade Monster (1941) "Big Dan" McCormick is the sole survivor of a bus crash into hydro lines. 5 others were electrocuted. Intrigued by Dan's apparent immunity to electricity, Dr. John Lawrence, distinguished elector-biologist, asks Dan to visit him at his laboratory, where Lawrence's as

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) Larry Talbot finds himself in an asylum, recovering from an operation performed by the kindly Dr. Mannering. Inspector Owen finds him there, too, wanting to question him about a recent spate of murders. Talbot escapes and finds Maleva, the old gypsy woman who k

The Black Sleep (1956) England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor, eminent surgeon Sir Joel Cadmund. Cadmund offers to see that Ramsey gets a proper burial and gives him a sleeping powder to get

Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) Judith Fontaine (Regina Carrol) is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out Joanie has become the victim of Groton (Lon Chaney Jr.), an axe-wielding homicidal maniac working for Dr. Durray (J. Car

The Alligator People (1959) A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call, the train pulls away without him on it, and that's the last his wife sees of him. Years later after a long search she finally tracks him down on his f

House of Dracula (1945) Dracula arrives at Dr. Edelman's office asking for a cure to his vampirism. However, this is a ruse by Dracula to get near Dr. Edelman's beautiful female assistant and turn her into a vampire. Meanwhile, a sincere Lawrence Talbot, AKA the Wolfman, arrives seeking a cure for h

The Haunted Palace (1963) Loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft's novel THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD, this fright flick opens with a warlock placing a curse on a group of villagers about to burn him at the stake. Generations later, the warlock's descendant returns to the village to pick up where his an

The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) Ygor resurrects Frankenstein's monster and brings him to the original doctor's son, Ludwig, for help. Ludwig, obsessed with the idea of restoring the monster to full power, is unaware that his various associates all have different ideas about whose brain is to be tra

House of Frankenstein (1944) After escaping from an asylum the mad Dr. Niemann and his hunch back assistant revive Count Dracula, the Wolf Man and the Frankenstein monster in order to extract revenge upon their many enemies.

The Cyclops (1957) Susan Winter undertakes an expedition to a remote area of Mexico, hoping to find her fiance, Bruce Barton, whos plane-crashed there some time ago. The area is suspected to have a good supply of uranium, so Susan has promoted this to wealthy Martin Melville to get money for her exp

Son of Dracula (1943) Count Alucard finds his way from Budapest to the swamps of the Deep South after meeting Katherine Caldwell, of the moneyed Caldwell clan that runs a plantation called Dark Oaks. She's obsessed with occult matters. Who better to guide her through this supernatural world than Cou

Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967) In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of 10 or so on as they physically develop. The family chauffeur

Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man.