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Subgenre Sampler
Quatermass Experiment, The (TV Series) (1953)
- Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean - The seminal serial (in six parts) by award–winning writer Nigel Kneale that laid the foundations of British Sci–Fi TV.. This first…
Monkey Business (1952)- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn… - Scientist Cary Grant discovers a rejuvenation serum which has screwball side–effects. Stars include the director and writing team – Ben…
Body Snatcher, The (1945)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi - Quietly creepy Val Lewton production with Boris Karloff as a sinister grave robber who provides bodies for medical research and then blackmails the…
Invisible Woman, The (1940)- Dir. A. Edward Sutherland
Feat. Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard… - The mad professor (Barrymore) is about to lose hope of salvaging his project when finally someone answers the call (an ad in the paper) to be his…
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff - Boris Karloff meets his match when mad Dr. Frank builds his forlorn monster a mate. Sequel to FRANKENSTEIN is possibly the best horror of the '30s…
Vanishing Shadow, The (1934)- Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Onslow Stevens, Walter Miller, Ada Ince… - 12–episode sci–fi serial about an electrical engineer and a mad scientist who attempt to take down a corrupt politician with a device…
Invisible Man, The (1933)- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Claude Rains - Engrossing fantasy about a scientist who becomes invisible, thus leaving ego unchecked to gain advantage and wreak havoc. A memorable,…
Island of Lost Souls (1933)- Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen… - First screen version of H.G. Wells' fascinating novel features the delightfully loony Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau, the exiled scientist obsessed…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins - Lurid and expressionistic 30s version of Stevenson's novel, and still the best, with Fredric March (who won an Oscar) as the idealist Doctor who…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)- Dir. John S. Robertson
Feat. John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst… - The first of many adaptations is this unsettling silent version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella about a charitable scientist whose…
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