Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Cat People (1942)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Simone Simon, Jack Holt, Kent Smith… - Producer Val Lewton's most celebrated low–budget horror evokes a disturbing atmosphere of repression and menace with shadows, music and the…
Black Cat, The (1941)- Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford… - A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)- Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner… - Handsomely produced version of the Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, in which a mild doctor transforms himself by night into a murderous maniac.
Wolf Man, The (Wolfman) (1941)- Dir. George Waggner
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains - Universal horror classic has Lon Chaney Jnr. bitten by werewolf Bela Lugosi among the foggy glades of Alpine–set English villages.
Ghost Breakers, The (1940)- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson… - THE CAT AND THE CANARY stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard reunite for this middling chiller with Goddard inheriting a haunted mansion on a small…
Killer Bats (The Devil Bat) (1940)- Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien - Although fairly low–tech in its special effects this short horror boasts a committed performance from Lugosi, as a doctor who is developing…
Cat and the Canary, The (1939)- Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard - Bob Hope lends his charm to this playful remake of 1927 expressionist silent film about siblings who inherit an uncle's fortune but must first prove…
Dark Eyes of London (Human Monster; Dead Eyes of London) (1939)- Dir. Walter Summers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt - Weirdly atmospheric chiller has Bela Lugosi using his blind disciples as pawns in an elaborate murder/insurance scam.
Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein (1939)- Dir. Rowland V Lee, Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi… - A double feature of horrors from Universal Studios, the third and fourth films respectively in the FRANKENSTEIN series. Son of Frankenstein (1939)…
Dracula's Daughter (1936)- Dir. Lambert Hillyer
Feat. Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill… - Worthy sequel to the Lugosi classic, substitutes female fangster Holden in the lead. Nice atmospherics.
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