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Ghost on the Loose (1943): Dir. William Beaudine
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Ava Gardner, Leo Gorcey; At the 'Ed Wood' end of the horror–comedy canon, this has Lugosi haunting the suburban house of some newlyweds. Also stars screen…
I Walked with a Zombie (1943): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway; Incandescent spook story about a nurse who unleashes historical and spiritual demons when called out to a Caribbean island. Its scare value may have…
Leopard Man, The (1943): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dennis O'Keefe; The final Val Lewton–Tourneur horror collaboration concerns an escaped leopard (apparently) running amok in a small New Mexico town. A slim…
Phantom of the Opera (1943): Dir. Arthur Lubin
Feat. Claude Rains, Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster; Technicolour version of the old tale with Claude Rains warbling it up behind the mask. The emphasis here is more on singing than chills, it could be…
Return of the Vampire, The (1943): Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch…; Serving as an unofficial follow–up to DRACULA (1931), Bela Lugosi plays another vampire called Armand Tesla, who encounters with an…
Seventh Victim, The (1943): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell…; One of the finest of producer Val Lewton’s low–budget RKO horror films, here investing a tale of satanists at work in NYCs Greenwich Village…
Son of Dracula (1943): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton…; The toothsome Count (not the son, despite the title), here played by Lon Chaney Jnr, sinks fangs into a selection of Southern belles and their…
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.

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