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Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster (Bela Lugosi), aided by his colleague Dr. Randall (Henry Hall), has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him, it falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla to find appropriate donors
A bunch of innocent people is kidnapped on an island by a crazed hunter who wishes to extend his skills on human game for a change (notably known as “the most dangerous” one). Yes, you’ve guess where Dr Balleau took the idea from, none other than Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1932 classic. The shadow of Count Zaroff is all over this 1961 kind of remake. Not as valuable, by far, but worth a quick look, like this original movie trailer, for instance.
While travelling in Switzerland, the child of a well-off couple is kidnapped. She is held to ensure that her father does not reveal what he knows about a planned assassination. Since they can’t talk to the authorities, the parents plan to begin the search for their daughter on their own. This is the original, British-made movie from 1934 and is now in the public domain. After coming to the United States, Alfred Hitchcock produced a remake of this movie in 1956 starring James (Jimmy) Stewart and Doris Day. The remake remains under copyright.
After a beauty is mangled in a car accident, a researcher uses a treatment he has created to restore her to her former self. However, the treatment comes with a high price…. This was originialy an Italian film titled “Seddok, l’erede di Satana” which was later dubbed into English and retitled “Atomic Age Vampire”.
See the invention of fire! See the world’s first swan dive! See the prehistoric beauties battle the giant caveman! See it all in the glory of beautiful Cinecolor! Who could ask for anything more?
Flash, Dale, and Zarkov return to Planet Mongo to find an antidote for the Purple Death.
The film centers on the life of Tod Lubitch (John Travolta), who was born with an improperly functioning immune system. This means that contact with unfiltered air may kill him, so he must live out his life in incubator conditions. He lives with his parents, since they decided to move him from the hospital where he was being kept as a boy. He is constricted to staying in his room all his life, where he eats, learns, reads and exercises, while being protected from the outside world by various coverings.
IMDb: ‘Fatty’ is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
The film is set during World War I. A “French Cambodian” contingent had heard strange stories about zombification—supposedly Angkor Wat was built by utilizing zombies—and there are tales of zombie armies easily overcoming foes. Armand Louque (Dean Jagger) brings back a priest who supposedly knows the secret of zombification, but he won’t talk. So Louque and an international military contingent head to Angkor Wat on an archaeological expedition designed to discover the secret of zombification and destroy the information before zombies have a chance to “wipe out the white race”.
At Land (1944) is a 15-minute silent experimental film written, directed by and starring Maya Deren. Also starring John Cage, Alexander Hammid and Parker Tyler.
Strung-out junkie deals with daily demoralizing drug addiction while crippled wife and card sharks continue to pull him down.
CLASSIC HORROR FILM WITH LON CHANEY
Taken from IMDB: John Haloran has a fatal heart attack, but his wife Louise won’t get any of the inheritance when Lady Haloran dies if John is dead. Louise forges a letter from John to convince the rest of his family he’s been called to New York on important business, and goes to his Irish ancestral home, Castle Haloran, to meet the family and look for a way to ensure a cut of the loot. Seven years earlier John’s sister Kathleen was drowned in the pond, and the Halorans enact a morbid ritual in remembrance. Secrets shroud the sister’s demise, and soon the family and guests begin experiencing an attrition problem.