Black Friday (1940)
Jun 10, 2002Gangster's Transplanted Brain
A peculiar mixture of 1940s mad scientist and gangster film in which Boris Karloff transplants a mob boss's brain into the body of a mild-mannered English professor
Anne Nagel
The Green Hornet (1940)
May 16, 2023Serial/Masked Superhero
The first screen appearance of the masked superhero The Green Hornet in a thirteen-chapter serial that was adapted from a popular radio series. Later remade as a tv series and feature film.
Man Made Monster (1941)
Nov 9, 2016Mad Scientist Creates Electrified Man
An overlooked latter day Universal monster movie with Lionel Atwill on wonderfully demented form as a mad scientist who turns Lon Chaney, Jr. into an electrified human dynamo
The Mad Monster (1942)
Dec 28, 2023Mad Scientist Creates Werewolf
A poverty row mad scientist film where a magnificently sinister George Zucco turns his gardener into a werewolf. A copycat that was made not long after Universal’s The Wolf Man