Before I Hang (1940)
Apr 16, 2026Mad Scientist Film
Boris Karloff plays a mad scientist who creates an experimental formula to reverse aging and injects himself with it, only for it to turn into a split personalitied killer
Evelyn Keyes
Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941)
Feb 3, 2000Afterlife Mixup
One of the original Hollywood afterlife films of the 1940s light fantasy boom, twice remade, most notedly as Warren Beatty’s Heaven Can Wait. Amiable and likeable while avoiding any deeper issues
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
Nov 27, 2024Arabian Nights Adventure
Part of the fad during the 1940s for swashbuckling Arabian Nights adventures, this tells the story of Aladdin and is more embracing of the fantasy elements than most of the other films of this period
A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987)
Sep 3, 2005Town of Vampires
Cult director Larry Cohen makes a sequel to the Stephen King mini-series but throws most connection out to make his own wry, occasionally amusing vampire film