Dr Renault’s Secret (1942)
Sep 21, 2013Mad Scientist/Ape Man
A film from the heyday of the mad scientist film in which George Zucco turns an ape into a human being. Zucco is on marvellously demented form as the title doctor
J. Carrol Naish
Batman (1943)
Nov 26, 2000Comic-Book Superhero/Serial
Batman's first screen appearance in a fifteen-chapter serial. This is a dull, impoverished adaptation, which sees Batman and Robin rewritten in the service of the US government fighting a Japanese invasion force
House of Frankenstein (1944)
Feb 15, 2001Universal Monster Bash
The second of Universal's team-ups of their in-house monsters and superior to the first of these, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. Despite some imaginative moments, the script has a stitched-together improbability
Jungle Woman (1944)
Jun 14, 2002Were-Ape Woman
The second of Universal's trilogy that began with Captive Wild Woman, starring the exotic Acquanetta as a woman who transforms into an ape. Mostly routine
The Monster Maker (1944)
Jun 6, 2001Mad Scientist
Mad scientist film from poverty row studio PRC with George Zucco in a Bela Lugosi role as a madman injecting his enemies with doses of acromegaly
The Beast With Five Fingers (1946)
Aug 14, 2001Disembodied Hand
A fearful Peter Lorre is chased about by the disembodied hand of his late employer. A classic psychological horror film that has borrowed more than a few leaves from Val Lewton
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
Jun 30, 1999Mad Scientist/Monster Bash
One of the great title matches of all-time and a surprise that Universal never thought to do it. In the hands of Z-budget director Al Adamson it is a wasted opportunity nd Zandor Vorkov the worst screen Dracula ever