The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)
Oct 14, 2000Universal Mummy Film
The third of Universal's Mummy films where Lon Chaney Jr inherits the role of Kharis
Turhan Bey
Arabian Nights (1942)
Aug 26, 2020Arabian Nights Adventure
A Hollywood version of the Arabian Nights that throws out the story's unique narrative structure and substitutes the colourful spectacle of the swashbuckling adventure. With Shemp Howard as Sinbad!
The Mad Ghoul (1943)
Nov 18, 2013Mad Scientist Invents Zombie Gas
An entry from the great era of mad scientist films wherein George Zucco turns his assistant into a zombie so he can steal his fiancee. Despite a wonderfully mad performance from Zucco, the effort is prosaic and routine, while the zombie gets to do almost nothing throughout
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1943)
Dec 31, 2025Arabian Nights Adventure
One amid the popular fad of Arabian Nights adventures made by Hollywood during the 1940s. Here the story of Ali Baba is subverted to become a swashbuckling romantic adventure
The Climax (1944)
Aug 11, 2021Mad Doctor Fixates on an Opera Singer
Made to exploit leftover sets from the 1943 Phantom of the Opera, this is a magnificent colour production that has Boris Karloff as an obsessive surgeon who fixates on a beautiful young opera singer
Night in Paradise (1946)
Jul 2, 2000Greek Storyteller
Overblown production featuring Turhan Bey as the storyteller Aesop engaged in a romantic adventure
Possessed By the Night (1994)
Jul 15, 2002Mind-Controlling Creature
B-budget dircetor Fred Olen Ray has taken the plot of Gremlins and thrown it together with one of his sofctore erotic films in which a mind-controlling goblin creature forces people to have sex
Virtual Combat (1995)
May 5, 2001Virtual Characters Come to Life/Action
Completely ridiculous martial arts SF film with Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson as a future cop fighting a videogame character incarnated in the real world
Universal Horror (1998)
Feb 12, 2005Classic Horror Documentary
Documentary about the Golden Age of Horror at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 40s (although it does touch on works from other studios too). The topic is covered with an impressive degree of detail