Released Date:
1931-02-14
Languages:
English, Hungarian, Latin
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
85 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (30184 Reviews)
Director:
Tod BrowningGenres:
HorrorBram Stoker (by)
Hamilton Deane (from the play adapted by)
John L. Balderston (from the play adapted by)
Garrett Fort (play)
After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire. Renfield is drugged by the eerily hypnotic count, and turned into one of his thralls, protecting him during his sea voyage to London. After sucking the blood and turning the young Lucy Weston into a vampire, Dracula turns his attention to her friend Mina Seward, daughter of Dr. Seward who then calls in a specialist, Dr. Van Helsing, to diagnose the sudden deterioration of Mina's health. Van Helsing, realizing that Dracula is indeed a vampire, tries to prepare Mina's fiance, John Harker, and Dr. Seward for what is to come and the measures that will have to be taken to prevent Mina from becoming one of the undead.
Released Date:
1932-02-21
Languages:
English, Danish, German
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
61 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (2322 Reviews)
Director:
Robert FloreyEdgar Allan Poe (story)
Robert Florey (adaptation)
Tom Reed (screenplay)
Dale Van Every (screenplay)
John Huston (additional dialogue)
In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women die. Medical student Pierre Dupin discovers what Mirakle is doing too late to prevent the abduction of his girlfriend Camille. Now he desperately tries to enlist the help of the police to get her back.
Released Date:
1934-05-07
Languages:
English, Latin, Hungarian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
65 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (5624 Reviews)
Director:
Edgar G. UlmerEdgar Allan Poe (suggested by a story by)
Peter Ruric (screenplay)
Edgar G. Ulmer (story)
Peter Ruric (story)
Honeymooning in Hungary, Joan and Peter Allison share their train compartment with Dr. Vitus Verdegast, a courtly but tragic man who is returning to the remains of the town he defended before becoming a prisoner of war for fifteen years. When their hotel-bound bus crashes in a mountain storm and Joan is injured, the travellers seek refuge in the home, built fortress-like upon the site of a bloody battlefield, of famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig. There, cat-phobic Verdegast learns his wife's fate, grieves for his lost daughter, and must play a game of chess for Allison's life.
Released Date:
1936-01-20
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (1366 Reviews)
Director:
Lambert HillyerJohn Colton (screenplay)
Howard Higgin (original story)
Douglas Hodges (original story)
Visionary scientist Janos Rukh convinces a group of scientists and supporters to mount an expedition to the African continent to locate and study an ancient meteorite of great significance. He exposes himself to the highly toxic radiation of the meteorite, and while an antidote devised by Dr. Benet saves him from death by radiation poisoning, his naked touch causes instant death to others. Back in London, the benefits of the meteorite's controlled radiation offer Dr. Benet an opportunity to restore eyesight to the blind. The antidote's toxicity excites Prof. Rukh into paranoid rages as he seeks revenge against the members of his expedition, who he accuses of stealing his discovery for their own glory.
Released Date:
1940-02-01
Languages:
English, Russian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
(13402 Reviews)
Director:
Ernst LubitschCharles Brackett (screen play)
Billy Wilder (screen play)
Walter Reisch (screen play)
Melchior Lengyel (based on the original story by)
Only the royal suite at the grandest hotel in Paris has a safe large enough for the jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana. So the three Russians who have come to sell the jewels settle into the suite until a higher ranking official is dispatched to find out what is delaying the sale. She is Ninotchka, a no nonsense woman who fascinates Count Leon who had been the faithful retainer of the Grand Duchess. The Grand Duchess will give up all claim to the jewels if Ninotchka will fly away from the count.
Released Date:
1940-04-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
70 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (1121 Reviews)
Director:
Arthur LubinCurt Siodmak (screenplay)
Eric Taylor (screenplay)
When his friend Professor Kingsley is at deaths door, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac saves his life by means of an illegal operation that transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon's brain. Unfortunately, the operation has a disastrous Jeckll and Hyde side effect and under certain conditions the persona of Cannon emerges. Sovac soon learns of the duel personality and of half a million dollars the gangster has hidden away. He attempts to find the money through the manipulation of his friend, an attempt that brings Kingsley closer to madness as he alternates between a meek professor of English and a brutal gangster out for murderous revenge on those who tried to kill him.
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
77 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (5509 Reviews)
Director:
Robert WiseRobert Louis Stevenson (short story)
Philip MacDonald (written for the screen by)
Val Lewton (written for the screen by)
In Edinburgh in 1831, Dr. Wolfe MacFarlane runs a medical school where Donald Fettes is a student. Fettes is interested in helping a young girl who has lost the use of her legs. He is certain that MacFarlane's surgical skills could be put to great use but he is reluctant to do so. The good Dr. MacFarlane has a secret that soon becomes all too obvious to young Fettes, who has only recently been promoted as his assistant: he has been paying a local cabbie, John Gray, to supply him with dead bodies for anatomical research. Gray constantly harasses MacFarlane and clearly has a hold over him dating to a famous trial many years before where Gray refused to identify the man for whom he was robbing graves. Fettes isn't aware of any of this but soon realizes exactly how Gray obtains the bodies they use in their anatomy classes.
Released Date:
1948-06-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
83 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (10071 Reviews)
Director:
Charles BartonRobert Lees (original screenplay)
Frederic I. Rinaldo (original screenplay)
John Grant (original screenplay)
The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein's monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Dracula awakens and escapes with the weakened monster, who he plans to re-energize with a new brain. Larry Talbot (the Wolfman) arrives from London in an attempt to thwart Dracula. Dracula's reluctant aide is the beautiful Dr. Sandra Mornay. Her reluctance is dispatched by Dracula's bite. Dracula and Sandra abduct Wilbur for his brain and recharge the monster in preparation for the operation. Chick and Talbot attempt to find and free Wilbur, but when the full moon rises all hell breaks loose with the Wolfman, Dracula, and Frankenstein all running rampant.
Released Date:
2015-02-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
Luxembourg, Belgium, Spain, USA
Runtime:
70 min
IMDB Ratings:
(59 Reviews)
Director:
Raul GarciaRaul Garcia
Raul Garcia
Edgar Allan Poe
Stèphan Roelants
An animated anthology of 5 stories adapted from Edgar Allan Poe.
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