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This was definitely one of the better dark house movies with Lugosi. As a matter of fact everything I actually like about the genre seems to be in this movie. There is plenty of atmosphere, a good mystery, lots of humor, likable characters… Lugosi has a better than usual role as a butler who wantsContinue reading “One Body too Many (1944)”

Bela Lugosi has his last Monogram movie with this movie about a caveman he finds in the Arctic with some help from his assistant played by John Carradine. They have the caveman brought back to life and Lugosi plans to give the guy part of the brain of a human. Not having any other availableContinue reading “Return of the Ape Man (1944)”

To quote Josey Scott, “It’s a family reunion.” We get to the last couple of movies from the Monogram series with Lugosi and this series doesn’t really finish on a high note either. It’s evident that the last couple of movies in this series were really cheap. This one takes place in the country andContinue reading “Voodoo Man (1944)”

Lon Chaney Jr. stars in this Inner Sanctum sequel movie that was made the same year as Weird Woman and was also a drastic improvement. For one thing, it was much more interesting. The story is actually kind of good. It still goes into romantic melodrama with the subplot, but the main plot is aContinue reading “Dead Man’s Eyes (1944)”

The way you might feel while watching this one. I am occasionally amazed by how bad a certain old movie can actually be. This would be one of them. While it kind of makes sense and you can follow the plot, the rest of this is pretty terrible. We start with one of those cornyContinue reading “Weird Woman (1944)”

Cats seem to be in these movies a lot. Charlie Chan takes on a famous psychic in this atmospheric mystery movie. This I think was the first movie to have Sidney Toler as the new Charlie Chan and number two son, Jimmy. We’ll skip over how Charlie calls his son number two through out theContinue reading “Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)”

Duck and cover. Alfred Hitchcock had this disposable thriller about a couple of people on a train who discover that an elderly woman has disappeared or should I say vanished. They spend most of the movie trying to find out what happened to the poor woman and discover a plot to cause two countries toContinue reading “Lady Vanishes (1938)”

Charlie Chan is in this mystery about a couple of murders that occur at an opera. There is plenty of atmosphere and some good comic relief from his assistant who is also his son along with a detective who chases him around the building. The best parts of course are the actual opera itself, whichContinue reading “Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)”

The original Bonnie and Clyde. This might be the best movie Alfred Hitchcock ever made, although I must admit that the main reason I like this one so much is just all of the action at the end of it. This has a great final action scene and it might be the best action sceneContinue reading “Man Who Knew too Much (1934)”

There were a couple of movies made with the early color design. One of them was Doctor X. Another one of them was this movie. Outside of having the interesting red and green color scheme again for the movie, this movie is pretty decent. The wax museum it takes place in is a good settingContinue reading “Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)”