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Creature with the Atom Brain (1955) starring Richard Denning

Creature with the Atom Brain

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Creature with the Atom Brain (1955) starring Richard Denning

Creature with the Atom Brain: Several years earlier gangster Frank Buchanan was deported to his native Italy through the efforts of law enforcement authorities and rival gangsters who inform on him. While in Europe he meets scientist Wilhelm Steigg, who has perfected a method of reanimating dead people and controlling their behavior with oral commands. Buchanan underwrites Steigg’s experiments and uses his technology to wreak revenge on his enemies. Unfortunately radioactive poisoning is a by-product of the process, and authorities use radiation detecting devices like Geiger counters to pinpoint the source of the sinister plot.

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The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942) starring Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre

The Boogie Man Will Get You

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In The Boogie Man Will Get You, mad scientist Boris Karloff sells his colonial house to Winnie, frustrating banker Peter Lorre. But he’s been experimenting on traveling salesmen — whose corpses are in the basement! Then Winnie’s ex-husband shows up …

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Mad Love

Mad Love

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Mad Love (1935), starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive

Mad Love What will obsessed surgeon Dr. Gogol do to be with lovely Yvonne Orlac … When her pianist husband’s hands are crushed? How far will he go…

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Mesa of Lost Women (1953) starring Jackie Coogan, Allan Dixon, Richard Travis, Mary Hill, Tandra Quinn

Mesa of Lost Women

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Mesa of Lost Women (1953) starring Jackie Coogan, Allan Dixon, Richard Travis, Mary Hill, Tandra Quinn

Spider-women lure men to their death in this thriller from the golden era of Drive-in schlock!  Mesa of Lost Women is regarded as one of the worst movies ever made.  A mad scientist named Arana (Jackie Coogan) is creating giant spiders, dwarves, and indestructible spider women hybrids in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider glands.

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The Black Hole, starring Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Perkins, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine, Joseph Bottoms

The Black Hole

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The Black Hole (1979), starring Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Perkins, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine, Joseph Bottoms

In The Black Hole, a ship of space explorers make an amazing discovery. They find a ship presumed lost, 20 years ago. It’s safely hovering on the edge of a black hole – somehow. And the scientist in charge plans to go through it. But what happened to the crew?

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The Corpse Vanishes  (1942) starring Bela Lugosi, Angelo Rossitto

The Corpse Vanishes

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The Corpse Vanishes  (1942) starring Bela Lugosi, Angelo Rossitto

Synopsis of The Corpse Vanishes.

The Corpse Vanishes is one of Bela Lugosi’s better Monogram efforts. He plays a mad scientist who uses a sadistic dwarf (Rossitto of Freaks) to help him kill virgin brides …. And then extract their spinal fluid to keep his ancient wife young and beautiful.

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The Ape (1940) starring Boris Karloff

The Ape

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The Ape (1940) starring Boris Karloff

The Ape is an unusual horror film. It has a kindly doctor (Boris Karloff), who’s working on a cure for polio. So, that’s good, although his cure requires human spinal fluid. He has a strong affection for Frances Clifford, suffering from polio. The audience never finds out why, but that’s okay. Then, a circus gorilla escapes. A rather vicious gorilla, that’s terrorizes the townspeople. And it breaks into the doctor’s home!

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She Demons (1958) starring Irish McCalla, Tod Griffin, Victor Sen Yung

She Demons

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She Demons (1958) starring Irish McCalla, Tod Griffin, Victor Sen Yung

She Demons – A hurricane, island castaways, beautiful girls, Nazis, a mad scientist, weird experiments, female monsters & a volcano! Prime ingredients for a horror exploitation film. Delightfully cheesy.

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Bride of the Monster (1955) starring Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, by Ed Wood

Bride of the Monster

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Bride of the Monster (1955) starring Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, by Ed Wood

In Bride of the Monster, Dr. Varnoff captures various men for his experiment. He plans to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Newspaperwoman Lawton gets too snoopy for her own good.

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