Mad Love
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom (1976) starring Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen
When two mysterious seed pods are unearthed in the Antarctic. And a crackpot millionaire commandeers one of them for his English garden. And Doctor Who and Sarah Jane are the only ones who can stop The Seeds of Doom.
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The Devil-Doll [Lionel Barrymore]
The Devil-Doll (1936) starring Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O’Sullivan, directed by Tod Browning
The Devil-Doll – Lionel Barrymore stars in this classic horror thriller about a Devil’s Island escapee who shrinks murderous slaves and sells them to his victims as dolls.
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Brain That Wouldn’t Die [cheesy monster movie]
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962) starring Herb Evers, Virginia Leith
The Brain that Wouldn’t Die is affectionately known as “Jan in the pan“. It’s the story of a brilliant, weird, unscrupulous surgeon. He’s a genius at organ transplants … So, when he decapitates his girlfriend in an automobile accident, there’s only one thing to do! He puts her head under his arm like a football and dashes back to his secret lab! Once there, he keeps the disembodied head of Jan alive. In a pan of chemicals. Until he can murder a beautiful woman to transplant her head onto! What could possibly go wrong?
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