Despite the lurid title, Werewolf in a Girl’s Dormitory isn’t as bad as you might expect. It’s an Italian horror/thriller movie. Where … something … is murdering your women in a girls reformatory school. It mixes comely, overage reform school girls with a murderous werewolf … And possible murder suspects.
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In House of Dracula, Wolf Man (Lon Chaney, Jr.) & Dracula (John Carradine) beg Dr. Edelman (Onslow Stevens) to cure them of their killing instincts. But Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor’s nurse.
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In The Mad Monster, Dr. Cameron (George Zucco) has succeeded in his experiments with a serum which will turn a man into a wolf-like monster and is ready to avenge himself on the men who caused his professional failure. He uses it on his gardener Petro (Glenn Strange) and one after the other is killed by his creation. His daughter, Lenora (Anne Nagel), grows suspicious and confides with newspaper reporter Tom Gregory (Johnny Downs).
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House of Frankenstein is the first of the Universal Studios monster mashes. In short, mad scientist Niemann and “friend Daniel” his hunchback assistant escape prison and enact a series of revenges on the people who had him imprisoned. They murder a proprietor of a travelling show of horrors, impersonate him and revive his corpse of Dracula. Dracula succeeds in the first part of the revenge scheme, but Niemann abandons him to be destroyed in the sunlight. Niemann then travels to the ruins of Frankenstein’s castle. He hopes to recover the dead doctor’s secrets, but instead recovers both the Wolf Man and Frankenstein’s monster. He revives them both, but a romantic triangle unravels the plot.
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Waxwork begins with the robbery of a wealthy man who is brutally murdered by being set on fire. Decades later a wax museum opens up in the suburbs. One day the enigmatic owner appears out of nowhere and offers China (Michelle Johnson) and Sarah (Deborah Foreman) a free midnight showing with some of their friends.
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In the vein of thrillers like Predator and An American Werewolf in London, Dog Soldiers follows a band of soldiers. While on a routine military exercise they must battle deadly, violent beasts preying on their blood.
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The Boy Who Cried Werewolf has divorced father Robert Bridgestone (Kerwin Mathews) is on a weekend outing with his son Richie (Scott Sealey) to their cabin. But late at night they are attacked by a werewolf. The creature is killed, but not before biting the father. And no one is willing to listen when Richie tries to warn people that his own father has become a werewolf.
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At the end of the original The Howling, Karen White dies … And Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf begins at her funeral, with her bereaved brother Ben (Reb Brown) meets Stefan Crosscoe (Christopher Lee). He tries to convince him that his sister died as a werewolf. Along with reporter Jenny Templeton (Annie McEnroe) the trio head to Czechoslovakia. Their goal is to defeat Stirba (Sybil Danning), the Queen of all werewolves. Before it’s too late.
Read More »Howling II: Your Sister is a WerewolfIn Wolfen, a real estate tycoon, his coke-binging wife and a slum wino have something grisly in common. They’re the latest victims in a series of random murders. A veteran NYPD detective soon suspects the killings may be supernatural and deliberate: ages-old beings of cunning intelligence and incredible power, defending their turf from the encroachments of humankind.
In Universal Picture’s first werewolf film, the 1935 Werewolf of London, there are several themes woven together. One is simply that of a scientist seeking to expand knowledge — Dr. Wilfrid Glendon (Henry Hull), who’s traveling in Tibet, looking for a legendary flower. In his quest, he enters a “forbidden valley” where he’s attacked by a wolf-like creature; but he manages to return alive with the flower regardless.
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