1. 1931 Svengali | ![]() | Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro
controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves. Director: Archie Mayo Stars: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh |
2. 1931 The Mad Genius | ![]() | A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a
great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the
dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love
with. Director: Michael Curtiz Stars: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh |
3. 1931 The Phantom | ![]() | A group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion. Director: Alan James Stars: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Allene Ray |
4. 1932 Murders in the Rue Morgue | ![]() | A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments. Director: Robert Florey Stars: Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox |
5. 1932 Tales of the Uncanny | ![]() | A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. Director: Richard Oswald Stars: Paul Wegener, Maria Koppenhöfer |
6. 1932 The Monster Walks | ![]() | People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape. Director: Frank R. Strayer Stars: Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds |
7. 1932 The Most Dangerous Game | ![]() | An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he
can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers. Director: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack Stars: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray |
8. 1932 Vampyr | ![]() | A traveler obsessed with the supernatural visits an old inn and finds evidence of vampires. Director: Carl Th. Dreyer Stars: Julian West, Maurice Schutz |
9. 1932 White Zombie | ![]() | A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance, but instead turns her into a zombie slave. Director: Victor Halperin Stars: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy |
10. 1933 Mystery of the Wax Museum | ![]() | The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor. Director: Michael Curtiz Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray |
11. 1937 Night of Terror | ![]() | A lottery winner breaks up with her fiancé and marries a fortune hunter who proves to be dangerous. Director: Rowland V. Lee Stars: Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone |
12. 1933 The Ghoul | ![]() | An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb. Director: T. Hayes Hunter Stars: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke |
13. 1933 The Invisible Man | ![]() | A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane. Director: James Whale Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart |
14. 1933 The Vampire Bat | ![]() | When the villagers of Klineschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop. Director: Frank Strayer Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray |
15. 1934 House of Mystery | ![]() | An ancient curse and a killer ape are contained inside an old dark mansion. Director: William Nigh Stars: Ed Lowry, Verna Hillie |
16. 1935 Condemned to Live | ![]() | After a series of unsolved murders, a man finds out that his mother was
bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he
may be the vampire committing the murders. Director: Frank R. Strayer Stars: Ralph Morgan, Pedro de Cordoba |
17. 1935 The Crime of Dr. Crespi | ![]() | A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in
whoever it is injected into. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies,
so that he can bury them alive. Director: John H. Auer Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Harriet Russell |
18. 1935 The Raven | ![]() | A brilliant surgeon obsessed with Poe saves the life of a beautiful dancer and goes mad when he can't have her. Director: Louis Friedlander Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi |
19. 1936 The Man Who Changed His Mind | ![]() | Dr. Laurience, a brilliant but unstable scientist experimenting with
transferring minds, becomes vengeful when his magnate patron withdraws
his support. Director: Robert Stevenson Stars: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee |
20. 1939 Son of Frankenstein | ![]() | One of the sons of Frankenstein finds his father's monster in a coma and
revives him, only to find out he is controlled by Ygor who is bent on
revenge. Director: Rowland V. Lee Stars: Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone |
21. 1939 The Dark Eyes of London | ![]() | Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a
disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as
doctor-on-call. Director: Walter Summers Stars: Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams |
22. 1939 The Devil's Daughter | ![]() | Sylvia Walton returns from Harlem to take over a Jamaican plantation
from her vindictive half-sister, amid the growing sound of drums. Director: Arthur Leonard Stars: Nina Mae McKinney, Jack Carter |
23. 1939 The Gorilla | ![]() | When a wealthy man (Atwill) is threatened by a killer known as The
Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped
gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive. Director: Allan Dwan Stars: Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz |
24. 1939 The Return of Dr. X | ![]() | A hotshot reporter and a young doctor team up to investigate a series of
grisly murders and a mysterious sample of synthetic blood. Director: Vincent Sherman Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane |
25. 1939 Torture Ship | ![]() | A mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship. Director: Victor Halperin Stars: Lyle Talbot, Irving Pichel |