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July 13, 2015

1930s Horror Films


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