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July 14, 2015

1940s Horror Films

1. 1940 Black Friday
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
Director: Arthur Lubin
Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
2. 1940 Son of Ingagi
A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.
Director: Richard C. Kahn
Stars: Zack Williams, Laura Bowman
3. 1940 The Ape
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing towns people.
Director: William Nigh
Stars: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon
4. 1940 The Devil Bat
A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren 
5. 1941 Invisible Ghost
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Polly Ann Young
6. 1941 King of the Zombies
On a spooky island, three stranded travelers find an evil doctor working with foreign spies and in control of zombies.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Stars: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury
7. 1941 Spooks Run Wild
The boys are sent to a mountain camp. Stranded in a small rural town, they hear about a "monster killer" roaming the countryside. The nurse at the boys camp sets out to find the missing boys with Von Grosch, who has come to rid the town of the killer- or has he?
Director: Phil Rosen
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey
8. 1941 The Wolf Man
A practical man returns to his homeland, is attacked by a creature of folklore, and infected with a horrific disease his disciplined mind tells him can not possibly exist.
Director: George Waggner
Stars: Claude Rains, Warren William
9. 1942 The Corpse Vanishes
A scientist, aided by an old hag & her two sons - a malicious dwarf and a brutish moron, kills virgin brides, steals their bodies, & extracts gland fluid to keep his ancient wife alive and young.
Director: Wallace Fox
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters
10. 1942 The Mad Monster
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
Director: Sam Newfield
Stars: Johnny Downs, George Zucco
11. 1942 The Undying Monster
Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.
Director: John Brahm
Stars: James Ellison, Heather Angel
12. 1943 Revenge of the Zombies
Von Altermann, a Nazi who has been creating zombies for the armies of the Third Reich, has turned the deceased Lila into one of the undead as well, but is surprised when she shows signs of free will and challenges Max for control over his zombie thralls.
Director: Steve Sekely
Stars: Robert Lowery, John Carradine
13. 1943 The Ape Man
Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster, aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man.
Director: William Beaudine
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie
14. 1943 The Leopard Man
A seemingly tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy new Mexico town.
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo
15. 1943 The Mad Ghoul
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon him into a murdering ghoul.
Director: James P. Hogan
Stars: David Bruce, Evelyn Ankers
16. 1944 Cry of the Werewolf
Young woman raised by gypsies is actually daughter of a werewolf. She starts killing those who know about her.
Director: Henry Levin
Stars: Nina Foch, Stephen Crane
17. 1944 The Lady and the Monster
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death, and telepathically begins to take control of those around him.
Director: George Sherman
Stars: Vera Ralston, Erich von Stroheim
18. 1944 The Monster Maker
Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
Director: Sam Newfield
Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan
19. 1944 Voodoo Man
Dr. Richard Marlowe uses a combination of voodoo rite and hypnotic suggestion to attempt to revivify his beautiful, but long-dead wife, by transferring the life essences of several hapless young girls he has kidnapped and imprisoned in the dungeon beneath his mansion.
Director: William Beaudine
Stars: Bela Lugosi, John Carradine
20. 1945 Zombies on Broadway
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.
Director: Gordon Douglas
Stars: Wally Brown, Alan Carney
21. 1946 The Flying Serpent
The demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving her one of the beast's feathers, causing the creature to track her down and slaughter her.
Director: Sam Newfield
Stars: George Zucco, Ralph Lewis
22. 1947 Scared to Death
From a slab in the morgue, a dead young woman tells the bizarre tale of how she got there, through a maze of murder involving a hypnotist, a midget and a mysterious figure in a blue mask.
Director: Christy Cabanne
Stars: Bela Lugosi, George Zucco
23. 1948 The Creeper
A man is turned into a "catlike" killer by means of a serum invented by a crazed scientist.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Stars: Eduardo Ciannelli, Onslow Stevens