Black Friday (1940)
Jun 10, 2002Gangster's Transplanted Brain
A peculiar mixture of 1940s mad scientist and gangster film in which Boris Karloff transplants a mob boss's brain into the body of a mild-mannered English professor
Anne Nagel
The Green Hornet (1940)
May 16, 2023Serial/Masked Superhero
The first screen appearance of the masked superhero The Green Hornet in a thirteen-chapter serial that was adapted from a popular radio series. Later remade as a tv series and feature film.
Man Made Monster (1941)
Nov 9, 2016Mad Scientist Creates Electrified Man
One of overlooked, latter day entries in the great era of Universal Monster movies. Lionel Atwill is on wonderfully demented form as a mad scientist who turns Lon Chaney, Jr. into an electrified human dynamo and the effort is made with better care than most of the B movies of the decade
The Mad Monster (1942)
Dec 28, 2023Mad Scientist Creates Werewolf
A poverty row mad scientist film where a magnificently sinister George Zucco turns his gardener into a werewolf. A copycat that was made not long after Universal’s The Wolf Man