Starring: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton, Lenita Lane, Elaine Edwards, Darla Hood, John Bryant, Harvey Stephens, Robert Williams, Mike Steele, Riza Royce
Synopsis: Based on the Gothic novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, this haunted house mystery casts Agnes Moorehead as a mystery writer who has just moved into a spooky old mansion. It's former owner was recently killed, but not before hiding one million ill-gotten dollars somewhere in the house. Now, a nefarious killer known only as the "Bat" is trying to find the money, while bodies and mysteries build up in this strange old house. Filmed before in 1915 (silent), 1926 (silent) and 1930 (talkie).
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BAT WHISPERS
(1930 – B&W – 83 min.) Director: Roland West
Starring: Chester Morris, Chance Ward, Una Merkel, Richard Tucker, Wilson Benge, Maude Eburne, William Bakewell, DeWitt Jennings, Sidney D’Albrook, S.E. Jennings, Grayce Hampton, Spencer Charters, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Hugh Huntley, Charles Dow Clark
Director Roland West’s sound remake of the silent classic THE BAT (1926). Occupants at an old mansion in the countryside are terrorized by a maniacal brilliant masked killer calling himself ‘the Bat’. The Bat is a master criminal fresh from a recent jewel robbery in which a rival crook has beaten him to the quarry. Now the Bat most figure out who has defeated him at his own game before he can reclaim the jewels. Wonderfully photographed and genuinely creepy atmosphere makes this a early film noir classic. Remade again as THE BAT in 1958 starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead in 1958.
Starring: Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich, Larisa Borisenko, V. Chernyak, Viktor Dobrovolsky.
Synopsis: Roger Corman transformed a Russian film into a sci-fi monster romp where Earth is divided into two countries (North and South Hemis). The monsters resemble a tall penis monster doing battle with a vagina monster... very odd indeed. A most see film for AIP fans with some great Russian sci-fi special effects.
Starring: Jon Hall, Sue Casey, Arnold Lessing, Elaine Dupont, Walker Edmiston, Read Morgan, Carolyn Williamson, Gloria Neil, Kal Roberts, Clyde Adler, Dale Davis, Kingsley the Lion
Otto Lindsay (Jon Hall) is an oceanographer who creates a creature to chase after bikini clad girls on the beach to get his jollies. The guy surfers try to save the young beauties in this cheesy sea monster flick that looks like a low budget CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. Frank Sinatra Jr. performs the music for this crazy B-flick.
Starring: John Preston, Mae Stuart, Eugene Sigaloff, Val Durand, Doris Brook, Hans Joby
Synopsis: A crazy scientist needs primate subjects to experiment on to test his personal theory of evolution. He sets up a team to capture these animals in the jungles of Borneo, but doesn't expect to run into the “beast”.
Beast With One Million Eyes (1956 - B&W - 75 min.)
Roger Corman executive producer and silent comedy star Chester Conklin as the old man. Alien beast created by Paul Blaisdell has only two eyes but it has the added advantage of controlling all other animal life making them do it's bidding. An effective Corman science fiction film, about a rancher (Paul Birch) whose family is attacked by cows, birds, dogs, etc. Having landed in the desert the alien controls all lower forms of life and also a retarded farm hand.
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Beyond The Time Barrier (1960 - B&W - 75 min)
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Starring: Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Vladimir Sokoloff, Boyd 'Red' Morgan, Stephen Bekassy, Ananne Ulmer, John Van Dreelen, Ken Knox, Jack Herman.
Synopsis: Cult director Edgar G. Ulmer's sci-fi flick, starring Robert Clarke as a pilot who breaks the time barrier and lands his jet in the future after World War III. Earth now is populated by surface mutants and the few normal humans have to live in underground civilizations. Director Ulmer filmed this science fiction film on the 1959 Texas State Fairgrounds in Dallas using the futuristic art and design sets to achieve a Very interesting look to this film.
Starring: Donald Woods, Nan Grey, Edgar Kennedy, Doris Lloyd, William Lundigan, Fred Matatesta, Inez Palange, John Wray, Holmes Herbert, C. Henry Gordon, Syd Saylor.
Synopsis: A business man, along with several other people have been murdered in a old seaside house. When a Spanish black voodoo doll is found with each corpse, a detective is called to come out and try to find the murderer.
A very obscure 'forgotten horror' film of the thirties.
