The 1930s marked a significant era in the history of cinema and particularly for the horror genre. It was during this decade that classic horror films emerged and left an indelible mark on the industry, bringing many iconic characters to life while also influencing future generations of filmmakers and changing cinema forever.
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Black Friday (1940) – Review
Modern viewers should be warned that Universal’s Black Friday has nothing to do with certain holiday centric sales promotion – which is its own type of horror – in this film we have another great pairing of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi but instead of the usual Gothic horror, this particular outing has a mad…
The Invisible Ray (1936) – Review
In this 1936 offering from Universal Pictures we find Karloff giving a rather understated and subdued performance as the film’s villain. In this outing he’s almost a tragic figure and only becomes the stereotypical “mad scientist” when something goes drastically wrong, but The Invisible Ray doesn’t just provide us a fun take on the genre…
The Raven (1935) – Review
There have been many movies based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe but with this early offering from Universal Pictures we get a nice spin on things, a mad doctor with an obsession for the works of Edgar Allen Poe is twisted and turned when his fixation on a woman he saved on the…
The Black Cat (1934) – Review
This brilliant pre-code horror film pits the iconic Boris Karloff against the incomparable Bela Lugosi in their first screen pairing, with Karloff playing the personification of Lucifer while Lugosi as a man obsessed with revenge, but this film not only stars two of Hollywood’s greatest screen icons it’s also has a plot that deals with…