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…
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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…
Doctor X (1932) – Review
Paramount Pictures didn’t have much box office success with their adaptation of The Island of Doctor Moreau, Island of Lost Souls, but that very same year director Michael Curtiz delivered another “mad doctor” entry, one that not only proved quite successful it also introduced actor Lionel Atwill to the general public, playing the titular Doctor…
Island of Lost Souls (1932) – Review
With the success of Universal’s Dracula and Frankenstein, as well as Paramount’s own Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the studio must have felt that film adaptations of classic literature were a surefire road to success, unfortunately, to adapt H.G. Wells’ novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, a tale of true body horror, they had to…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) – Review
In the early days of cinema studios quickly realized that the public’s fascination with horror and adapting classic works of literature to the screen was almost a surefire recipe for box office success, Universal had amazing results with their adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, so in 1931 Paramount Pictures released a picture that was even…