When it comes to depicting science and technology going horribly awry no one comes close to author Michael Crichton, with such entries like Westworld and Jurassic Park becoming cornerstones of the genre, but in 1984 he helmed a little-known sci-fi flick that pitted Tom Selleck and his trademark moustache against Gene Simmons and an array…
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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 promotions, 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 mad science within a gangster…
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…
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…