Cast: Boris Karloff

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Paul Muni · Ann Dvorak · Karen Morley · Osgood Perkins

Plot Big Louis Costillo, last of the old-style gang leaders is slain, and his former bodyguard Tony Camonte is taken into custody. Since Costillo's body has never been found, the police...

Direction James Whale

Cast Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Mae Clarke · John Boles

Plot Midnight funeral services are visited by Frankenstein on the lookout for human corpses. But the monster he creates is unwelcome by the real world. Based on the Mary Shelley novel.

Direction James Whale

Cast Boris Karloff · Colin Clive · Valerie Hobson · Elsa Lanchester

Plot Owing to the popularity of ‘Frankenstein’, Mary Shelley decides to write a sequel. In her story the Frankenstein monster survives its burning in the mill. It is discovered and taken...

Direction Herschel Daugherty · John Brahm · Ida Lupino

Cast Boris Karloff · Richard Peel · Henry Daniell · David Frankham

Plot Anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff that originally told ordinary tales of crime and mystery, but later became a showcase for gothic horror stories, many of which were based on...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Marian Marsh · H.B. Warner · Anthony Bushell

Plot Editor Hinchecliffe wants to boost circulation for his "New York Gazette" and city editor Randall puts his top reporter on a 20-year-old murder case in which Nancy Vorhees shot her...

Direction Ted Newsom

Cast Christopher Lee · Lon Chaney · Peter Cushing · Hugh M. Hefner

Plot A multi-volume documentary on the history of horror movies. Hosted by veteran horror star Christopher Lee, this video series brings together footage from many notable (and some less notable) films...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Henry Daniell · Edith Atwater

Plot In Edinburgh in 1831, renowned surgeon and now teacher of anatomy Dr. MacFarlane, has been paying John Gray, a cabman, to clandestinely bring him exhumed bodies of the recently deceased...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Paulette Goddard · Howard Da Silva · Boris Karloff

Plot It's 1763 and two men taking the same ship back to Virginia from London bid for the contract of a woman who was given a choice between execution in England...

Direction Karl Freund

Cast Boris Karloff · Zita Johann · David Manners · Edward Van Sloan

Plot The original, and by far the best film version of the mummy legend. Archeologists digging in Egypt uncover a 3000-year-old mummy which comes to life and attempts to restore life...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Walter Huston · Phillips Holmes · Constance Cummings · Mary Doran

Plot A young man's birthday celebration at a local speakeasy turns into a nightmare when he kills a man in self-defense! Bob Graham (Phillips Holmes), just twenty years old, is then...

Direction John Ford

Cast Victor McLaglen · Boris Karloff · Wallace Ford · Reginald Denny

Plot A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotomian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination is killed by the bullet of unseen...

Direction Clarence Brown · Maurice Tourneur

Cast Wallace Beery · Barbara Bedford · Alan Roscoe · Lillian Hall

Plot As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron...

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Boris Karloff · Tim O'Kelly · Nancy Hsueh · Peter Bogdanovich

Plot The script was inspired by the 1966 shooting spree of Texas Tower sniper Charles Whitman. Karloff, as Byron Orlock, more or less plays himself: an aging horror star, consigned to...

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Boris Karloff · Marian Marsh · Robert Allen · Thurston Hall

Plot Ignoring an ancient prophecy, evil brother Gregor seeks to maintain his feudal power on his his Tyrolean estate by murdering and impersonating his benevolent younger twin.

Direction Mario Bava · Salvatore Billitteri

Cast Boris Karloff · Mark Damon · Michèle Mercier · Susy Andersen

Plot A trilogy of three horror stories. "The Drop of Water" concerns a nurse who steals a ring off a dead spiritualist, only to have the corpse seek revenge. "The Telephone"...

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · David Manners · Julie Bishop

Plot The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie film that was surprisingly morbid and perverse for its time. Peter...

Direction Lew Landers

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Lester Matthews · Irene Ware

Plot A wealthy judge coaxes the brilliant but eccentric neurological surgeon Dr. Vollin (Lugosi), who also has an obsessive penchant for Edgar Allen Poe, out of retirement to save the life...

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Boris Karloff · Lorna Gray · Robert Wilcox · Roger Pryo

Direction James Whale

Cast Boris Karloff · Melvyn Douglas · Charles Laughton · Lilian Bond

Plot Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Trying to...

Direction Alfred L. Werker · Sidney Lanfield

Cast George Arliss · Boris Karloff · Loretta Young · Robert Young

Plot The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance...