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Bedlam, the last in the series of Val Lewton’s stylish horror films for RKO, and the producer’s last collaboration with Boris Karloff, was released […]
When Universal teamed Karloff and Lugosi in all but billing for their Edgar Allan Poe inspired The Black Cat, released on the 7th of […]
Universal’s 1941 film, The Black Cat, was released on 2nd May 1941. Having nothing to do with the 1934 Karloff / Lugosi film of […]
Universal’s Black Friday, released in 1940, is a slick, science fiction thriller starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Much has been made over the […]
The Black Room, released by Columbia in 1935, sees Boris Karloff wonderfully cast in a dual role as evil twin Gregor de Berghman, and […]
The Blood Beast Terror, made by Tony Tenser’s Tigon in 1968, has possibly one of the most peculiar monsters in horror film history – […]
by Nige Burton The Val Lewton RKO psychological horror pictures of the 1940s tend to be universally regarded as some of the finer entries […]
