Description: William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff (/ˈkɑːrlɒf/), was an English actor who was primarily known for his roles in horror films.
In non-horror roles, he is best known to modern audiences for narrating and as the voice of the Grinch in the animated television special of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966). For his contribution to film and television, Karloff was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Dynamite Dan
( 1924 )
The romance, discovery, and rise of phenom boxer Dynamite Dan.
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The Hope Diamond Mystery
( 1921 )
The true story of Lord Francis Hope, who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe'. Lord Francis Hope gambles away the family fortune and May Yohe' leaves him--another suspected curse of owning the Hope Diamond.
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Without Benefit of Clergy
( 1921 )
A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy.
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The Man from Downing Street
( 1922 )
Capt. Robert Kent is assigned by British Secret Service in India to discover the identity of a traitor responsible for a leakage in British code messages. Disguising himself as a rajah, he penetrates the most exclusive circles of Indian society. Suspicion at first falls upon Wyndham, a man of weak character, but he is mysteriously killed at the home of Colonel Wentwor...Read all
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The Infidel
( 1922 )
Lola Daintry, a beautiful young actress, and her companion, Chunky, pose as castaways and are taken to the island of Menang in the South Seas by Cyrus Flint, an idealist who owns large interests there, and the Reverend Mead. Lola accepts the hospitality of the missionary in preference to that of the nabob, although she dislikes preachers and does not believe in God. F...Read all
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The Hellion
( 1924 )
Ranch hand Tex Gardy comes to the aid of the father of the girl he loves, whose ranch is being threatened by a gang of criminals led by a woman known as The Hellion.
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Forbidden Cargo
( 1925 )
A vivacious young woman known only as Captain Joe captains a rum-runner operating between the Bahamas and the United States. Jerry Burke, a Secret Service agent assigned to the Bahamas to halt this illegal trade in rum, meets Captain Joe, whom he knows as Peggy O'Day, and falls in love with her, arousing the antipathy of Pietro, Peggy's first mate. Pietro later learns...Read all
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Lady Robinhood
( 1925 )
Disguising herself as a masked bandit, Catalina, the ward of the governor of a Spanish province, avenges injustice, aids the poor, and plots a revolution. Hugh Winthrop, a young American who owns mines in the province, comes to inspect them and is kidnapped by Catalina, who suspects him of being an enemy of the people. He escapes but meets Catalina later at the govern...Read all
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Burning the Wind
( 1929 )
Two ranchers get together to fight a common enemy and fall in love.
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The Devil's Chaplain
( 1929 )
Escaping from a revolution, the King of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds a friend in the form of dashing secret service agent Yorke Norray.
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The Phantom of the North
( 1929 )
In the great white north, a trapper searches for the thief who has been stealing his furs while a local trader seeks to take advantage of the situation.
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The King of the Kongo
( 1930 )
A Secret Service agent searches the jungle for his missing brother, also an agent. He encounters a young woman there who is also searching, but for her missing father. They encounter a gang of ivory smugglers who hold a prisoner who knows the secrets of the missing people and a lost treasure. The pair are also menaced by a giant gorilla which guards the temple which i...Read all
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The Criminal Code
( 1931 )
After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
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King of the Wild
( 1931 )
American adventurer Richard Grant is falsely accused of murdering an Indian noble and escapes to Africa in search of diamond field and the real culprit.
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Graft
( 1931 )
Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
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Frankenstein
( 1931 )
Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
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Behind the Mask
( 1932 )
An undercover Federal officer serving time in prison fakes his escape in order to infiltrate a heroin smuggling ring.
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Night World
( 1932 )
Story of the goings-on at a Prohibition-era nightclub.
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The Old Dark House
( 1932 )
Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
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The Mask of Fu Manchu
( 1932 )
Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.
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The Mummy
( 1932 )
A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
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The Ghoul
( 1933 )
An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.
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The Lost Patrol
( 1934 )
A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.
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The House of Rothschild
( 1934 )
The wealthy Rothschild family undergoes prejudice from the anti-Semitic society they live within.
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The Black Cat
( 1934 )
Stranded honeymooners follow mad doctor to manor.
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Bride of Frankenstein
( 1935 )
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
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The Raven
( 1935 )
A brilliant surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture grows dangerously obsessed with a young socialite whose life he's saved.
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The Black Room
( 1935 )
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.
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The Invisible Ray
( 1936 )
A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
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The Walking Dead
( 1936 )
After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.
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The Man Who Lived Again
( 1936 )
Dr. Laurience, a brilliant but unstable scientist experimenting with transferring minds, becomes vengeful when his magnate patron withdraws his support.
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Charlie Chan at the Opera
( 1937 )
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
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Juggernaut
( 1937 )
An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
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Night Key
( 1937 )
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
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West of Shanghai
( 1937 )
Karloff is the Chinese warlord Fang, who holds a group of oilmen and missionaries hostage in a remote Chinese outpost.
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The Invisible Menace
( 1938 )
An army private and his new bride are trying to honeymoon on an island occupied by the military and a murderer.
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Mr. Wong, Detective
( 1938 )
San Francisco Detective Wong is contacted by Dayton, who fears for his life. When Wong arrives at Dayton Chemical Co. the next day, he finds him dead.
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Devil's Island
( 1939 )
Unjustly condemned to Devil's Island and condemned to death, Dr. Gaudet's life is spared when his surgical skills save the life of the commandant's daughter.
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Son of Frankenstein
( 1939 )
Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.
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The Mystery of Mr. Wong
( 1939 )
Detective tries to solve the murder of antiques collector who was in possession of a famous jewel known as "The Eye of the Daughter of The Moon."
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown
( 1939 )
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa.
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The Man They Could Not Hang
( 1939 )
When Dr. Savaard's experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging.
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Tower of London
( 1939 )
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England.
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The Fatal Hour
( 1940 )
When Captain Street's best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street receives help from Chinese detective James Lee Wong and local newspaper reporter Bobbie Logan.
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British Intelligence
( 1940 )
Although the home of cabinet minister Arthur Bennett is a hotbed of spies, moles, and double agents, no one knows the true identity of notorious German spymaster Strendler.
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Black Friday
( 1940 )
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
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The Man with Nine Lives
( 1940 )
A medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive.
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Doomed to Die
( 1940 )
Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder.
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Before I Hang
( 1940 )
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
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The Ape
( 1940 )
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum.
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You'll Find Out
( 1940 )
The manager of Kay Kyser's band books them for a birthday bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.
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The Devil Commands
( 1941 )
Scientist becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife.
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The Boogie Man Will Get You
( 1943 )
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
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The Climax
( 1944 )
A demented physician becomes obsessed with a young singer whose voice sounds similar to his late mistress.
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House of Frankenstein
( 1944 )
A deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf.
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Isle of the Dead
( 1945 )
A Greek general takes leave from the 1912 Balkan War to visit a small island in Greece, where his wife is buried. A plague soon breaks out and he is forced to stay when quarantine is declared.
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The Body Snatcher
( 1945 )
A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
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Bedlam
( 1946 )
Nell Bowen, the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Though she tries to reform Bedlam, the cruel Master Sims who runs it has her committed there, but ultimately, it's the lunatics who've taken over the asylum.
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Lured
( 1947 )
British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.
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Unconquered
( 1947 )
Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.
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Tap Roots
( 1948 )
In 1860s Mississippi, the Dabneys, founders of the Dabney plantation in Levington, experience tragedy and turmoil when they refuse to join either side of the American Civil War.
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The Emperor's Nightingale
( 1949 )
A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, a nightingale's song restores his health and teaches him to revolt against his glittering but shallow world.
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The Strange Door
( 1951 )
Noble-born cad Denis (Stapley) has been tricked into a forced stay at the eerie manor of the Sire de Maletroit (Laughton), an evil madman who can't get over the death of his beloved, 20 years after she married his brother (Cavanagh) instead, then passed away during childbirth. Maletroit is determined to have his revenge: the brother has been stowed away in the dungeon...Read all
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The Black Castle
( 1953 )
Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
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The Island Monster
( 1954 )
An Italian government agent is assigned to break up a drug smuggling ring on the island of Ischia but his daughter is kidnapped by the gang.
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Sabaka
( 1955 )
In India, a young elephant trainer vows revenge against the cult that killed his family and, when the local Maharajah refuses to help, sets out alone to battle his enemy.
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A Connecticut Yankee
( 1955 )
Based on Rodgers and Hart's revised 1943 version of their earlier Broadway musical hit, a 20th century Connecticut man suffers a head injury and is magically transported back to King Arthur's Camelot where he uses his modern know-how to defeat Morgan Le Fay's villainous intentions.
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Colonel March Investigates
( 1953 )
Three episodes of "Colonel March of Scotland Yard" edited together for theatrical release.
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Voodoo Island
( 1957 )
A scholarly type is asked to investigate the possible island site for a large resort hotel--an island rumored to be infested with zombies.
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The Lark
( 1957 )
Closely follows a dramatization by playwright Jean Anouilh, 'The Lark' depicts the trial of Joan of Arc plus a few flashback scenes.
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The Veil
( 1958 )
An anthology of horror stories hosted by legendary Boris Karloff.
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Frankenstein 1970
( 1958 )
Needing money, the last member of the Frankenstein family leases his family's castle out to a film company as he tries to continue his ancestor's gruesome experiments to create life.
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The Haunted Strangler
( 1958 )
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long-dead strangler.
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Thriller
( 1960 )
In this hour-long anthology series, Boris Karloff introduces each episode and sometimes participates in the events as a character. The series originally started with crime thrillers, but soon discovered that people loved a good scare and presented horror stories as well.
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Arsenic & Old Lace
( 1962 )
Beware those two charming, elderly ladies - especially if they offer you a glass of elderberry wine.
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Out of This World
( 1962 )
Out of This World was a science fiction series broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the Armchair Theatre series, each episode was introduced by Boris Karloff.
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The Raven
( 1963 )
A magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help.
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Corridors of Blood
( 1963 )
Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.
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Black Sabbath
( 1964 )
Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories about a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.
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A Fool's World
( 1964 )
Documentary showing perverse and aberrant behavior from around the globe, including such things as sex slavery, dwarf love, Asian brothels and lesbians.
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The Comedy of Terrors
( 1964 )
Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.
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The Terror
( 1963 )
A young French soldier cut off from his unit is beguiled by a mysterious woman, whom he learns is the wife of the local Baron - and that she seemingly died twenty years earlier.
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Die, Monster, Die!
( 1965 )
A young man visits his fiancée's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
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Mad Monster Party?
( 1967 )
On the Isle of Evil, Baron Boris von Frankenstein reveals his imminent retirement and that he has refined the secret of total destruction, only to be upset when the other monsters try to steal the secret and kill his nephew, Felix Flanken.
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The Sorcerers
( 1967 )
An aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts.
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Fear Chamber
( 1968 )
Investigating strange frequencies from Earth's core, scientists unearth a living rock beneath a volcano. It craves hormones produced by human fear, leading them to abduct girls, sacrificing them to sustain the rock.
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House of Evil
( 1968 )
The relatives of a recently dead man meet at his creepy castle for the reading of his will. They also meet a sinister piano player who turns out to also be a toy-maker, and his toys seem to have murderous intentions of their own.
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Targets
( 1968 )
An aging horror star contemplates retirement amid the modern culture of random violence, while a disturbed young gun collector embarks on an unprovoked killing spree.
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The Crimson Cult
( 1970 )
Robert Manning visits the remote country house where his brother Peter was last seen. While his host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, Robert detects a feeling of menace in the air.
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The Incredible Invasion
( 1971 )
In the European village of Gudenberg in 1890, Prof. John Mayer and his assistant, Dr. Isabel Reed, have created a powerful ray machine. One of the rays is shot into outer space and attracts a flying saucer. The alien pilot decides that the ray poses too great of a threat to the universe and must be destroyed. Thomas, a sex maniac and serial killer, is possessed by an ...Read all
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Cauldron of Blood
( 1971 )
A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus, unaware that the skeletons that he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is her next target.
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