Boris Karloff! Bela Lugosi! A black cat! Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Black and white.
Certainly not the only, but perhaps the single greatest, exception to the rule about sequels never surpassing their forerunners. A lively and densely packed hour and a quarter, overrun by an unsuppressed sense of humor, it begins with a one-stormy-night prologue in which the story is resumed by Mary Shelley …
Boris Karloff in the career-making role that Bela Lugosi turned down, the famous composite clumper who has a heavy-handed way of dealing with his Master and a little girl picking daisies. Directed by James Whale, who, despite the evidence of this grim trudge, had it in him to be quite …
It’s a race between the British Secret Service and Dr. Fu Manchu (Boris Karloff) to find the lost tomb of Genghis Khan. The Brits had best be the first to break ground lest the merciless Chinese madman — with a British Accent and decked out in an Asian woman’s ceremonial …
In one of the most popular horror films of all time, The Bride of Frankenstein, Boris Karloff reprises his role as the silver screen's most misunderstood monster who now longs for a mate. The Mummy features horror icon Boris Karloff in a legendary performance as the Egyptian, Imhotep, who is …