Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner ‘Wentworth Castle’ (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office…at the very moment of kicking out his daughter’s fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street’s side, is so convinced he’s wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett will be hosting a special screening of the classic 1934 horror film The Black Cat, which stars Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and was directed by Edward G. Ulmer. The screening will be held on April 13th at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA. Tickets can be purchased here
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Review by Steve Urena
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to occupy the brain of another human being and feel the thoughts, emotions, and senses, of that person? Would you make that person do things you have always wanted to do without any consequences? If so then The Sorcerers is a horror movie that would definitely pique your curiosity. Starring the legendary Boris Karloff, The Sorcerers dives into the subject of hypnotism and the animalistic nature that comes out of people that have access to great power.
The movie begins with a first look at the washed up and disgraced hypnotist Marcus Monserrat (Karloff). Monserrat and his elderly wife Estelle (Catherine Lacey) live in London and have seen better days. Both are ailing physically and are living their final days in poverty. The couple is uninterested with life as they have lost their willingness to live. The couple makes small talk with one another, but it is evident that they are bored. Monserrat makes one last ditch effort to save the marriage and their lives by creating a machine that places both Marcus and Estelle into the brain of an also bored to death youngster Mike Roscoe (Ian Oglevy).
Once the couple is linked to Mike, they get to feel his every thought, feeling, and sensation. It becomes like a drug to the couple who get to relive their youth through Mike. Shortly thereafter, they learn that with great concentration, they can also control Mike and his every move as well. This leads to the thrills being even bigger. They force Mike to speed on his motorcycle at breakneck speeds and get him to kill another human being. Once the kill is completed, Estelle gets a taste for murder and begins to go on a spree of her own. Marcus tries to stop her but is thwarted by his significant other. The spree continues and Estelle becomes a true force to be reckoned with, killing young girls in Mike’s life. Marcus finally gets a hold of the mental link and ends the movie by making Mike crash his car, ending the movie and the murderous rampage of Estelle.
This movie is another forgotten classic and should be seen by horror aficionados and Boris Karloff fans. Catherine Lacey’s role as Estelle is awesome and she does a great job of portraying her role as a power hungry wife with nothing to lose. The themes of voyeurism, isolation, and the true nature of people is an excellent way to tell this story. I recommend this movie to others and hope people take the time to look for it and check it out.
There are too many great releases this week, allow me to share some of my picks. First off, Dark Horse has a double header from their archive series: Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery and Creepy Archives Vol 3. Creepy Archives are some of the best quality archives and the stories and artwork are second to none. In regular issue releases are the great Marvel Zombies 4 issue 2 and the finale of Killer of Demons #3. Killer of Demons is an amazing comic worth your time…if you can find it. What are you getting? Full list after the break.
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In the European village of Gudenberg in 1890, Prof. Mayer and his assistant Isabel have created a powerful ray machine. One of the powerful rays is shot into space and attracts a flying saucer. The alien pilot decides that the ray poses too great a threat to the universe and must be destroyed. Sex murderer Thomas is possessed by an alien intelligence and infiltrates Mayer’s household; Mayer himself is later taken over by an alien mind. Paul Rosten, a young scientist who is in love with Mayer’s niece Laura, arrives. The alien “Mayer” and “Thomas” rig the ray gun to explode, killing all who know its secret. Thomas kills Isabel, but before he can murder Laura, Mayer throws off the alien intelligence and she is saved. Mayer realizes that the ray is too powerful for human use, and he destroys it. The flying saucer departs.
In the European village of Gudenberg in 1890, Prof. Mayer and his assistant Isabel have created a powerful ray machine. One of the powerful rays is shot into space and attracts a flying saucer. The alien pilot decides that the ray poses too great a threat to the universe and must be destroyed. Sex murderer Thomas is possessed by an alien intelligence and infiltrates Mayer’s household; Mayer himself is later taken over by an alien mind. Paul Rosten, a young scientist who is in love with Mayer’s niece Laura, arrives. The alien “Mayer” and “Thomas” rig the ray gun to explode, killing all who know its secret. Thomas kills Isabel, but before he can murder Laura, Mayer throws off the alien intelligence and she is saved. Mayer realizes that the ray is too powerful for human use, and he destroys it. The flying saucer departs.
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A man searching for his missing brother is led to a mysterious mansion. When there, he discovers that the spirit of a witch is lurking, vying for revenge on those who killed her. Disturbingly, the man discovers that it was his ancestors who were responsible…
A man searching for his missing brother is led to a mysterious mansion. When there, he discovers that the spirit of a witch is lurking, vying for revenge on those who killed her. Disturbingly, the man discovers that it was his ancestors who were responsible…
Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.
The great hypnotist Professor Montserrat has developed a technique for controlling the minds, and sharing the sensations, of his subjects. He and his wife Estelle test the technique on Mike Roscoe, and enjoy ‘being’ the younger man. But Estelle soon grows to love the power of controlling Roscoe, and the vicarious pleasures that provides. How far will she go, and can the Professor restrain her in time?
When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein’s title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands!
A young man visits his fiancé’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.
An undertaker who hasn’t had any ‘customers’ in a long time is forced the pay one year’s back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people in order to get new clients.
A trio of atmospheric horror tales about: A woman terrorized in her apartment by phone calls from an escaped prisoner from her past; a Russian count in the early 1800s who stumbles upon a family in the countryside trying to destroy a particularly vicious line of vampires; and a 1900-era nurse who makes a fateful decision while preparing the corpse of one of her patients – an elderly medium who died during a seance.
France, 18th century. Lieutenant Andre Duvalier has been accidentally separated from his regiment. He is wandering near the coast when he sees a young woman. He asks the road to Coldon, where he hopes to rejoin his regiment. But the woman doesn’t answer, doesn’t even greet him and walks away. Eventually she takes him to the sea, where she disappears in rough water. Andre loses conscience when he is trying to following her, and is attacked by a bird. He awakes in a house with an old woman and a numb man. She claims to never have seen the woman. After he leaves, he sees her again and when trying to follow her is saved by a man from certain death. He learns that to help the girl, he must go to castle of Baron Van Leppe. When he arrives, Andre sees the woman looking from a window. Baron Van Leppe is old and seems reluctant to let André in however. He claims there’s no woman in the castle, but shows André a painting which does indeed portray her. Andre learns that she is the baroness, who died twenty years ago. What is the baron’s secret?
In this tongue-in-cheek movie inspired by Poe’s poem, Dr. Craven is the son of a great sorcerer (now dead) who was once himself quite skilled at that profession, but has since abandoned it. One evening, a cowardly fool of a magician named Bedlo comes to Craven for help- the evil Scarabus has turned him into a raven and he needs someone to change him back. He also tells the reluctant wizard that Craven’s long-lost wife Lenore, whom he loved greatly and thought dead, is living with the despised Scarabus.
In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients, Dr. Thomas Bolton painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic, to which he gradually becomes addicted. In order to provide a continual supply of chemicals to continue his experiments and support his addiction, he falls in with a den of murderers who use his signature to sell cadavers to the local hospital.
A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn’t voodoo cursed. However, arriving on the island, Knight soon realizes that voodoo does exist when he discovers man-eating plants and a tribe of natives with bizarre powers.
Slim and Tubby are American cops in London to study police tactics. They wind up in jail and are bailed out by Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll has been murdering fellow doctors who laugh at his experiments. He has more murders in mind. At one point the serum that turns Jekyll into the murderous Hyde gets injected into Tubby.
Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
Noble-born cad Dennis (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, twenty years after she married his brother (Cavanagh) instead and subsequently passed away during childbirth. Maletroit is determined to have his revenge: the brother has been stowed away in the dungeon for two decades, while he’s convinced his disreputable house guest will make a suitably hellish husband for his niece. As luck would have it, the young couple manage to fall in love, and with the help of manservant Voltan (Karloff), they try to make their escape, but not before a final confrontation with Maletroit in the dungeon’s crushing deathtrap.
Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary’s of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Encouraged by the Quaker Hannay, she tries to bring support to reforming Bedlam, but the cruel Master Sims who runs it has her committed there. The inmates, however, have the last say.
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn’t enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka.
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