Entertainers Mitchell and Petrillo (Martin & Lewis clones) parachute into the jungles of the Pacific island of Cola-Cola, where they meet primitive tribesmen, the chief’s sarong-clad daughter Nona, and mad scientist Dr. Zabor conducting experiments in evolution. Jealous of Mitchell’s relations with Nona, Zabor has just the thing to make a monkey of him…
Bela Lugosi
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian-American actor, famous for portraying Count Dracula in the original 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films. - From Wikipedia
Vampire Over London - 1952
An entry of the “Mother Riley” series with Bela Lugosi. In this one Arthur Lucan playing Mother Riley goes on an adventure with a robot that’s radar controlled by “The Vampire”, a mad scientist bent on controlling the world. This movie is wacky. Arthur doesn’t play a terribly convincing old lady (but still funny), Bela […]
Scared to Death - 1947
A woman lying dead in a morgue tells the bizarre story of how she ended up there. This movie has both Bela Lugosi and George Zucco in it, but it’s a pretty stinky movie.
The Phantom Creeps - 1949
Bela Lugosi stars in this serial turned made-for-tv-movie complete with mad scientists, Lugosi hamming it up, a crazy robot, and all the other reasons you would ever want to watch a movie like this. Does knowing the story really help you make your decision to watch?
Black Dragons - 1942
A cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb. It is only until detective Dick Martin is assigned to the case that everyone’s true motives and identities are revealed.
The Ape Man - 1943
Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster, aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him, it falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla […]
The Gorilla - 1939
Atwill, a wealthy and well-to-do man, finds his life threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla. Of course he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. It probably would have worked too, except right about the time the investigators show up a real escaped gorilla arrives on the scene and begins to confuse everything. Comedy […]
Voodoo Man - 1944
Dr. Richard Marlowe uses a combination of voodoo rite and hypnotic suggestion, attempting to revive his beautiful, but long-dead, wife, by transferring the life essences of several hapless young girls he has kidnapped and imprisoned in the dungeon beneath his mansion. Yet another example of the “Mad Man Controlling Others To Do His Will” genre.
Invisible Ghost - 1941
After being deserted by his wife, a man slowly goes more insane, all they way up to straight homicidal.