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Frankenstein (1931)
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Director James Whale
Writer John L. Balderston, Mary Shelley, Peggy Webling
Cast Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff
Plot Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
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The Bride of Frankenstein aka Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
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Director James Whale
Writer Mary Shelley, William Hurlbut, John L. Balderston
Cast Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive
Plot 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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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
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Director Chuck Jones, Ben Washam
Writer Dr. Seuss, Irv Spector, Bob Ogle
Cast Boris Karloff, Thurl Ravenscroft, June Foray
Plot A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
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The Mummy (1932)
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Director Karl Freund
Writer Nina Wilcox Putnam, Richard Schayer, John L. Balderston
Cast Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
Plot A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
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I tre volti della paura aka Black Sabbath (1963)
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Director Mario Bava
Writer Anton Chekhov, Aleksei Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant
Cast Michele Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff
Plot 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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The Body Snatcher (1945)
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Director Robert Wise
Writer Robert Louis Stevenson, Philip MacDonald, Val Lewton
Cast Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell
Plot A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
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The Old Dark House (1932)
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Director James Whale
Writer J.B. Priestley, Benn W. Levy, R.C. Sherriff
Cast Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
Plot 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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Son of Frankenstein (1939)
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Director Rowland V. Lee
Writer Mary Shelley, Wyllis Cooper
Cast Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi
Plot 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 rehabilita...
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The Black Cat (1934)
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Director Edgar G. Ulmer
Writer Edgar Allan Poe, Peter Ruric, Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
Plot Stranded honeymooners follow mad doctor to manor.
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Targets (1968)
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Director Peter Bogdanovich
Writer Peter Bogdanovich, Polly Platt, Samuel Fuller
Cast Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh
Plot 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 Raven (1963)
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Director Roger Corman
Writer Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Matheson
Cast Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Plot A magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
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Director Norman Z. McLeod
Writer Ken Englund, Everett Freeman, James Thurber
Cast Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
Plot A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.
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The Raven (1935)
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Director Lew Landers
Writer Edgar Allan Poe, David Boehm, Guy Endore
Cast Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews
Plot 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 Comedy of Terrors (1963)
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Director Jacques Tourneur
Writer Richard Matheson, Elsie Lee
Cast Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Plot Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.
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Thriller (1960)
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Cast Boris Karloff, Richard Peel, Henry Daniell
Plot Hosted by Boris Karloff, this anthology series initially focused on ordinary crime and mystery tales but later delved into gothic horror stories adapted from works by Cornell Woolrich, Robert Bloch, Charlotte Armstrong, and others.
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The Lost Patrol (1934)
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Director John Ford
Writer Dudley Nichols, Garrett Fort, Philip MacDonald
Cast Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford
Plot A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.
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Bedlam (1946)
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Director Mark Robson
Writer William Hogarth, Val Lewton, Mark Robson
Cast Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House
Plot 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 ...
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House of Frankenstein (1944)
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Director Erle C. Kenton
Writer Edward T. Lowe Jr., Curt Siodmak
Cast Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish
Plot 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)
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Director Mark Robson
Writer Ardel Wray, Val Lewton, Josef Mischel
Cast Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer
Plot A Greek general in the 1912 Balkans finds his Wife's grave robbed and fights a plague.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff aka Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949)
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Director Charles Barton
Writer Hugh Wedlock Jr., Howard Snyder, John Grant
Cast Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff
Plot Two employees of a secluded hotel investigate a murder on the premises in which the goofy bellboy is the prime suspect.
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The Terror (1963)
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Director Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hale
Writer Leo Gordon, Jack Hill, Roger Corman
Cast Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight
Plot 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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Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
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Director Charles Lamont
Writer Lee Loeb, John Grant, Sid Fields
Cast Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff
Plot Two bumbling American cops hunt for the mysterious Mr. Hyde in London, England.
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The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
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Director Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor
Writer Irene Kuhn, Edgar Allan Woolf, John Willard
Cast Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley
Plot Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.
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Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
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Director H. Bruce Humberstone
Writer Scott Darling, Charles Belden, Bess Meredyth
Cast Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke
Plot 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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The Walking Dead (1936)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Ewart Adamson, Peter Milne, Robert Hardy Andrews
Cast Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn
Plot 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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Mad Monster Party? (1967)
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Director Jules Bass
Writer Len Korobkin, Harvey Kurtzman, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Cast Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett
Plot 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...
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The Black Room (1935)
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Director Roy William Neill
Writer Arthur Strawn, Henry Myers
Cast Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Robert Allen
Plot 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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Black Friday (1940)
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Director Arthur Lubin
Writer Curt Siodmak, Eric Taylor, Edmund L. Hartmann
Cast Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges
Plot 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 Invisible Ray (1935)
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Director Lambert Hillyer
Writer John Colton, Howard Higgin, Douglas Hodges
Cast Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake
Plot A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
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Tower of London (1939)
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Director Rowland V. Lee
Writer Robert N. Lee
Cast Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O'Neil
Plot 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. As each murder is accomp...
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Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
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Director Daniel Haller
Writer Jerry Sohl, H.P. Lovecraft
Cast Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson
Plot 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 wif...
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The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
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Director Nick Grinde
Writer Karl Brown, Leslie T. White, George Wallace Sayre
Cast Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox
Plot 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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The Sorcerers (1967)
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Director Michael Reeves
Writer Michael Reeves, Tom Baker, John Burke
Cast Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy
Plot 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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Curse of the Crimson Altar aka The Crimson Cult (1968)
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Director Vernon Sewell
Writer Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln, Jerry Sohl
Cast Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Mark Eden
Plot 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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Corridors of Blood (1958)
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Director Robert Day
Writer Jean Scott Rogers
Cast Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Christopher Lee
Plot 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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The Veil (1958)
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Writer Frank P. Bibas
Cast Boris Karloff, Robert Hardy, Denise Alexander
Plot An anthology of horror stories hosted by actor Boris Karloff.
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Grip of the Strangler aka The Haunted Strangler (1958)
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Director Robert Day
Writer Jan Read, John Croydon
Cast Boris Karloff, Anthony Dawson, Derek Birch
Plot 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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The House of Rothschild (1934)
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Director Alfred L. Werker, Sidney Lanfield
Writer Nunnally Johnson, George Hembert Westley, George Arliss
Cast George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young
Plot The wealthy Rothschild family undergoes prejudice from the anti-Semitic society they live within.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
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Director John Rawlins
Writer Robertson White, Eric Taylor, William Graffis
Cast Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne
Plot Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.
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The Black Castle (1952)
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Director Nathan Juran
Writer Jerry Sackheim
Cast Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally
Plot Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
