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The Invisible Ray- Reviewed by Frightman
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Dr. Janos Rukh is a brilliant scientist who speculates that a huge meteorite landed in the African continent hundreds of years ago,
bringing an element even stronger than Radium.
Rukh travels to the continent with an expedition team to prove his theory correct. The crash location is found and still blazing from the impact many years ago. Unfortunately, he becomes contaminated by the element and his body begins to glow in the dark, and his touch is enough to kill.
His colleague Dr. Felix Benet manages to find a cure for Rukh's affliction, but it has some unwanted side effects. 
When you have Bela and Boris in the same movie it's going to be not only good but leave you sitting there in your seat with that maniacal creeped out feeling that only Karloff can truly deliver. In this one Bela adds his own share of creepiness and it works.
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The Devil Rides Out- Reviewed by Draygon
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The Duc de Richleau enlists the help of Rex Van Ryn to look for their friend Simon Aron, who has been missing for three months. They go to a house that Simon has recently purchased, and they find that he is hosting a meeting with a group of friends. He says that the meeting is of an 'Astronomical Society', and they must leave because they aren't members. The Duc asks if he can see Simon's telescope, and he forces himself upstairs to investigate. Finding some chickens in a basket and black magic symbols on the floor, he realises that Simon has become embroiled in a Satanic cult headed by the powerful Mocata.
The Duc kidnaps Simon and takes him back to his house. He tries to de-program him by putting a crucifix around his neck, but the evil influence on him
is too strong and he escapes. Going back to Simon's, they realise he is not there. While there, the Duc has to do battle with one of Mocata's evil manifestations.
After tracking down Tanith, one of Mocata's disciples, Rex finds Simon at a country mansion. Hitching a ride in the boot of a car, Rex chances on a Satanic ceremony where Simon and Tanith are about to be baptised into the Devil's inner circle.
Rex notifies the Duc and they both watch the ceremony from afar. They both see the danger Simon and Tanith are in when the very Devil himself puts in an appearance. Using the Duc's car they make a daring rescue of Simon and Tanith and take them back to the Eaton's, friends of the Duc and Rex.
With Mocata having a psychic link with Simon and Tanith, the Duc has to do deadly battle with Mocata's black magic attacks. Only the Duc possesses the knowledge to thwart the evil Mocata and save Simon's very soul. 
I love Hammer Films, have done since I was a child, this one is no exception but it left me with many questions. Especially with the Duc's over all character, however Lee played the role masterfully as he does every role and that made this movie a favorite from the first viewing.
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The Bride of Frankenstein- Reviewed by Forum Member Draygon
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Dr. Henry Frankenstein and his creation are still alive and not dead as believed by the villagers.
Henry wants to finish with his experimentation and live a peaceful life with his new wife, Elizabeth.
Unexpectedly, his old professor, Dr. Pretorius, comes to visit. He tells Henry that he wishes to collaborate with him to produce a mate for the Monster. Henry refuses and Pretorius calls in the Monster. The Monster kidnaps Elizabeth, and Pretorius promises her safe return for Henry's assistance.
Henry grudgingly accepts and a new creature is given birth.
This movie has that creepy Karloff feel to it but my kudos go out to Ernest Thesiger for his brilliant portrayal of the REAL monster in this classic, Dr. Pretorius.
The character is just a real bastard and you feel genuinely sorry for the supposed monster through and through.
I definitley recommend seeing this one if you haven't already.
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The Hands of Mr. Ottermole- Reviewed by Forum Member Dark Asylum
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Deeply disturbing little Hitchcock twist.
For Hitchcock fans this little gem will not leave you sitting comfortably afterwards. The surprise twist at the end leaves room for little doubt that Hitchcock went straight for the jugular suspense wise, and he hit the mark...expertly.
A murderer has been strangling people in the London fog. A reporter manages to continually make it to the crime scene before the police.
Theodore Bikel plays Detective Ottermole, a man who at first you believe knows the reporter who seems to be early at each crime scene is guilty of the heinous murders.Theodore is best known for his voice of Aragorn off the 1980 TV show LOTR Return of the King and for his roles on TV shows such as Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Burke's Law and Murder she Wrote. 
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Jamaica Inn- Reviewed by Forum Member Vampyr
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Jamaica Inn is a 1939 film made by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name, the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel Rebecca and short story "The Birds").
The film is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1820; the real Jamaica Inn still exists, and is a pub on the edge of Bodmin Moor. The score was written by Eric Fenby.
Jamaica Inn starred Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. Critics disparaged the film and today it is considered one of Hitchcock's lesser films.[1] However, the film still garnered a large profit (3.7 million dollars, a huge success, at the time) at the box office
“ OH LORD, WE PRAY THEE - NOT THAT WRECKS SHOULD HAPPEN - BUT THAT IF THEY DO HAPPEN, THOU WILT GUIDE THEM TO THE COAST OF CORNWALL FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE POOR INHABITANTS. SO RAN AN OLD CORNISH PRAYER OF THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY, BUT IN THAT LAWLESS CORNER OF ENGLAND, BEFORE THE BRITISH COASTGUARD SERVICE CAME INTO BEING... ”
Jamaica Inn is headquarters to a gang of smugglers, led by the innkeeper Joss (Leslie Banks).
The smugglers conceal coastal beacons in order to cause ships to run aground. Then they loot the wrecks and kill the surviving sailors.
Mary (Maureen O'Hara), the orphaned niece of Joss's wife Patience (Marie Ney) comes to live at the inn, and saves the life of Traherne (Robert Newton), a gang member lynched by his fellow smugglers for embezzling. Traherne is actually an inside man, trying to bring down Joss' gang. They flee the inn and seek the protection of Sir Humphrey Pengallon, the local magistrate, little knowing that that he actually protects Joss' gang, as he needs the loot in order to maintain his lavish lifestyle.
Traherne and Mary must race against time to stop a ship from being wrecked, and an unlikely love affair blossoms. 
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The Bowery at Midnight-Reviewed by Nightshade
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Brief synopsis -- Lugosi plays a dual role. As Kurt Wagner, he runs a soup kitchen/mission in the Bowery of New York which is a cover for attracting lowlife criminals that he enlists as "partners" in various robberies. Then he kills the "partners" and buries them in the basement of his establishment.
His second role is that of a criminology professor (can't bring up the name) whose only purpose is to teach upscale students who eventually show up at his soup kitchen to express surprise at his secondary line of work.
Of course the main problem with the film is complete lack of internal logic -- what can we expect from a 60-minute film. But this one had tremendous potential that went completely unrealized. Why Lugosi is playing two identities is never discussed. Viewers must supply the logic -- he began as a professor, then saw a way to augment his income through crime. But Lugosi-as-Kurt-Wagner is a stone killer -- he tosses one accomplice over the side of a building as a diversion for a jewelry heist. So he must have been a psychopath from a very early age.
The biggest problem I had with the film is the treatment of the protagonist. Once again, using Bill Warren's division of hero/protagonist, this guy is no hero. In fact, he is shot by Tom Neal, leaving the viewer with a serious inference that he's dead. Yet he shows up in bed, apparently completely recovered for the requisite happy ending with the heroine who was fending off his romantic advances early in the show.
The other implication is that he is one of the restored "zombies/living dead men" that the opium/absinthe-addicted doctor (whom Lugosi employs as a janitor/gravedigger) has created and kept in one of several secret rooms scattered under the soup kitchen. There is just no logical answer for this particular problem.
Bowery at Midnight leads off on an eight-film, two-disc DVD compilation of Poverty Row/early Roger Corman flicks. I bought it for $10 at Best Buy, mostly because of the eight films, I'd only purchased one on a separate Alpha Video DVD. The quality of the transfer was marginal -- the first 20-30 minutes were speckled, and scenes in shadow were very dark. All of that was okay with me, but the second half of the film was much worse, with clipped dialog and much larger speckles. Still, the experience was better than I thought it would be, and I give the film a marginal thumbs-up for Lugosi's commanding presence, the whacky storyline, and the appearance of Tom Neal. I just wish the script had concentrated on the horror aspects a little more because several risen-from-the-dead ex-criminals running amok could have worked much better as a precursor of Richard Denning and the Creature with the Atom Brain."

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The House of the Long Shadow- Reviewed by Crypticon
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Room for every nightmare... A nightmare in every room.

A writer makes a wager with his publisher that he can't write a classic-style horror novel within 48 hours. Arrangements are made for Kenneth to go an old mansion in Wales where he meets the Grisbane family, the rightful owners of the house. Forty years ago one family member, Roderick, raped and murdered a woman and has been kept caged in his room, until know. Roderick is on the loose and people start showing up dead.
This movie reunites some of the greatest horror icons ever. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price and John Carradine are all players in this fantastic film, which was made for the sole purpose of reuniting them. At the time, Vincent Price commented that it was a good idea to make this movie as it might have been the last chance that they had to work together again.
Apparently this was a bit of foresight. John Carradine passed away in 1985, Vincent Price in 1993 and Peter Cushing in 1994 and none of them ever paired together again. So we can say that this film denotes the passing of an era.
The plot is decent and the kills are spectacular, which leads to the only bad thing in the movie - Desi Arnaz Jr. is the star. The acting isn't too bad, but with Lee, Cushing, Price and Carradine, you can expect some cheese. This movie contains so much lost acting, it's almost a sin.
I've read some reviews of this movie that call it mediocre and I can't agree with that. I loved this from start to finish. While the movie does have several plot twists, some of which may be predictable, I didn't see any of them coming when I first saw this. I was 13 years old at the time, so that's expected..