Boris Karloff

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.

Dir. James Whale · With Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson

Three tales of supernatural horror include a woman plagued by threatening phone calls, a family targeted by vampiric monsters, and a deceased medium who wreaks havoc upon the living.

Dir. Mario Bava · With Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, Michèle Mercier

Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.

Dir. James Whale · With Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles

Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.

Dir. Robert Wise · With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

Dir. Karl Freund · With Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners

An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.

Dir. Peter Bogdanovich · With Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Dir. Howard Hawks · With Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer · With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.

Dir. Rowland V. Lee · With Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.

Dir. Lew Landers · With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews

Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.

Dir. Chuck Jones · With Boris Karloff, June Foray, Dal McKennon

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.

Dir. Norman Z. McLeod · With Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff

Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.

Dir. Erle C. Kenton · With Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish

An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

Dir. Jacques Tourneur · With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff

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—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.

Dir. Mark Robson · With Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer

A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.

Dir. James Whale · With Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton

Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.

Dir. Roger Corman · With Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight