Joan Crawford stars in the 1964 William Castle film Strait-Jacket as Lucy, who has been released from a 20-year stint in the loony bin for chopping up her husband and his mistress with an ax. Back out in the real world, her sanity is tested constantly. What could possibly go wrong? Featuring an unkempt George Kennedy painting a car by hand!

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The 1931 version of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is this week’s topic. Respected Jekyll takes an experimental potion that transforms him into the brutish, violent Hyde. Mayhem ensues with some very uncomfortable scenes and pre-code shenanigans.

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1932’s Island of Lost Souls is this week’s topic as chosen by Kevin. On an uncharted island, Dr. Moreau cracks his whip at his inhuman creations made in his house of pain while attempting to have the Panther Woman seduce an unwelcome guest. A very hairy Bela Lugosi recites the law.

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We discuss the 1946 flick Devil Bat’s Daughter this time. What this movie lacked in scares, it made up for in terrible acting and a lack of cohesive plot. Take this blurb as a warning regarding our feelings about this movie.

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1940’s the Devil Bat is discussed this week. Bela Lugosi stars as a vengeful doctor who creates a shave lotion that causes his giant bat to kill those who apply it to the soft area of their necks. Featuring the least terrifying animal scream ever committed to film.

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1958’s I Bury the Living is this week’s topic. Cemetery director Robert Kraft discovers that arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram causes the death of the plots’ owners. WHOOPS!

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The Creeper is on the loose committing all kinds of murders! Rondo Hatton’s character wants revenge on those he blames for his handsomeness going away in 1946’s the Brute Man.

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Ben Scrivens from Fright-Rags joins us on our 50th episode to talk about the Universal Horror classic the Wolf Man! When his brother dies, Larry Talbot returns to Wales and reconciles with his father. While there, he visits an antique shop and, hoping to impress Gwen, the attractive shopkeeper, buys a silver walking cane. That same night he kills a wolf with it, only to later learn that he actually killed a man. A gypsy explains that it was her son, a werewolf, that he killed, and that Larry is now one himself.

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1935’s the Raven is discussed this time. A spurned surgeon seeks revenge using Edgar Allan Poe’s devices of torture and a hideous man. Our second Boris Karloff/Bela Lugosi film get covered as we talk about secret torture dungeons, droopy eyes, weird horse-related party games, and the very fancy elevator bedroom!

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1939’s the Return of Dr. X (unrelated to the previously released, color Dr. X) is our movie this week. We chat about Humphrey Bogart’s only sci-fi/horror film where he creeps about as the titular character, white-streaked hair and all. The plot? Someone is murdering people and stealing their blood and the duo of a doctor and a goofball reporter try to solve the crimes.

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