It's tropes galore with Universal Pictures' THE BLACK CASTLE (1952) from art-turned-film director Nathan Juran, starring Richard Greene, Stephen McNally, and Rita Corday, featuring Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr!

Alligator pits, torture basements, and duelling pistols... see what else awaits you in this week's Scream Scene!

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Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff return to a Universal horror film with THE STRANGE DOOR (1951, Pevney)! Based on a Robert Louis Stevenson story, the film proves Universal's B movie unit is not quite dead yet.

Also in this episode, we cover a huge shift in the Hollywood studio contract system that ripples to today's industry standards.

All this and more behind this strange door...

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Do the sins of the father fall on the son? Find out in our coverage of 1951's THE SON OF DR. JEKYLL from director Seymour Friedman! Out of Columbia Pictures comes this sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

But what would the House Un-American Activities Committee have to do with a 1950s horror movie?

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Curt Siodmak and Lon Chaney Jr return in BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (1951), with Siodmak's directorial debut! Beefcake Raymond Burr stars in this Val Lewton-styled Wolf Man remake set in the Amazon!

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What does a sci fi horror movie look like? Director Edgar Ulmer gives it a shot with 1951's THE MAN FROM PLANET X, starring Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, William Schallert and Roy Engel. Produced and written by Jack Pollexfen and Aubrey Wisberg.

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It's 1951! UFOs, the Cold War, and the Sci-Fi genre get covered in our context setting, then an in-depth look at Christian Nyby's THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD! This Howard Hawks film stars Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, James Arness, and many other character actors.

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We head to 1940's Nazi occupied France for LE LOUP DES MALVENEUR (1943) from director Guillaume Radot, starring Madeleine Sologne, Pierre Renoir, Gabrielle Dorziat & Michel Marsay.

Can the French emulate the Universal Pictures style enough to be horror?

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We travel to Japan for 1949's YOTSUYA KAIDAN from director Keisuke Kinoshita, starring Kinuyo Tanaka & Ken Uehara!

From its origins as a Kabuki play, to what Japan's post-war film industry looks like, we introduce Japan's most famous ghost story to Scream Scene listeners.

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It's the film Martin Scorsese claims as "one of the few true classic of supernatural cinema;" it's 1949's THE QUEEN OF SPADES from director Thorold Dickinson and starring Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, and Yvonne Mitchell.

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Your deadicated hosts travel to Russia and back in time for 1916's PIKOVAYA DAMA aka THE QUEEN OF SPADES!

Director Yakov Protazanov adapts the Aleksandr Pushkin short story featuring Ivan Mosjoukine in the title role.

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