Scream Scene Podcast

Five monsters for the price of one! It's our first Monster Rally picture, with Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, Dracula, a Hunchback and Mad Scientist in HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1944, Kenton). Screams, thrills, and tropes galore await you...

Joining director Erle C Kenton are Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr, J Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Glenn Strange, Elena Verdugo, Anne Gwynne, Lionel Atwill, George Zucco, and many more!

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What do you do with a sequel-not-sequel? What happens when your deadicated hosts disagree on what makes a horror film? Take a listen to THE CLIMAX (1944) from director George Waggner & starring Boris Karloff in full technicolor!

Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, and Gale Sondergaard also star in this musical melodramatic....horror?

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Columbia Pictures' second supernatural double horror film THE SOUL OF A MONSTER (1944) comes at you like a bat out of hell in this week's episode!

From director/composer Will Jason and starring Rose Hobart, George Macready, Jeanne Bates, Jim Bannon and Erik Rolf.

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The first in a Columbia Pictures double feature, CRY OF THE WEREWOLF (1944, Levin) howls into your ears in this week's Scream Scene!

Starring Nina Foch, Osa Massen and Stephen Crane, this film features our first female werewolf.

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Is it the best Universal Mummy movie? Or the worst? Your deadicated hosts face off over THE MUMMY'S GHOST (1944, le Borg) starring Lon Chaney Jr, John Carradine, Robert Lowery and Ramsay Ames.

With a darker ending than other Universal horror flicks, director Reginald le Borg and producer Ben Pivar deliver a somewhat overbaked entry into the Kharis mummy series.

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Your deadicated hosts have arrived at the final film in Lugosi's infamous Monogram Nine: RETURN OF THE APE MAN (1944, Rosen)! Starring Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco (sort of) and Frank Moran.

Despite tropes of mad scientists and ape men, this poverty row flick doesn't quite fit the mold.

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The Invisible Man franchise gets a reboot with this 1944 sci-fi horror film THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE (dir Ford Beebe)!

With John Carradine as the mad scientist and Jon Hall as the vengeful invisible man, hear our thoughts on the fifth film in Universal's Invisible series.

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Acquanetta returns to stalk your ears in 1944's JUNGLE WOMAN from Universal Pictures and director Reginald Le Borg! With J Carrol Naish starring, let's power through this oddly structured, poorly acted horror flick.

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From Republic Pictures comes THE LADY AND THE MONSTER, an adaptation of Curt Siodmak's novel DONOVAN'S BRAIN that has neither a lady nor a monster... But they had to find some way to get stars Vera Ralston and Erich von Stroheim in the picture!

The final product is a patchwork of convoluted plots, tropes, and under-developed characters. But how does it rank against more cohesive horror films?

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From poverty row's lowest rung of studios PRC comes THE MONSTER MAKER (Newfield 1944). J Carrol Naish stars in a role clearly meant for Bela Lugosi, with co-stars Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell, Glenn Strange and Ace the Wonder Dog!

(Spoiler alert: The dog does NOT die. Phew!) Plus a surprise appearance of Ray Corrigan in his ape suit!

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