Peer through the window pane for Tod Slaughter and George King's THE FACE AT THE WINDOW (1939), another Victorian horror film? Well, your deadicated hosts duke it out over whether this adaptation of the stage melodrama fits the bill or not.

Just what does this vintage thriller have in store?

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Horror returns after a three-year gap with 1939's SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, directed by Rowland Lee. What changed in America that Universal Studios was willing to raise this dead genre? How far does this apple fall from the Frankenstein tree? And how do Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, and Bela Lugosi stand in comparison to Boris Karloff as the Monster?

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It's the last horror flick before the three year break the world took from horror between 1936 to 1939... Boris Karloff stars in THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS MIND (1936), from director Robert Stevenson.

We share what caused film industries around the world to change their mind about horror as we review this film from Gainsborough Pictures.

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Your deadicated hosts cover Eddie Mannix, A Merritt, and more in the last horror film from Tod Browning: THE DEVIL-DOLL (1936)!

With giant over-sized props, a dark family drama, and a cross-dressing toymaker, this film is anything but boring.

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The Halperin Brothers return in the 1936 independent American horror film REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES! Hoping to return to their WHITE ZOMBIE success, the Halperins head to... Cambodia? To look for... zombies?? In the midst of a... love triangle???

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Your deadicated hosts dive into the demise of the Laemmle Family and the last gasp of the American horror boom... all this and more in the very complicated background of Lambert Hillyer's 1936 DRACULA'S DAUGHTER!

Just what is vampirism being used as a metaphor for? From queerness to mental health to addiction, the lines are blurry but your hosts set themselves to the task of figuring it out.

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Born-for-the-role Tod Slaughter stars in this 1936 Quota Quickie adaptation of SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET, directed by George King! Featuring a lively discussion of Penny Dreadfuls, British Quota Quickies, and Victorian literary genre conventions.

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The Warner Brothers try their hand at horror yet again with 1936's THE WALKING DEAD starring show favourite Boris Karloff and directed by Michael Curtiz. See just what this film noir-prototype has to offer...

Hint: it's not zombies!

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Bonjour! Your deadicated hosts travel to France for 1936’s LE GOLEM, directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Harry Baur and Charles Dorat!

What is this film’s relation to Paul Wegener’s earlier classic(s), or even to the horror genre? Listen and find out! Mon Dieu!

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Your deadicated hosts are back in America for some classic cotton candy horror. Starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, it's 1936's THE INVISIBLE RAY directed by Lambert Hillyer! It's the first in a few genre developments: B-movie scifi and slasher flicks.

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