Scream Scene Podcast

Your deadicated hosts encounter Humphrey Bogart in his only horror film! It’s 1939’s THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X, directed by Vincent Sherman, and starring Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, our man Bogie, and Dennis Morgan. This sci fi horror flick has much in store, including some second-hand embarrassment…

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What happens when you mix Scotland Yard, Bela Lugosi, and author Edgar Wallace together? Why, the police procedural thriller THE DARK EYES OF LONDON (1939) from director Walter Summers! It received the H rating for 'Horrific' upon release, but is it really?

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Victor Halperin returns to Scream Scene with 1939's TORTURE SHIP! This horror film offers a terrifying premise, but listen in to see how stars Lyle Talbot, Irving Pichel, and Jacqueline Wells fare on these choppy waters...

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Monitor your heart palpitations for Karloff's 1939 THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG, featuring the fantastical notion of on-pump heart surgery! This science fiction old dark house horror flick is directed by Nick Grinde and co-starring Lorna Gray and Robert Wilcox.

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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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