chemical quarry

Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster (Bela Lugosi), aided by his colleague Dr. Randall (Henry Hall), has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him, it falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla to find appropriate donors

A bunch of innocent people is kidnapped on an island by a crazed hunter who wishes to extend his skills on human game for a change (notably known as “the most dangerous” one). Yes, you’ve guess where Dr Balleau took the idea from, none other than Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1932 classic. The shadow of Count Zaroff is all over this 1961 kind of remake. Not as valuable, by far, but worth a quick look, like this original movie trailer, for instance.

While travelling in Switzerland, the child of a well-off couple is kidnapped. She is held to ensure that her father does not reveal what he knows about a planned assassination. Since they can’t talk to the authorities, the parents plan to begin the search for their daughter on their own. This is the original, British-made movie from 1934 and is now in the public domain. After coming to the United States, Alfred Hitchcock produced a remake of this movie in 1956 starring James (Jimmy) Stewart and Doris Day. The remake remains under copyright.

(1962)

After a beauty is mangled in a car accident, a researcher uses a treatment he has created to restore her to her former self. However, the treatment comes with a high price…. This was originialy an Italian film titled “Seddok, l’erede di Satana” which was later dubbed into English and retitled “Atomic Age Vampire”.

(1951)

See the invention of fire! See the world’s first swan dive! See the prehistoric beauties battle the giant caveman! See it all in the glory of beautiful Cinecolor! Who could ask for anything more?

Flash, Dale, and Zarkov return to Planet Mongo to find an antidote for the Purple Death.

(1941)

The film centers on the life of Tod Lubitch (John Travolta), who was born with an improperly functioning immune system. This means that contact with unfiltered air may kill him, so he must live out his life in incubator conditions. He lives with his parents, since they decided to move him from the hospital where he was being kept as a boy. He is constricted to staying in his room all his life, where he eats, learns, reads and exercises, while being protected from the outside world by various coverings.

IMDb: ‘Fatty’ is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.