I watched the 1940 Universal Pictures film, the third in the invisible series (The Invisible Man and The Invisible Man Returns), The Invisible Woman on Svengoolie. This movie is a Sci-Fi comedy unlike the first two. John Barrymore (The Sea Beast, Don Juan, Eternal Love, General Crack, The Man from Blankley’s, Rasputin and the Empress) plays the old inventor, Professor Gibbs, who has invented and invisibility machine funded by Richard Russell played by
I watched this 1943, sorta sequel to Dracula, The Return of the Vampire by Columbia Pictures on Svengoolie. The story starts in World War I and the vampire Armand Tesla is staked in the heart and buried. Twenty four years later, now World War II, bombs upset the cemetery and Tesla is unearthed and a groundskeeper unwittingly removes the stake and horror ensues. Because Universal owned Dracula this is not the official sequel but Bela Lugosi (1931 Dracula, and lots of monster movies), portrays Dracula, I mean Tesla in the this movie.
I watched this British 1958 Hammer horror film, Revenge of Frankenstein, on Svengoolie. The movie is directed by Terence Fisher (Horror of Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Mummy, The Brides of Dracula, The Curse of the Werewolf, The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell) and was the sequel to 1957 The Curse of Frankenstein.
I watched this 1951 RKO Pictures release, The Thing From Another World, on Svengoolie. It is a horror/Science Fiction thriller directed by Christian Nyby (Big Sleep, Red River, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train) and produced by Edward Lasker (Big Sky, Tulsa, Reign of Terror) and
I watched the Universal 1948 comedy horror Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein on Svengoolie. The movie stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello as baggage clerks that receive two packages, Dracula and Frankenstein for McDougal’s House of Horrors wax museum. Larry Talbot (The Wolfman) is trying to stop the delivery because he knows they are really alive.
I watched The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), a 1953 Warner Brothers film based on the short story, The Fog, by Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man) on Svengoolie. This a Ray Harryhausen stop-motion creature, the fictional Rhedosaurus, inspired by King Kong, the head of a T-Rex, the body of an Iguana and crocodile features. In the movie it appears to be 200 feet long but the model was actually only 30 inches.
I watched this 1954 black and white science fiction monster movie, Them!, on Svengoolie. This Warner Brothers film was produced by David Weisbart (The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Love Me Tender, Valley of the Dolls), directed by Gordon Douglas (Up Periscope, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Way…Way Out, Stagecoach, Tony Rome) and starring James Whitmore (Oklahoma!, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!), Edmund Gwenn (Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street),
I watched the 1949 RKO Radio Pictures fantasy film “Mighty Joe Young” on Svengoolie. It was written and produced by Merian C. Cooper (1933 King Kong) and directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack (King Kong, Son of Kong, Dr. Cyclops). Animation effects were handled by Ray Harryhausen (visual effects creator, writer and producer who created a form of stop motion model animation known as “Dynamation”, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Mysterious Island, Jason and the Argonauts, One Million Years B.C., The
I watched the 1955 science fiction, giant monster horror movie “Tarantula!” on Svengoolie. The Universal-International flick is produced by William Alland (This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, The Deadly Mantis, The Mole People, The Colossus of New York, The Space Children, and the three Creature from the Black Lagoon films) and directed by Jack Arnold (It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Incredible Shrinking Man).
I watched the 1936 movie “The Devil-Doll” on Svengoolie. It is based on the novel “Burn, Witch, Burn” by Abraham Merritt (inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999). The film was produced by Edward J. Mannix and directed by Tod Browning (famous for the first Dracula movie with sound starring Bela Lugosi).