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![Targets [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515Z88RK85L._SL160_.jpg "Targets [VHS]")
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Boris Karloff
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Tim O'Kelly
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Nancy Hsueh
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James Brown
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Arthur Peterson
Director:
Peter Bogdanovich
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![The Comedy of Terrors [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/315mjJqdyAL._SL160_.jpg "The Comedy of Terrors [VHS]")
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
Vincent Price
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Peter Lorre
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Boris Karloff
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Joyce Jameson
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Joe E. Brown
Director:
Jacques Tourneur
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![The Mummy [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YBJJ5PEBL._SL160_.jpg "The Mummy [VHS]")
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
Boris Karloff
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Zita Johann
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David Manners
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Arthur Byron
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Edward Van Sloan
Director:
Karl Freund
You have to hand it to the walking dead. What they lack in speed and agility, they more than make up for in sheer single-minded determination. Im-Ho-Tep is a case in point. He's an ancient Egyptian priest, cursed for his terrible crimes against the gods. A team of British archaeologists digs up his sarcophagus, along with a box inscribed with a warning that opening it will unleash death and destruction. You'll never guess what they do. Once freed, Im-Ho-Tep takes on the appropriately evil alias Ardath Bey and gets to the task of resurrecting his ancient lover--which will, of course, require a living human surrogate. While the premise may sound formulaic, The Mummy in fact turns out to be bracingly weird, relying on atmospheric creepiness rather than on jump-out-and-scare-you effects. Boris Karloff gives a terrific performance as Im-Ho-Tep. He has all the malevolence the film requires, but also manages subtler touches; the expression in his eyes as he is wrapped in preparation for being buried alive is absolutely chilling. Instead of forcing him to do all the tedious shambling around that so many mummies resort to, the filmmakers have wisely given Im-Ho-Tep/Ardath Bey a nearl...
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![The Raven [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/7196A128QVL._SL160_.gif "The Raven [VHS]")
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Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring:
Vincent Price
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Peter Lorre
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Boris Karloff
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Hazel Court
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Olive Sturgess
Director:
Roger Corman
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![Frankenstein [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YP6VZB9QL._SL160_.jpg "Frankenstein [VHS]")
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
Colin Clive
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Mae Clarke
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Boris Karloff
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John Boles
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Edward Van Sloan
Director:
James Whale
"It's alive! Alive!" shouts Colin Clive's triumphant Dr. Frankenstein as electricity buzzes over the hulking body of a revived corpse. "In the name of God now I know what it's like to be God!" For years unheard, this line has been restored, along with the legendary scene of the childlike monster tossing a little girl into a lake, in James Whale's Frankenstein, one of the most famous and influential horror movies ever made. Coming off the tremendous success of Dracula, Universal assigned sophomore director Whale to helm an adaptation of Mary Shelley's famous novel with Bela Lugosi as the monster. When Lugosi declined the role, Whale cast the largely unknown character actor Boris Karloff and together with makeup designer Jack Pierce they created the most memorable monster in movie history: a towering, lumbering creature with sunken eyes, a flat head, and a jagged scar running down his forehead. Whale and Karloff made this mute, misunderstood brute, who has the brain of a madman (the most obvious of the many liberties taken with Shelley's story), the most pitiable freak of nature to stumble across the screen. Clive's Dr. Frankenstein is intense and twitchy and Dwight Fry...
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![Abbott & Costello: Meet the Killer Boris Karloff [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5125ZP7818L._SL160_.jpg "Abbott & Costello: Meet the Killer Boris Karloff [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Bud Abbott
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Lou Costello
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Boris Karloff
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Gar Moore
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Lenore Aubert
Director:
Charles Barton
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![Secret Life of Walter Mitty [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514YT1YCH4L._SL160_.jpg "Secret Life of Walter Mitty [VHS]")
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Staring:
Danny Kaye
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Virginia Mayo
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Boris Karloff
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Fay Bainter
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Ann Rutherford
Director:
Norman Z. McLeod
If there's one movie Danny Kaye fans fondly remember, it's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The versatile comedian--also an unsurpassed song-and-dance man--plays a henpecked, thriller-genre book writer suddenly enmeshed in a real adventure involving the (literal) girl of his dreams (Virginia Mayo). Initially criticized for not staying true to the more melancholic sensibility of author James Thurber's original story (Thurber allegedly offered producer Samuel Goldwyn $10,000 to not make the film), it not only works as an independent story, but remains highly entertaining and wears well upon repeated viewing. Kaye's milquetoast Walter fantasizes distractedly about being heroic, whether a gunslinger, an Air Force pilot, or a riverboat gambler. His "Anatole of Paris" number, in which Walter fancies himself a French hat designer who, in the end, declares he hates women, is nothing short of brilliant. That number, like many of Kaye's trademark patter deliveries, was penned by his wife, Sylvia Fine. Kaye benefits from a wonderful supporting cast: Mayo; Boris Karloff as maniacal Dr. Hugo Hollingshead; Faye Bainter as Walter's repressive but lively mother; Ann Rutherford as his...
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![Mask of Fu Manchu [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21T1S2Q7WSL._SL160_.jpg "Mask of Fu Manchu [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Boris Karloff
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Lewis Stone
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Karen Morley
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Charles Starrett
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Myrna Loy
Director:
Charles Brabin
, Charles Vidor
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![House of Frankenstein [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515KBHYXH1L._SL160_.jpg "House of Frankenstein [VHS]")
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
Boris Karloff
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Lon Chaney Jr.
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J. Carrol Naish
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John Carradine
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Anne Gwynne
Director:
Erle C. Kenton
The first of Universal's all-star monster tag-team bouts, House of Frankenstein boasts Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's monster, plus a menacing mad scientist (played with hammy glee by Boris Karloff) and his hunchbacked assistant (J. Carroll Naish). It's really more like two films. Karloff and Naish escape prison and find the skeleton of Dracula, resurrecting the dapper vampire (played by a dignified John Carradine) and unleashing him on an unsuspecting town. In the second half, the not-so-good doctor investigates the ruins of Castle Frankenstein (left from the cataclysmic conclusion of Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman) and finds the frozen bodies of the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney) and the Monster (Glenn Strange, picking up creature-feature tips from former flathead Karloff, no doubt). He proceeds to revive them, with the expected results: murder, mayhem, and a bad end for all. The screenplay has a slapdash quality about it, notably the Dracula sequences which dismiss Universal's most dignified monster with almost no fanfare, and Erle C. Kenton's direction only rises above perfunctory for the conclusion, a mad monster brawl with some arresting moments. But while it'...
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![Abbott & Costello: Meet Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde / Mov [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DE6JGHT3L._SL160_.jpg "Abbott & Costello: Meet Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde / Mov [VHS]")
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
Bud Abbott
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Lou Costello
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Boris Karloff
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Craig Stevens
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Helen Westcott
Director:
Charles Lamont
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