MONSTER MOVIES
 
 
SATURDAY, MARCH 8: THE MUMMY’S CURSE (1944)
Starring Lon Chaney, Jr. as Kharis the Mummy
In the final film of the series, an irrigation project in the rural bayous of Louisiana unearths you-know-who, who was buried in quicksand 25 years earlier.
 
SATURDAY, MARCH 15: THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933)
Starring Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart (“Titanic”), and Henry Travers (“Wonderful Life’s” Clarence the Angel)
Directed by James Whale (“Frankenstein,” “Bride of Frankenstein”)
All-time great film of scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility – but doesn’t have the serum to get back, and it’s literally driving him mad.
 
SATURDAY, MARCH 22: THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS (1940)
Starring Vincent Price, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Cecil Kellaway
Vincent Price uses an invisibility formula to clear himself in the murder of his brother. But can he clear his name and return to normal before the formula drives him insane?
 
SATURDAY, MARCH 29: TARANTULA (1955)
Starring John Agar & Leo G. Carroll (and Clint Eastwood in a small early role)
Music by Henry Mancini (uncredited)
A tarantula gets too much of a scientists growth formula, grows to gigantic size and eats the Southwestern United States.
 
SATURDAY, APRIL 5: SON OF DRACULA (1943)
Starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Evelyn Ankers
The son of the famed count, also a vampire, comes to America seeking new blood.
 
SATURDAY, APRIL 12: THE WOLF MAN (1941)
Starring Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man. Also starring Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy & Evelyn Ankers
One of the greatest monster films ever. The tale of a man bitten by a werewolf who himself becomes a werewolf.
 
SATURDAY, APRIL 19: HOUSE OF DRACULA (1945)
Starring Lon Chaney Jr., as the Wolf Man, John Carridine as Dracula, Glenn Strange as the Frankenstein Monster; with Lionel Atwill
The last of the pre- Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein monster free-for-alls with all three Universal monster legends together in one epic! Great fun!
 
SATURDAY, APRIL 26: BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
Starring Boris Karloff, Colin Clive & Ernest Thesiger as Dr. Pretorius
In one of the greatest, most critically acclaimed horror films ever made, Dr. Pretorius blackmails Dr. Frankenstein into creating a mate for his monster creation.
 
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 SATURDAY, MAY 3: FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
Starring Boris Karloff and Edward Van Sloan
The one, the only! The granddaddy of all classic monster movies as a mad doctor creates a man from dead bodies while mistakenly using a criminal brain.
 
SATURDAY, MAY 10: SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939)
Starring Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi& Lionel Atwill
Igor (Lugosi) convinces the son (Rathbone) of the mad doctor to re-animate the monster (Karloff, for the third and final time), believing he could cure him. Big mistake.
 
SATURDAY, MAY 17: FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN (1943)
Starring Lon Chaney Jr., as the Wolf Man & Bela Lugosi as the Frankenstein Monster
It’s one heck of a monster mash at the now-dead mad Dr. Frankenstein’s castle.
 
SATURDAY, MAY 24: THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942)
Starring Lon Chaney Jr., as the Frankenstein Monster, Bela Lugosi as Igor, and Sir Cedric Harwicke as the younger son of the famed doctor.
The younger son of Dr. Frankenstein accidentally puts evil Igor’s brain in the monster. Trouble time!
 
SATURDAY, MAY 31: ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
Starring Bud Abbott & Lou Costello and Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolfman and Glenn Strange as the Frankenstein Monster.
The greatest horror comedy of them all! As many chills as laughs! Bud & Lou stumble onto Count Dracula, the Wolfman and the Frankenstein Monster. Count Dracula wants to transplant Lou’s brain into the Monster.
 
SATURDAY, JUNE 7: TARANTULA (1955)
Starring John Agar & Leo G. Carroll (and Clint Eastwood in a small early role)
Music by Henry Mancini (uncredited)
A tarantula gets too much of a scientists growth formula, grows to gigantic size and eats the Southwestern United States.
 
SATURDAY, JUNE 14: ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY (1955)
Starring Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
There are laughs galore in the final film of A & C’s “Meet the Monsters” series as Bud and Lou find themselves pursued by an Egyptian cult for a special medallion linked to a walking mummy.
 
SATURDAY, JUNE 21: ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN (1951)
Starring Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
One of the best Abbot and Costello's best movies, with incredible special effects.
 
SATURDAY, JUNE 28: THE DEADLY MANTIS (1957)
Starring Craig Stevens (TV’s “Peter Gunn”), William Hopper (Detective Paul Drake on “Perry Mason”)
A giant prehistoric praying mantis thaws from an iceberg and stars eating North America. Classic 50s Grade B drive-in flick.
 
SATURDAY, JULY 5: THE CAR (1977)
Starring James Brolin
A possessed car terrorizes the highways. If you’re out on the road, look out, it’ll get you!