- January 29, 2021
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Bela Lugosi is a nice gent. A good doctor who is recently widowed. When his wife turns up not quite dead, he experiences the uncontrolable urge to strangle people under her hypnotic suggestion
- January 29, 2021
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Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Bela Lugosi uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders. When things get out of hand, Lugosi kills his henchmen, who wind up as zombies in the cellar of the soup kitchen.
- January 29, 2021
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Bela Lugosi, as a mad scientist consumes a potion which transforms him into a blood-thirsty ape freak.
- January 29, 2021
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Bela Lugosi – Feature length version of the 15 chapter serial
- January 29, 2021
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In trouble as usual, the Kid sare sent to a New England mountain camp to get them away from bad influences. As it happens, the camp is abuzz with the news of an elusive sex murderer who has been preying on beautiful women. Forced to take refuge in a spooky old mansion, the boys become convinced that their host, a sinister gent named Nardo (Bela Lugosi), is the killer whom the police are seeking. While our heroes busy themselves alternately escaping from and converging upon poor Nardo, the real murderer continues to roam the countryside-and it looks as though camp nurse Linda Mason (Dorothy Short) will be his next victim.
- January 29, 2021
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Haley as timid insurance salesman Albert Tuttle. Much against his better judgment, Tuttle makes a business call at a sinister old mansion, intending to sell life insurance to the owner. He proves a bit late, inasmuch as the owner has just kicked the bucket. The mansion is full of avaricious relatives, who are obliged by the dictates of the decedent’s will to remain in the house until the authorities claim the body. Realizing that dead man’s niece Carol (Jean Parker) is a damsel in all kinds of distress, Albert decides to stick around to keep Carol from meeting her uncle’s fate. The audience knows who didn’t do it the moment Bela Lugosi shows up as a butler.
- January 29, 2021
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A movie studio is shrouded in mystery when its top star is murdered on the set, and everyone is a suspect. Bela Lugosi plays a temperamental actor who’s the most likely suspect, alongside Dracula co-stars Edward Van Sloan, David Manners.
- January 29, 2021
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Wood’s most autobiographical film, he stars under a pseudonym in this “docu-drama” about transvestites and sex-change operations. Will his fiance let him wear her angola sweater? See daffy dream sequences, Bela Lugosi as a scientist-narrator and a heartfelt plea for understanding towards men who wear “pink satin undies.” Glen or Glenda?” is a bad movie lover’s dream. Hilarious dialogue, no coherent plotline, and many memorable sequences of transvestites and their hardships.
- April 26, 2018
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- April 22, 2018
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