"Don't get gay, kid, just 'cause you're handy with a heater." Undoubtedly one of the most famous titles in all of Poverty Row Horror, Bowery At Midnight manages to keep any horror elements of the plot literally hidden away in a sub-basement, where star Bela Lugosi stays completely unaware of what's going on. Despite Lugosi being billed as two characters (who is actually only one), his extreme multi-tasking gives him no time to be complicit or even knowledgeable of the mad science and resurrection from the dead happening literally under his nose. You see, Bowery At Midnight operates more as

This is similar to The Devil Bat, but with a hitherto unknown feathered serpent captured by evil archeologist Andrew Forbes (the ever-suave and menacing George Zucco). He has found the treasure the cr...

Ever since I was a little kid looking through monster movie books, every glimpse of Lugosi in The Ape Man always convinced me that I never needed to watch it. But my current Poverty Row obsession veto...

Even Lugosi completists will have trouble praising this one. Brides are dying on their wedding day and then their bodies are being stolen. Why? Because evil Dr. Lorenz (Bela Lugosi) has figured out ho...

Ehh, I hadda 'nuff of dem serious Dead End Kids pictchas. Time for lotsa cheapo Poverty Row Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys/Whatevah Guys what when they meet monsters 'n ghosts 'n haunted hou...

George Zucco stars as Dr. Lorenzo Cameron, forced from his position at the university by his colleagues because they believe his experiments are unethical and that he is insane. He is determined to ge...

After years of being blindingly underlit by a cinematographer's lighting crew, Bela Lugosi is driven to fiendish madness and a quest to revive his zombified wife with voodoo. Assisting him is a hilari...

Little swastikas all over someone's face to represent German measles. Seriously. Despite this happening in the last scene, I don't consider this a spoiler. It's a warning. Ghosts On The Loose is fairl...