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Boris Karloff - what members say
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Boris Karloff - filmography
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Mad Monster Party
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett
Director: Jules Bass
Certificate: 
Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, It, The Creature, The Invisible Man, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - all appear in this puppet spectacular set in a gloomy castle on a lush Caribbean island.
 
68%
from 68 members
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Targets
(1968)
Starring: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Certificate: 
Together with Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and John Singleton's Boyz 'n the Hood, director Peter Bogdanovich's Targets is among the most impressive first features ever made. When Bogdanovich's cinematic mentor Roger Corman suggested that Bogdanovich might want to make his directorial debut, he ..read more »
68%
from 602 members
Not currently released
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How The Grinch Stole Christmas
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Boris Karloff
Director: Chuck Jones
Certificate:
With the talents of Chuck Jones, Boris Karloff, and Dr. Seuss combined, there was almost no way this could be anything but an instant classic. Watched regularly every holiday season and beloved by children and cynical adults alike, this animated gem is just that and more. Boris Karloff narrates and ..read more »
66%
from 712 members
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Die, Monster, Die!
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson
Director: Daniel Haller
Certificate:
An embittered paraplegic and his manservant often visit a mysterious cellar in his house. The paraplegic's bed-ridden wife pleads with their young house guest to take their daughter away. He is soon to discover the reason behind her fears!
50%
from 158 members
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The Haunting
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight
Director: Roger Corman
Certificate: 
A lieutenant in Napoleon's army (Jack Nicholson) traces a mysterious woman to a castle on the Baltic coast and finds himself trapped by a mad baron (Boris Karloff). Atmospheric, low-budget horror from the great Roger Corman, also reportedly directed at points by future talents Francis Ford Coppola ..read more »
45%
from 115 members
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The Terror
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight
Director: Roger Corman
Certificate: 
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This horror collection features three films presented by Roger Corman: THE TERROR, DEMENTIA 13, and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.THE TERROR: Horror legend Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson team up in this disjointed but enjoyable Roger Corman quickie. Nicholson plays Lieutenant Andre Duvalier, an ..read more »
42%
from 138 members
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The Raven
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Director: Roger Corman
Certificate: 
Although Roger Corman narrowly managed to avoid self-mockery in his pulpy, flamboyant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales, it appears that the director chose this opportunity to let loose with outright parody; the result is a wonderfully entertaining romp with tongue planted firmly in cheek. The ..read more »
63%
from 739 members
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Grip Of The Strangler
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Anthony Dawson
Director: Robert Day
Certificate:
A writer and decides to research the events surrounding the exaction of a notorious serial killer. As the amateur sleuth begins to delve into the twenty-year-old case, he begins to suspect that the executed man may have been innocent. Upon encountering some of the killer’s possessions, the writer ..read more »
62%
from 50 members
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The Veil
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Boris Karloff
Director: none
Certificate:
True stories from people who claim to have experienced supernatural going-ons, including a meeting with Jack The Ripper!
53%
from 72 members
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The Strange Door
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest
Director: Joseph Pevney
Certificate:
Noble-born brawler and debaucher, Denis de Beaulieu (Richard Stapley), is selected by the scheming Sire Alain de Maletroit (Charles Laughton) to be forced into marrying his only niece Blanche de Maletroit (Sally Forrest). Whilst carousing at an inn, Denis is tricked into a fight with one of ..read more »
63%
from 26 members
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Lured
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: George Sanders, Boris Karloff, Lucille Ball
Director: Douglas Sirk
Certificate:
A serial killer in London is murdering young women whom he meets through the personal columns of newspapers; he announces each of his murders to the police by sending them a cryptic poem. After a dancer disappears, the police enlist an American friend of hers, Sandra Carpenter, to answer ..read more »
60%
from 131 members
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(1947)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Virginia Mayo
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Certificate:
Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered mouse who spends his time imagining himself as a number of daredevil heroes - an RAF pilot, a seafaring swashbuckler, a riverboat gambler.
But then Walter meets a ravishing blonde, who draws him into a real-life adventure involving a band of cut-throats and a cache of ..read more »
72%
from 38 members
Currently unavailable
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne
Director: John Rawlins
Certificate:
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America's famous comic book policeman came to life on the silver screen during the 1940's with four film appearances. The last in the series was this action packed crime caper which mixed sci-fi with comic strip humour. Karloff plays Gruesome and breaks out of prison to start another crime spree. A ..read more »
43%
from 18 members
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Bedlam
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House
Director: Mark Robson
Certificate:
Bedlam is one of the costlier psychological-horror efforts from RKO producer Val (Curse of the Cat People) Lewton. Boris Karloff stars as the supervisor of the notorious 18th century British insane asylum St. Mary's of Bethlehem, better known as Bedlam. Anna Lee, who co-stars as the feisty mistress ..read more »
65%
from 55 members
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The Body Snatcher
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Bela Lugosi
Director: Robert Wise
Certificate:
A 19th-century Edinburgh scientist hires a thief to provide him with corpses for his experiments. But when the supply of fresh cadavers begins to dwindle, the thief begins to taunt the doctor with the knowledge that he holds the power to expose him to the authorities.
68%
from 105 members
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Isle of the Dead
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer
Director: Mark Robson
Certificate:
It’s 1912 and Greece is beset by war and pestilence. As his troops bury their dead after another bloody battle, stern General Pherides (Boris Karloff) goes to visit the grave of his wife, buried on an island nearby. He’s horrified to see her tomb has been looted and learns grave robbers are to ..read more »
56%
from 23 members
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House of Frankenstein
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Certificate:
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann (Boris Karloff), escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a travelling chamber of horrors. Pulling the stake out of a skeleton, he revives the infamous Count Dracula (John Carradine) and commands him to kill the man responsible for his imprisonment. He ..read more »
59%
from 147 members
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The Ape / British Intelligence
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Boris Karloff
Director: William Nigh
Certificate:
Two features. In 'The Ape', a mysterious doctor dons the pelt of a circus ape and sets about slaughtering a series of innocent people...all in the name of medical research. Also features 'British Intelligence'.
51%
from 35 members
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Doomed to Die
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers
Director: William Nigh
Certificate:
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An action-packed detective movie about the mysterious fiery destruction of a luxury liner carrying 400 passengers and a contraband cargo of Chinese bonds. Boris Karloff plays the good guy for a change, a Chinese detective named James Lee Wong.
41%
from 40 members
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Tower Of London
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Basil Rathbone
Director: Roger Corman, Rowland V. Lee
Certificate:
Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly referred to as a horror film. Yes, a second-billed Boris Karloff does stomp about on a club-foot as the Duke of Glouchester's chief executioner, Mord, but Karloff's presence ..read more »
60%
from 93 members
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The Mystery Of Mr. Wong
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Dorothy Tree
Director: William Nigh
Certificate:
Detective James Lee Wong (Karloff) investigates murder and mayhem when a precious gem, the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," is stolen from China. In order to unravell the mystery surrounding the rare stone, Mr. Wong must pay a visit to the infamous and creepy House of Hate in chinatown.
45%
from 52 members
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Mr. Wong In China Town
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers
Director: William Nigh
Certificate:
Based on the sleuth created by Hugh Wiley for Collier's Magazine. This third installment in the series finds a damsel in distress done in by a poison dart while seeking the detective's help. She turns out to be a princess and only the first in a series of baffling murders.
49%
from 55 members
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Man Who Changed His Mind
(1936)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder
Director: Robert Stevenson
Certificate:
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad ..read more »
40%
from 4 members
Due for release on 11th June 2012
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The Raven
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Bela Lugosi
Director: Lew Landers
Certificate:
Bela Lugosi is the brilliant but deranged surgeon who becomes obssessed with a beautiful dancer after saving her life. He must have her but first must deal with her fiance and father and plans to take care of them in his chamber of Edgar Allen Poe-inspired torture devices. To do the dirty work he ..read more »
66%
from 116 members
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The Bride Of Frankenstein
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester
Director: James Whale
Certificate:
Director James Whale's definitive Frankenstein's monster movies from the 1930s.FRANKENSTEIN: (1931)This is James Whale's first stylish, expressionist film to grace the Universal horror cycle of the 1930s and 1940s (DRACULA, THE MUMMY). Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his hunchbacked ..read more »
71%
from 2,333 members
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The Black Cat
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Bela Lugosi
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Certificate:
Dr Werdegast (Lugosi), a Prisoner Of War for fifteen years has been freed and now seeks news of his wife and daughter and vengeance on Hjalmar Poelzig, the man whose betrayal lead to his imprisonment and the deaths of thousands of his countrymen during the war. He tracks him down to the castle he ..read more »
67%
from 327 members
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The Lost Patrol
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford
Director: John Ford
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Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934. Sergeant Victor McLaglen is in charge of a World War I-era British cavalry regiment, stranded somewhere in the Mesopotamian desert. McLaglen hasn't asked for the responsibility: ..read more »
54%
from 31 members
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The Ghoul - Blu-ray
(1934)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger
Director: T. Hayes Hunter
Certificate:
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Boris Karloff's first British film. The story of Prof. Morlant, an eccentric Egyptologist who becomes obsessed with the mystical powers of the ancient Egyptian gods. On his deathbed he orders his servant to bind a sacred jewel called 'The Eternal Light' to his hand. He warns that if the jewel is ..read more »
60%
from 2 members
Not available for rental
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The Ghoul
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Harold H, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke
Director: T. Hayes Hunter
Certificate:
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Boris Karloff's first British film. The story of Prof. Morlant, an eccentric Egyptologist who becomes obsessed with the mystical powers of the ancient Egyptian gods. On his deathbed he orders his servant to bind a sacred jewel called 'The Eternal Light' to his hand. He warns that if the jewel is ..read more »
55%
from 209 members
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The Mummy
on DVD
(1932)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
Director: Karl Freund
Certificate:
The Mummy represented Boris Karloff's second horror starring role after his overnight success in Frankenstein. Brought back to life after nearly 3,700 years, Egyptian high priest Imhotep wreaks havoc upon the members of the British field exposition that disturbed his tomb (shades of the King Tut ..read more »
65%
from 831 members
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Scarface
(1932)
Starring: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft
Director: Howard Hawks
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Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great talkie gangster flicks, but it was held up for release until after that honor was jointly usurped by Little Caesar and Public Enemy. Paul Muni stars as prohibition-era mobster ..read more »
72%
from 1,594 member
Not currently released
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The Old Dark House
(1932)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
Director: James Whale
Certificate:
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One of the most literate and visually striking horror films of the Thirties, The Old Dark House was directed by award-winning James Whale the year after he made the seminal Frankenstein, which starred Boris Karloff as the monster. An artful mixture of chills and exceedingly dry gallows humour, The ..read more »
68%
from 421 members
Not available for rental
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Charlie Chan - The Warner Oland Collection
(6 discs)
on DVD
(1931)
Starring: Warner Oland, Bela Lugosi, Rita Hayworth
Certificate:
The first film featuring Charlie Chan, The House Without a Key, appeared in 1925. Forty-seven films and six Charlies later, the series still delights audiences. Charlie Chan connoisseurs cite a variety of reasons for the honourable detective's longevity and appeal, ranging from his wit and ..read more »
70%
from 12 members
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Frankenstein
(1931)
Starring: Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke
Director: James Whale
Certificate:
Director James Whale's definitive Frankenstein's monster movies from the 1930s.FRANKENSTEIN: (1931)This is James Whale's first stylish, expressionist film to grace the Universal horror cycle of the 1930s and 1940s (DRACULA, THE MUMMY). Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his hunchbacked ..read more »
71%
from 3,108 members
Not currently released
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Two Arabian Knights
(1927)
Starring: William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim
Director: Lewis Milestone
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In WWI, two US soldiers - a Private and a Sergeant - are captured on the Western Front and, in the process of escaping the POW camp, leave their previous animosity behind. Escape is the only the beginning of the pair's breakneck adventures, however, which will involve near constant peril and a ..read more »
24%
from 5 members
Not currently released
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Curse of the Crimson Altar
Starring: Boris Karloff, Mark Eden, Barbara Steele
Director: Vernon Sewell
Certificate:
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A man searching for his missing brother is led to a mysterious mansion. When there, he discovers that the spirit of a witch is lurking, vying for revenge on those who killed her. Disturbingly, the man discovers that it was his ancestors who were responsible...
56%
from 263 members
Not currently released
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Mario Bava - Vol. 1
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Lidia Alfonsi, Barbara Steele, John Richardson
Director: Mario Bava
Certificate: 
This collection presents five giallo classics from legendary Italian horror director Mario Bava: THE MASK OF SATAN (1960), BLACK SABBATH (1963), THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1963), KNIVES OF THE AVENGER (1965), and KILL BABY KILL (1966).
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from 420 members
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Boris Karloff facts
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...chfinder General was in next, and sadly his final film.) It is also nice to see Boris Karloff playing a less hammy role in one of his last films. They don't make them like t...
