1936 Horror Movies

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill, Barton MacLane, Henry O'Neill, ...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(1936)

1h 16min | Horror, History, Drama

2.6/5 (with 7 votes)

It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.

Directed by George King - With Tod Slaughter

The Devil-Doll(1936)

1h 18min | Horror, Science Fiction

3.4/5 (with 32 votes)

Paul Lavond was a respected banker in Paris when he was framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to Devil's Island. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond however is consumed with hatred for the men who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

Directed by Tod Browning - With Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Arthur Hohl, Claire Du Brey, Henry Brazeale Walthall, ...

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The Invisible Ray(1936)

1h 19min | Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 16 votes)

Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.

Directed by Lambert Hillyer - With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Beulah Bondi, Frank Reicher, ...

The Man Who Changed His Mind(1936)

1h 6min | Horror, Science Fiction

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

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 Scientist, almost unstoppable...

Directed by Robert Stevenson - With Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Cecil Parker, Donald Calthrop, Lyn Harding, ...

Revolt of the Zombies(1936)

1h 5min | Horror

1.6/5 (with 6 votes)

The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. Evil Count Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending Mazovia's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, Armand (Dean Jagger), one of the members of the expedition, has his own agenda.

Directed by Victor Hugo Halperin - With Dean Jagger, George Cleveland, Roy D'Arcy, E. Alyn Warren

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