1940 Horror Movies

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11 movies found (page 1/1):

Black Friday(1940)

| 1h 10min | Crime, Horror, Science Fiction

3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Paul Fix, Raymond Bailey, Virginia Brissac, Jack Mulhall, ...

Dr. Cyclops(1940)

1h 16min | Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction

3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.

Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack - With Albert Dekker, Victor Kilian, Paul Fix, Frank Reicher, Charles Halton, Janice Logan, ...

The Invisible Man Returns(1940)

| 1h 21min | Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 46 votes)

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Directed by Joe May - With Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, Cecil Kellaway, Alan Napier, John Sutton, ...

The Ape(1940)

| 1h 2min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.5/5 (with 13 votes)

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?

Directed by William Nigh - With Boris Karloff, George Cleveland, Ray Corrigan

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The Mummy's Hand(1940)

1h 7min | Horror, Adventure, Fantasy

3.0/5 (with 33 votes)

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.

Directed by Christy Cabanne - With Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford, Cecil Kellaway, Eduardo Ciannelli, George Zucco, ...

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The Devil Bat(1940)

1h 8min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.7/5 (with 32 votes)

Dr. Paul Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.

Directed by Jean Yarbrough - With Arthur Q. Bryan, Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien, John Davidson, Yolande Donlan

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The Door with Seven Locks(1940)

1h 20min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery

2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.

Directed by Norman Lee - With Leslie Banks, Lilli Palmer, Romilly Lunge, Gina Malo, David Horne, Richard Bird, ...

Before I Hang(1940)

| 1h 2min | Crime, Horror, Science Fiction

3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.

Directed by Nick Grinde - With Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Edward Van Sloan, Don Beddoe

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