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The Boris Karloff Collection
No other name is as synonymous with screen terror as Boris Karloff. After skyrocketing to international stardom in Universal's Frankenstein and The Mummy, this film icon continued to break ground in an electrifying slate of popular horror classics. Now see this unrivaled movie legend in five of his most spellbinding and memorable roles in this collector's set that cements Boris Karloff's status as a true giant of American cinema.Night Key (1937): Karloff ignites the screen as the ingenious...
Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi 4-Movie Horror Collection
Horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi created some of the most memorable performances in cinematic history. Their unforgettable performances as Dracula (Lugosi) and Frankenstein's monster (Karloff) terrified a generation of moviegoers, and when these two legendary actors combined their talents for a series of spine-tingling films in the 1930's, audiences could not get enough. The Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi 4-Movie Horror Collection includes 4 of their most blood-chilling...
Unconquered
Discover the lavish spectacle, sizzling romance and intense drama of Cecil B. DeMille's vivid pre-Revolutionary settles vs. Indians saga! Academy Award winner Gary Cooper stars as peace-loving Chris Holden, a militiaman who buys and then frees beautiful English slave Abby Hale (Paulette Goddard). When a supplier of illegal firearms covets Abby for himself, he sparks a vicious battle between an Indian tribe and a few brave colonists. "Primitive in its passion; exciting in its action; colorful...
The Invisible Ray
Horror icons Boris Karloff ( Frankenstein ) and Bela Lugosi ( Dracula ) star in the wicked thriller The Invisible Ray . On a scientific expedition to Africa, Dr. Janos Rukh (Boris Karloff) discovers a meteorite containing an unknown element a thousand times more powerful than radium. Contaminated by his contact with the element, Rukh finds himself killing everyone he touches. His friend Dr. Benet (Bela Lugosi) develops an antidote, but its effects are short-lived and result in unintended side-...
The Mummy (1932)
Boris Karloff's legendary performance as The Mummy has become a landmark in the annals of screen history. When Egyptian mummy Im-Ho-Tep is accidentally revived after 3,700 years, it is revealed in a flashback that he was a high priest, embalmed alive for trying to revive his true love after she had been sacrificed. Alive again, he sets out on an obsessive - and deadly - quest to find his lost love. The Mummy remains a masterpiece not only of the genre, but of all time.
The Raven (1935)
Horror icons Boris Karloff ( Frankenstein ) and Bela Lugosi ( Dracula ) star in the macabre classic The Raven , inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Dr. Richard Vollin (Lugosi) is a brilliant but unstable surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture. He saves the life of Jean Thatcher (Irene Ware), a beautiful young socialite injured in an automobile accident and becomes increasingly attracted to her. The girl is frightened, however, by his advances and complains to her...
The Black Castle
Boris Karloff captivates the screen in the gripping tale of betrayal and revenge, The Black Castle . A forbidding castle in the Black Forest holds dangers for Sir Ronald Burton (Richard Greene) when he is invited there for a hunt by the cruel Count von Bruno (Stephen McNally). Burton, searching for evidence that the count murdered his friends, becomes ensnared in a cat-and-mouse game that turns deadly when he falls in love with the count’s wife, Elga (Paula Corday). Lovely Elga is being held...
The Climax
Blending music, murder and Gothic madness, The Climax marks Boris Karloff's long-awaited return to horror films. Dr. Hohner (Karloff), the house physician at Vienna's Royal Theatre, secretly murders his opera star mistress. When new soprano Angela (Susanna Foster) arrives, her identical voice impels Hohner to hypnotize her, making her incapable of singing. The love of a composer (Turhan Bey) rids Angela of the doctor's evil influence, but Hohner - driven to insanity - now plots to silence the...
Black Friday
Two of the horror genre’s most unforgettable icons, Boris Karloff ( Frankenstein ) and Bela Lugosi ( Dracula ), star in the thrilling classic Black Friday . Brain specialist Dr. Sovac (Karloff) illegally transplants part of injured gangster Red Cannon’s brain into the head of his dying friend Professor Kingsley (Stanley Ridges). The operation saves Kingley’s life, but at a terrible cost, transforming him into a Jekyll-Hyde who is sometimes his timid self, sometimes vicious Cannon. When Dr...
Night Key
Unrivaled horror movie legend Boris Karloff ( Frankenstein, The Mummy ) stars in the pulse-pounding crime thriller Night Key . Mild mannered David Mallory (Karloff) is an eccentric inventor who spent 20 years of his life perfecting a security system only to find himself taken advantage of once again by a former partner and his lawyer. Seeking revenge so that he can provide for his daughter (Jean Rogers), Mallory soon finds himself kidnapped by a gang of burglars and forced to help them commit...