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The Invisible Ghost, 1941

In The Invisible Ghost1, there is nobody and nothing that is invisible, and no ghost, except perhaps in the loosest metaphoric sense.
For a Poverty Row horror flick, it’s pretty darned good, with actual effort from both cast and crew clearly evident in just about every scene. This does not make it an objectively good [...]

Black Dragons, 1942

First off, even though this is included in various Mill Creek Entertainment horror packs, it isn’t a horror movie. What it turns out to be is an eccentric spy thriller. But, of course, it stars Bela Lugosi, so it gets labeled as horror.
After Black Dragons opens on a dinner party involving a number [...]

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, 1948

Arguably, this is it — the very best Abbott and Costello movie there is. The boys are in top form, and they get to play off a scenario that is not, at least at the time of the making of this film, threadbare. They get an actual story, into which their antics fit [...]