恐怖片

　　Young couple Madeleine and Neil are coaxed by acquaintance Monsieur Beaumont to get married on his Haitian plantation. Beaumont's motives are purely selfish as he makes every attempt to convince the beautiful young girl to run away with him. For help Beaumont turns to the devious Legendre, a man who runs his mill by mind controlling people he has turned into zombies. After Beaumont uses Legendre's zombie potion on Madeleine, he is dissatisfied with her emotionless being and wants her to be changed back. Legendre has no intention of doing this and he drugs Beaumont as well to add to his zombie collection. Meanwhile, grieving 'widower' Neil is convinced by a local priest that Madeleine may still be alive and he seeks her out.

　　Doctor X (1932) is a First National/Warner Bros. horror and mystery film. Based on the play originally titled The Terror (New York, February 9, 1931) by Howard W. Comstock and Allen C. Miller,[1] it was directed by Michael Curtiz and stars Lee Tracy, Fay Wray, and Lionel Atwill.　　The film was produced before the Motion Picture Production Code was enforced. Themes such as murder, rape, cannibalism and prostitution are interwoven into the story. The film was one of the last films made, along with Warners' Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), in the two-color Technicolor process. Black and white prints were shipped to small towns and to foreign markets, while color prints were reserved for major cities.　　PS. The Return of Doctor X (1939) link

　　本部饱受争议的离奇影片围绕马戏团里一群畸形人展开。矮人汉斯（哈利·厄尔斯 Harry Earles饰）暗自倾心于“正常人”——美貌的秋千表演者克里奥佩特拉（奥尔加·巴古拉诺娃 Olga Baclanova饰），同为侏儒人的弗里达（黛西·厄尔斯 Daisy Earles饰）告诫汉斯，她只是为他的钱财。克里奥佩特拉与“正常人”大力士赫克留斯（道格•霍奇森 Henry Victor饰）两人相好，设计让克里奥佩特拉嫁给汉斯得到钱财。婚礼上，克里奥佩特拉大吼在场的人都是“FREAKS”，激怒了所有畸形人。雨夜，畸形人对这两个“正常人”展开了报复……　　本片在1932年发行后因题材过于怪诞而被禁止，成为了当时的赔钱电影。可在当下来看，却是一部难得的“正常”影片。导演向我们抛掷了一个赤裸裸的提问：到底谁才是“正常人”？

　　故事发生在1921年的埃及，一支探险队在法老的坟墓里发现了因霍特（波利斯·卡洛夫 Boris Karloff 饰）的木乃伊。因霍特曾经是一名王子，因为受到了法老的诅咒而遭遇了活活陪葬的悲惨命运。在墓穴中同时被发现的，还有一份神秘的卷轴，在传说中，这卷轴能够赋予死人新的生命。探险队中的一名成员在阴差阳错之下念出了卷轴上的咒语，之后发狂而死，因霍特因此俘获。　　一晃眼十年过去，在这十年间，因霍特一直都隐藏着自己的身份，作为一名普通的埃及青年生活着。实际上，他一直在寻找一个名叫海伦（齐塔·约翰 Zita Johann 饰）的姑娘，这个姑娘的前世正是因霍特曾经的恋人。

　　本片改编自威尔斯的小说。讲述一位科学家在岛上进行人兽杂交的实验，试图制造出伟大的超人。然而屡次地失败却产生了可怕的后果：大量的畸形人。他们受到奴役和虐待。一次海难使一批英国人登上了这个小岛，科学家试图用一个豹女和一位客人交配。最后，那些畸形人造反并推翻了这个邪恶的科学家。