Black & White Fright

This is the final episode of Black & White Fright and we end with the 1940 British mystery/horror film the Door with Seven Locks. A murder is found to be connected to a false heir and a secret torture chamber. Thanks for listening over the years and to the guests that gave us their time to come on and talk about old horror movies!

What many consider to be the first feature length zombie film happens to be this week's pick with 1932's White Zombie starring Bela Lugosi. Murder Legendre is the menacingly named zombie master of Haiti. Charles Beaumont goes to him when he needs help for a twisted plan. Spurned in marriage by Madeline Short, Beaumont has decided on a simple solution: kill Short and bring her back as a zombie. Then he can be with her forever. The only problem comes when Legendre keeps the fetching girl for himself -- and her new husband comes to Madeline's rescue.

This week's pick is the 1965 mess House of the Black Death. Two brothers, both of whom are warlocks, use their powers and covens of witches to battle over the family fortune. The previous sentence is the supposed plot of this low-budget, poorly acted, poorly edited film. It makes no sense and we were all confused and unhappy about watching it. Listen to us complain!

This week's pick is the 1940's the Invisible Man Returns starring Vincent Price in one of his earliest roles. The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect of gradual madness and escapes. As he searches for the real killer can he keep it together?

The 1942 mystery werewolf film the Undying Monster is this week's pick. Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights. Can a clearly American Scotland Yard inspector and his always-hungry, annoying assistant figure out what is really going on?

The classic 1931 Fritz Lang-directed German thriller M is this week's film discussion. Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre), a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

The tense, unsettling 1963 film the Sadist is this week's pick. A psychotic killer and his girlfriend reign terror on three teachers who are trying to repair their car at a petrol station. Featuring Arch Hall, Jr. and his frowny face!

The classic 1993 film King Kong is discussed this week with special guest Mike Neel. Actress Ann Darrow and director Carl Denham travel to the Indian Ocean to do location shoots for Denham's new jungle picture. Along the way, the actress meets and falls for rugged First Mate John Driscoll. Upon arriving at a mysterious island, Ann is taken hostage by natives who prepare her as a sacrifice to the enormous ape Kong who rules over their jungle. But when Ann is rescued and Kong is captured, the real trouble begins.

The 1962 thriller Cape Fear is his week's pick. A lawyer's family is stalked by Max Cady, a man he once helped put in jail. Featuring an fantastic and unsettling performance by Robert Mitchum.

The 1958 film the Haunted Strangler, starring the excellent Boris Karloff, is this week's topic. The ghost of the long-dead Haymarket Strangler takes possession of a researcher bent on clearing the killer's name.