Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

It is a variation on the original legend of Alraune in which a Mad Scientist creates a beautiful but demonic child from the forced union between a woman and a Mandrake root. Not to be confused with the 1918 German version of Alraune.

Runtime

1h 20m

Director

Michael Curtiz, Edmund Fritz

Cast

Erdélyi Géza, Gyula Gál, Rózsi Szöllösi

The film is about a woman who experiences frightening visions after visiting an insane asylum where one of the inmates claims to be Count Dracula (here following the Hungarian spelling Drakula). She has trouble determining whether the inmate's visions are real or merely nightmares.

Runtime

1h 5m

Cast

Paul Askonas, Carl Goetz, Lena Myl

Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature was the result of Lamb's attempts to transplant animal glands into human beings. A lost film.

Runtime

57m

Director

Wallace Worsley

Cast

Lon Chaney, Raymond McKee, Jacqueline Logan

When a sculptor falls in love with his model but finds his love unrequited, he plans to kill his love rival with the help of the owner of a Horror Wax museum. The film is considered lost.

Runtime

1h

Director

Maurice Tourneur

Cast

Lon Chaney, Mildred Manning, John Gilbert