Every Horror Movie from 1942
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1. Una luz en la ventana (1942)
72 min | Thriller, Horror
A nurse begins a new job at an old dark house and finds herself reluctantly working for a mysterious mad doctor preparing a dangerous experiment in order to cure himself of acromegaly.
Director: Manuel Romero | Stars: Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Irma Córdoba, Juan Carlos Thorry, Severo Fernández
Votes: 60
2. Black Dragons (1942)
Approved | 64 min | Thriller, War
A cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb. It is only until detective Dick ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, George Pembroke, Clayton Moore
Votes: 1,267
3. Bowery at Midnight (1942)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Thriller
Kindly soup kitchen operator and professor of criminology Bela Lugosi uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of daring robberies and murders.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay, Tom Neal
Votes: 1,233
4. Castle in the Desert (1942)
Approved | 62 min | Mystery
Charlie Chan investigates apparent poisonings at a mystery mansion in the Mojave Desert.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Sidney Toler, Arleen Whelan, Richard Derr, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 1,445
5. Cat People (1942)
Not Rated | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
Votes: 25,999 | Gross: $4.00M
6. Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
Passed | 58 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
Dr. Larry Forbes visits the château of Dr. Robert Renault, uncle of his fiancée Madelon, who is idolized by Renault's assistant, a strange émigré from Java.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Shepperd Strudwick, Lynne Roberts, George Zucco
Votes: 547
7. Fingers at the Window (1942)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An unemployed actor in Chicago aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of axe murders, apparently committed by a "lunatic".
Director: Charles Lederer | Stars: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 1,145
8. I Married a Witch (1942)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward
Votes: 9,526 | Gross: $0.31M
9. Invisible Agent (1942)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 2,655
10. Man with Two Lives (1942)
Approved | 65 min | Horror, Thriller
A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted gangster, who embarks on a vengeful crime wave.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Edward Norris, Marlo Dwyer, Eleanor Lawson, Frederick Burton
Votes: 330
11. Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Patric Knowles, Maria Montez, Maria Ouspenskaya, John Litel
Votes: 332
12. Night Monster (1942)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson, Irene Hervey
Votes: 1,853
13. The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Horror
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Maxie Rosenbloom, Larry Parks
Votes: 1,263
14. The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
Passed | 64 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist, aided by an old hag and her two sons, kills virginal brides, steals their bodies, and extracts gland fluid to keep his ancient wife alive and young.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin, Elizabeth Russell
Votes: 3,513
15. The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Lon Chaney Jr., Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 7,097
16. The Hidden Hand (1942)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham), who uses her insane brother, John Channing (Milton Parsons), to ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Willie Best
Votes: 677
17. The Living Ghost (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A retired detective, Nick Trayne, is hired to look for a missing banker. During the investigation, the aforementioned banker returns in a zombie-like state. Trayne must track down the madman responsible for the banker's state.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: James Dunn, Joan Woodbury, Paul McVey, Vera Gordon
Votes: 682
18. The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco when his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local populace. The survivor of a ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Una Merkel, Lionel Atwill, Nat Pendleton, Claire Dodd
Votes: 552
19. The Mad Monster (1942)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Glenn Strange
Votes: 1,940
20. The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Dick Foran, John Hubbard, Elyse Knox
Votes: 3,851
21. Terror House (1942)
79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A pair of young teachers look into the disappearance of their friend in the Yorkshire Moors. They soon run across the man they suspect is the murderer, and have to sit out a storm with him.
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Mary Clare, Joyce Howard
Votes: 861
22. The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942)
Approved | 66 min | Horror, Mystery
A mysterious vigilante known as "Dr. Rx" strikes again. Assigned to the case is private detective Jerry Church but the crimes are baffling and involve strangulation and a possible attempt to implant a gorilla's brain into a human body.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Anne Gwynne, Samuel S. Hinds
Votes: 605
23. The Undying Monster (1942)
Not Rated | 63 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard, Bramwell Fletcher
Votes: 1,537
24. The Fall of the House of Usher (1942)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Horror
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER is the original film (made by Curtis Harrington when he was in high school) from which USHER is based.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Curtis Harrington, Robert Macleay
Votes: 113
25. The Boogie Woogie Boogie Man (1942)
16 min | Short, Musical
Stars: The Aida Broadbent Girls, Will Osborne, Martha Tilton
26. La mentirosa (1942)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Luis César Amadori | Stars: Niní Marshall, Miguel Gómez Bao, Pablo Palitos, Juan José Piñeiro
Votes: 24
27. Heiyi Guairen (1942)
Horror
An atmospheric horror film centres around the appearances of a black-garbed ghost in cool moon-lit nights, striking fear in all who see it. Inside an ancient tomb, instruments of torture ... See full summary »
Stars: Tsang Sam-To, Chau-Wan Cho, Po-Chuen Chu, Fung Hap-Wan
28. Das Gespensterhaus (1942)
100 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
In Bern above Junkerngasse 54 the caretaker has died - the old Hutzli. On the day on which he was buried, it's started again, this howling in the middle of the night - scary. Since then, no one dares to live there.
Director: Franz Schnyder | Stars: Emil Hegetschweiler, Jakob Sulzer, Blanche Aubry, Therese Giehse
Votes: 57
29. Whispering Ghosts (1942)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
An actor who plays a detective on a radio show and his sidekick get it into their heads to try to solve a murder that had been committed several years previously.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Milton Berle, Brenda Joyce, John Shelton, John Carradine
Votes: 207
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