Monsters & Creatures Horror Movies of the 1940s
Monster movies bring beasts, creatures and shape-shifters out of the dark. Horror turned to suggestion and shadow, from Val Lewton's low-budget chillers to the Wolf Man. Standouts from the 1940s include The Wolf Man, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man and House of Dracula.
The Wolf Man (1941)
Rated 7.0 on TMDB
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.
See where it’s streamingFrankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Rated 6.2 on TMDB
After being resurrected by grave robbers, Larry Talbot searches for Dr. Frankenstein in the hopes of being cured of his lycanthropy.
See where it’s streamingHouse of Dracula (1945)
Rated 5.5 on TMDB
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy…
See where it’s streamingThe Mummy's Curse (1944)
Rated 5.5 on TMDB
After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina…
See where it’s streamingHouse of Frankenstein (1944)
Rated 6.1 on TMDB
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and…
See where it’s streamingThe Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Rated 6.3 on TMDB
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
See where it’s streamingCaptive Wild Woman (1943)
Rated 5.2 on TMDB
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
See where it’s streamingThe Mummy's Hand (1940)
Rated 5.7 on TMDB
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka.
See where it’s streamingShe-Wolf of London (1946)
Rated 5.6 on TMDB
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
See where it’s streamingThe Return of the Vampire (1943)
Rated 6.1 on TMDB
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster.
See where it’s streamingSon of Dracula (1943)
Rated 5.8 on TMDB
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
See where it’s streamingThe Mummy's Tomb (1942)
Rated 5.5 on TMDB
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
See where it’s streamingInvisible Agent (1942)
Rated 5.8 on TMDB
Frank Raymond, grandson of the original Invisible Man, uses his family's secret chemical formula to become invisible and volunteer as an Allied spy following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
See where it’s streamingCry of the Werewolf (1944)
Rated 4.8 on TMDB
A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies.
See where it’s streamingThe Vampire's Ghost (1945)
Rated 5.5 on TMDB
In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.
See where it’s streamingThe Undying Monster (1942)
Rated 5.7 on TMDB
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for…
See where it’s streamingDead Men Walk (1943)
Rated 4.6 on TMDB
When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the…
See where it’s streamingThe Mad Monster (1942)
Rated 3.4 on TMDB
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
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