Curt Siodmak

The Wolfman (2010)

Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh. ...

Hauser's Memory (1970)

A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi s ...

Ski Fever (1966)

An American student at an Austrian resort disapproves of the games of seduction played by his fellow ski instructors. ...

Doom of Dracula (1966)

An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market. ...

The Wolf Man (1966)

An abbreviated 8 minute version of the 1941 Universal Monsters classic, released on 8mm film in the 1960s. ...

Das Feuerschiff (1963)

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson embark on a search for Cleopatra's ancient necklace, which has been stolen. ...

The Devil's Messenger (1962)

In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams. ...

The Brain (1962)

After the mysterious crash of a millionaire's private plane, scientists secretly harvest the dying man's brain and keep it alive in a laboratory in order to communicate via telepathy. ...

Tales of Frankenstein (1958)

In this pilot for a series that was never picked up, Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. ...

Love Slaves of the Amazons (1957)

A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves. ...

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)

Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been before... ...

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)

Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction. ...

Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)

Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army ...

Captain Fathom (1955)

While traveling in enemy waters, Captain Fathom and his crew detect an anomalous reading of radioactivity. The submariners investigate and discover a huge bomb lying on the ocean bottom. While Fathom fastens an explosive to destroy the atomic device, his s ...

Riders to the Stars (1954)

Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world ...

Donovan's Brain (1953)

A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" ...

The Magnetic Monster (1953)

The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. ...

Bride of the Gorilla (1951)

The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head? ...

Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)

An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan's help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says is the location of a miraculous fountain of youth. ...

Berlin Express (1948)

In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot. ...

The Beast with Five Fingers (1947)

Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand. ...

The Return of Monte Cristo (1946)

The grandson of Edmond Dantes was cheated out of his fortune and falsely imprisoned, only to escape and wreak vengeance on his betrayers by assuming the guise of the Count of Monte Cristo. Just like grandpa, the younger Dantes is framed by a trio of conniv ...

Shady Lady (1945)

A crook becomes the victim of a crafty card player who works for the District Attorney. ...

Frisco Sal (1945)

Sal comes to the Barbary Coast from New England to find out who murdered her brother. She gets a job signing in Dude's saloon, falls in love with Dude, then wonders if he might be involved in the murder. ...

House of Frankenstein (1944)

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 the Wolf Man. ...

The Climax (1944)

Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. ...

The Lady and the Monster (1944)

A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster. ...

Son of Dracula (1943)

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. ...

False Faces (1943)

A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer. ...

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with. ...

The Mantrap (1943)

Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. While Stephenson is being honoured for his past successes, he senses modern detectives, particularly the ...

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; howeve ...

The Purple V (1943)

German expatriate Fritz Kortner plays the largest role, as an anti-Nazi schoolmaster who helps a downed American flyer (John Archer) reached Allied lines with vital war information. As usual, the Nazis are incredibly stupid and lead-footed, enabling the fl ...

London Blackout Murders (1943)

A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting n ...

Invisible Agent (1942)

The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany. ...

Pacific Blackout (1941)

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered ...

The Wolf Man (1941)

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. ...

Aloma of the South Seas (1941)

A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution. ...

The Invisible Woman (1940)

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss. ...

The Ape (1940)

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople ...

Black Friday (1940)

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aidin ...

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness. ...

Non-Stop New York (1937)

A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York. ...

The Tunnel (1935)

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States. ...

Girls Will Be Boys (1934)

The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy. ...

The Slump Is Over (1934)

A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review under the sign of optimism. ...

Marion, That's Not Nice (1933)

A young painter in the academy hires as a model the daughter of a rich soap manufacturer and has her pose for a work based on the biblical Susannah and the Elders, which almost causes a scandal. ...

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932)

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and ...

The Ball (1931)

Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches. Although the aristocracy invites them, the 'Tout-Paris' laughs behind their back. When they invite their would be new frien ...

The Ball (1931)

The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects the offer. ...

The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)

A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late. ...

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands (2004)

Weekend am Wannsee (2000)

A documentary about Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] interviewing the surviving members of the production. Featured as an extra on the special DVD. ...

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' (1999)

Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Scr ...

Universal Horror (1998)

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s. ...