Actor Lester Matthews (1900)

The American horror film, The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944), directed by Ford Beebe and written by Bertram Millhauser, follows the story of a mentally unstable Robert Griffin. After escaping from a Cape Town institution where he was committed for murdering two orderlies, Griffin becomes fixated on seeking revenge against the Herrick family. One evening, Sir Jasper Herrick and Lady Irene are inspecting their daughter Julie’s new boyfriend, journalist Mark Foster, when Julie and Mark suddenly leave. Left alone in the residence, Robert seizes the opportunity to ...

The  American horror film, The Raven (1935), directed by Lew Landers and starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi, tells the story of a young dancer named Jean Thatcher who is injured in a car accident. Her father, Judge Thatcher, and fiancé, Dr. Jerry Halden, seek out neurosurgeon Dr. Richard Vollin for assistance. Despite now only conducting research, Vollin is renowned for his skill in performing delicate operations on cranial nerve roots. Initially uninterested in helping due to his insensitivity towards human suffering, ...

In the horror flick Werewolf of London (1935), directed by Stuart Walker, Henry Hull takes on the role of the titular werewolf. The story follows Wilfred Glendon, a wealthy and renowned English botanist who sets off to Tibet in search of an elusive plant known as Mariphasa lupina lumina. This plant is said to only bloom under the light of the moon. While in Tibet, Glendon is attacked and bitten by a wild humanoid creature but manages to obtain a specimen of the rare plant. Back in his London laboratory, he creates a lamp that mimics moonlight in hopes of seeing the ...