Best Horror Film 1936-1941 (part 36 of a series)

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Okay, so this is admittedly somewhat perfunctory and more to sate my anal completest impulses than anything else. The latter half of the '30s seems like a relatively fallow period for horror, but maybe y'all are aware of some secret gems in the rough?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
The Wolf Man (1941)	4
Son of Frankenstein	1
The Mummy's Hand	1
The Devil-Doll	1
Fährmann Maria	1
Man Made Monster	0
The Invisible Woman	0
The Invisible Man Returns	0
The Ghost Breakers	0
Horror Island	0
The Door with Seven Locks	0
The Devil Bat	0
The Ape	0
The Monster and the Girl	0
You'll Find Out	0
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)	0
Invisible Ghost	0
King of the Zombies	0
Man Made Monster	0
Spooks Run Wild	0
The Black Cat (1941)	0
The Devil Commands	0
The Mad Doctor of Market Street	0
Son of Ingagi	0
Dr. Cyclops	0
Buried Alive	0
The Walking Dead (1936)	0
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)	0
Revolt of the Zombies	0
The Man Who Changed His Mind	0
The Invisible Ray	0
The Golem	0
El Baúl Macabro	0
The Cat and the Canary (1939)	0
The Dark Eyes of London	0
The Devil's Daughter	0
Black Friday (1940)	0
Before I Hang	0
Torture Ship	0
The Return of Doctor X	0
The Man They Could Not Hang	0
La Herencia Macabra	0
The Gorilla	0
The Face at the Window	0
Dracula's Daughter	0

― ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 September 2016 12:45 (nine years ago)

I did see Dracula's Daughter recently. Which I honestly thought was better than Dracula, but that might be damning with faint praise. I was rather surprised by what seemed to be fairly overt lesbian overtones, and was even more surprised to learn that it was intentional and even played up in some of the marketing for the film.

― ALL TACOE'S 1/2 HALF "OFF" (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 September 2016 12:54 (nine years ago)

This is not a great list, but I voted for The Wolfman for Lon Chaney Jr's depressed-to-be-a-monster performance and for Maria Ouspenskaya.

― Brad C., Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:01 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 30 October 2016 00:01 (nine years ago)

Son of Frankenstein

― balls, Sunday, 30 October 2016 02:09 (nine years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 31 October 2016 00:01 (nine years ago)

TCM just showed The Devil Doll yesterday. It's clever, but the problem is, it's not the slightest bit scary. But this period of time sucked for horror all around

― Josefa, Monday, 31 October 2016 03:23 (nine years ago)

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