Best Horror Film 1942-1945 (part 37 of a series)

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I still haven't seen hardly anything from this era but it seems to be held in high regard, if only for the Val Lewton films (which mostly fall within this range of dates).

Poll Results

Option	Votes
I Walked with a Zombie	6
The Seventh Victim	5
Cat People (1942)	3
Dead of Night (1945)	3
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man	1
The Mummy's Tomb	1
Isle of the Dead	1
Jungle Woman	0
The Mummy's Ghost	0
House of Frankenstein	0
The Mummy's Curse	0
The Monster Maker	0
The Man in Half Moon Street	0
The Invisible Man's Revenge	0
The Lady and the Monster	0
Zombies on Broadway	0
Return of the Ape Man	0
The Vampire's Ghost	0
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)	0
The Jungle Captive	0
House of Dracula	0
Fog Island	0
Weird Woman	0
Voodoo Man	0
The Uninvited	0
The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks	0
The Ghost Catchers	0
Cry of the Werewolf	0
Crazy Knights	0
The Ape Man	0
The Undying Monster	0
Night Monster	0
The Mad Monster	0
Invisible Agent	0
The Ghost of Frankenstein	0
Dr. Renault's Secret	0
The Corpse Vanishes	0
Bowery at Midnight	0
Captive Wild Woman	0
Carnival of Sinners	0
The Climax	0
Son of Dracula	0
Revenge of the Zombies	0
The Return of the Vampire	0
Phantom of the Opera (1943)	0
The Mysterious Doctor	0
The Mad Ghoul	0
The Leopard Man	0
Dead Men Walk	0
The Boogie Man Will Get You	0

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

The Lewtons are all good ... the creepy Satanists in The Seventh Victim almost get my vote, but I went with Isle of the Dead for its atmosphere and Karloff delivering a strong performance in spite of Harpo Marx hair.

― Brad C., Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:14 (nine years ago)

I like the Lewtons and voted for Cat People. The Leopard Man is probably the weakest, but it does have a disturbing death scene.

The Mummy sequels were cheapies and the last one, The Mummy's Curse, is terrible. It's set on that one bijou backlot set and it makes stupid continuity mistakes. If you follow the timeline of the series, it should be set in the 1990s.

― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:33 (nine years ago)

Where in gay hell is The Curse of the Cat People? It counts as much as a lot of these titles.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 22 September 2016 14:03 (nine years ago)

also missing: The Body Snatcher

― Brad C., Thursday, 22 September 2016 14:16 (nine years ago)

Oh what the christ. I thought I at least captured all of the Lewtons. Thanks, Wikipedia!

― Suddenly...Soup! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 September 2016 14:26 (nine years ago)

Ape Man is total garbage. I still have a bunch of Lewton films to see. The box sets are a tad expensive. Some of them don't include Mademoiselle Fifi because I don't think it's a horror or mystery.
Cat People recently got a new disc but I don't know if it's part of a series and I don't like the films enough for individual fancy releases.

I voted I Walked With A Zombie but Curse Of The Cat People is my favourite of the ones I've seen.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 22 September 2016 14:49 (nine years ago)

Curse of the Cat People is more of a fairy tale/fantasy though, not horror

― Josefa, Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:20 (nine years ago)

obviously one of the Lewtons, i'd have to rewatch

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:28 (nine years ago)

I've only seen the Lewtons from this list, and I voted Cat People, but I would have also thrown my vote towards Curse if it'd been an option.

― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:35 (nine years ago)

I notice the list only has one of the six Lon Chaney Jr. "Inner Sanctum" series of films (1943-1945), namely Weird Woman, but that's probably fair since they have more of a mystery feel to them, regardless of how they were advertised. Plus they're mostly pretty bad

― Josefa, Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:38 (nine years ago)

I'm happy enough voting for the original Cat People. I thought there might be something more terrifying on the list but nothing, um, jumps out at me

― Josefa, Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:42 (nine years ago)

I still haven't seen lots of these but Dead Of Night is one of my alltime faves.

― calzino, Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:55 (nine years ago)

on first viewing Dead of Night scared me much more than any of the Lewtons

― Brad C., Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:58 (nine years ago)

That isn't commercially available, is it? I've been on the lookout?

― Suddenly...Soup! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 September 2016 18:14 (nine years ago)

It's been on dvd a long while in the UK at least.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 22 September 2016 18:22 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

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

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

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