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Actor: Boris Karloff

The Bells (1926)

13 May 20159 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Guilt-Haunted Murderer

Director: James Young
Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Boris Karloff, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Edward Phillips, …
Category: Horror

Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927)

16 April 202516 April 2025

Rating: ★★

Jungle Hero

Director: J.P. McGowan
Actors: James Pierce, Frederick Peters, Dorothy Dunbar, Boris Karloff
Category: Fantasy

The Mad Genius (1931)

8 August 200023 November 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Control Freak Ballet Master

Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: John Barrymore, Donald Cook, Marian Marsh, Luis Alberni, …
Category: Horror

Frankenstein (1931)

1 December 200312 May 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Universal Frankenstein Adaptation

Director: James Whale
Actors: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Edward Van Sloan, …
Category: Horror

The Mummy (1932)

31 October 200812 January 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Revived Mummy

Director: Karl Freund
Actors: Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan, David Manners
Category: Horror

The Old Dark House (1932)

30 January 200521 June 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Old Dark House Comedy-Thriller

Director: James Whale
Actors: Ernest Thesiger, Melvyn Douglas, Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, …
Category: Horror

The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

8 February 200013 September 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Super-Villain

Director: Charles Brabin
Actors: Boris Karloff, Myrna Loy, Karen Morley, Jean Hersholt, …
Category: Horror

The Ghoul (1933)

20 March 20132 September 2022

Rating: ★★½

Resurrection/Old Dark House Thriller

Director: T. Hayes Hunter
Actors: Boris Karloff, Ernest Thesiger, Cedric Hardwicke, Kathleen Harrison, …
Category: Horror

The Black Cat (1934)

4 December 200012 September 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Revenge and Satanism

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, David Manners
Category: Horror

The Raven (1935)

15 May 200124 February 2025

Rating: ★★★

Demented Edgar Allan Poe Fan

Director: Lew Landers
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Irene Ware, Lester Matthews, …
Category: Horror

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

7 March 20001 July 2022

Rating: ★★★★

Universal Frankenstein Sequel

Director: James Whale
Actors: Boris Karloff, Ernest Thesiger, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, …
Category: Horror

The Black Room (1935)

9 July 2024

Rating: ★★★

Evil Twin/Historical Horror

Director: Roy William Neill
Actors: Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Thurston Hall
Category: Horror

The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)

15 December 20155 January 2025

Rating: ★★★

Mad Scientist Perfects Bodyswap Process

Director: Robert Stevenson
Actors: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Cecil Parker
Category: Horror

The Walking Dead (1936)

23 November 202128 December 2023

Rating: ★★★

Wrongly Executed Man Resurrected from the Dead

Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Boris Karloff, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill, Warren Hull, …
Category: Horror

The Invisible Ray (1936)

23 November 201214 June 2024

Rating: ★★★

Radioactive Mad Scientist’s Revenge

Director: Lambert Hillyer
Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, …
Category: Science Fiction

Son of Frankenstein (1939)

19 October 200314 November 2022

Rating: ★★★½

Universal Frankenstein Sequel

Director: Rowland V. Lee
Actors: Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, …
Category: Horror

The Ape (1940)

7 February 20016 September 2019

Rating: ★★

Mad Scientist

Director: William Nigh
Actors: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Henry Hall, Gene O'Donnell, …
Category: Horror

Black Friday (1940)

10 June 200226 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Gangster’s Transplanted Brain

Director: Arthur Lubin
Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

You’ll Find Out (1940)

29 March 200825 August 2021

Rating: ★★

Old Dark House Comedy

Director: David Butler
Actors: Kay Kyser, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre, …
Category: Horror

The Devil Commands (1941)

10 May 201625 October 2022

Rating: ★★½

Mad Scientist

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Actors: Boris Karloff, Anne Revere, Kenneth MacDonald
Category: Horror

The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)

24 May 202324 May 2023

Rating: ★★★

Mad Scientist Screwball Comedy

Director: Lew Landers
Actors: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Larry Parks
Category: Horror

The Climax (1944)

11 August 202111 August 2021

Rating: ★★

Mad Doctor Fixates on an Opera Singer

Director: George Waggner
Actors: Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Gale Sondergaard, …
Category: Horror

House of Frankenstein (1944)

15 February 200122 December 2022

Rating: ★★½

Universal Monster Bash

Director: Erle C. Kenton
Actors: Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr, John Carradine, J. Carrol Naish, …
Category: Horror

Isle of the Dead (1945)

2 September 200310 May 2023

Rating: ★★★½

Plague Outbreak/Possible Vampire Creature

Director: Mark Robson
Actors: Boris Karloff, Jason Robards, Ellen Drew, Katherine Emery, …
Category: Horror

The Body Snatcher (1945)

3 March 20005 July 2022

Rating: ★★★★

Grave Robbers

Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Russell Wade, …
Category: Horror

Bedlam (1946)

11 April 20008 November 2019

Rating: ★★★★

18th Century Asylum Horrors

Director: Mark Robson
Actors: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Richard Fraser, Billy House, …
Category: Horror

Personal Column (1947)

25 June 200430 December 2022

Rating: ★★★

Psycho-Thriller

Director: Douglas Sirk
Actors: Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Boris Karloff, Charles Coburn, …
Category: Horror

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

11 November 20135 November 2020

Rating: ★

Daydreamer’s Fantasies

Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Actors: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Thurston Hall, Boris Karloff, …
Category: Fantasy

The Black Castle (1952)

17 February 201526 November 2019

Rating: ★★½

Mad Aristocrat

Director: Nathan Juran
Actors: Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr, Michael Pate, …
Category: Horror

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1953)

3 December 199911 February 2020

Rating: ★★

Two Idiots Meet Dr Jekyll

Director: Charles Lamont
Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Craig Stevens, …
Category: Horror

The Haunted Strangler (1958)

16 November 201010 October 2024

Rating: ★★

Split Personalitied Killer

Director: Robert Day
Actors: Boris Karloff, Elizabeth Allen, Vera Day, Dorothy Gordon, …
Category: Horror

Frankenstein 1970 (1958)

26 February 202026 February 2020

Rating: ★★

Frankenstein Film

Director: Howard W. Koch
Actors: Boris Karloff, Donald Barry, John Dennis
Category: Horror

Corridors of Blood (1958)

18 October 20044 July 2022

Rating: ★★★

19th Century Medical Experiments

Director: Robert Day
Actors: Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Francis de Wolff, Betta St John, …
Category: Horror

The Raven (1963)

5 September 200211 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

War Between Magicians Comedy

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, …
Category: Horror

The Terror (1963)

18 December 20004 April 2020

Rating: ★★★

Haunting/Mysterious Woman

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Richard Miller, …
Category: Horror

Black Sabbath (1963)

15 July 20006 August 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Italian Gothic/Horror Anthology

Director: Mario Bava
Actors: Boris Karloff, Mark Damon
Category: Horror

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

1 April 20016 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Murderous Morticians Comedy

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, …
Category: Horror

Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

30 June 200124 November 2024

Rating: ★★

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Mutations

Director: Daniel Haller
Actors: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Suzan Farmer, Freda Jackson, …
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

Mad Monster Party? (1967)

5 August 200018 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Famous Monster Bash/Stop-Motion Animation

Director: Jules Bass
Actors: Boris Karloff, Phyllis Diller
Category: Fantasy

Targets (1968)

3 May 200526 January 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Psycho Sniper

Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Peter Bogdanovich
Category: Horror

Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)

7 August 20038 January 2023

Rating: ★

Witch’s Revenge

Director: Vernon Sewell
Actors: Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff, Barbara Steele, Mark Eden, …
Category: Horror

Isle of the Snake People (1971)

9 October 200329 March 2021

Rating: ½

Voodoo Cult

Director: Jack Hill, Juan Ibañez
Actors: Boris Karloff, Julissa, Quintin Bulnes
Category: Horror

House of Evil (1971)

30 January 202027 December 2023

Rating: ½

Murders in a Sinister Old Mansion/Evil Toys

Director: Jack Hill, Juan Ibañez
Actors: Boris Karloff, Julissa, Andres Garcia, Angel Espinoza, …
Category: Horror

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