#40s horror movies

[fanofspooky]

Horror movies of the 1940s

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

[esqueletosgays]

THE UNINVITED (1944)

Director: Lewis Allen Cinematography: Charles Lang Jr.

[junospooky]

she is my mother, i was born of her.

Nightmare Alley, 1947 dir. Edmund Goulding

[goryhorroor]

“there are several reasons why the horror genre declined – in both quality and popularity – at the tail end of the 1930s & into the 40s. firstly, the narrative conventions became so well established that they appeared formulaic and predictable, especially when the same-old same-old monsters were put into rotation time and time again. then, political strife curtailed a lot of european filmmaking. thirdly, movies with supernatural, violent, science fiction or fantasy elements became a target for literal-minded censors, who were concerned that the masses might believe or, still worse, imitate the horrors they witnessed on the silver screen.”

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as The Invisible Man -

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

[weirdlookindog]

Danse Macabre (1922)

[theglitterdome]

Actress Jane Adams in a promotional photo for House Of Dracula - 1945

[moviesmoodboards]

Cat People 1942 dir.Jacques Tourneur

[thedivinecomedy0]

Part 1.

[horror-aesthete]

Black Narcissus, 1947, dirs. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

[fanofspooky]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Jane Randolph and Glenn Strange on the set of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

[esqueletosgays]

ROPE (1948)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cinematography: William V. Skall and Joseph Valentine

[bumblingbabooshka]

'Message in a Bottle' is so funny because imagine you're Starfleet and you just set loose a brand-new state of the art ship. You lose contact with it and send someone to investigate. When they come back they tell you that the ship fired at them, literally every single Starfleet officer aboard was killed, there are unconscious bodies of Romulans littering the floor and in the middle of this carnage there's an outdated model of a medical hologram which is acting uncannily human and claiming that it has a message from the long-lost USS Voyager: "We're still alive." Voyager really earns its rep as a doom harbinger.

[goryhorroor]

the wolf man (1941) directed by george waggner

"The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Your suffering is over, Bela my son. Now you will find peace."