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Today's Featured Threads harkin back to the 1940s, when Hollywood made that actually supposed to be horrible, because they were horror movies.

In 1940 they released a movie called The Ape, and in 1943 they released they released The Ape Man.

I can't help wishing they'd released one in between the two that was just called The Man — simply because they'd look so strange on the marquees.

______Now Showing!
THE APE
THE MAN
THE APE MAN

______Coming Soon!
The Ape Man Meets the Ape Woman
_______2nd Feature
The Ape Family Takes a Vacation
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The Ape (1940)

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Yet another lurid tale in the field of biochemistry.

Boris Karloff plays a scientist who searches for a polio cure, the disease which killed both his wife and child. The treatment he develops actually works on a young paralyzed girl, but the serum requires human spinal fluid.

He acquires some of the fluid from the body of an animal trainer who is mauled to death by an escaped circus ape, but he needs still more. Karloff captures the escaped ape, kills it, skins it, and uses its hide as a disguise when he stalks the streets in search of spinal fluid donors.

Directed by William Nigh from a script by Curt Siodmak and Richard Carroll. "The Ape" was the first sci-fi horror film Karloff did after his "Mr. Wong" detective series.
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The Ape Man (1943)

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Bela Lugosi uses chemicals to do what the full moon did to Lon Chaney, Jr. -- turn himself into a hairy monster.

The scenes of scientist Bela mixing chemicals in his lab while his face is semi-covered with hair are enjoyable, but the film has little else to offer. The budget was minuscule and the director was William "One Shot" Beaudine -- who, according to legend, never reshot a take, no matter how badly it turned out.

Watch "The Ape Man" and judge for yourself.
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Before I Hang (1940)

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Scientist Boris Karloff labors to develop a rejuvenation serum for elderly patients.

Frustrated by failure, Karloff takes pity on an elderly, suffering patient and commits a mercy killing, for which he is convicted of murder. The authorities allow him to continue his rejuvenation experiments in prison while he awaits his hanging.

Using a blood sample from a young condemned murderer, Karloff mixes a serum and injects himself with it. The serum works and he becomes young again!

Later, his sentence is commuted to life imprisonment, but one day he succumbs to a violent urge and strangles the prison doctor. After serving part of his sentence, he receives a pardon and goes back to practicing medicine.

Repeated occurrences of the homicidal tendency finally convince Karloff that the blood of the murderer he used in his serum has transformed him into a compulsive killer.

Directed by Nick Grinde.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)