Dr. Gangrene's Cinetarium Season 2, Episode 4: Lady Frankenstein

1

Snowbeast

A young couple, Gar and Ellen, return to Gar's hometown in the Colorado Rockies. However, they are caught up in the rampage of a mysterious monster and must find a way to kill it.

2

Night Fright

A Texas sheriff (John Agar) hunts a space monster terrorizing teens on lovers' lane.

3

Eegah

After Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning) encounters enormous caveman Eegah (Richard Kiel) while driving down a remote California road, her writer father, Robert (William Watters), heads out to the desert to prove his daughter's claims are true. Once there, Robert is knocked unconscious and trapped in Eegah's cave, where he gains some insight into prehistoric life. But, when Roxy and her boyfriend, Tom (Arch Hall Jr.), come to rescue Robert, Eegah grows fond of the girl and refuses to let her leave.

4

Lady Frankenstein

Baron Frankenstein (Joseph Cotten) is hard at work trying to reanimate human tissue when his daughter, Tania (Rosalba Neri), comes home from university with a medical degree and announces that it has always been her intention to carry on her father's work. The baron is thrilled, but no sooner does he successfully reanimate his creature than it kills him and stalks off. Shocked but undaunted, Tania vows to create an even greater monster to destroy the first in revenge.

5

Moon of the Wolf

A Louisiana sheriff becomes convinced that the killer responsible for a series of grisly murders is a werewolf.

6

The Devil's Hand

A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a Satanic cult.

7

The Red House

Meg (Allene Roberts) lives with her adoptive parents, Pete (Edward G. Robinson) and Ellen Morgan (Judith Anderson). When Nath (Lon McCallister), a classmate of Meg's, comes to help on their farm, Pete repeatedly tells Meg and Nath to stay out of the surrounding woods. Out of curiosity, they disobey, and Pete is irate, subsequently hiring Teller (Rory Calhoun) to guard the woods. As Pete's rage devolves into madness, the kids start to discover the dark secrets that are buried in the nearby land.

8

I Bury The Living

Robert Kraft (Richard Boone) inherits a familial post as the chairman of a small-town cemetery. The centerpiece of the cemetery office is a map of all the plots: White pins signify those claimed, black pins those occupied. When Robert accidentally puts a black pin in the just-purchased plots of a friend (Glenn Vernon) and his new wife, they die in a freak accident. Robert's uncle (Howard Smith) convinces him to make another switch, to see if it's coincidence or something more sinister.

9

The Embalmer

A dangerous killer embalms his beautiful victims after their brutal killings and puts them on display.

10

The Wasp Woman - The Sting of Death

A cosmetics queen inadvertently transmogrifies herself into a bloodthirsty, wasp-like creature after ingesting a questionable anti-aging formula developed by an unemployed scientist. & A man with a taste for fresh honey discovers that the bees making it in the rural area of England where he lives have turned deadly.

11

The Monster of Phantom Lake

When a man falls into a contaminated lake in 1950s Wisconsin, he mutates into a horrific monster and starts hunting nearby campers.

12

Grave Of The Vampire - Now That You're Dead

Kroft, a legendary vampire, returns from sleep. Kroft attacks a couple in a graveyard. A child is born and feeds only on blood from his mother's breast. & Now That You're Dead is written and directed by Patrick Rea, it is a dark comedy about a cheating husband, his mistress and a murderous wife, with a supernatural twist.

13

Symbiosis

Five short films, featuring characters whose decisions are inexorably intertwined, function together to create a more terrifying whole, centered around a single night of monsters, murder and mayhem.

14

Attack of the Giant Leeches

When people start disappearing in the Florida Everglades, a local game warden sets out to find the bloodsucking monsters responsible.

15

The Last Man On Earth

Dr Robert Morgan is the lone survivor of a plague that spread across the world. The plague caused the entire population of Earth to die, but the doctor soon realizes that they are not going to remain dead.

16

The Devil's Messenger

Satan sends a young murder victim to Earth to bring an envelope containing a formula for human destruction.

17

Carnival of Souls

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

18

The Sound Of Horror

Members of a Greek treasure-hunting expedition are horrified to discover prehistoric eggs containing a powerful force.

19

Man In The Attic

Jack the Ripper's rampage has all of London gripped in fear -- no matter how many constables patrol the streets, streetwalkers continue to turn up dead. On the night that a fourth woman is killed, the mysterious Slade (Jack Palance) rents out the attic of William and Helen Harley. Later, he meets their niece, Lily Bonner (Constance Smith), an actress. While he intrigues her, his behavior and obsessions arouse suspicion that Slade could be Jack the Ripper -- and Lily his next victim.

20

The Indestructible Man

A criminal who was executed, has been accidentally brought back to life after a series of scientific experiments went wrong. The man uses his new life to seek revenge on his enemies.

21

The Driller Killer

An artist is driven to insanity while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings and look after his female roommates. He takes to the New York streets at night and kills homeless people at random with his drill.

22

The Killer Shrews

Capt. Thorne Sherman lands his ship on an isolated island to make a delivery, only to find that mad doctor Marlowe Craigis is experimenting on shrews in an attempt to shrink them. The opposite happens, and the shrews become enormous and hungry for human flesh, leaving everyone on the island in peril, including the doctor's pretty daughter, Ann, and her unappealing fiancé, Jerry. Then, Thorne tries to organize an escape plan.

23

Five Minutes To Live

As his partner in crime, Fred Dorella (Vic Tayback), heads to the bank and tries to extort cash from executive Ken Wilson (Donald Woods), Johnny Cabot (Johnny Cash) kidnaps Wilson's wife, Nancy (Cay Forester). Fred tells Ken that, unless he hands over $70,000 in cash, Johnny will kill Nancy. Ken comes up with a ploy to buy some time for the police to assess the situation. Though the scheme is coming unstuck, Fred and Johnny aren't about to go quietly.

24

Legacy Of Blood

Heirs to a large fortune must join together and spend the night in a creepy haunted house to get their inheritance.

25

Nosferatu

Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife, leading to sinister consequences.

26

Drive in Massacre

A psychotic killer attempts to turn a drive-in movie theatre into a graveyard.

27

Tales From Parts Unknown - Live From The Drive-In

Tales From Parts Unknown is a feature length anthology film presenting four tales of terror directed by Cameron McCasland and hosted by Dr. Gangrene (Larry Underwood). The pair share the writing credits on the screenplay with the title of the film derived from Underwoods book Tales From Parts Unknown in which one of the stories originated.

28

Howliday Special - A Christmas Carol

Vincent Price narrates the classic Charles Dickens' tale about Ebenezer Scrooge and three Christmas Ghosts that change his perception of life.