MAN-MADE MONSTERS #9: Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) & Island of Lost Souls (1932)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 118 minutes
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This week James Swanton joins Mike to discuss two icky, creepy 1932 horror movies about mad doctors, torture and bestiality...
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| 0:49.5 | The first...... In 1932, Universal Pictures followed up James Wales Frankenstein with another horror film about a mad doctor. |
| 1:20.7 | This time, they brought Dracula star Bella Legosi back for a loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's murders in the Rue Morg. |
| 1:29.3 | This film was less successful than Frankenstein, but in many ways darker and more disturbing, |
| 1:36.3 | containing explicit scenes of torture and themes of bestiality. |
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| 1:50.0 | Later that year, Paramount Pictures released a film with many similarities, an adaptation of a literary source, this time H.G. Wells, the island of Dr. Moreau, about a mad doctor, |
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