Every Horror Movie from 1938
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1. A Night on Bald Mountain (1933)
8 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, ... See full summary »
Directors: Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker
Votes: 980
2. Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Mystery
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks, Victor Sen Yung, Eddie Collins
Votes: 1,843
3. The King Kong That Appeared in Edo (1938)
50 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
In part one of this silent two-part film, an ape nicknamed King Kong by its master kidnaps the daughter of a wealthy man as part of a revenge plot by one of his lackeys. The story concludes in King Kong Appears in Edo: The Episode of Gold (1938).
Director: Sôya Kumagai | Stars: Eizaburô Matsumoto, Fuminori Ôhashi, Reizaburo Ichikawa, Reiko Mishima
Votes: 65
4. Ghost Town Frolics (1938)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In an abandoned hotel, idle ghosts get drunk, play slot machines and line up for their relief checks. Two chimpanzees and their big mopey dog venture inside. The ghosts are thrilled at this new opportunity for mischief.
Director: Les Kline | Star: Billy Bletcher
Votes: 29
5. I Accuse (1938)
95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A traumatized World War I veteran builds a machine to prevent war. When the government subverts his machine and a second world war seems increasingly inevitable, in desperation the inventor summons the ghosts of the war dead to protest.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Victor Francen, Line Noro, Sylvie Gance, Marcel Delaître
Votes: 660
6. Kaibyô nazo no shamisen (1938)
74 min | Horror
In this pre-war classic, a jealous stage actress named Mitsue murders a cat belonging to a young woman who is in love with the same man as Mitsue. The spirit of the cat returns as a vengeful ghost.
Director: Kiyohiko Ushihara | Stars: Tokusaburô Arashi, Shinpachirô Asaka, Yaeko Asano, Yuriko Asano
Votes: 115
7. King Kong Appears in Edo: The Episode of Gold (1938)
Adventure, Drama, Horror
In part two of this silent two-part film, an ape nicknamed King Kong by its master has kidnapped the daughter of a wealthy man as part of a revenge plot by one of his lackeys. The conclusion of the story from The King Kong That Appeared in Edo (1938).
Director: Sôya Kumagai | Stars: Eizaburô Matsumoto, Fuminori Ôhashi, Reizaburo Ichikawa, Reiko Mishima
Votes: 22
8. Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)
Not Rated | 70 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.
Director: George King | Stars: George Curzon, Tod Slaughter, Greta Gynt, Tony Sympson
Votes: 261
9. The Black Doll (1938)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Dishonest mine owner Nicholas Rood finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Donald Woods, Nan Grey, Edgar Kennedy, C. Henry Gordon
Votes: 245
10. The Invisible Menace (1938)
Approved | 55 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
An army private and his new bride are trying to honeymoon on an island occupied by the military and a murderer.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Boris Karloff, Marie Wilson, Eddie Craven, Regis Toomey
Votes: 455
11. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Not Rated | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty
Votes: 57,183
12. The Missing Guest (1938)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A newspaper reporter, "Scoop" Hanlon "Paul Kelly", is required to spend time in a haunted house in which two murders are committed, several people faint and most of them drink a lot.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Paul Kelly, Constance Moore, William Lundigan, Edwin Stanley
Votes: 103
13. The Terror (1938)
64 min | Crime, Mystery
A criminal mastermind robs gold, frames his gang, keeps loot. Freed gang searches for ex-boss for revenge and their share.
Director: Richard Bird | Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Bernard Lee, Arthur Wontner, Linden Travers
Votes: 281
14. They Drive by Night (1938)
84 min | Crime, Thriller
A convict, just out of prison, is implicated in a murder and goes on the run, hitching a ride with a truck driver.
Director: Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Emlyn Williams, Anna Konstam, Allan Jeayes, Ernest Thesiger
Votes: 365
15. Hide and Shriek (1938)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Detective Alfalfa and his assistants Buckwheat and Porky try to solve a missing-candy case but find themselves in an amusement park haunted house.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Darla Hood, Eugene 'Porky' Lee, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas
Votes: 193
16. The Patient in Room 18 (1938)
Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Lance is sent to the hospital to recuperate from a nervous breakdown. At the hospital, Sara is his nurse and she still holds a grudge from the last court case. At the hospital, a wealthy ... See full summary »
Directors: Bobby Connolly, Crane Wilbur | Stars: Patric Knowles, Ann Sheridan, Eric Stanley, John Ridgely
Votes: 391
17. Porky in Egypt (1938)
Not Rated | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Porky is a tourist. He's missed the main camel, so he rents one of his own. Both of them are soon overcome by the hot desert sun; the camel starts hallucinating, and marches off, playing ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Treg Brown, Robert Clampett, Shirley Reed
Votes: 472
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