Alicia I love this movie so much

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

utgard14 Poverty Row cheapie starring Bela Lugosi as a professor running a soup kitchen as a front for his criminal activities. Slow, creaky, mostly boring B with only one person in the whole movie with any screen presence - Bela. And this is far from one of his better roles. The cast backing up Lugosi includes Vince Barnett, John Archer, J. Farrell MacDonald, Wanda McKay, and future murderer Tom Neal. Sadly the Bowery Boys do not appear. Similar plot to Lugosi's previous film, Dark Eyes of London/The Human Monster. Oh and there are zombies in this. Sort of. Not really.

Red-Barracuda Bowery at Midnight is one of the many poverty row films made by Bela Lugosi in the 40's. In it Lugosi plays a somewhat far-fetched character. He is alternately a psychology professor, a Samaritan who runs a mission for the homeless and a ruthless crime boss! Neither of his lives cross-over and his university students do not know of his mission activities and vice-versa, while his gangster boss life is a secret kept from everyone bar his fellow criminal underlings. Despite what the title and star would imply this is not a horror movie but really a crime-thriller. More accurately it is a crime film with a bizarrely incidental horror angle, as there is a character that creates zombies in the cellar of the mission! Needless to say, Bowery at Midnight is total nonsense but will be enjoyed by those with a tolerance for low budget genre flicks from this period.

Chase_Witherspoon Economical tale of split personality psychologist and lecturer (Lugosi), who moonlights as the manager of a soup kitchen, itself a front for a bizarre burglary racket where destitute criminals find the end of their road in shady basement deals. When a wealthy student of Lugosi (Archer) elects to research the plight of the under privileged as part of his thesis, he inadvertently stumbles upon a macabre experiment being conducted in the soup kitchen.Lugosi is professional and assured in comfortable characterisation as the slightly unhinged professor, whose double life of contrasts services both his demented perversions, and the need to study his affliction more closely. The supporting cast including John Archer as the arrogant rich kid, oblivious to those less well-off and Hollywood bad-man Tom Neal as a psychopathic killer eager to accept Lugosi's murderous invitation, performs well alongside the inimitable presence of master horror specialist Lugosi.Ghoulish and atmospheric, it's obviously not going to satisfy most of today's tastes, but if you're familiar and comfortable with the vintage horror flicks and need a fast-paced mystery for entertainment, you could do a lot worse than "Bowery at Midnight".

newportbosco One of the best of Bela's Monograms, mostly due to it's total craziness. This is the 5th of Bela's nine Mongrams' and by the looks of it, the plot was SO twisted the censors were just about ready to toss up there hands in incomprehension..and ignored stuff they might have nailed in years past. How else do we account for Bela's angry line about cats 'DESECRATING' his graves?? (Yeah, that's the word he uses. Not 'digging in'. It might be the first time a movie character complained about cats using graves as a litter box..) And it's not the only eyebrow raising thing...there is a sick creepy vibe that runs through this thing..really neat, actually. The plot has Bela doing multiple roles and defies logic or description. He kills folks in lots of scams and buries them in the basement in clearly marked graves with CROSSES no less...and has a drug addicted ex doctor side kick who has created zombies in the sub basement..(got that??) He also has the ability to work all night while telling his doting wife he is really writing, and then turn around and go back to run a soup kitchen or class room...Maybe the speed he would HAVE to take to DO such feats has fried his mind... But the cast and crew...this is one from your dreams. Fox, and Schnitzer directed and wrote CORPSE VANISHES from last time. Vince Barnett, also from CORPSE, is along for the ride. Archer made KING OF THE ZOMBIES..a flick that Bela was SUPPOSED to have made and SHOULD HAVE...Leading lady Wanda MacKay came back for VOODOO MAN, and keep your eye out for Ralph Littlefield...he's the friendly guy playing checkers and graduates next time to a pivotal role in THE APE MAN. You also get Tom Neal from DETOUR and Dave ("Play it FASTER!!") OBrien from REEFER MADNESS. It's one of the best Poverty Row casts ever assembled. And Bela is clearly DIGGING it...he gets KICKS out of double crossing folks and shooting them in cold blood, getting them pushed off roofs...the man is positively GLEEFULL. Now, of course, you HAVE to have the ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL ending so Archer SOMEHOW comes back and marries MacKay, but you won't forget those graves...or the cat