London’s infamous Bedlam asylum becomes a house of horrors in this visually Hogarth-inspired 1946 film from producer Val Lewton, with Boris Karloff chillingly sinister as its cruel master and Billy House stealing scenes as a flighty lord.

Plague quarantine traps a Greek general and his guests on an island haunted by vampire folklore in this 1945 RKO horror, but its mix of war, disease, and catalepsy never coheres into a satisfying whole.

Edinburgh’s grim underworld of cadaver trafficking comes to life in this 1945 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s story, featuring a career-best performance from Boris Karloff as a gleefully sadistic body snatcher.

A young merchant marine finds himself trapped on a ship under a captain descending into murderous insanity in this tense 1943 RKO thriller — a masterwork suppressed for nearly 50 years by a plagiarism lawsuit.

A search for a missing woman leads into the world of Manhattan Satan worshippers in this 1943 RKO thriller that starts promisingly but collapses under too many underdeveloped characters and a baffling conclusion.