FilmNRGothic Classic Monsters Psychological

Bowery at Midnight1942

Name: Bowery at Midnight
Genre: Gothic, Classic Monsters, Psychological, Zombie
Released: 1942-10-30
Rating: 5.6

“The monster and the ghoul! One deals in wholesale murder...the other serves as a torture-master of the living dead! See it and shudder!”

Directed by Wallace Fox

5.6

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 5.3TMDB 5.1

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Year

1942

Runtime

62 min

The premise

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.

Horror Vault's take

In Depression-era New York, a respected criminology professor and philanthropist conceals a shocking secret beneath his charitable soup kitchen on the Bowery — a fully operational criminal gang. As police and an unsuspecting young man close in on the operation, the body count rises and the basement harbors secrets far stranger than mere robbery and murder. Bela Lugosi brings his trademark menace to a villain who weaponizes respectability, making this a compact Poverty Row chiller with more going on beneath the surface than its modest budget suggests.

Content: Murder, Depictions Of Corpses, Themes Of Body Experimentation