Undying Monster 1942 horror

Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.

[@FOX007-um1wr]

I love these old movies. Anyone notice that in the old horror movies that the characters are adults? A well told story, great imagine, no sex, no graphic violence makes it an enjoyable movie to watch. I want to live in that wonderful dusty huge house. :)

[@Anti-Fake-ul9oe]

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[@steventrosiek2623]

I'd love to live in that old mansion. It would be so cool.❤

[@JMxx6204]

Enjoy the film & stop belly-aching.

[@originalkingalpha5116]

​@@JMxx6204 Play nice.😂

[@robertlyness4883]

Ditto. Well said. I am Soooo SICK of the gore and over the top screams & violence. Gone are the days of classy, skilled direction, set design, lighting, music score, ...and ACTING! UNPLUG the computer already. Use some movie making skills and talents. End of rant. 😇💖✝️

[@garygone5234]

Thank you for sharing this little jewel. I love old horror movies from England, and I think they made the best werewolf movies too. Would it be possible to find and share some more of them?

[@garryferrington811]

This was made in Beverly Hills, CA, at the Fox studio. It's an American movie.

[@lisacooper3991]

Ole black and white movies are more creepy n suspenseful to watch. A awesome movie, classic

[@ericmartin9296]

I love these old horror movies they remind me of my childhood, Growing up we had a local television station that showed old horror movies on Saturday nights and we loved it, That old lady in this movie is so creepy-looking

[@JuliaKapp]

The huge Great Dane in this film reminds me Scooby-Doo for some reason.😅

[@warrenbridges1891]

@user-co4gs3hm8p "Cuddles" from "The Woody Woodpecker Show". Scooby-Doo could talk.

[@musicalme27]

Even though he's very big, that dog seems very sweet.

[@yoelfischel6327]

A very fine movie, but don't stop watching at the end of it. A great piece on the director John Brahm.

[@peggycarson4420]

I love all these old movies

[@cherylbowker3717]

I never saw this flim ,it is good.

[@littlemissgroove]

Excellent quality. Thanks for uploading ❤😊

[@ZENmud]

Wicked flick! Thanks for pulling this up.

[@dougboyko4008]

Actor playing the inspector was in HOUSE OF FEAR Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes.

[@robertszvetics210]

And the butler was in Sherlock Holmes faces death

[@justme-tj3jt]

Out chasing some monster and a rabbit scares them lmao, great film.

[@Anti-Fake-ul9oe]

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[@shizuokafujiedaayatraveler6137]

I was born on 1979 😂I can’t imagine that the classic movie is better than 2004 movie horror.

[@originalkingalpha5116]

Exactly!😂

[@ZOGGYDOGGY]

Good film by a director you should pay more attention to. I should say that I liked this film a lot. The guy who directed it was John Brahm, a very interesting fellow and one who, I think, used music very well to evoke tension. Stay to the end of the movie for there are some people interviewed about Brahm and his work. I wonder whether he knew Schoenberg. **** "Tonality, he said, “is not a necessity for a piece of music, but rather a possibility.” "That radical expansion of the harmonic field had a sweeping influence on all subsequent composers, whether or not they followed Schoenberg explicitly. Hollywood composers paid particularly close attention to Schoenberg’s music, and some studied with him directly. The great man was not displeased to receive these genuflections, although he appeared to resent the idea that his non-tonal vocabulary was useful primarily as an expressive crutch for scenes of tension and terror. Years ago, David Raksin, who wrote music for “Laura” and other classic films, told me that he once asked Schoenberg how he should score an airplane sequence. Schoenberg archly replied, “Like big bees, only louder.” "At the final Jacaranda concert, the pianist and conductor Scott Dunn illustrated the Schoenberg-Hollywood relationship by playing three pieces by Leonard Rosenman, who took private lessons with Schoenberg in 1947. Rosenman wasn’t writing for the movies at the time; that transition came about when one of his piano students, James Dean, was cast in “East of Eden” and got his teacher hired along with him. (Dean, a modern-music fan, liked to tell an anecdote about Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto: after Jascha Heifetz complained that he would need to grow a sixth finger to master the piece, Schoenberg supposedly said, “I can wait.”) Rosenman began employing twelve-tone methods in his film scores. During the planetarium scene in “Rebel Without a Cause,” the orchestra dissolves into a magnificent Schoenbergian melee. It’s hard to imagine how Hollywood could have functioned without the language of dissonance. The horror genre wouldn’t even exist." Alex Ross in "The New Yorker".

[@williemays2]

yes, John Brahm went on to direct a successful film trilogy known as 'Star Wars'. George Lucas was just his under-study. An incredible director that should be more known, if only hollywood hadn't blacklisted him!

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

So what exactly are you trying to say?🤔

[@ZOGGYDOGGY]

@@scarygary-qq1pj John Brahm was a great director who knew how to use music to set tone to the anticipation of terror.

[@davidallen1418]

Great film thanks.👍

[@dianamarie1652]

Great movie, makes me think of Sherlock Holmes episode!

[@kellybrown8638]

Hezather Angel and John Howard both appeared in the Bulldog Drummond movie series

[@robertszvetics210]

I have it on bluray disc.

[@dennisduran8500]

The director blew it with the fast forward scenes 😮

[@martinbrode7131]

Wonderfully dusty. 😊

[@ChrisCarlin-is8wv]

Great old movie. Why was Scotland Yard guy an American though?

[@DadsLloyd]

If you look closely at the beginning of the monster-reveal scene (as it is climbing the cliff), you will notice the face of the long-bearded police inspector before it quickly morphs into the "real" monster. I presume this suggests that the problem is not confined to the current monster, but that there are others. Yikes!!

[@euphrates556]

Saturday afternoon fun.

[@lukaurshibara5837]

The ending didn't make sense combined with the given explanation. *Spoiler* If he suffered from lycanthropy and only _thought_ he was a werewolf without actually being one due to a "dreadful kink in the brain", as it was worded, then how could he physically transform between 1:00:48 and 1:01:00 and losing the fur from face and hands? o__O And how could the strands in the sealed test-tube just dematerialize? O_o

[@Anti-Fake-ul9oe]

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[@Rubytuesday1569]

Just relax and enjoy it for what it is. ☮️

[@morrismonet3554]

All these English look alike to me so it was hard to follow as to who did what. LOL

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

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[@SeptemberAdam]

At that 27:22 scene. "This place is colder than a tax collector's heart!" Man, could they write such fitting clever dialog back then!!!! Say that to an average 25 years old now and they'll look at you like you're a psycho....simply because you didn't say it like "it's colder than fuck!" Or some other inane mediocre manner, they'll think as supremely supremely intelligent.

[@Anti-Fake-ul9oe]

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[@Anti-Fake-ul9oe]

They were raised in US vulgar culture!

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

Why are families like this always in trouble? Is it revenge?

[@teresas8173]

Audiences love seeing wealthy people have some difficulty in life 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@codzcodz9523]

+CODZ+

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

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[@jayturner3397]

😊

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

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[@Whatt787]

A bore

[@marks9820]

Even though both made by FOX, there are similarities between this and 'The Hound of the Baskervilles''. Then a touch of 'The Musgrave Ritual' and quite a bit of 'The Wolf Man' and they made a film that I enjoy watching very much.

[@denmanning3080]

I think two of the actors appeared in the Sherlock Holmes movies. The maid in the Hound of the Baskervilles as a maid whose brother was the escaped confict. And, the butler "I think" was the butler in the Musgrave Manor.

[@j.vi-geant6784]

There are also set similarities to the "Uninvited" with Ray Milland, a great favorite of mine.

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

@@denmanning3080 Yep. Halliwell Hobbes was the butler in "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death" starring Basil Rathbone.

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

@@denmanning3080 "Brunton".

[@DarkRecluse]

Oof the make of this comment 😖

[@maryhoffmann9512]

This was great and new to me, which is a rarity since I've been a fan of this type of fare for more decades than I care to count. Heather Angel is always a delight and she did not disappoint here, thanks for uploading!

[@intignia]

I'm impressed by how clear this film is for being as old as it is. I wish some more modern movies shown on KZbin could have as sharp images. A short suspenseful story which I enjoyed.

[@nazarene5680]

I love these old films 🍿. Black and white celluloid. Atmospheric and dark. No cgi fakery either.

[@Lforaday3]

Why have I never seen this before. Love it. Thanks for sharing😊

[@NancySanders-om4ic]

A very good horror film,and scary! Thank you,for sharing it.

[@pablodiazdebrito8735]

superb work by a director of comparable talent to other German exiles of much greater fame, as the critics say in the final commentary. Thanks for the film from Argentina

[@francesrea5935]

A lot of these old movies have butlers that are older than dirt!

[@LeonScheppink]

It's been quite a while since I've seen this movie. Love the atmosphere in those old(er) movies. 😊

[@fkd1963]

This has the look and feel and casting of a Universal horror flick--in fact, some of the actors here are from the awesome Basil Rathbone-Sherlock Holmes flicks.

[@seesea-sv3xw]

Absolutely love it. If only they made movies like this still. Atmosphere and imagination don't need CGI to tell a good story.

[@alisamartin1437]

Brings back so many good memories of curling up on the sofa on a wintery Sunday afternoon with my Grandmother. 🙂

[@martinhiggs7027]

Absolutely amazing you guys top media as good as my DVD ! John Braum directed very few classic horror films ! incredible camera work as well, 100% top rare 40's movie !

[@cwbrooks5329]

Also want to mention that the book that this movie is taken from is a great late-night read if you're looking for something spooky.

[@gregrowell8688]

I remember seeing this when I was a kid on Chiller theater.

[@lesawilkes5673]

Extremely high quality for such an old film! I thoroughly enjoyed it, I'm glad it is preserved for future watchers, they just don't make em like they used to. How this is possible is a mystery, just think, it's 82 yrs. old, quite an accomplishment in it's time. Not exactly scary by today's standard, but entertaining. Thanks for this unique one.

[@damin9913]

I can watch these and not get bored i miss watching B&W classics late at night

[@robertwalker5521]

Google : FILM NOIR MOVIES OF THE 30s and 40s ... except, substitute MYSTERY or HORROR instead of Noir.

[@jdsgotninelives]

Having just watched this last night I was amazed at the technical feat of both the Direction and Cinematography. I am honestly surprised to have discovered such early film making mastery. Thank you for making this discovery possible. ❤

[@terrydaniel-qm9mh]

Great flick watching for 1st time in the year 2024 no one looking at a monitor/ screen or mobile phone ! Just wonderful .

[@JH-ug8jp]

Except those watching the film

[@johnhoffman2818]

Great movie. The shades and darkness and shadows an absolute masterpiece by the lighting artists.

[@jamessmith7691]

I never get tired of these movies.

[@VanessaDavis-ri6jy]

Me either ❤❤❤

[@steventrosiek2623]

Many thanks for a wonderful movie. Fascinating in every way, not like modern garbage.

[@kimmccabe1422]

Thank you! Saves me having to watch Hound of the Baskerville or Rue De Morge by Poe for a 3rd time. I enjoyed!

[@nedludd7622]

Rather entertaining, a combination of the old dark house and hound of the Baskervilles. A pretty good re-creation of the atmosphere of older British movies and Heather Angel was an angel.

[@aadamtx]

Overall, a mixed bag, with good direction, solid cast, but script that goes off in too many different directions simultaneously. This was the era of the wolfman films, and critics regarded this one as a bit of a quickie knock-off. But kudos to Heather Thatcher, who lightens things up!

[@terencewise7349]

From Terence Wise in UK.......Wow a really good horror film,never seen it before.

[@vincentvake6125]

Excellent movie, all it was missing was a spooky thunderstorm

[@elbacarrillo2720]

Excellent film, thank you for the upload ❤

[@cwbrooks5329]

Perfect movie for a cold winter night! Thanks so much for taking the time to share this film.

[@myfavoritemartian1]

Very good old style movie! A murder, a theft, a missing person, a monster, an ancestral home, a dark and stormy night, all the good ingredients needed.

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

And of course, a secretive butler. I first saw Halliwell Hobbes in "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death" starring Basil Rathbone.🎻💉

[@myfavoritemartian1]

@@scarygary-qq1pj Basil Rathbone is the Sherlock I grew up with!

[@patriciapiper6294]

I think Walter the butler also was the butler in a S. HOLMES film. Neat.

[@windstorm1000]

That is correct

[@merlapittman5034]

This is a great movie! The blend of science and the supernatural, with the mystery genre added by the detectives, is just perfect. I especially like the character of Christie; she's so much fun and holds her own with the male characters!

[@windstorm1000]

I lov these old movies with atmospheric english houses and moors....of course this was in the war and it was fimed at fox in century city!

[@georgeinfante1106]

Classic black & white movie 🎦 great to watch

[@ladyraven30]

This was actually REALLY good!

[@WadeRaney-vv5oi]

This is one of the best in the 40's era,Thanks😉

[@hungfao]

I recently saw this and had always felt like I had a good knowledge of movies like this. I was proven wrong with this one. Why have I never heard of this? It's has a competent story and decent acting, but these sets are mind blowing and imaginative camera set ups throughout. And that ending (no spoilers here)...I don't I have ever seen 'it' performed that way. All around surprise. It was 1942. A world at war. Where did they get this budget???

[@kt9166]

One of three very good movies directed by John Brahm for Fox; the other two are THE LODGER and HANGOVER SQUARE. He also did THE MAD MAGICIAN with Vincent Price for Columbia in the 50s.

[@stevemcg1129]

Love these b/w movies. Maybe you could help me. There was an old b/w horror movie I saw when I was about 8 yrs old, that scared the crap out of me and have always wanted to see it again. The story is about two elderly spinster sisters who had a younger brother. Their mother died giving birth to him and their father put the kid in either the attic or basement to die. The sisters would sneak food to him by putting it under the door but one day he stopped taking it. They thought he died. Decades later a creature was attacking people at night. People who wear some kind of uniform. Postal, police and military. At the end, one of the sisters put on her father's military uniform and the creature went after her. I don't want to give the ending away but it scared me so much that I wouldn't leave the safety of my bedroom even to go to the bathroom. The bathroom in the house I grew up in didn't have windows and so was pitch black, even with the hall light on. At one point of the night I had to pee so bad that I popped the screen out of my bedroom window to pee out the window. No way was I going to enter that bathroom. 😅 if you know of this old horror movie, I would love to see it again. Thanks

[@stevemcg1129]

That's it !! Growing up, we only had a b/w tv, just assumed it was 1940's or 50's. I've bought about a dozen b/w horror movie box sets looking for it. Before youtube. Thanks !!! Gonna get me some popcorn and enjoy

[@conniewojahn6445]

@@stevemcg1129 It is so nice that you can enjoy these old movies. Today's films are all right, but the old ones, especially black and white, are what I go for when I want interesting entertainment and not just splat on screen stuff.

[@rotagorretni]

One werewolf movie that doesn't come across as ridiculous. Serious acting, and nothing camp about it. Well, there is the lady detective making toffee in the lab, as if to excuse the break in one stereotype by mocking it with another. And it doesn't take itself seriously enough by the end, having a bob each way in explaining lycanthropy (spoiler alert). The fellow just had an inherited mania about being a wolf, says the doctor, a kink in the brain, and yet the dog didn't recognise the monster as its owner, says the detective, so the fellow was truly physically transformed? Seems we're invited to believe what we want, not just the evidence the film presented. Strange

[@teresas8173]

This is a great movie to watch when stars are bright on a frosty night. It really is a great little horror/ mystery film that is fast - paced, well written, well acted, with great atmosphere! I enjoyed it.

[@5bags]

Its the same butler from Sherlock Holmes Faces Death😀 but hes changed his name from Alfred to Walton 😀

[@robertszvetics210]

It seems the actor made a living playing butlers good actor.

[@Floina]

I love this kind of old movie they really have to be creative. Thanks.

[@tomphillips2214]

Excellent film!

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

I knew this was going to be a good movie when I saw that it was approved with certificate #8430.🙄

[@MichaelYoder1961]

A good little mystery. thanks

[@marywaldron2695]

This movie I would put with the rest of the classics, The Wolfman, The Mummy, Dracula. A mystery to the end, with great atmosphere. Always referred to as the monster, the word Werewolf never comes in to play. And I will probably watch it 10 more times.😊

[@dazgreen63]

What a great old film. Never heard of ut before. A definite Baskerville vibe about it🐺😮. Anyone know any others like it ??

[@evanwalters63]

Wow. Fantastic movie!

[@terrortorn]

A lot of the cast of Rathbones, Sherlock Holmes in this.

[@charlottewebb3364]

They knew how to produce films back in those days. Really enjoyed the biographic details of John Braum at the end.

[@elliottschertzer876]

Released November 27th,1942

[@garyabbott3861]

I was five months old!

[@michellecrocker-jc1sc]

Lovely film I was born in i953 and I miss these beautiful movies

[@katherinerivera5696]

Me gustan mucho las películas en blanco y negro antiguas de terror son unicas , gracias por compartirla saludos desde Puerto Rico 👍👍👍👍👍

[@shelleyross3141]

A werewolf ?

[@maxinepeel7057]

This was so well made at the time... the story made sense, there wasn't that overload of drama or overacting, the facts and knowledge appropriate for the time and the story of the werewolf was one of the better ones. Thanks for sharing with us.

[@vickimingus9281]

i loved it first time seeing it

[@garryferrington811]

This is a nice, sharp print! Not many old movies on KZbin look this good! I'm kind of surprised Fox gave this an A budget, although there is a noticeable lack of stars.

[@cwbrooks5329]

Yeah, it's a great script too. Such an interesting movie, and not as well known as many others of this ilk. Glad to see it getting some love.

[@martinhiggs7027]

This was 100% B budget as John Braun never got the chance with FOX to direct a single A film ! to bad !

[@แขกตีงู-ฎ1ฉ]

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[@christopherfranklin972]

Excellent film,great cast,well scripted and filmed,thanks for uploading.

[@davidrosler5413]

I know this movie. Great choice! RECOMMENDED! John Brahm's first thriller as a director and the atmosphere is terrific even if the male lead is pretty corny. But it paved the way for two of the very finest thrillers of the 1940's: the sublime The Lodger, and the near-equal and sometimes alarming Hangover Square. Brahma hand is later unmistakable in several of the very best Twilight zone episodes. The script is weak borrowing too much from Universal's The Wolfman right down to the foreboding poem of legend. The last scenes is weak. But it's a pretty bloody good ride, and again, the atmosphere if terrific.

[@alonzocalvillo6702]

I noticed a young Charles McGraw at 45 18 in an uncredited role. About ten years before Narrow Margin one of my favorite film noirs.

[@justincaseiamhere]

Just to listen to classic English and Beauty

[@usapatriot4163]

A very good film! Really enjoyed it!

[@northwaleslife4844]

A fantastic film

[@franken-pattern]

I love old movies exactly like this! Creepy, atmospheric sets, fun and scary plots and excellent costumes! Thank you! ❤

[@Alicetheamethyst]

Never underestimate the power of font, look at that amazibg font in the credits, like dripping blood pioneer in horror symbolism

[@Ease54]

I love a good font...

[@edwardgarcia614]

Great flick, great backstory. Thanks. ;o)

[@midnightteapot5633]

06.05 "Thats nah heil, ordinary dog, it's a HOUND "! Don't panic don't panic, it's the orrible Hounds, don't panic"

[@davebruins8623]

reminds me of hounds of the Baskervilles

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

Hardly.🙄

[@seesea-sv3xw]

The actor playing the Butler also played the butler in Sherlock Homes Faces Death made around the same time period.

[@kurtcastro7026]

I didn't get a good look at the doctor but his voice sounds like Patrick Macnee

[@rayhewitt9789]

Patrick Macnee might have been only in knee pants at this era.

[@FlipDahlenburg]

@@rayhewitt9789 Maybe he was a Baby Doctor!

[@warrenbridges1891]

@kurtcastro7026 Bramwell Fletcher was in the opening scene from Boris Karloff's "The Mummy" about 10 years earlier.

[@theadventurouschristianlif5370]

That was unexpectedly fun. There are some great movie classics in black and white, but I had never heard of this one. Enjoyed it.

[@AshleyKorn-i4s]

I love this movie 😮