Borgo Pass Horror Podcast

Jeff Carter (Lon Chaney, Jr.) is testing a vaccine for influenza . He is working for tycoon, Roger Graham (J. Carrol Naish), who takes the credit and the profit for Jeff's discovery. Roger cares more about profits than safety. Jeff resigns and is blacklisted by his boss. Jeff heads to South America to perfect the formula. Graham has used this opportunity to release the drug and romance Jeff&a...

In 1845 in Paris, mad scientist Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood to create a mate for Erik, his talking sideshow ape. Pierre Dupin, a young, naive medical student and detective, Pierre's fiancée Camille L'Espanaye, and their friends Paul and Mignette, visit Mirakle's sideshow, where he exhibits Erik. Both Mirakle and his servant Janos are enchanted by...

In 1838, in the fictional German town of Wisborg, [1] [6] Thomas Hutter is sent to Transylvania by his employer, estate agent Herr Knock, to visit a new client named Count Orlok who plans to buy a house across from Hutter's own home. While embarking on his journey, Hutter stops at an inn where the locals become frightened by the mere mention of Orlok's name. Hutter rides on a coach to a...

Ivan Igor is a sculptor who operates a wax museum in 1921 London . He gives a private tour to a friend, Dr. Rasmussen and an investor, Mr. Galatalin showing them sculptures of Joan of Arc , Voltaire , and his favorite, Marie Antoinette . Formerly a stone sculptor who did wax modeling as a hobby, he explains he turned to wax sculpting completely because he felt more "satisfied" that he co...

In 1921, an archaeological expedition led by Sir Joseph Whemple ( Arthur Byron ) finds the mummy of an ancient Egyptian high priest named Imhotep ( Boris Karloff ). An inspection of the mummy by Whemple's friend Dr. Muller ( Edward Van Sloan ) reveals that the viscera were not removed, and from the signs of struggling Muller deduces that although Imhotep had been wrapped like a traditional mu...

On a stormy night, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron praise Mary Shelley for her story of Frankenstein and his Monster. She reminds them that her intention for writing the novel was to impart a moral lesson, the consequences of a mortal man who tries to play God. Mary says she has more of the story to tell. The scene shifts to the end of the 1931 Frankenstein , in 1899. Villagers gathered around...

On a stormy night, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron praise Mary Shelley for her story of Frankenstein and his Monster. She reminds them that her intention for writing the novel was to impart a moral lesson, the consequences of a mortal man who tries to play God. Mary says she has more of the story to tell. The scene shifts to the end of the 1931 Frankenstein , in 1899.   Villagers gathered arou...

Frank Griffin Jr, the grandson of the original Invisible Man, runs a print shop in Manhattan under the assumed name of Frank Raymond ( Jon Hall ). One evening, he is confronted in his shop by four armed men who reveal that they are foreign agents working for the Axis powers and they know his true identity. One of the men, Conrad Stauffer ( Cedric Hardwicke ), is a lieutenant general of the S.S. ,...

Dr. Ernest Sovac is taken from his cell for his execution, but is able to give notes to a reporter, which recount his story, as he is led to a chamber. Sometime earlier, Sovac's best friend, bookish college professor George Kingsley, is run down while crossing a street. In order to save his friend's life, Sovac implants part of another man's brain into the professor's. Unfortun...

Sir Karell Borotyn ( Holmes Herbert ) is found murdered in his house, with two tiny pinpoint wounds on his neck. The attending doctor, Dr. Doskil ( Donald Meek ), and Sir Karell's friend Baron Otto von Zinden ( Jean Hersholt ) are convinced that he was killed by a vampire . They suspect Count Mora ( Bela Lugosi ) and his daughter Luna ( Carroll Borland ), while the Prague Police Inspector Neu...

A rash of horrific murders has terrorized London and baffled police. Newspaper reporter Bruce Adams finds one murder victim, a prominent doctor, while returning home from a pub. The next day, two American policemen, Slim and Tubby, who are studying London police methods, respond to brawl at a women's suffrage rally in Hyde Park. Reporter Adams, young suffragette Vicky Edwards, Slim, and Tubby...

Violinist Erique Claudin is dismissed from the Paris Opera House after revealing that he is losing the use of the fingers of his left hand. Unbeknownst to the conductor, who assumes Claudin can support himself, the musician has used all his money to help anonymously fund voice lessons for Christine Dubois , a young soprano to whom he is devoted. Meanwhile, Christine is pressured by Inspector Raoul...

Sir Denis Nayland Smith ( Lewis Stone ) of the British Secret Service warns Egyptologist Sir Lionel Barton ( Lawrence Grant ) that he must beat Fu Manchu in the race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan . The power-mad Fu Manchu ( Boris Karloff ) intends to use the sword and mask to proclaim himself the reincarnation of the legendary conqueror and inflame the peoples of Asia and the Middle East into a...

In London at the beginning of the twentieth century, Phyllis Allenby is a young and beautiful woman who is soon to be married to barrister and boyfriend Barry Lanfield. Phyllis is living at the Allenby Mansion without the protection of a male, along with her aunt Martha and her cousin Carol and the servant Hannah. As the wedding date approaches, London is shocked by a series of murders at the loca...

A visionary astronomer, Dr. Janos Rukh, has invented a telescope that can look far out into deep space, into the Andromeda Galaxy , and photograph light rays that will show the Earth's past. He has theorized about this being possible for some years, much to his discredit among his fellow scientist-colleagues. Looking at the remote past on a planetarium-like dome in his lab, two of those arden...

Bill Martin, is the proud owner of a small boulder of an island off the coast of Florida called "Morgan's Island." It is a deserted useless rock to Bill, but by pure chance he stumbles across a treasure map pointing to his island. The map is presented to him by a peg-legged old sailor, Tobias Clump, after Bill and his friend "Stuff" Oliver saves the man from drowning. Clum...

This episode pays tribute to the great stage and Hollywood actor Mr. Colin Clive; best known for his role as Henry Frankenstein in 1931's "Frankenstein" and 1935's "Bride Of Frankenstein. Joining the Pass is very special guest- Universal horror historian and author Mr. Greg Mank. Mr. Mank's book "One Man Crazy! The Life and Death of Colin Clive" is reference...

Shipwrecked traveler Edward Parker is rescued by a freighter delivering animals to an isolated South Seas island owned by Dr. Moreau. After Parker fights with the freighter's drunken captain for his mistreating M'ling, a passenger with some bestial features, the captain tosses Parker overboard into Mr. Montgomery's boat, bound for Moreau's island . When Parker arrives at the is...

Hungarian Count Alucard , a mysterious stranger, arrives in the U.S. invited by Katherine Caldwell, one of the daughters of New Orleans plantation owner Colonel Caldwell. Shortly after his arrival, the Colonel dies of apparent heart failure and leaves his wealth to his two daughters, with Claire receiving all the money and Katherine his estate "Dark Oaks". Katherine, a woman with a taste...

Newlyweds Peter ( David Manners ) and Joan Alison ( Julie Bishop ), on their honeymoon in Hungary, learn that due to a mixup, they must share a train compartment with Dr. Vitus Werdegast ( Béla Lugosi ), a Hungarian psychiatrist. Eighteen years before, Werdegast went to World War I, never seeing his wife again. He has spent the last 15 years in an infamous prison camp in Siberia. On the train, the...

Larry Talbot ( Lon Chaney Jr. ) returns to his ancestral home in Llanwelly , Wales to bury his recently deceased brother and reconcile with his estranged father, Sir John Talbot ( Claude Rains ). While there, Larry falls in love with a local girl named Gwen Conliffe ( Evelyn Ankers ) who runs an antique shop. As an excuse to talk to her, he purchases a walking stick decorated with a silver wolf&ap...

In Egypt, Andoheb travels to the Hill of the Seven Jackals in answer to the royal summons of the High Priest of Karnak. The dying priest of the sect explains the story of Kharis to Andoheb, involving the theft of sacred tana leaves that can restore life to the dead Princess Ananka, who Kharis secretly loves. Kharis' penalty upon being discovered is to be buried alive, without a tongue, and th...

Big-game hunter and wealthy zoologist Eric Gorman ( Lionel Atwill ) is an insanely jealous husband who uses his animal knowledge to dispose of his impulsive wife's lovers. The film opens in an Indian jungle with Gorman using a needle and thread to sew a colleague's mouth closed after having discovered that he had kissed his wife, and then he seals the man's fate by abandoning him in...

Wilfred Glendon ( Henry Hull ) is a wealthy and world-renowned English botanist who journeys to Tibet in search of the extremely rare selenotropic plant known as mariphasa lupine lumina . While there, he is attacked and bitten by a creature later revealed to be a werewolf, although he succeeds in acquiring a specimen of the mariphasa. Once back home in London he is approached by a fellow botanist,...

Dracula's Daughter begins a few moments after Dracula ends. Count Dracula has just been destroyed by Professor Van Helsing ( Edward Van Sloan ). Van Helsing is arrested by two Whitby policemen, Sergeant Wilkes ( E. E. Clive ) and constable Albert ( Billy Bevan ). Van Helsing is sent by the Whitby police to Scotland Yard , where he explains to Sir Basil Humphrey ( Gilbert Emery ) that he indee...