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May 16, 2014 · The Phantom Creeps‘ plotting inadequacies, the infrequency of its action scenes, its general lack of character touches, and its heavy use of stock footage would not have constituted really damaging flaws singly, but in combination they make the serial perhaps the weakest of Universal’s cliffhanger efforts from the studio’s 1936-1940 ...
The Phantom Creeps is a 1939 12-chapter science fiction horror serial starring Bela Lugosi as mad scientist Doctor Zorka, who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. In a dramatic fashion, foreign agents and G-Men try to seize the inventions for themselves.
“The Phantom Creeps” is not really a movie, it’s one of those Saturday matinee serials that used to run ahead of movies, which, as film scholar and experimental blunt-force podiatrist Annie Wilkes reminds us, remained popular in American cinemas through the 1950s.
May 10, 2018 · Creeps has some truly terrible performances, particularly from its other leads, Robert Kent and Dorothy Arnold. He’s the military intelligence officer out to discover what’s happened to Lugosi’s…
There are spies and government agents. His valuable meteor is stolen a couple of times but he quickly gets it back. There is one touching scene where he causes the death of his wife, but he quickly blames the government for her death.
The Phantom Creeps is 1939 Sci-Fi Horror 12-chapter Film Serial directed by Ford Beebe and Saul A Goodkind. It involves a military officer ( Robert Kent ) going after a rogue scientist ( Bela Lugosi ), who is determined to use his personal stock of Applied Phlebotinum and Mad Science to get revenge on his enemies and enrich himself.
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Phantom Creeps, The (1939) review. Director: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind. Starring: Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold, Edwin Stanley, Regis Toomey, Jack C. Smith, Edward Van Sloan, Dora Clement, Anthony Averill, Hugh Huntley, Frank Mayo, Jim Farley, Eddie Acuff, Ed Wolff.