The Ape - BLU-RAY

Looking to prove their widely decried theories on cryogenics, researchers Dexter (Bela Lugosi) and Gilmore (John Carradine) returned from the Arctic with the frozen form of a caveman (Frank Moran)... and succeeded in reviving him. With the primitive's capacity for reason gone, however, Dexter concluded that a brain transplant would be a proper fix... and that the donor's willingness wouldn't be an issue. Second-bill shockfest from Monogram co-stars Teala Loring, Tod Andrews; George Zucco, despite having bowed out, still got billing! 60 min. Standard; Soundtrack English Dolby Digital mono.

Boris Karloff stars as Dr. Bernard Adrian, a scientist experimenting with a cure for polio that requires a transfusion of spinal fluid. His samples destroyed by an escaped circus ape on a rampage (isn't that always the way), the desperate doc-having killed the crazed simian-decides to wear the animal's skin as he goes about murdering locals to replenish his supply of the precious fluid. It's the perfect crime! Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan co-star in this truly offbeat horror tale. 62 min. Standard; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; audio commentary; theatrical trailers.

The Ape brings together two legends of horror, Frankenstein star Boris Karloff and The Wolf Man writer Curt Siodmak. Karloff stars as Dr. Adrian, a man who becomes obsessed with curing paralysis when he loses his beloved wife and daughter to the disease. Desperately trying to cure a crippled neighbor (Maris Wrixon), he discovers that he needs human spinal fluid for his vaccine - but how to get it? When an ape trainer at a local circus i