Bowery At Midnight

BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT is arguably one of the best of the Monogram quickies featuring Bela Lugosi, although there are so many characters and so much plot--mostly borrowed from THE HUMAN MONSTER (1940)--that it's extremely difficult to figure out just what is going on. Lugosi plays Prof. Brenner, a respected psychologist who has a secret criminal alter ego that manifests itself by night. In his criminal state, Brenner runs a Bowery mission as a front for his murderous activities and buries his victims in the basement which is rather ludicrously set up as an actual cemetery--complete with headstones. Unfortunately for Prof. Brenner, his disgruntled, drug-addicted assista...