Film Series: Low Key: The Magic, Wonder and Horror of Light

In this fantasy thriller, two friends and magicians just starting to learn their art become bitter rivals after a sudden tragedy. Trick by trick, show by show, and now enemies for life, their ferocious competition builds until it knows no bounds, even utilizing the fantastical new powers of electricity and the brilliance of inventor Nikola Tesla, while the lives of everyone around them hang in the balance.

On a dark and lonely night, Los Angeles private eye Mike Hammer picks up a hitchhiking woman who sends him down terrifying byways. Brazen and bleak, Kiss Me Deadly is a film noir masterwork as well as an essential piece of Cold War paranoia, and it features as nervy an ending as has ever been seen in American cinema.

A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing—neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester—can stop it. H. G. Wells’s end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold War–era update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and visionary, Oscar-winning special effects.

Boris Karloff plays the screen’s most memorable Creature in the story of Dr. Frankenstein, who tampers with life itself when he pieces together salvaged body parts and employs electricity to create a humanlike monster.