The Creeper
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(1948) Pity poor Nora, plagued by her fear of cats and recurring feline nightmares--not helped one bit by a series of cat-claw murders that follow her return with her father from the West Indies, where they collected serum for his experiments. Before long, poor old Pop dies under the proverbial mysterious circumstances, and it seems a similar fate is in store for Nora, unless...
Val Lewton this is NOT, but it is the only serious horror offering released in the US in 1948, as the horror cycle wound down ahead of the Fifties' fascination with aliens, atomic menaces, and bug-eyed monsters (or monstrous bugs). The other, not-so-serious horror of 1948 was "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein".
Val Lewton this is NOT, but it is the only serious horror offering released in the US in 1948, as the horror cycle wound down ahead of the Fifties' fascination with aliens, atomic menaces, and bug-eyed monsters (or monstrous bugs). The other, not-so-serious horror of 1948 was "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein".