Boris Karloff

Question: When I was a kid, back in the 1960s, I tuned in to a black-and-white movie on the late, late show. The title was something like the "Seven Faces (or something) of Jonathan Drake"; I remember the "Jonathan Drake" part pretty clearly, but not the rest of the title. I've never been able to locate it, nor have I seen it since. Do you know the name of the movie or anything about it?

Answer: The problem is that your memory has conflated two titles: 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964), an offbeat horror-fantasy set in the Old West and starring Tony Randall as a mysterious Asian magician, and The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), which is set in the Amazon and involves shrunken heads and black magic. Although you say it's the latter part of the title you're sure o read more

Question: I think I can finally stump you: I remember an old horror movie where an older couple takes control of a younger couple. They make them do as they please and experience what the young people do. One scene I remember in particular is when they do a "test" and make one of them crush an egg in his/her hand. Naturally, these things end badly. Does this sound familiar?

Answer: Very. You saw The Sorcerers (1967), with Boris Karloff as a scientist who develops a device that lets people control others and vicariously enjoy their experiences, and veteran British actress Catherine Lacey as his wife. Karloff tests the device on a young man, but his wife gets hooked on the process and forces him to commit increasingly sadistic acts for read more