Edgar Wallace Movies: Color Films
This watch list covers the vibrant later era of the Edgar Wallace series, beginning with The Hunchback of Soho in 1966 and continuing through the final Italian co-productions. The period marked a shift toward more flamboyant visuals and increasingly camp sensibilities.
The move to color coincided with the series embracing a more playful, sometimes tongue-in-cheek approach while still delivering thrills. These later films show the evolution toward the giallo style that would influence Italian horror cinema, culminating in the atmospheric final entries.
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The Hunchback of Soho
A woman becomes the target of criminals who kidnap her and steal her identity in order to claim her inheritance.
Circus of Fear
A circus becomes the setting for a deadly game of greed and murder when stolen loot attracts dangerous criminals to the big top.
The Trygon Factor
A Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of robberies and murder discovers connections to a wealthy English family who share their estate with a group of nuns. As he delves deeper, he begins to suspect that both the family and the nuns are hiding dark secrets.
Creature with the Blue Hand
Scotland Yard hunts for a serial killer known as The Blue Hand, named after his distinctive method of murder.
The College Girl Murders
Police investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer who uses acid and poison gas to eliminate victims in this German crime thriller.
Five Golden Dragons
An American tourist in Hong Kong accidentally becomes entangled in a dangerous conflict between an international crime syndicate called the Five Golden Dragons and local gangsters.
The Horror of Blackwood Castle
Scotland Yard investigates a series of mysterious murders at Blackwood Castle, where victims are being killed by a monstrous dog.
The Zombie Walks
A serial killer known as "The Laughing Corpse" terrorizes victims while dressed in a skeleton costume, using a deadly scorpion-shaped ring as his weapon of choice.
Gorilla Gang
Inspector David Perkins investigates a series of elderly victims found in the Thames, believing a criminal organization known as the gorilla gang has resumed their activities. With the help of Sergeant Pepper and language expert Susan MacPherson, they follow clues including African characters found on a doll to track down the gang's leader.
The Man with the Glass Eye
Inspector Perkins investigates a series of mysterious murders in London, starting with a hotel guest found dead with a knife in his chest and a strange glass eye in his pocket. The investigation leads to a deadly conspiracy involving a dancer and a secret billiard club where a glass eye serves as an admission ticket.
Double Face
A businessman whose unfaithful wife appears to die in a car accident becomes entangled with mysterious figures who claim she's still alive.
The Devil Came from Akasava
When a mysterious mineral that can transform metal into gold or humans into zombies is stolen, secret agents are dispatched to recover this dangerous substance.
Angels of Terror
An Australian woman travels to London to find her sister, only to discover she's involved with a heroin smuggling operation that's being systematically targeted by a mysterious assassin.
What Have You Done to Solange?
When Catholic schoolgirls are brutally murdered, a teacher having an affair with one of his students becomes the prime suspect. As more killings occur, he must uncover the truth behind the murders to clear his name.
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
A serial killer known as the Half-Moon Killer is systematically murdering victims while leaving mysterious half-moon lockets at each crime scene. A survivor must help uncover the killer's identity and sinister motives before he completes his plan to claim seven victims.
Other Film Series
Alex Cross
Film adaptations of James Patterson's detective novels featuring forensic psychologist Alex Cross, spanning two connected films and a standalone reboot.
Bryan Edgar Wallace
A series of German crime thrillers produced by CCC Filmkunst in the 1960s-70s, marketed under the name of Edgar Wallace's son Bryan, featuring standalone mysteries with gothic atmosphere and masked killers.
Millennium
Film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's bestselling novels featuring journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander, spanning Swedish and Hollywood productions with different casts and continuities.
Saw
A horror franchise centered on the elaborate death traps and moral philosophy of serial killer John Kramer, known as Jigsaw.
Scream
A meta-horror franchise following Sidney Prescott and others as they face various Ghostface killers, known for its self-aware commentary on slasher film tropes.
Sherlock Holmes
Feature films based on Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective, spanning multiple eras, actors, and interpretations across nearly a century of cinema.