Isle of the Dead / Bedlam

The most celebrated star in the history of screen horror headlines these two atmospheric works filled with mood, madness and premeditated dread. Boris Karloff shares a quarantined house with other strangers on a plague-infested -- perhaps spirit-haunted -- Isle of the Dead. St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum in 1761 London is the setting for Bedlam where Karloff is the doomed overseer who fawns on high-society benefactors while ruling the mentally disturbed inmates with an iron fist.