Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Classics: 184 Films to Buy & Rent
- Psycho (1960)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles…
- Only Mr. Hitchcock could plunder B–movie conventions and turn in the biggest box–office success of his career.
A plethora of…
- Thirteen Ghosts (1960)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow
- A nuclear family inherit a house haunted by a dozen ghosts of various colourful guises and some hidden stash. Trademark William Castle…
- Village of the Damned (1960)
- Dir. Wolf Rilla
Feat. George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn…
- The original, superior version of John Wyndham's novel 'The Midwich Cuckoos', about a brood of malevolent blue–eyed kiddies born in an English…
- Wasp Woman, The (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark
- A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…
- Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
- Dir. Bernard Kowalski
Feat. Yvette Vickers
- A 'rubber–suited' swamp thing lurks in a Florida bayou. Even B–movie aficianados shouldn't get suckered by this one. 'Stars' Yvette…
- Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Henry Daniell
- Beware–the–family–curse is the theme in this low–budget take on Orville H. Hampton's tale about a family whose members are…
- Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
- Dir. Arthur Crabtree
Feat. Michael Gough, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen…
- Well–acted Hammer horror about a writer who uses his hypnotised helper to commit a series of inventively gruesome killings.
- Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell…
- Quite possibly the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, with Cushing in the lead, investigating the horrors of the Baskerville killings. The 'Hammer'…
- Manster, The (1959)
- Dir. George P. Breakson
Feat. Peter Dyneley
- An American correspondent in Japan becomes an unwitting human guinea pig while trying to get the scoop on the work of a reclusive scientist. His…
- Mummy, The (1959)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
- Peter Cushing confronts Christopher Lee in bandages in this stylish early Hammer.