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Rental > Horror > Classics: 178 Films to Rent
- Vampire's Kiss (1988)
- Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals
- Nicolas Cage gives a wildly uninhibited performance as a psychotic yuppie who thinks he's been bitten by a vampire. From the pen that wrote the…
- Murder by Decree (1979)
- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings…
- Sherlock Holmes and the ever faithful Watson are back, this time investigating the notorious Jack the Ripper and his gruesome fascination with…
- Count Dracula (TV Mini-series) (1977)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon…
- Faithful 70's adaptation of the classic horror novel by Bram Stoker, this critically–acclaimed BBC version utilises London's Highgate Cemetery…
- Reincarnation of Peter Proud, The (1975)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill…
- Slow burn psychological horror directed by J. Lee Thompson (GUNS OF NAVARONE) about a university professor who is tortured by recurring nightmares…
- From Beyond the Grave (1974)
- Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Warner, Ian Bannen…
- Enjoyable anthology film from Amicus adapted from four short stories linked through the classic device of an antique store and its mysterious owner…
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series) (1974-1975)
- Feat. Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage
- Darkly comic supernatural series following newspaper reporter Carl Kochak as he attempts to uncover supernatural occurrences in downtown Chicago.…
- Madhouse (1974)
- Dir. Jim Clark
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry…
- British horror film based on the 1969 novel Devilday by Angus Hall, with Vincent Price playing a horror actor renowned for his character Dr. Death,…
- Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The (1974)
- Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Frank Mills, Sheila Dunn, Anne Blake
- Short TV movie based on the ghost story by M. R. James. Michael Bryant stars as a scholar of Medieval history who finds the clue to hidden treasure…
- Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1973)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Shane Briant
- The sixth and final installment of the Frankenstein series for Hammer Films was also the last for its director and star Peter Cushing as Victor…
- Satanic Rites of Dracula, The (1973)
- Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley…
- When a group of Scotland Police Investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism, they call in Van Helsing to put a stop to Count…
- Theatre of Blood (1973)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry
- Vincent Price plays a hammy stage actor who avenges the critics that have vilified him, staging their deaths like scenes from Shakespearian plays. No…
- Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter (1972)
- Dir. Brian Clemens
Feat. Horst Janson, Caroline Munro, John Carson
- British cult TV writer Brian Clemens (THE AVENGERS) assumes directing duties on this spirited historical vampire romp he wrote for Hammer Studios,…
- Death Line (Raw Meat) (1972)
- Dir. Gary Sherman
Feat. Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington
- A cannibal zombie stalks the local stations of the London Underground picking off unlucky passengers for nourishment in this British 70's horror gem,…
- Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1972)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick
- Delightfully camp turn on Stevenson's legendary fable of good and evil inhabiting the same body. Archetypal fun from Hammer studios.
- Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
- Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Cushing…
- Vincent Price reprises the Phibes, and this time gets to go to Egypt.
- Escape into Night (TV Series) (Marianne Dreams) (1972)
- Feat. Vikki Chambers
- A convalescent young girl's drawings become the basis for her dreams in this six–part British TV serial that left an indelibly haunting…
- Ghost Story (TV Series) (Circle of Fear) (1972-1973)
- Feat. Sheila Larken , Meg Foster, Don Barry…
- Horror anthology TV series presented by Sebastian Cabot, who also plays the owner of a mysterious hotel beset by creepy occurrences. Produced by…
- Night Stalker, The / Night Strangler, The (1972-1973)
- Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey, Dan Curtis
Feat. Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland…
- Two excellent and groundbreaking tele–movies from the early 70s starring Darren McGavin as wise–cracking 'regular guy' reporter Carl…
- Tales from the Crypt (1972)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice…
- A schlocky omnibus from Amicus Studios derived from EC comics in which five people are trapped in a crypt with the mysterious Crypt Keeper, who…
- You'll Like My Mother (1972)
- Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas
- Patty Duke plays a heavily pregnant woman who travels to rural Minnesota to meet her late husband's mother–in–law, who turns out to have…
- Brotherhood of Satan, The (1971)
- Dir. Bernard McEveety
Feat. Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Charles Bateman…
- Low budget horror set in the American Southwest, where a couple on a road trip discover a coven of elderly Satanists who are holding a town's…
- Demons of the Mind (1971)
- Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Paul Jones, Patrick Magee, Sir Michael Hordern…
- A Victorian baron imprisons his two children, believing them to be possessed. Enticing Hammer offering, laced with blood–and–roses…
- Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
- Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Christine Kaufmann, Jason Robards Jr., Herbert Lom…
- A series of grisly murders occur in a strange horror theatre in Paris and it's up to master sleuth August Dupin to solve the mystery. Based on Edgar…
- Man Who Haunted Himself, The (1970)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Roger Moore
- In one of his rare serious roles, Roger Moore plays the survivor of a car crash who discovers his doppelganger has been released into the…
- Scars of Dracula (1970)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Patrick Troughton
- In search of his missing brother a man discovers the deadly lair of Count Dracula.
- Scream and Scream Again (1969)
- Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
- Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee all turn in for this Hammer mad–doctor–creates–super–being yarn.
- Devil Rides Out, The (1968)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee
- Devilishly straight–faced Hammer with Christopher Lee orchestrating a scheme to save the life (and soul) of his long–time confidant from…
- Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Christopher Lee
- Christopher Lee returns in fangs for a third Hammer bite at the vampire story.
- Kuroneko (1968)
- Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi
- Visually exquisite black and white horror film from Japanese director Kaneto Shindo (ONIBABA). An adaptation of a supernatural folktale set during…
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Duane Jones
- Highly original and influential drive–in cheapie, distinguished by its realistic, documentary atmosphere and imaginative ending. Graphically…
- Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)
- Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Sir Michael Hordern
- Possibly the finest of the BBC's M R James adaptations, this spooky tale concerns a closeted, sceptical professor (Hordern) whose seaside holiday…
- Blood Beast Terror, The (1967)
- Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Peter Cushing
- In Victorian rural England, Peter Cushing's murder enquiries uncovers a beastly weremoth and the gruesome experiments of a crazed entymologist.
- Castle of the Walking Dead (The Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sadism) (1967)
- Dir. Harald Reinl
Feat. Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor
- The blood runs thick for its vintage in this variation on Poe's Pit and the Pendulum in which a Count is drawn and quartered for killing twelve…
- Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters
- The fourth film in Hammer's Frankenstein series starring Peter Cushing as Baron Frankenstein and Susan Denberg as his new creation. Diverts away from…
- Gruesome Twosome (1967)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell
- Typical H.G. Lewis fare that is both disgusting and amusing. The plot revolves around a wig shop that makes its products by scalping people with an…
- Mummy's Shroud, The (1967)
- Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Andre Morell, John Phillips, David Buck…
- An archaeological expedition discovers the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharoah and ignoring warnings of a deadly curse they unleash a vengeful spirit…
- Torture Garden (1967)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams…
- Grisly, well–acted omnibus of four horror stories by PSYCHO–scribe Robert Bloch, framed by the fiendish hype of Burgess Meredith's…
- Dark Shadows (TV Series) (1966)
- Feat. Jonathan Frid, Joan Bennett
- A camp classic of 'Gothic soap opera', this long–running daytime melodrama centred on 175–year–old vampire Barnabas Collins and a…
- Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The (1966)
- Dir. Alan Rafkin
Feat. Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond…
- A pretty darned funny Don Knotts vehicle that has the rubber–faced comedian as a timid typesetter who hasn't a chance of becoming a reporter…
- Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)
- Dir. Don Weis
Feat. Nancy Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Tommy Kirk…
- Seventh and final in a loose series of 'Beach Party' movies, featuring Nancy Sinatra and an ageing Boris Karloff.
- Island of Terror (1966)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing
- Peter Cushing stars in this Hammer sci–fi tale about cancer research gone awry.
- Reptile, The (1966)
- Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Noel Willman, Ray Barrett
- When villagers start dying from snake venom in Cornwall, things point suspiciously to the tinkerings of a strange doctor. Moody Hammer schlock.
- Witches, The (1966)
- Dir. Cyril Frankel
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen…
- Hammer horror adapted by Nigel Kneale under the pseudonym Peter Curtis, and featuring the final big–screen film role for Joan Fontaine.
- A Study in Terror (1965)
- Dir. James Hill
Feat. John Neville, Robert Morley, Donald Houston…
- Carefully crafted, though at times crude and bloody, Sherlock Holmes mystery (not by Conan Doyle), with the sleuth pursuing the murderous Jack the…
- Color Me Blood Red (1965)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Gordon Oas-Heim, Candi Conder, Elyn Warner
- "Blood–feaster" Hershell Gordon Lewis tones down the gore for this third of his splatter forays – a spin on A BUCKET OF BLOOD about an…
- Curse of the Fly (1965)
- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Burt Kwouk
- Second sequel to the original 1958 THE FLY, sans Vincent Price, but with touches of genuine gothic atmosphere and some creepy mutants. The tale of a…
- Die, Monster, Die (1965)
- Dir. Daniel Heller
Feat. Boris Karloff, Freda Jackson, Nick Adams…
- Enjoyable Lovecraft adaptation, featuring an older Boris Karloff going nuts in the greenhouse.
- Nanny, The (1965)
- Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
- Bette Davis' stoney ambivalence is well employed in this Hammer production as the malevolent/misunderstood minder of a disturbed child who has been…
- She (1965)
- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Ursula Andress
- A scantily–clad Ursula Andress commands attention in this Hammer exotica as the love–starved eternal queen seeking reincarnation of her…
- Tomb of Ligeia (1965)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price
- The last of the director's Poe interpretations is one the most memorable. Effective use is made of the eerie English locations and Vincent Price's…
- Addams Family, The (TV Series) (1964-1966)
- Feat. John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy…
- Macabre 1960s sitcom about a family whose gothic lifestyle and trappings make for a mordant contrast with 'apple–pie' America.
22 episodes…
- Children of the Damned (1964)
- Dir. Tony Leader
Feat. Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris…
- Sequel to VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED finds the original film's blue–eyed humanoids transported to England for scientific study. Naturally, they…
- Comedy of Terrors, The ( The Graveside Story) (1964)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price…
- Business is slow for undertaker Vincent Price so taking matters into his own hands he sets about smothering elderly people in their sleep. Enjoyable…
- Devil Doll (1964)
- Dir. Lindsay Shonteff
Feat. Bryant Halliday, William Sylvester
- A hypno–ventriloquist attempts to transfer a woman's soul into a dummy. Ghoulish sleeper is sure to keep fans of low–budget chillers wide…
- Evil of Frankenstein, The (1964)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, Duncan Lamont, David Hutcheson
- Number three in the renowned Hammer horror Frankenstein series set in an isolated castle. The Baron (Cushing) and his assistant, in need of help to…
- Gorgon, The (1964)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco…
- A small village falls prey to an unseen monster. Citizens are found turned to stone after every full moon. The town Doctor (Peter Cushing) concludes…
- Kwaidan (1964)
- Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratana, Misako Watanabe
- A four part anthology of visually intoxicating Japanese period ghost stories. Each tale expanding domestic melodramas into the paranormal realm.…
- Last Man on Earth, The (1964)
- Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price
- Rough but effective version of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" (also the basis for OMEGA MAN), Price playing the last living survivor of the human…
- Masque of the Red Death (1964)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher…
- The best of Corman's Poe adaptations allies the director's playful yet virulent treatment to one of the writer's most strongly allegorical stories.…
- Munsters, The (TV Series) (1964-1965)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis…
- Memorable TV–comedy set around a ghoulish–looking, but otherwise normal family – who are mystified as to why everyone reacts so…
- Nightmare (1964)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. David Knight, Moira Redmond, Brenda Bruce…
- Psychological horror about a young girl (Jennie Linden, WOMEN IN LOVE) living at a private school who is plagued by nightmares involving her mother,…
- Phantom of the Opera (1964)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Herbert Lom, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough…
- British Hammer Horror production adapting the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux.
The studio was hoping to ride on the previous huge success of the 1943…
- Dementia 13 (1963)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton
- An early shocker from Francis Coppola proving that even the best start at the bottom. Quite a blurry print.
- Haunted Palace, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Lon Jr. Chaney, Debra Paget…
- Minor Corman–Price collaboration has Price in a dual role both as the genteel inheritor of a castle, and as the fiendish warlock who once…
- Haunting, The (1963)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson…
- Exquisite photography/design and nerve–shredding sound effects urgently conspire for this, the definitive haunted house movie.
Played…
- Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza…
- An ominous and highly–regarded Hammer horror in which a honeymooning couple are stranded in Bavaria where they become embroiled in the…
- Paranoiac (1963)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell
- A Hitchcockian thriller from Hammer studio about a man long believed dead (Oliver Reed) who returns to the family estate, a palatial mansion near…
- Raven, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff…
- A great cast inhabits this low budget fantasy–comedy version of Edgar Allan Poe's tale – one of Corman's best.
- Terror, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Boris Karloff
- A legendary Corman quickie on which all of star Boris Karloff's scenes were shot in 3 days on sets leftover from THE RAVEN!
- Twice Told Tales (1963)
- Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland
- Triptych of horrors drawn from the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ham actor extraordinaire Vincent Price is in ripping form here.
- Brain, The (1962)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Anne Heywood, Peter Van Eyck, Bernard Lee…
- A well–meaning doctor keeps alive the brain of a sadistic millionaire who gradually compels him to carry out his evil requests. Well directed…
- Carnival of Souls (1962)
- Dir. Herk Harvey
Feat. Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey
- A woman's vision of the world is not quite the same after surviving a car accident in this vastly under–appreciated spook story that comes…
- Devil's Hand, The (1962)
- Dir. William J. Hole Jnr
Feat. Linda Christian, Robert Alda, Neil Hamilton
- Hammy low–budget horror of a man seduced by a blonde vixen who forces him to become involved in a mysterious satanic cult she holds allegiance…
- Night Creatures (Captain Clegg) (1962)
- Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen…
- Hammer horror set in 18th–century England, where a captain of the Royal Navy is sent to investigate reports of illegal activity in a coastal…
- Night of the Eagle (Burn, Witch, Burn) (1962)
- Dir. Sydney Hayers
Feat. Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston
- A successful academic (Peter Wyngarde) plumbs a prime teaching post at an English village idyll, causing a flurry of petty jealousies among the…
- Premature Burial (1962)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ray Milland, Hazel Court
- The third of Corman's eight Poe adaptations, with Ray Milland cast instead of Vincent Price as a paranoid med student. Tape includes bonus Milland…
- Tales of Terror (1962)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone
- Three Edgar Allen Poe adaptations from his best filmic interpreter Roger Corman. The Tales on offer here are "Morella", "The Black Cat" and "The Case…
- Tower of London (1962)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman
- This Roger Corman remake of the 1939 original sees Vincent Price stepping into Basil Rathbone shoes as the bloodthirsty Duke of Gloucester. Being…
- Awful Dr. Awloff, The (1961)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Howard Vernon
- Deranged doctor Howard Vernon collects skin–grafts for his disfigured daughter, in a Spanish makeover of Franju's 'Eyes Without A Face'. A…
- Curse of the Werewolf, The (1961)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Oliver Reed, Clifford Evans
- Hammer horror based on the novel "The Werewolf of Paris" by Guy Endore and starring Oliver Reed as the werewolf in his first credited film…
- Innocents, The (1961)
- Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins…
- Notable adaptation of Henry James' ghost story "The Turn of the Screw", featuring Deborah Kerr as a neurotic nanny.
Taking a job at a spooky…
- Pit and the Pendulum, The (1961)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Barbara Steele
- Corman's most famous plundering of Poe extracts a host of psycho–sexual tensions out of a fine script. Vincent Price is convinced he is the…
- Scream of Fear (Taste of Fear) (1961)
- Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis…
- Christopher Lee's favourite Hammer film in exercise in sustained tension with Susan Strasberg as a paralysed young woman haunted by visions of her…
- Brides of Dracula (1960)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt
- Recognised as one of Hammer Studios' best horrors, this acclaimed sequel to HORROR OF DRACULA reconvenes director/actor team Fisher and Cushing. This…
- Circus of Horrors (1960)
- Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Anton Diffring, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton…
- After horribly botching a face–job, plastic surgeon Anton Diffring hides out in a travelling circus with some of his 'beauties', who begin to…
- Fall of the House of Usher, The (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Mark Damon
- More stately than Corman's later Poe adaptations, this three hander set the template with its tale of a poorly nymph afflicted with the 'family…
- Horror Hotel (The City of the Dead) (1960)
- Dir. John Moxey
Feat. Christopher Lee
- A search party ventures to Salem county after an occult student disappears under mysteriously witchy circumstances. Eerie photography.
- Mask of Satan (Black Sunday) (1960)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Barbara Steele
- Italian shock–merchant Mario Bava's finest hour – his graphic, gothic images are way beyond 1960 and still impress today. A stylish…
- 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.
- Tingler, The (1959)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman
- B–movie classic in which mad doctor Vincent Price conjures the 'physical form of fear itself', and lets the damned thing run amok! With bizzaro…
- Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
- Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney…
- One of the earliest depictions of the creepy puppet master, this low budget sci–fi horror follows a doll maker with abandonment issues who…
- Corridors of Blood (Doctor from Seven Dials, The) (1958)
- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie…
- A gruesome enactment of medical experimentation in pre–Victorian London, with Karloff donning apron and scalpel to try and discover an…
- Fly, The (1958)
- Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price
- Classic B–movie is a hammy horror tale of an obsessed scientist who unwittingly turns himself into a freak of nature.
- Horror of Dracula (1958)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
- Quintessential Hammer horror is the first of six films with the peerless pairing of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as the razor–fanged Count…
- House On Haunted Hill (1958)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart
- Vincent Price is in full ham here, offering patrons $10,000 each to endure a night in the titular spooky mansion. Good fun, if a bit slight.…
- How To Make A Monster (1958)
- Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Robert Harris
- A Hollywood make–up artirst (Harris) is sacked by his studio and decides to enact brutal revenge on the management layer with the help of two…
- I Bury the Living (1958)
- Dir. Albert Band
Feat. Richard Boone
- Weird, imaginatively designed graveyard chiller with Richard Boone as a cemetery curator who thinks he has power over life and death by shifting…
- Return of Dracula (1958)
- Dir. Paul Landres
Feat. Francis Lederer
- Coinciding with Hammer studios revival of the Transylvanian count, this commendable effort has a long–in–the–tooth Francis Lederer…
- Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn…
- One of the best in the series of six Frankenstein films made by Hammer, with Peter Cushing reprising one of his signature roles as Baron Frank. …
- Abominable Snowman (1957)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Richard Wattis
- Hammer Horror's version of the 'yeti' legend has Cushing and Tucker journey to the roof of the world to hunt out the elusive creature. From a…
- Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon) (1957)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis…
- Classy occult thriller survives its big reputation through an intelligent script and controlled sense of menace. Dana Andrews' cynical professor…
- Haunted Strangler, The (1957)
- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Boris Karloff
- Jekyll–and–Hyde variation with criminologist Boris Karloff delving into a serial–murder case for which he suspects the wrong man…
- Monster That Challenged the World, The (1957)
- Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Mimi Gibson…
- Campy 50's sci–fi creature feature in which an underwater earthquake in California's Salton Sea causes a crevice to open, releasing an army of…
- She-Creature, The (1957)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marla English, Tom Conway, Chester Morris…
- A sideshow hypnotist attains fame by predicting murders that are actually carried out by his lovely assistant, under his hypnotic spell. Slow yet…
- Creature Walks Among Us, The (1956)
- Dir. John Sherwood
Feat. Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason
- Second sequel to THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON this time focusing on a group of scientists on a mission to capture Gill Man and put him on show…
- Quatermass Xperiment, The (The Creeping Unknown) (1955)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner
- Effective Hammer Films feature adaptation of the 1953 BBC sci–fi TV serial written by Nigel Kneale, in which an astronaut mysteriously returns…
- Revenge of the Creature (1955)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield…
- Follow–up to the cult hit CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, with poor, harassed Gill Man captured in the Amazon this time round and brought back…
- Ghost Ship (1952)
- Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden…
- Small–budget supernatural yarn with a uniquely British flavour about a couple that purchase a haunted yacht.
- Strange Door, The (1951)
- Dir. Joseph Pevney
Feat. Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest
- Thriller based on the short story "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson, with Charles Laughton playing a sadistic man who…
- Mighty Joe Young (1949)
- Dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong…
- Worthy successor to KING KONG, reunites many of the cast and crew, with a compellingly different slant on the 'Giant Ape' premise.
Here, Armstrong…
- Queen of Spades (1949)
- Dir. Thorold Dickinson
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Dame Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell…
- Expressionistic ghost story in which an obsessive army officer in 18th Century Russia becomes convinced an elderly countess has gained the ability to…
- Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
- Dir. Robert Florey
Feat. Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
- Psychological horror with Peter Lorre hamming it up as only he can when spooked and stalked by the severed hand of a maddened pianist.
- Bedlam (1946)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Val Lewton, Boris Karloff, Anna Lee…
- Meticulous though a trifle tame Val Lewton (CAT PEOPLE) production frequents the drawing rooms and asylums of 18th century London. Boris Karloff is…
- Spiral Staircase, The (1946)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore
- This creaky staircase descends into a spooky mansion of cantankerous matriarchs, mute nymphettes, 'weak' stepsons and impending murder. Dated, yes,…
- Vincent Price Double (The Bat, Shock!) (1946-1959)
- Dir. Crane Wilbur, Alfred L. Werker
Feat. Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon
- A double feature of B–grade Vincent Price horrors.
SHOCK! (1946) – Dir. Alfred L. Werker. This concerns a murderous psychiatrist…
- Body Snatcher, The (1945)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
- Quietly creepy Val Lewton production with Boris Karloff as a sinister grave robber who provides bodies for medical research and then blackmails the…
- Dead of Night (1945)
- Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden
- This model of the horror portmanteau film remains unsurpassed by modern all–comers, with five strong, scary short stories that converge quite…
- House of Dracula (1945)
- Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, John Carradine, Onslow Stevens…
- Actually a sequel to HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, with a scientist attempting to rectify the monstrous villains of the Universal Studios horror movies.
- Isle of the Dead (1945)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew
- Boris Karloff stars in this Val Lewton "superstitious chiller" about a group of plague–ridden people quarantined on a tiny Greek…
- Place of One's Own, A (1945)
- Dir. Bernard Knowles
Feat. James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price…
- Elegant Victorian ghost story has an elderly couple James Mason and Margaret Lockwood buy a house possessed by a spirit who begins to fascinate their…
- Curse of the Cat People (1944)
- Dir. Gunther V Fritsch, Robert Wise
Feat. Simone Simon
- Sequel of worth to the original Val Lewton psychological chiller, again with the feline Simone Simon, here haunting the imagination of a small girl…
- House of Frankenstein (1944)
- Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Boris Karloff, J. Carrol Naish, Lon Jr. Chaney…
- Genuinely odd horror film in the Universal Studios stable, has scientist Karloff rolling out a monster freakshow of the 'classics', including…
- Uninvited, The (1944)
- Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp…
- Classic tale of the macabre with Ray Milland discovering that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply…
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
- Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Patric Knowles, Ilona Massey…
- Unique 'dual sequel', following both THE WOLF MAN and GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN. In this episode, the hairy Chaney seeks out the Doctor for a cure, but…
- Ghost on the Loose (1943)
- Dir. William Beaudine
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Ava Gardner, Leo Gorcey
- At the 'Ed Wood' end of the horror–comedy canon, this has Lugosi haunting the suburban house of some newlyweds. Also stars screen…
- I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
- Incandescent spook story about a nurse who unleashes historical and spiritual demons when called out to a Caribbean island. Its scare value may have…
- Leopard Man, The (1943)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dennis O'Keefe
- The final Val Lewton–Tourneur horror collaboration concerns an escaped leopard (apparently) running amok in a small New Mexico town. A slim…
- Phantom of the Opera (1943)
- Dir. Arthur Lubin
Feat. Claude Rains, Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster
- Technicolour version of the old tale with Claude Rains warbling it up behind the mask. The emphasis here is more on singing than chills, it could be…
- Return of the Vampire, The (1943)
- Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch…
- Serving as an unofficial follow–up to DRACULA (1931), Bela Lugosi plays another vampire called Armand Tesla, who encounters with an…
- Seventh Victim, The (1943)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell…
- One of the finest of producer Val Lewton’s low–budget RKO horror films, here investing a tale of satanists at work in NYCs Greenwich Village…
- Son of Dracula (1943)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton…
- The toothsome Count (not the son, despite the title), here played by Lon Chaney Jnr, sinks fangs into a selection of Southern belles and their…
- Cat People (1942)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Simone Simon, Jack Holt, Kent Smith…
- Producer Val Lewton's most celebrated low–budget horror evokes a disturbing atmosphere of repression and menace with shadows, music and the…
- Black Cat, The (1941)
- Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford…
- A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
- Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner…
- Handsomely produced version of the Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, in which a mild doctor transforms himself by night into a murderous maniac.
- Wolf Man, The (Wolfman) (1941)
- Dir. George Waggner
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains
- Universal horror classic has Lon Chaney Jnr. bitten by werewolf Bela Lugosi among the foggy glades of Alpine–set English villages.
- Ghost Breakers, The (1940)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson…
- THE CAT AND THE CANARY stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard reunite for this middling chiller with Goddard inheriting a haunted mansion on a small…
- Killer Bats (The Devil Bat) (1940)
- Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien
- Although fairly low–tech in its special effects this short horror boasts a committed performance from Lugosi, as a doctor who is developing…
- Cat and the Canary, The (1939)
- Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard
- Bob Hope lends his charm to this playful remake of 1927 expressionist silent film about siblings who inherit an uncle's fortune but must first prove…
- Dark Eyes of London (Human Monster; Dead Eyes of London) (1939)
- Dir. Walter Summers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt
- Weirdly atmospheric chiller has Bela Lugosi using his blind disciples as pawns in an elaborate murder/insurance scam.
- Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein (1939)
- Dir. Rowland V Lee, Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi…
- A double feature of horrors from Universal Studios, the third and fourth films respectively in the FRANKENSTEIN series.
Son of Frankenstein (1939)…
- Dracula's Daughter (1936)
- Dir. Lambert Hillyer
Feat. Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill…
- Worthy sequel to the Lugosi classic, substitutes female fangster Holden in the lead. Nice atmospherics.
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff
- Boris Karloff meets his match when mad Dr. Frank builds his forlorn monster a mate. Sequel to FRANKENSTEIN is possibly the best horror of the '30s…
- Werewolf of London / She-Wolf of London (1935)
- Dir. Stuart Walker, Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Don Porter…
- A double feature of early 'werewolf' horrors.
Werewolf of London (1935) Dir. Stuart Walker – The first film to feature the 'werewolf'…
- Maniac (1934)
- Dir. Dwain Esper
Feat. Horace B. Carpenter, Bill Woods
- Named as one of the "100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made" in The Official Razzie Movie Guide, this early sexploitation/horror shocker was loosely…
- A Shriek in the Night (1933)
- Dir. Albert Ray
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark…
- A murderer terrorises a quiet neighbourhood, with each victim ominously receiving a polite card before being dispatched. This solidly produced…
- Cry of the Bewitched / Vampire Bat, The (1933-1956)
- Dir. Frank Strayer, Alfredo Crevenna
Feat. Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill, Melvyn Douglas…
- A double feature of low–rent but worthy horrors:
The Vampire Bat (1933) Directed by Frank Strayer – An eerie suspenser in which a mad…
- Ghoul, The (1933)
- Dir. T. Hayes Hunter
Feat. Boris Karloff, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger…
- Creaky, but efficient Karloff outing centres on an Egyptologist who returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.
- Island of Lost Souls (1933)
- Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen…
- First screen version of H.G. Wells' fascinating novel features the delightfully loony Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau, the exiled scientist obsessed…
- King Kong (1933)
- Dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
- An iconic classic of cinema that literally smashed new ground in terms of special effects, and must have had unwitting audiences of the day…
- Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh
- An early horror which formed the basis of Vincent Price's HOUSE OF WAX. Containing its own grisly twists on the 'waxing' process, this is well worth…
- Black Cat, The (1934) / The Raven / The Mummy (1932-1935)
- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer, Lew Landers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff
- Notable debut of B–movie legend Ulmer, pits Bela Lugosi against Boris Karloff's formibable architect of evil. Bizarre sets and a dreamy,…
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins
- Lurid and expressionistic 30s version of Stevenson's novel, and still the best, with Fredric March (who won an Oscar) as the idealist Doctor who…
- Freaks (1932)
- Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams
- The only film in history to exploit real–life 'mutants' is actually a sensitive and fascinating piece of cinema history. Perhaps misunderstood…
- Mummy, The (1932)
- Dir. Karl Freund
Feat. Boris Karloff
- Boris Karloff gives a famously restrained performance, in one the great Universal Studios horrors. Story of the bandage–man's rise from the…
- Old Dark House, The (1932)
- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
- Seeking refuge from an encroaching storm, six travellers pick the wrong house to take shelter in, with a spooky Boris Karloff, among other terrors in…
- Vampyr (1932)
- Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Julian West, Henriette Gerard
- Seminal psychological horror film makes up for in atmosphere what it lacks in technical sophistication. Dream–like plot concerns a young man…
- White Zombie (1932)
- Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn
- Creaky but effectively eerie chiller with Bela Lugosi as a voodoo king menacing naive newlyweds in Haiti. The trance–like direction and tiny…
- Dracula (1931)
- Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Bela Lugosi
- The role that immortalised Bela Lugosi – the original and most convincing Dracula ever committed to the screen. For sheer gothic ambience, look…
- Frankenstein (1931)
- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff
- Boris Karloff is the definitive incarnation of Mary Shelley's tragic man–monster, while the delicate balance of horror and pathos give the film…
- Svengali (1931)
- Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Bramwell Fletcher…
- Adapted from the novel by George du Maurier, this has a hypnotic maniac (Barrymore) turning his evil gaze on a young model and forcing her to…
- Man Who Laughs, The (1928)
- Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova
- One of the most spectacular (and sophisticated) of the silent epics adapts a historical story by Victor Hugo concerning the destiny of a disfigured…
- Phantom of the Opera (1928)
- Dir. Rupert Julian
Feat. Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Gibson Gowland
- First screen version of the Gaston Leroux novel with Lon Chaney grimacing through his greatest hour as the phantom. The atmosphere is creepy and the…
- Cat and the Canary, The (1927)
- Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Laura La Plante, Tully Marshall
- Seminal haunted house flick centres around the gathering of greedy contestants to the will of a rich relative. Imaginative thrills are executed with…
- Unknown, The (1927)
- Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz…
- Lon Chaney is fantastically expressive in this Grand Guignol inspired silent horror, from frequent collaborators Chaney and director Tod Browning, in…
- Nosferatu (1922)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Max Schreck, Alexander Granach
- Max Schreck is unforgettable as the titular vampire in this exquisitely chilling, silent forerunner to Lugosi's Dracula. A milestone of early…
- Phantom Carriage, The (Körkarlen) (1921)
- Dir. Victor Sjostrom
Feat. Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg
- Impeccable Swedish silent film following a ghostly carriage as it takes a man's soul on a journey following his death on New Year's Eve, forcing him…
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
- Dir. John S. Robertson
Feat. John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst…
- The first of many adaptations is this unsettling silent version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella about a charitable scientist whose…
- Grampa's Monster Movies
- Feat. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney…
- Al Grampa Lewis from the original Addam's Family hosts this collection of 28 horror trailers unearthed from the vaults of Universal studios. This…
- Mondo Lugosi
- Feat. Bela Lugosi
- A compilation of many great sequences in which Bela Lugosi appeared. The perfect bill for your next vampire masquerade party.