Subgenre Sampler
Walking Dead: 141 Films to Buy & Rent
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)
- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Alan Ormsby
- This grisly cult horror concerns a film director (Ormsby) and his would–be crew who take off to a spooky island and play scary games with each…
Deathdream (Dead of Night) (1972)
- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. John Marley, Richard Backus, Lynn Carlin
- A presumed–dead Vietnam vet returns to avenge the family (Marley and Carlin, the couple in John Cassavetes' Faces, playing much the same roles)…
Fright (1972)
- Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Honor Blackman, Susan George, Dennis Waterman…
- A 'babysitter in peril' suspenser set around the menacing of Blackman by an escaped mental patient. Not bad as a precursor to the 'slasher' genre.
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
- Dir. Amando De Ossorio
Feat. Lone Fleming, Cesar Burner, Maria Elena Arpon
- Savage 13th Century Templars are resurrected in modern times to exact revenge on young nymphs. The Redemption label redeems another trashy bloodlust…
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing
- The fifth Hammer Frankenstein film focuses on Peter Cushing's Baron who tries brain surgery to save an associate who went mad. Followed in the series…
Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
- Dir. Jimmy Sangster
Feat. Ralph Bates
- Camped–up, silly Hammer, in which Ralph Bates' Baron becomes murderously obsessive.
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…
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…
Plague of the Zombies, The (1966)
- Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Andre Morell
- Reasonably classy Hammer offering about a Cornish mine–operator who uses zombies as a workforce in his tin mine. Good misty atmospherics, with…
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…