Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1659 Films to Buy & Rent
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.…
Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1974)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing
- Fusion of Hammer horror and martial arts spectacle follows Peter Cushing's Van Helsen to China where he discovers ol' fangface lurking behind an…
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,…
Phase IV (Phase 4) (1974)
- Strange structures are appearing in the desert. Scientists are shocked to find that they are the work of super intelligent ants with sinister motives.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
- Unbearable tension builds when a group of teens are preyed upon by a notoriously psychotic family in the squalid atmosphere of the Deep South. The…
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…
Turn of the Screw (1974)
- Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Megs Jenkins
- Skillfully laden with Gothic atmosphere, this TV presentation of Henry James' famous tale of possession at a remote country estate is fairly creepy…
Vampyres (1974)
- Dir. Joseph Larraz
Feat. Anulka , Marianne Morris
- Riding on a mini–wave of lesbian vampire movies, this English sexploitation pic turns up both the flesh and blood quotient on the ‘Hammer’…
Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr…
- One of Mel Brooks' best is this on–target parody of Mary Shelley's gothic legend and especially James Whale's classic 1930s film versions.…
...And Now the Screaming Starts! (Fengriffen) (1973)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee…
- Non–omnibus horror from inventively cheap horror specialists 'Amicus' concerns a young bride's horrifying discovery that her husband's family…