Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Horror: 1597 Films to Rent
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…