Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1654 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Indestructible Man (1956)
- Dir. Jack Pollexfen
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney
- Homicidal maniac Lon Chaney Jnr is revived, post–execution, by a mad scientist, before going on a revenge–spree. Interesting entry for…
Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956)
- Dir. Dan Milner
Feat. Kent Taylor
- Dredged from the darkest depths of B–Movie hell, this quaint 50s horror concerns a murderous underwater creature produced by leaking uranium.
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…
Roger Corman Collection #1 (Little Shop of Horrors, The Terror, Monster From the Ocean Floor) (1954-1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
- Three of dir. Corman's early B–grade efforts on one disc.
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…