Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1659 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
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, George Brent
- 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…