Subgenre Sampler
: 25144 Films to Buy & Rent
Night Creatures (Captain Clegg) (1962)
- Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen…
- Hammer horror set in 18th–century England, where a captain of the Royal Navy is sent to investigate reports of illegal activity in a coastal…
Night of the Eagle (Burn, Witch, Burn) (1962)
- Dir. Sydney Hayers
Feat. Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston
- A successful academic (Peter Wyngarde) plumbs a prime teaching post at an English village idyll, causing a flurry of petty jealousies among the…
Panic in Year Zero (1962)
- Dir. Ray Milland
Feat. Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon
- Eerily filmed in black–and–white, this is a minimalist yet vividly detailed post–apocalyptic survival thriller directed by Ray…
Pity Me Not! (Without Each Other) (1962)
- Dir. Saul Swimmer
Feat. Tony Anthony, Anne Hegiba, Saul Swimmer
- A trapeze artist has the unfortunate duty of informing the wife of a fellow performer that her husband has been crushed by an elephant.
Planeta Bur: The Planet of Storms (1962)
- Dir. Pavel Klushantsev
Feat. Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Yuri Sarantsev
- Cult science–fiction with Russian cosmonauts landing on a Venus teeming with flesh–eating plants, lizard men and dinosaurs! Ingeniously…
Premature Burial (1962)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ray Milland, Hazel Court
- The third of Corman's eight Poe adaptations, with Ray Milland cast instead of Vincent Price as a paranoid med student. Tape includes bonus Milland…
Reptilicus (1962)
- Dir. Sidney Pink
Feat. Carl Ottosen, Ann Smyrner
- Many chuckles to be had at the expense of this mini–budgeted monster mash filmed in Denmark. A prehistoric creature rejuvenates itself and…
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney…
- Anthony Quinn puts on an astonishing performance in this outstanding drama about a once promising but now washed–up boxer who struggles to see…
Ride the High Country (1962)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea
- Perhaps the last hoorah of a great western tradition, directed with supreme artistry by Sam Peckinpah. Scott and McCrea play retiring lawmen who…
Road to Hong Kong, The (1962)
- Dir. Norman Panama
Feat. Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins…
- Last in the series of 'Road' movies starring Hope and Crosby, this time the mad–cap duo play a pair of con–men who accidentally learn of…