Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Strait-Jacket (1964)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Joan Crawford - Joan Crawford fans won’t want to miss her slumming it as an axe–murderess, ‘reformed’ after twenty years in an asylum, but whose attempts…
Dr. Strangelove (or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1963)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott - A brilliant black comedy in which the U.S. president and his henchmen await imminent nuclear retaliation from the Russians. A landmark satire with…
Raven, The (1963)- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff… - A great cast inhabits this low budget fantasy–comedy version of Edgar Allan Poe's tale – one of Corman's best.
Shock Corridor (1963)- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Peter Breck, Constance Towers - An unsolved slaying in a mental hospital prompts over–ambitious journalist Peter Breck to pose as a 'lunatic', so as to find the killer. Alas,…
Lolita (1962)- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. James Mason, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters… - A middle–aged man falls in love with a 14–year–old girl, so marries her mother to be near her. Fascinating black comedy of sexual…
Little Shop of Horrors (1960)- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson - Hammy black comedy about that ferocious, carnivorous plant named Audrey. A Corman quickie, shot in two days, still remains one of his best, plus it…
Green Man, The / School for Scoundrels (1957-1960)- Dir. Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Feat. Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas… - A double feature of comedies starring Alastair Sim. The Green Man (1957) Dir. Basil Dearden – One of Sim's best films, playing an apparently…
Naked Truth, The (Your Past is Showing) (1957)- Dir. Mario Zampi
Feat. Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Peggy Mount… - Dark comedy set in the tabloid industry with an extortionate publisher marked for death by his celebrity victims.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (1955-1962)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, various
Feat. Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, John Forsythe… - Pre–dating THE TWILIGHT ZONE by some years, the Master of Suspense created this iconic television series featuring self–contained tales…
Ladykillers, The (1955)- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Frankie Howerd - Priceless Ealing black comedy in which bungling robbers Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers et al conspire to snuff out their rich old landlady, an…
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