Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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 - 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…
Dead of Night (1945)
- Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden
- This model of the horror portmanteau film remains unsurpassed by modern all–comers, with five strong, scary short stories that converge quite…
House of Dracula (1945)- Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, John Carradine, Onslow Stevens… - Actually a sequel to HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, with a scientist attempting to rectify the monstrous villains of the Universal Studios horror movies.
Isle of the Dead (1945)- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew - Boris Karloff stars in this Val Lewton "superstitious chiller" about a group of plague–ridden people quarantined on a tiny Greek…
Place of One's Own, A (1945)- Dir. Bernard Knowles
Feat. James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price… - Elegant Victorian ghost story has an elderly couple James Mason and Margaret Lockwood buy a house possessed by a spirit who begins to fascinate their…
Curse of the Cat People (1944)- Dir. Gunther V Fritsch, Robert Wise
Feat. Simone Simon - Sequel of worth to the original Val Lewton psychological chiller, again with the feline Simone Simon, here haunting the imagination of a small girl…
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