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Subgenre Sampler
Innocents, The (1961)
- Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins… - Notable adaptation of Henry James' ghost story "The Turn of the Screw", featuring Deborah Kerr as a neurotic nanny. Taking a job at a spooky…
Pit and the Pendulum, The (1961)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Barbara Steele - Corman's most famous plundering of Poe extracts a host of psycho–sexual tensions out of a fine script. Vincent Price is convinced he is the…
Scream of Fear (Taste of Fear) (1961)- Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis… - Christopher Lee's favourite Hammer film in exercise in sustained tension with Susan Strasberg as a paralysed young woman haunted by visions of her…
Brides of Dracula (1960)- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt - Recognised as one of Hammer Studios' best horrors, this acclaimed sequel to HORROR OF DRACULA reconvenes director/actor team Fisher and Cushing. This…
Circus of Horrors (1960)- Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Anton Diffring, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton… - After horribly botching a face–job, plastic surgeon Anton Diffring hides out in a travelling circus with some of his 'beauties', who begin to…
Fall of the House of Usher, The (1960)- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Mark Damon - More stately than Corman's later Poe adaptations, this three hander set the template with its tale of a poorly nymph afflicted with the 'family…
Horror Hotel (The City of the Dead) (1960)- Dir. John Moxey
Feat. Christopher Lee - A search party ventures to Salem county after an occult student disappears under mysteriously witchy circumstances. Eerie photography.
Mask of Satan (Black Sunday) (1960)- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Barbara Steele - Italian shock–merchant Mario Bava's finest hour – his graphic, gothic images are way beyond 1960 and still impress today. A stylish…
Psycho (1960)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles… - Only Mr. Hitchcock could plunder B–movie conventions and turn in the biggest box–office success of his career. A plethora of…
Thirteen Ghosts (1960)- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow - A nuclear family inherit a house haunted by a dozen ghosts of various colourful guises and some hidden stash. Trademark William Castle…
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