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Vampire's Kiss (1988): Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals; Nicolas Cage gives a wildly uninhibited performance as a psychotic yuppie who thinks he's been bitten by a vampire. From the pen that wrote the…
Murder by Decree (1979): Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings…; Sherlock Holmes and the ever faithful Watson are back, this time investigating the notorious Jack the Ripper and his gruesome fascination with…
Count Dracula (TV Mini-series) (1977): Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon…; Faithful 70's adaptation of the classic horror novel by Bram Stoker, this critically–acclaimed BBC version utilises London's Highgate Cemetery…
Reincarnation of Peter Proud, The (1975): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill…; Slow burn psychological horror directed by J. Lee Thompson (GUNS OF NAVARONE) about a university professor who is tortured by recurring nightmares…
From Beyond the Grave (1974): Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Warner, Ian Bannen…; Enjoyable anthology film from Amicus adapted from four short stories linked through the classic device of an antique store and its mysterious owner…
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series) (1974-1975): Feat. Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage; Darkly comic supernatural series following newspaper reporter Carl Kochak as he attempts to uncover supernatural occurrences in downtown Chicago.…
Madhouse (1974): Dir. Jim Clark
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry…; British horror film based on the 1969 novel Devilday by Angus Hall, with Vincent Price playing a horror actor renowned for his character Dr. Death,…
Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The (1974): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Frank Mills, Sheila Dunn, Anne Blake; Short TV movie based on the ghost story by M. R. James. Michael Bryant stars as a scholar of Medieval history who finds the clue to hidden treasure…
Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1973): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Shane Briant; The sixth and final installment of the Frankenstein series for Hammer Films was also the last for its director and star Peter Cushing as Victor…
Satanic Rites of Dracula, The (1973): Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley…; When a group of Scotland Police Investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism, they call in Van Helsing to put a stop to Count…
Theatre of Blood (1973): Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry; Vincent Price plays a hammy stage actor who avenges the critics that have vilified him, staging their deaths like scenes from Shakespearian plays. No…
Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter (1972): Dir. Brian Clemens
Feat. Horst Janson, Caroline Munro, John Carson; British cult TV writer Brian Clemens (THE AVENGERS) assumes directing duties on this spirited historical vampire romp he wrote for Hammer Studios,…
Death Line (Raw Meat) (1972): Dir. Gary Sherman
Feat. Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington; A cannibal zombie stalks the local stations of the London Underground picking off unlucky passengers for nourishment in this British 70's horror gem,…
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1972): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick; Delightfully camp turn on Stevenson's legendary fable of good and evil inhabiting the same body. Archetypal fun from Hammer studios.
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972): Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Cushing…; Vincent Price reprises the Phibes, and this time gets to go to Egypt.
Escape into Night (TV Series) (Marianne Dreams) (1972): Feat. Vikki Chambers; A convalescent young girl's drawings become the basis for her dreams in this six–part British TV serial that left an indelibly haunting…
Ghost Story (TV Series) (Circle of Fear) (1972-1973): Feat. Sheila Larken , Meg Foster, Don Barry…; Horror anthology TV series presented by Sebastian Cabot, who also plays the owner of a mysterious hotel beset by creepy occurrences. Produced by…
Night Stalker, The / Night Strangler, The (1972-1973): Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey, Dan Curtis
Feat. Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland…; Two excellent and groundbreaking tele–movies from the early 70s starring Darren McGavin as wise–cracking 'regular guy' reporter Carl…
Tales from the Crypt (1972): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice…; A schlocky omnibus from Amicus Studios derived from EC comics in which five people are trapped in a crypt with the mysterious Crypt Keeper, who…
You'll Like My Mother (1972): Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas; Patty Duke plays a heavily pregnant woman who travels to rural Minnesota to meet her late husband's mother–in–law, who turns out to have…
Brotherhood of Satan, The (1971): Dir. Bernard McEveety
Feat. Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Charles Bateman…; Low budget horror set in the American Southwest, where a couple on a road trip discover a coven of elderly Satanists who are holding a town's…
Demons of the Mind (1971): Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Paul Jones, Patrick Magee, Sir Michael Hordern…; A Victorian baron imprisons his two children, believing them to be possessed. Enticing Hammer offering, laced with blood–and–roses…
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971): Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Christine Kaufmann, Jason Robards Jr., Herbert Lom…; A series of grisly murders occur in a strange horror theatre in Paris and it's up to master sleuth August Dupin to solve the mystery. Based on Edgar…
Man Who Haunted Himself, The (1970): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Roger Moore; In one of his rare serious roles, Roger Moore plays the survivor of a car crash who discovers his doppelganger has been released into the…
Scars of Dracula (1970): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Patrick Troughton; In search of his missing brother a man discovers the deadly lair of Count Dracula.
Scream and Scream Again (1969): Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee all turn in for this Hammer mad–doctor–creates–super–being yarn.
Devil Rides Out, The (1968): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee; Devilishly straight–faced Hammer with Christopher Lee orchestrating a scheme to save the life (and soul) of his long–time confidant from…
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Christopher Lee; Christopher Lee returns in fangs for a third Hammer bite at the vampire story.
Kuroneko (1968): Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi; Visually exquisite black and white horror film from Japanese director Kaneto Shindo (ONIBABA). An adaptation of a supernatural folktale set during…
Night of the Living Dead (1968): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Duane Jones; Highly original and influential drive–in cheapie, distinguished by its realistic, documentary atmosphere and imaginative ending. Graphically…
Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968): Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Sir Michael Hordern; Possibly the finest of the BBC's M R James adaptations, this spooky tale concerns a closeted, sceptical professor (Hordern) whose seaside holiday…
Blood Beast Terror, The (1967): Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Peter Cushing; In Victorian rural England, Peter Cushing's murder enquiries uncovers a beastly weremoth and the gruesome experiments of a crazed entymologist.
Castle of the Walking Dead (The Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sadism) (1967): Dir. Harald Reinl
Feat. Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor; The blood runs thick for its vintage in this variation on Poe's Pit and the Pendulum in which a Count is drawn and quartered for killing twelve…
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters; The fourth film in Hammer's Frankenstein series starring Peter Cushing as Baron Frankenstein and Susan Denberg as his new creation. Diverts away from…
Gruesome Twosome (1967): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell; Typical H.G. Lewis fare that is both disgusting and amusing. The plot revolves around a wig shop that makes its products by scalping people with an…
Mummy's Shroud, The (1967): Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Andre Morell, John Phillips, David Buck…; An archaeological expedition discovers the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharoah and ignoring warnings of a deadly curse they unleash a vengeful spirit…
Torture Garden (1967): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams…; Grisly, well–acted omnibus of four horror stories by PSYCHO–scribe Robert Bloch, framed by the fiendish hype of Burgess Meredith's…
Dark Shadows (TV Series) (1966): Feat. Jonathan Frid, Joan Bennett; A camp classic of 'Gothic soap opera', this long–running daytime melodrama centred on 175–year–old vampire Barnabas Collins and a…
Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The (1966): Dir. Alan Rafkin
Feat. Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond…; A pretty darned funny Don Knotts vehicle that has the rubber–faced comedian as a timid typesetter who hasn't a chance of becoming a reporter…
Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966): Dir. Don Weis
Feat. Nancy Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Tommy Kirk…; Seventh and final in a loose series of 'Beach Party' movies, featuring Nancy Sinatra and an ageing Boris Karloff.
Island of Terror (1966): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing; Peter Cushing stars in this Hammer sci–fi tale about cancer research gone awry.
Reptile, The (1966): Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Noel Willman, Ray Barrett; When villagers start dying from snake venom in Cornwall, things point suspiciously to the tinkerings of a strange doctor. Moody Hammer schlock.
Witches, The (1966): Dir. Cyril Frankel
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen…; Hammer horror adapted by Nigel Kneale under the pseudonym Peter Curtis, and featuring the final big–screen film role for Joan Fontaine.
A Study in Terror (1965): Dir. James Hill
Feat. John Neville, Robert Morley, Donald Houston…; Carefully crafted, though at times crude and bloody, Sherlock Holmes mystery (not by Conan Doyle), with the sleuth pursuing the murderous Jack the…
Color Me Blood Red (1965): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Gordon Oas-Heim, Candi Conder, Elyn Warner; "Blood–feaster" Hershell Gordon Lewis tones down the gore for this third of his splatter forays – a spin on A BUCKET OF BLOOD about an…
Curse of the Fly (1965): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Burt Kwouk; Second sequel to the original 1958 THE FLY, sans Vincent Price, but with touches of genuine gothic atmosphere and some creepy mutants. The tale of a…
Die, Monster, Die (1965): Dir. Daniel Heller
Feat. Boris Karloff, Freda Jackson, Nick Adams…; Enjoyable Lovecraft adaptation, featuring an older Boris Karloff going nuts in the greenhouse.
Nanny, The (1965): Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett; Bette Davis' stoney ambivalence is well employed in this Hammer production as the malevolent/misunderstood minder of a disturbed child who has been…
She (1965): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Ursula Andress; A scantily–clad Ursula Andress commands attention in this Hammer exotica as the love–starved eternal queen seeking reincarnation of her…
Tomb of Ligeia (1965): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price; The last of the director's Poe interpretations is one the most memorable. Effective use is made of the eerie English locations and Vincent Price's…
Addams Family, The (TV Series) (1964-1966): Feat. John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy…; Macabre 1960s sitcom about a family whose gothic lifestyle and trappings make for a mordant contrast with 'apple–pie' America. 22 episodes…
Children of the Damned (1964): Dir. Tony Leader
Feat. Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris…; Sequel to VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED finds the original film's blue–eyed humanoids transported to England for scientific study. Naturally, they…
Comedy of Terrors, The ( The Graveside Story) (1964): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price…; Business is slow for undertaker Vincent Price so taking matters into his own hands he sets about smothering elderly people in their sleep. Enjoyable…
Devil Doll (1964): Dir. Lindsay Shonteff
Feat. Bryant Halliday, William Sylvester; A hypno–ventriloquist attempts to transfer a woman's soul into a dummy. Ghoulish sleeper is sure to keep fans of low–budget chillers wide…
Evil of Frankenstein, The (1964): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, Duncan Lamont, David Hutcheson; Number three in the renowned Hammer horror Frankenstein series set in an isolated castle. The Baron (Cushing) and his assistant, in need of help to…
Gorgon, The (1964): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco…; A small village falls prey to an unseen monster. Citizens are found turned to stone after every full moon. The town Doctor (Peter Cushing) concludes…
Kwaidan (1964): Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratana, Misako Watanabe; A four part anthology of visually intoxicating Japanese period ghost stories. Each tale expanding domestic melodramas into the paranormal realm.…
Last Man on Earth, The (1964): Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price; Rough but effective version of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" (also the basis for OMEGA MAN), Price playing the last living survivor of the human…
Masque of the Red Death (1964): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher…; The best of Corman's Poe adaptations allies the director's playful yet virulent treatment to one of the writer's most strongly allegorical stories.…
Munsters, The (TV Series) (1964-1965): Dir. Various
Feat. Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis…; Memorable TV–comedy set around a ghoulish–looking, but otherwise normal family – who are mystified as to why everyone reacts so…
Nightmare (1964): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. David Knight, Moira Redmond, Brenda Bruce…; Psychological horror about a young girl (Jennie Linden, WOMEN IN LOVE) living at a private school who is plagued by nightmares involving her mother,…
Phantom of the Opera (1964): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Herbert Lom, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough…; British Hammer Horror production adapting the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux. The studio was hoping to ride on the previous huge success of the 1943…
Dementia 13 (1963): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton; An early shocker from Francis Coppola proving that even the best start at the bottom. Quite a blurry print.
Haunted Palace, The (1963): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Lon Jr. Chaney, Debra Paget…; Minor Corman–Price collaboration has Price in a dual role both as the genteel inheritor of a castle, and as the fiendish warlock who once…
Haunting, The (1963): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson…; Exquisite photography/design and nerve–shredding sound effects urgently conspire for this, the definitive haunted house movie. Played…
Kiss of the Vampire (1963): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza…; An ominous and highly–regarded Hammer horror in which a honeymooning couple are stranded in Bavaria where they become embroiled in the…
Paranoiac (1963): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell; A Hitchcockian thriller from Hammer studio about a man long believed dead (Oliver Reed) who returns to the family estate, a palatial mansion near…
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.
Terror, The (1963): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Boris Karloff; A legendary Corman quickie on which all of star Boris Karloff's scenes were shot in 3 days on sets leftover from THE RAVEN!
Twice Told Tales (1963): Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland; Triptych of horrors drawn from the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ham actor extraordinaire Vincent Price is in ripping form here.
Brain, The (1962): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Anne Heywood, Peter Van Eyck, Bernard Lee…; A well–meaning doctor keeps alive the brain of a sadistic millionaire who gradually compels him to carry out his evil requests. Well directed…
Carnival of Souls (1962): Dir. Herk Harvey
Feat. Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey; A woman's vision of the world is not quite the same after surviving a car accident in this vastly under–appreciated spook story that comes…
Devil's Hand, The (1962): Dir. William J. Hole Jnr
Feat. Linda Christian, Robert Alda, Neil Hamilton; Hammy low–budget horror of a man seduced by a blonde vixen who forces him to become involved in a mysterious satanic cult she holds allegiance…
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…
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…
Tales of Terror (1962): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone; Three Edgar Allen Poe adaptations from his best filmic interpreter Roger Corman. The Tales on offer here are "Morella", "The Black Cat" and "The Case…
Tower of London (1962): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman; This Roger Corman remake of the 1939 original sees Vincent Price stepping into Basil Rathbone shoes as the bloodthirsty Duke of Gloucester. Being…
Awful Dr. Awloff, The (1961): Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Howard Vernon; Deranged doctor Howard Vernon collects skin–grafts for his disfigured daughter, in a Spanish makeover of Franju's 'Eyes Without A Face'. A…
Curse of the Werewolf, The (1961): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Oliver Reed, Clifford Evans; Hammer horror based on the novel "The Werewolf of Paris" by Guy Endore and starring Oliver Reed as the werewolf in his first credited film…
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…
Village of the Damned (1960): Dir. Wolf Rilla
Feat. George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn…; The original, superior version of John Wyndham's novel 'The Midwich Cuckoos', about a brood of malevolent blue–eyed kiddies born in an English…
Wasp Woman, The (1960): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark; A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959): Dir. Bernard Kowalski
Feat. Yvette Vickers; A 'rubber–suited' swamp thing lurks in a Florida bayou. Even B–movie aficianados shouldn't get suckered by this one. 'Stars' Yvette…
Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Henry Daniell; Beware–the–family–curse is the theme in this low–budget take on Orville H. Hampton's tale about a family whose members are…
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959): Dir. Arthur Crabtree
Feat. Michael Gough, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen…; Well–acted Hammer horror about a writer who uses his hypnotised helper to commit a series of inventively gruesome killings.
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell…; Quite possibly the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, with Cushing in the lead, investigating the horrors of the Baskerville killings. The 'Hammer'…
Manster, The (1959): Dir. George P. Breakson
Feat. Peter Dyneley; An American correspondent in Japan becomes an unwitting human guinea pig while trying to get the scoop on the work of a reclusive scientist. His…
Mummy, The (1959): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; Peter Cushing confronts Christopher Lee in bandages in this stylish early Hammer.
Tingler, The (1959): Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman; B–movie classic in which mad doctor Vincent Price conjures the 'physical form of fear itself', and lets the damned thing run amok! With bizzaro…
Attack of the Puppet People (1958): Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney…; One of the earliest depictions of the creepy puppet master, this low budget sci–fi horror follows a doll maker with abandonment issues who…
Corridors of Blood (Doctor from Seven Dials, The) (1958): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie…; A gruesome enactment of medical experimentation in pre–Victorian London, with Karloff donning apron and scalpel to try and discover an…
Fly, The (1958): Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price; Classic B–movie is a hammy horror tale of an obsessed scientist who unwittingly turns himself into a freak of nature.
Horror of Dracula (1958): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; Quintessential Hammer horror is the first of six films with the peerless pairing of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as the razor–fanged Count…
House On Haunted Hill (1958): Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart; Vincent Price is in full ham here, offering patrons $10,000 each to endure a night in the titular spooky mansion. Good fun, if a bit slight.…
How To Make A Monster (1958): Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Robert Harris; A Hollywood make–up artirst (Harris) is sacked by his studio and decides to enact brutal revenge on the management layer with the help of two…
I Bury the Living (1958): Dir. Albert Band
Feat. Richard Boone; Weird, imaginatively designed graveyard chiller with Richard Boone as a cemetery curator who thinks he has power over life and death by shifting…
Return of Dracula (1958): Dir. Paul Landres
Feat. Francis Lederer; Coinciding with Hammer studios revival of the Transylvanian count, this commendable effort has a long–in–the–tooth Francis Lederer…
Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn…; One of the best in the series of six Frankenstein films made by Hammer, with Peter Cushing reprising one of his signature roles as Baron Frank. …
Abominable Snowman (1957): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Richard Wattis; Hammer Horror's version of the 'yeti' legend has Cushing and Tucker journey to the roof of the world to hunt out the elusive creature. From a…
Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon) (1957): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis…; Classy occult thriller survives its big reputation through an intelligent script and controlled sense of menace. Dana Andrews' cynical professor…
Haunted Strangler, The (1957): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Boris Karloff; Jekyll–and–Hyde variation with criminologist Boris Karloff delving into a serial–murder case for which he suspects the wrong man…
Monster That Challenged the World, The (1957): Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Mimi Gibson…; Campy 50's sci–fi creature feature in which an underwater earthquake in California's Salton Sea causes a crevice to open, releasing an army of…
She-Creature, The (1957): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marla English, Tom Conway, Chester Morris…; A sideshow hypnotist attains fame by predicting murders that are actually carried out by his lovely assistant, under his hypnotic spell. Slow yet…
Creature Walks Among Us, The (1956): Dir. John Sherwood
Feat. Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason; Second sequel to THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON this time focusing on a group of scientists on a mission to capture Gill Man and put him on show…
Quatermass Xperiment, The (The Creeping Unknown) (1955): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner; Effective Hammer Films feature adaptation of the 1953 BBC sci–fi TV serial written by Nigel Kneale, in which an astronaut mysteriously returns…
Revenge of the Creature (1955): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield…; Follow–up to the cult hit CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, with poor, harassed Gill Man captured in the Amazon this time round and brought back…
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; 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…
House of Frankenstein (1944): Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Boris Karloff, J. Carrol Naish, Lon Jr. Chaney…; Genuinely odd horror film in the Universal Studios stable, has scientist Karloff rolling out a monster freakshow of the 'classics', including…
Uninvited, The (1944): Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp…; Classic tale of the macabre with Ray Milland discovering that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply…
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Patric Knowles, Ilona Massey…; Unique 'dual sequel', following both THE WOLF MAN and GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN. In this episode, the hairy Chaney seeks out the Doctor for a cure, but…
Ghost on the Loose (1943): Dir. William Beaudine
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Ava Gardner, Leo Gorcey; At the 'Ed Wood' end of the horror–comedy canon, this has Lugosi haunting the suburban house of some newlyweds. Also stars screen…
I Walked with a Zombie (1943): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway; Incandescent spook story about a nurse who unleashes historical and spiritual demons when called out to a Caribbean island. Its scare value may have…
Leopard Man, The (1943): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dennis O'Keefe; The final Val Lewton–Tourneur horror collaboration concerns an escaped leopard (apparently) running amok in a small New Mexico town. A slim…
Phantom of the Opera (1943): Dir. Arthur Lubin
Feat. Claude Rains, Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster; Technicolour version of the old tale with Claude Rains warbling it up behind the mask. The emphasis here is more on singing than chills, it could be…
Return of the Vampire, The (1943): Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch…; Serving as an unofficial follow–up to DRACULA (1931), Bela Lugosi plays another vampire called Armand Tesla, who encounters with an…
Seventh Victim, The (1943): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell…; One of the finest of producer Val Lewton’s low–budget RKO horror films, here investing a tale of satanists at work in NYCs Greenwich Village…
Son of Dracula (1943): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton…; The toothsome Count (not the son, despite the title), here played by Lon Chaney Jnr, sinks fangs into a selection of Southern belles and their…
Cat People (1942): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Simone Simon, Jack Holt, Kent Smith…; Producer Val Lewton's most celebrated low–budget horror evokes a disturbing atmosphere of repression and menace with shadows, music and the…
Black Cat, The (1941): Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford…; A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941): Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner…; Handsomely produced version of the Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, in which a mild doctor transforms himself by night into a murderous maniac.
Wolf Man, The (Wolfman) (1941): Dir. George Waggner
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains; Universal horror classic has Lon Chaney Jnr. bitten by werewolf Bela Lugosi among the foggy glades of Alpine–set English villages.
Ghost Breakers, The (1940): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson…; THE CAT AND THE CANARY stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard reunite for this middling chiller with Goddard inheriting a haunted mansion on a small…
Killer Bats (The Devil Bat) (1940): Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien; Although fairly low–tech in its special effects this short horror boasts a committed performance from Lugosi, as a doctor who is developing…
Cat and the Canary, The (1939): Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard; Bob Hope lends his charm to this playful remake of 1927 expressionist silent film about siblings who inherit an uncle's fortune but must first prove…
Dark Eyes of London (Human Monster; Dead Eyes of London) (1939): Dir. Walter Summers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt; Weirdly atmospheric chiller has Bela Lugosi using his blind disciples as pawns in an elaborate murder/insurance scam.
Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein (1939): Dir. Rowland V Lee, Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi…; A double feature of horrors from Universal Studios, the third and fourth films respectively in the FRANKENSTEIN series. Son of Frankenstein (1939)…
Dracula's Daughter (1936): Dir. Lambert Hillyer
Feat. Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill…; Worthy sequel to the Lugosi classic, substitutes female fangster Holden in the lead. Nice atmospherics.
Bride of Frankenstein (1935): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff; Boris Karloff meets his match when mad Dr. Frank builds his forlorn monster a mate. Sequel to FRANKENSTEIN is possibly the best horror of the '30s…
Werewolf of London / She-Wolf of London (1935): Dir. Stuart Walker, Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Don Porter…; A double feature of early 'werewolf' horrors. Werewolf of London (1935) Dir. Stuart Walker – The first film to feature the 'werewolf'…
Maniac (1934): Dir. Dwain Esper
Feat. Horace B. Carpenter, Bill Woods; Named as one of the "100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made" in The Official Razzie Movie Guide, this early sexploitation/horror shocker was loosely…
A Shriek in the Night (1933): Dir. Albert Ray
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark…; A murderer terrorises a quiet neighbourhood, with each victim ominously receiving a polite card before being dispatched. This solidly produced…
Cry of the Bewitched / Vampire Bat, The (1933-1956): Dir. Frank Strayer, Alfredo Crevenna
Feat. Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill, Melvyn Douglas…; A double feature of low–rent but worthy horrors: The Vampire Bat (1933) Directed by Frank Strayer – An eerie suspenser in which a mad…
Ghoul, The (1933): Dir. T. Hayes Hunter
Feat. Boris Karloff, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger…; Creaky, but efficient Karloff outing centres on an Egyptologist who returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.
Island of Lost Souls (1933): Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen…; First screen version of H.G. Wells' fascinating novel features the delightfully loony Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau, the exiled scientist obsessed…
King Kong (1933): Dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong; An iconic classic of cinema that literally smashed new ground in terms of special effects, and must have had unwitting audiences of the day…
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh; An early horror which formed the basis of Vincent Price's HOUSE OF WAX. Containing its own grisly twists on the 'waxing' process, this is well worth…
Black Cat, The (1934) / The Raven / The Mummy (1932-1935): Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer, Lew Landers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff; Notable debut of B–movie legend Ulmer, pits Bela Lugosi against Boris Karloff's formibable architect of evil. Bizarre sets and a dreamy,…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932): Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins; Lurid and expressionistic 30s version of Stevenson's novel, and still the best, with Fredric March (who won an Oscar) as the idealist Doctor who…
Freaks (1932): Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams; The only film in history to exploit real–life 'mutants' is actually a sensitive and fascinating piece of cinema history. Perhaps misunderstood…
Mummy, The (1932): Dir. Karl Freund
Feat. Boris Karloff; Boris Karloff gives a famously restrained performance, in one the great Universal Studios horrors. Story of the bandage–man's rise from the…
Old Dark House, The (1932): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton; Seeking refuge from an encroaching storm, six travellers pick the wrong house to take shelter in, with a spooky Boris Karloff, among other terrors in…
Vampyr (1932): Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Julian West, Henriette Gerard; Seminal psychological horror film makes up for in atmosphere what it lacks in technical sophistication. Dream–like plot concerns a young man…
White Zombie (1932): Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn; Creaky but effectively eerie chiller with Bela Lugosi as a voodoo king menacing naive newlyweds in Haiti. The trance–like direction and tiny…
Dracula (1931): Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Bela Lugosi; The role that immortalised Bela Lugosi – the original and most convincing Dracula ever committed to the screen. For sheer gothic ambience, look…
Frankenstein (1931): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff; Boris Karloff is the definitive incarnation of Mary Shelley's tragic man–monster, while the delicate balance of horror and pathos give the film…
Svengali (1931): Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Bramwell Fletcher…; Adapted from the novel by George du Maurier, this has a hypnotic maniac (Barrymore) turning his evil gaze on a young model and forcing her to…
Man Who Laughs, The (1928): Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova; One of the most spectacular (and sophisticated) of the silent epics adapts a historical story by Victor Hugo concerning the destiny of a disfigured…
Phantom of the Opera (1928): Dir. Rupert Julian
Feat. Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Gibson Gowland; First screen version of the Gaston Leroux novel with Lon Chaney grimacing through his greatest hour as the phantom. The atmosphere is creepy and the…
Cat and the Canary, The (1927): Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Laura La Plante, Tully Marshall; Seminal haunted house flick centres around the gathering of greedy contestants to the will of a rich relative. Imaginative thrills are executed with…
Unknown, The (1927): Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz…; Lon Chaney is fantastically expressive in this Grand Guignol inspired silent horror, from frequent collaborators Chaney and director Tod Browning, in…
Nosferatu (1922): Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Max Schreck, Alexander Granach; Max Schreck is unforgettable as the titular vampire in this exquisitely chilling, silent forerunner to Lugosi's Dracula. A milestone of early…
Phantom Carriage, The (Körkarlen) (1921): Dir. Victor Sjostrom
Feat. Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg; Impeccable Swedish silent film following a ghostly carriage as it takes a man's soul on a journey following his death on New Year's Eve, forcing him…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920): Dir. John S. Robertson
Feat. John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst…; The first of many adaptations is this unsettling silent version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella about a charitable scientist whose…
Grampa's Monster Movies: Feat. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney…; Al Grampa Lewis from the original Addam's Family hosts this collection of 28 horror trailers unearthed from the vaults of Universal studios. This…
Mondo Lugosi: Feat. Bela Lugosi; A compilation of many great sequences in which Bela Lugosi appeared. The perfect bill for your next vampire masquerade party.

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