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Rental > Horror > Animal Amok: 47 Films to Rent on DVD
- Night of the Lepus (1972)
- Dir. William Claxton
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun
- One of the most incredibly lame (and strange and entertaining) horror films of all time, in which giant mutant rabbits terrorize a small community in…
- 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'…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…