Sunday, June 16, 2024

City of the Dead

1960
d John Llewellyn Moxey c Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee

A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.


The Ghoul

1975
d Freddie Franis c Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson


A party of friends are separated on a trip to Land's End. Two girls are abducted and taken to the home of a former clergyman who has lost his faith. A young man who works for him is forced to reveal the horrible truth about the lonely mansion.


Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Horror Heritage

1994
Horror/Documentary


From the 1950s when they pumped Technicolor blood into old monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula, to today's chillers like 'Let The Right One In" and "The Lady In Black", Hammer Films combined ghastly horror with erotic tension. Narrated by Peter Cushing, in his last film appearance, and Christopher Lee.


Season of the Witch (Hungry Women)

1973
d George A. Romero c Jan White, Joedda McClain


A neglected, unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft with unexpected consequences.

Whiskey Galore

1949
d Alexander Mackendrick c Compton Mackenzie, Joan Greenwood


During World War II, the tiny Scottish island of Todday runs out of whisky. When the freighter S.S. Cabinet Minister runs aground nearby during a heavy fog, the islanders are delighted to learn that its cargo consists of 50,000 cases of whisky. When officious English commanding officer Captain Waggett (Basil Radford) demands return of the liquor, shopkeeper Joseph Macroon (Wylie Watson) and his daughters Peggy (Joan Greenwood) and Catriona (Gabrielle Blunt) spearhead an island rebellion.


Plague of the Zombies

1966
d John Gilling
c Diane Clare, Andre Morell


A medical professor (Andre Morell) and his daughter (Diane Clare) link a Cornish epidemic to a village squire's (John Carson) voodoo.


Pirates of Blood River

1962
d John Gilling
c Christopher Lee


In a Caribbean village populated by religious refugees, Jonathon Standing (Kerwin Mathews) gets caught in an affair with the wife of a prominent local. Standing is sent to a nearby penal colony, but he is eventually freed by pirates commanded by LaRoche (Christopher Lee). The pirates then force Standing to lead them to his settlement, where LaRoche and his men battle the villagers and search for treasure. And when the pirates learn that there's gold on the island, things really get cutthroat.


Mill of the Stone Woman

1960
d Giorgio Ferroni c Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel


A professor of fine arts and an unlicensed surgeon run a secret lab where the professor's ill daughter receives blood-transfusions from kidnapped female victims who posthumously become macabre art.

The Flesh and the Fiends

1960
d John Gilling
c Peter Cushing


Mad doctor, Dr Knox, pays local criminals to bring him fresh bodies, not questioning where they come from. The cronies get sloppy and trouble isnt far away.
Dr Knox is a more self aware Dr Frankenstien.

Corridors of Blood

1958
d Robert Day
c Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee


Determined to develop a gaseous drug that allows patients to tolerate the difficulties of surgery, Dr. Bolton (Boris Karloff) devises numerous opium-based remedies, which he tests on himself. His experiments fail miserably in trials performed for his colleagues -- who include his own son, Jonathan (Francis Matthews) -- and Bolton is dismissed from his position. Having developed an addiction to opium, Bolton finds work treating the poor but falls in with grave robbers in order to get drugs.


Isle of the Dead

1945
d Mark Robson
c Boris Karloff


On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka.


The Old Dark House

1932
d James Whale c Boris Karloff, Gloria Stuart

Needs Must When The Devil Drives...


A group of people take shelter in a creepy old house, the family that inhabits it is even creepier. Are they safer out in the storm?


The Man Who Laughs

1928
d Paul Leni
c Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin


Disfigured by a king as a child, an 18th-century clown again becomes the pawn of royalty and star of the freak show of a travelling carnival.


Cauldron of Blood (El coleccionista de cadáveres)

1968
d Santos Alcocer, Edward Mann
c Boris Karloff, Viveca Lindfors


A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus, unaware that the skeletons that he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is her next target.


The Witch’s Curse (Maciste all'inferno)

1962
d Riccardo Freda c Kirk Morris, Helene Chanel


Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.



Martin

1977
d George Romero c John Amplas, George Romero


Young Martin (John Amplas) is entirely convinced that he is an 84-year-old blood-sucking vampire. Without fangs or mystical powers, Martin injects women with sedatives and drinks their blood through wounds inflicted with razor blades. After moving to Braddock, Penn., to live with his superstitious uncle (Lincoln Maazel), who also believes Martin is a vampire, Martin tries to prey exclusively on criminals and thugs but stumbles when he falls for a housewife (Sara Venable).



The Reptile

1966
d John Gilling c Jennifer Daniel, Jacqueline Pearce, Noel Willman


While vacationing on the English coast, composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) find an an abandoned 18th-century house and decide to buy it. The owner, Commander Beech (Donald Crisp), associates it with the tragic death of his daughter and is willing to part with it despite his granddaughter Stella's (Gail Russell) objection. The Fitzgeralds move in and soon find themselves, with the help of Stella, battling it out with two very prickly ghosts.



The Uninvited

1944

d Lewis Allen
c Ray Milland, Gail Russell, Ruth Hussey


While vacationing on the English coast, composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) find an an abandoned 18th-century house and decide to buy it. The owner, Commander Beech (Donald Crisp), associates it with the tragic death of his daughter and is willing to part with it despite his granddaughter Stella's (Gail Russell) objection. The Fitzgeralds move in and soon find themselves, with the help of Stella, battling it out with two very prickly ghosts.

Sequel: The Unseen


Mark of the Vampire

1935

d Tod Browning
c Bela Lugosi, Carroll Borland


Sir Borotyn (Holmes Herbert), a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto (Jean Hersholt), and the physician who analyzes the body are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora (Bela Lugosi), or perhaps his daughter (Carroll Borland), but receive little help from the law. Professor Zelen (Lionel Barrymore), an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with the investigation.



Fearless Vampire Killers

1967
d Roman Polanski
c Sharron Tate, Jack MacGowran


Vampire hunter Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) and his faithful assistant, Alfred (Roman Polanski), are traveling across Transylvania when they stop to rest at a suspicious-looking inn. That night, they witness the innkeeper's daughter, Sarah (Sharon Tate), being whisked away by Count von Krolock (Ferdy Mayne), an obvious vampire, and pursue him to his nearby castle. They break in, only to be invited to stay by the unfazed count, and plot to rescue Sarah and destroy their murderous host.



City of the Dead

1960 d John Llewellyn Moxey c Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts to...