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Alien (1979)

Ridley Scott

Commercial space freighter Nostromo is on its way back to Earth with a cargo of precious mineral ore. When the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet, the crew - consisting of five men and two women – is revived from stasis and makes ready to investigate, in accordance with company procedure... [More...]

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

John Landis

David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors? As night falls, they enter an inn named The Slaughtered Lamb, hoping for rest and refreshment. Instead, they receive a deathly cold reception from a sinister collection of locals who, not liking foreign folk, drive them away with a warning not to stray on the moors... [More...]

Blind Terror (1971)

Richard Fleischer

Having lost her sight in a horse riding accident, a young woman named Sarah decides to spend a period of convalescence with her uncle, George Rexton, at his large country house. Whilst Sarah is out amusing herself with her boyfriend, Steve, a strange man enters the house and kills the entire Rexton household... [More...]

The Brides of Dracula (1960)

Terence Fisher

Count Dracula may have been destroyed but his legacy of vampiric evil endures, lingering like a poisonous cloud of death over the bleak Transylvanian landscape. Marianne Danielle, a young French schoolteacher, knows nothing of this and makes the journey to the girls’ school where she it to take up her new post in blissful ignorance of the dangers that surround her... [More...]

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Otto Preminger

A few days after arriving in London, American Ann Lake leaves her four-year old daughter Bunny at a school for toddlers before rushing off to meet the removal men at her new apartment. That afternoon, Ann is unable to find Bunny at the school and discovers that not one teacher has seen her all day. Convinced that her daughter has been abducted, Ann immediately contacts the police, but her brother Stephen assures her that Bunny has come to no harm... [More...]

Carry On Screaming (1966)

Gerald Thomas

Something sinister is afoot in Edwardian England. One misty evening, a young couple, Albert and Doris, are disturbed whilst courting in Hocombe Woods. As Albert goes to investigate, Doris is carried off by a huge lumbering monster. Known to his friends as Oddbod, the creature leaves behind a clue, one of his hairy fingers... [More...]

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Terence Fisher

Whilst in prison, awaiting his execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein relates his tragic life story to a priest. Inheriting his father’s estate, the young Victor began a series of experiments with his friend and mentor Paul Krempe, the aim being to artificially create life. Having successfully revived a dead dog, Frankenstein begins to assemble human body parts to construct a human being which he hopes to bring to life in his laboratory... [More...]

Dance of the Vampires (1967)

Roman Polanski

After a long journey across Eastern Europe, Professor Abronsius and his faithful apprentice Alfred finally succeed in finding solid evidence for the existence of vampires. In the snowy mountains of Transylvania, they come across a remote inn which is decorated with garlic and where the locals live in fear of some unseen evil presence... [More...]

Dead of Night (1945)

Alberto Cavalcanti

Wanting to make some changes to his farmhouse, Eliot Foley invites the architect Walter Craig to spend the weekend with him and his family. As soon as he enters the house, Craig has a strong sense of déjà vu. Not only is the building familiar to him, but so are the people he meets inside... [More...]

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

Terence Fisher

When his protégé, Simon Aron, fails to turn up for a reunion, the wealthy Duc de Richleau decides to visit him at his home. Accompanied by his friend, Rex Van Ryn, Richleau finds Simon is hosting a meeting of an astrological society. Suspecting that all is not what it appears, Richleau visits Simon’s observatory and is surprised to find occult symbols on the walls and floor... [More...]

The Devils (1971)

Ken Russell

In 17th Century France, Catholics and Protestants live together in peace in the town of Loudun, under the benign governorship of the much-loved but slightly over-sexed priest Urbain Grandier. Far from being a model, Cardinal Richelieu sees Loudun as a threat to his own political ambitions, and therefore a threat to France... [More...]

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Nicolas Roeg

John and Laura Baxter are a young couple who are both profoundly traumatised when their five-year-old daughter Christine drowns accidentally at their home. Deciding that a change of scene will do them both good, they head for Venice, where John finds work restoring a dilapidated Byzantine church. With her husband busy, Laura allows herself to be befriended by two elderly English sisters, one of whom is blind and claims to have psychic powers... [More...]

Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)

Freddie Francis

During a rail journey, five men who have never met before share a railway compartment with a strange mystic who introduces himself as Dr Schreck (which, as luck would have it, is the German word for Terror). The latter proceeds to tell the five men their fortunes with his tarot cards, his house of horrors... [More...]

Dracula (1958)

Terence Fisher

Jonathan Harker makes the journey to Klausenberg to take up the post of librarian at Castle Dracula. The real motive for his expedition is to kill his employer, Count Dracula, but before he can do this he is attacked by a mysterious woman in white. The next day, Harker discovers that he has been bitten on his neck and realises that he is destined to become a vampire... [More...]

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

Terence Fisher

Englishman Charles Kent persuades his brother Alan and their two wives, Helen and Diana, to make a tour of the Carpathian mountains. When they arrive in the area they find the locals strangely fearful and are warned by a priest, Father Sandor, not to continue with their exploration of the mountains... [More...]

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)

Terence Fisher

Baron Frankenstein believes he has perfected a means of extracting the soul of a human being from a corpse and transferring it into another body. He gets the opportunity to test his theories when his young assistant, Hans, is executed, after having been tried for the murder of a local innkeeper. The recipient of Hans’ soul is the innkeeper’s disfigured daughter, Christiana, who drowned herself after seeing Hans, her lover, guillotined... [More...]

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

Terence Fisher

Dr Frankenstein’s experiments in brain transplant surgery are temporarily suspended when the scientist’s cellar laboratory is discovered by an enterprising burglar. To evade capture by the police, Frankenstein relocates to a London boarding house run by Anna Spengler, whose fiancé, Dr Karl Holst, works at an asylum for the insane... [More...]

From Beyond the Grave (1973)

Kevin Connor

Edward Charlton cannot believe his good fortune when he persuades a crusty old antiques dealer to sell him a 400-year-old mirror for twenty pounds, a fraction of its true value. But the mirror is not what it seems... By holding a séance in his flat, Charlton awakens a spirit trapped behind the mirror, a spirit that demands blood sacrifices so that he may be set free..... [More...]

The Ghoul (1933)

T. Hayes Hunter

Professor Morlant is an eccentric Englishman who has acquired a morbid fascination with the powers of the ancient Egyptian gods. On his deathbed, he gives instructions to his manservant, Laing, to bury him with an amulet which, he believes, will give him immortality after his death. Realising that the artefact may be worth a bob or two, Laing steals it, and so his employer is immured in his Egyptian-styled tomb at the bottom of his garden without his passport to the next world... [More...]

The Gorgon (1964)

Terence Fisher

The mist-shrouded village of Vandorf harbours an ancient evil of which no one dares speak, even when a series of mysterious deaths begins, reviving memories of an old and terrifying legend. When his father dies immediately after sending him a bizarre letter, Paul Heitz journeys to the village to investigate but finds the locals strangely unwilling to cooperate with him... [More...]

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