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British cinema: Horror (Page 1 of 4)

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...]

Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)

Seth Holt

On her 21st birthday, Margaret Fuchs receives a ring set with a huge ruby from her father, Professor Fuchs. Unbeknown to Margaret, the ring is an ancient artefact which her father found on the severed hand of an evil Egyptian princess, Tera. Margaret was in fact born at the exact moment that her father entered the tomb of Tera, to find the princess’s perfectly preserved body... [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...]

The Broken (2008)

Sean Ellis

Life appears to be going well for Gina. She has a good job, as a radiographer in a London hospital, and is in a steady relationship, with Stéphane, a Frenchman. Then, one day, her world starts to fall apart. It begins when a mirror falls from the wall and smashes when she is having a birthday meal with her father... [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 Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)

Jesus Franco

Fu Manchu’s latest plan for world domination is to threaten to freeze all the oceans of the worlds. Alas, his trial run, which involves creating an iceberg in the Caribbean to sink an ocean liner, is only a partial success. In his enthusiasm, Fu Manchu has yet to perfect the process and desperately needs the help of Professor Heracles, a world authority on ocean freezing... [More...]

Countess Dracula (1971)

Peter Sasdy

The setting is a small European principality in the early 1600s. The aged Countess Elisabeth Nodosheen is amused when her husband bequeaths the bulk of his estate to her and a young soldier named Imre Toth, whilst leaving nothing to his loyal steward, Captain Dobi. The Countess concludes that her husband must have known of Dobi’s intentions to marry his wife after his death... [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...]

The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964)

Michael Carreras

Egypt, 1900. An archaeological team led by the eminent Egyptologist Dr Dubois has uncovered the lost tomb of the pharaoh Ra-Antef. The expeditionary party includes Dubois’ daughter Annette and the archaeologists John Bray and Sir Giles Dalrymple. Shortly after Dubois is murdered by Bedouins, a delegation from the Egyptian government appears to negotiate the retention of the ancient Egyptian artefacts in the country... [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...]

The Day of the Triffids (1962)

Steve Sekely

One night, the sky is lit up by the dazzling spectacle of meteorites burning up in the atmosphere. The following morning, Bill Masen, an American naval officer, wakes up in hospital after an eye operation to find that everyone around him has lost his sight. Bill soon realises that this is a global phenomenon - the blazing meteorites of the night before have rendered almost the entire human population blind... [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...]

Demons of the Mind (1972)

Peter Sykes

Convinced that his son Emil and daughter Elizabeth have inherited his insanity, Baron Zorn imprisons them in his castle and prevents them from ever seeing one another. Meanwhile, young women from a peasant village in the neighbouring area mysteriously disappear. These two things are not unconnected. Out of desperation, Zorn invites a spiritualist to his castle, hoping to cure him and his offspring of their Satanic affliction..... [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...]

Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

Daniel Haller

American Stephen Reinhart comes to England at the request of the mother of his former girlfriend, Susan Witley. To his surprise, the locals in the village where the Witleys live refuse to provide him with transport to his destination. It is as if they are warning him to stay away. Undeterred, Stephen makes his own way to the ancient house, although the reception he receives from Susan’s father is far from friendly... [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...]

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