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American cinema: Horror

The Fly (1958)
Kurt Neumann

One evening, François Delambre receives a telephone call from his sister-in-law, Hélène, who confesses to having just killed her husband, André...   [More...]

The Fog (1980)
John Carpenter

Antonio Bay, a small Californian fishing town, is about to mark its one hundredth anniversary. On the eve of the centennial celebrations, the town's pastor, Father Malone, finds an old diary in which he uncovers a terrible secret...   [More...]

Frankenstein (1931)
James Whale

For years, the scientist Dr Henry Frankenstein has devoted himself to the creation of artificial life. With the help of his hunchback assistant Fritz, he has assembled a man-like creature from the body parts of corpses stolen from graveyards...   [More...]

Freaks (1932)
Tod Browning

The main attraction of a travelling circus is a collection of deformed human beings, which includes dwarves, pinheads, Siamese twins, a hermaphrodite, a bearded lady and several unfortunates without arms and legs...   [More...]

Friday the 13th (1980)
Sean S. Cunningham

On Friday 13th June, some time in the late 1970s, a group of young people are busy renovating an old camp site which is due to be reopened...   [More...]

Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter

On Halloween night 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers stabs his older sister to death at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois...   [More...]

Hangover Square (1945)
John Brahm

In the early 1900s, the well-known English composer George Harvey Bone is working hard to complete his magnum opus, a piano concerto dedicated to his fiancée...   [More...]

The Haunting (1963)
Robert Wise

Dr John Markway is a professor of anthropology with a keen interest in the paranormal. For years he has been looking for proof that will convince a sceptical scientific community of the existence of supernatural phenomena...   [More...]

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Sidney Lanfield

On the bleak, misty Devonshire moors, a man is running for his life. The next day, he is found dead. The man is Sir Charles Baskerville, the wealthy owner of Baskerville Hall...   [More...]

The House of Fear (1945)
Roy William Neill

Drearcliffe House, a remote Scottish castle, is home to seven retired bachelors who refer to themselves as the Good Comrades...   [More...]

House of Usher (1960)
Roger Corman

Philip Winthrop visits the house of Usher, a decaying mansion in a desolate area of misty swampland, with the intention of taking away his fiancée, Madeline...   [More...]

House on Haunted Hill (1959)
William Castle

At the suggestion of his wife, Annabelle, eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren invites five strangers to his house, offering each of them ten thousand dollars if they manage to spend one full night in the house...   [More...]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Wallace Worsley

Paris in the 1480s. From his vantage point atop Notre Dame Cathedral, a deformed hunchback named Quasimodo watches the poor people celebrate their annual Festival of Fools...   [More...]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
William Dieterle

Across Europe, in the aftermath of the One Hundred Years War, a new age of peace and civilisation beckons. Yet some of the old prejudices and superstitions remain...   [More...]

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Robert Aldrich

In 1927, wealthy Southern landowner Sam Hollis is outraged on learning that his young daughter Charlotte, a prominent society belle, has been having an affair with a married man, John Mayhew...   [More...]

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Jacques Tourneur

Betsy Connell, a young Canadian nurse, is hired to go to the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian and care for Jessica Holland, wife of the owner of a local sugar plantation...   [More...]

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Jack Arnold

During a boating holiday with his wife Louise, Scott Carey is enveloped in a strange mist which causes his body to glisten mysteriously...   [More...]

The Innocents (1961)
Jack Clayton

England in the late 1800s. Miss Giddens, an independently minded woman in her early thirties, accepts the position of governess to two young children living on a large country estate...   [More...]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Don Siegel

Dr Miles Bennell is attending a conference when anxious calls from his patients compel him to return to his home town of Santa Mira in California...   [More...]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Philip Kaufman

Government scientist Elizabeth Driscoll becomes concerned when her partner starts to behave strangely, doing odd things like getting up early and emptying the dustbins...   [More...]

The Invisible Man (1933)
James Whale

One winter's day, a stranger arrives at a small village inn and demands a room. His appearance causes consternation amongst the locals...   [More...]

Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Erle C. Kenton

When the liner he is travelling on is wrecked in the South Pacific, Edward Parker is picked up by a cargo vessel laden with wild animals...   [More...]

It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Jack Arnold

Amateur astronomer John Putnam is spending a pleasant evening stargazing with his girlfriend Ellen Fields when a ball of fire appears in the night sky and crashlands into the desert ground, not far from the town of Sand Rock...   [More...]

Jaws (1975)
Steven Spielberg

When the mutilated body of a young woman is washed up on the shore of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody fears that a killer shark may be stalking the coastline...   [More...]

King Kong (1933)
Merian C. Cooper

The illustrious filmmaker Carl Denham is preparing an expedition to a remote island where he intends to shoot his next film...   [More...]

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Robert Aldrich

In the dead of night, a young woman clad only in a trench coat runs for her life along a deserted stretch of highway. Suddenly, she sees a flashy sports car racing towards her and desperately signals to the driver to stop...   [More...]

The Leopard Man (1943)
Jacques Tourneur

In New Mexico, Jerry Manning hires a trained leopard as a gimmick for his girlfriend Kiki, a nightclub performer. On its first night, the leopard takes fright and runs off into the night...   [More...]

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Frank Oz

Mr Mushnik is the owner of a far from thriving florist shop in Skid Row, a less than salubrious district of New York. He tyrannises his two employees, Seymour Krelborn and Audrey Fulquard, but knows he is heading for ruin...   [More...]

The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Roger Corman

Gravis Mushnick is the mean-spirited owner of a cheap florist's shop in Skid Row, New York. He has two assistants, the simple-minded Audrey and the inept Seymour, but even with their combined efforts he has difficulty attracting customers...   [More...]

The Lodger (1944)
John Brahm

Whitechapel, London, in the 1880s. In desperate need of cash so that they can keep up appearances, Mr and Mrs Bonting are forced to rent out one of their rooms to a lodger...   [More...]



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