Subgenre Sampler
Animal Amok: 119 Films to Buy & Rent
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
- Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
- Second sequel brings the Apes back in time to contemporary LA, where the dominant human race exploit the simians.
The gimmick makes it hard to…
Willard (1971)
- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine
- Superb persecuted–teen–gets–revenge picture about a young nerd who identifies more with rodents than people. The sequel, BEN, is…
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
- Dir. Ted Post
Feat. James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
- First and arguably the best of the sequels continues the set up of the original with James Franciscus burrowing underground to discover a mutant…
Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall
- Classic sci–fi is a perfect blend of high entertainment and thought–provoking allegory.
Charlton Heston and his band of…
Blood Beast Terror, The (1967)
- Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Peter Cushing
- In Victorian rural England, Peter Cushing's murder enquiries uncovers a beastly weremoth and the gruesome experiments of a crazed entymologist.
Birds, The (1963)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy…
- Hitch's masterful rendering of Daphne Du Maurier's novella contains some of his most memorable set pieces, as the population of a seaside resort come…
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'…
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
- Dir. Gene Fowler Jnr.
Feat. Michael Landon
- A cool Michael Landon scored a big hit in his film debut – a hilarious mishmash of horror and juvenile delinquency dramas.
Tarantula! (1955)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll…
- One of the best B–movie directors of the 1950s crafts an effective tale of a manic scientist (Carroll) whose experiments unleash a gigantic and…
Naked Jungle (1954)
- Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer…
- Charlton Heston battles the Marabunta soldier ants that threaten to take over his South American jungle plantation. Eleanor Parker provides some…