Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Them! (1954)- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn - Mutated giant ants run amok after a nuclear test in the New Mexico desert. Atomic parable is a major studio '50s creature feature that benefits from…
Track of the Cat (1954)- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Tab Hunter… - Claustrophobic allegorical western finds a feuding family snowbound and under siege from a less than benevolent panther. Certainly something of a…
Thing, The (The Thing From Another World) (1951)- Dir. Christian Nyby
Feat. Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite - Howard Hawksian macho men in leather tussle it out with men in cardies over how to protect themselves from the abomidable alien outside in the snow.…
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