Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Classics: 184 Films to Buy & Rent
Abominable Snowman (1957)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Richard Wattis
- Hammer Horror's version of the 'yeti' legend has Cushing and Tucker journey to the roof of the world to hunt out the elusive creature. From a…
Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon) (1957)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis…
- Classy occult thriller survives its big reputation through an intelligent script and controlled sense of menace. Dana Andrews' cynical professor…
Haunted Strangler, The (1957)
- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Boris Karloff
- Jekyll–and–Hyde variation with criminologist Boris Karloff delving into a serial–murder case for which he suspects the wrong man…
Monster That Challenged the World, The (1957)
- Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Mimi Gibson…
- Campy 50's sci–fi creature feature in which an underwater earthquake in California's Salton Sea causes a crevice to open, releasing an army of…
She-Creature, The (1957)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marla English, Tom Conway, Chester Morris…
- A sideshow hypnotist attains fame by predicting murders that are actually carried out by his lovely assistant, under his hypnotic spell. Slow yet…
Creature Walks Among Us, The (1956)
- Dir. John Sherwood
Feat. Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason
- Second sequel to THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON this time focusing on a group of scientists on a mission to capture Gill Man and put him on show…
Quatermass Xperiment, The (The Creeping Unknown) (1955)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner
- Effective Hammer Films feature adaptation of the 1953 BBC sci–fi TV serial written by Nigel Kneale, in which an astronaut mysteriously returns…
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield…
- Follow–up to the cult hit CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, with poor, harassed Gill Man captured in the Amazon this time round and brought back…
Ghost Ship (1952)
- Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden…
- Small–budget supernatural yarn with a uniquely British flavour about a couple that purchase a haunted yacht.
Strange Door, The (1951)
- Dir. Joseph Pevney
Feat. Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest
- Thriller based on the short story "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson, with Charles Laughton playing a sadistic man who…