Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Walking Dead: 123 Films to Buy & Rent
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing
- The fifth Hammer Frankenstein film focuses on Peter Cushing's Baron who tries brain surgery to save an associate who went mad. Followed in the series…
Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
- Dir. Jimmy Sangster
Feat. Ralph Bates
- Camped–up, silly Hammer, in which Ralph Bates' Baron becomes murderously obsessive.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Duane Jones
- Highly original and influential drive–in cheapie, distinguished by its realistic, documentary atmosphere and imaginative ending. Graphically…
Castle of the Walking Dead (The Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sadism) (1967)
- Dir. Harald Reinl
Feat. Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor
- The blood runs thick for its vintage in this variation on Poe's Pit and the Pendulum in which a Count is drawn and quartered for killing twelve…
Plague of the Zombies, The (1966)
- Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Andre Morell
- Reasonably classy Hammer offering about a Cornish mine–operator who uses zombies as a workforce in his tin mine. Good misty atmospherics, with…
Mask of Satan (Black Sunday) (1960)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Barbara Steele
- Italian shock–merchant Mario Bava's finest hour – his graphic, gothic images are way beyond 1960 and still impress today. A stylish…
Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Henry Daniell
- Beware–the–family–curse is the theme in this low–budget take on Orville H. Hampton's tale about a family whose members are…
Mummy, The (1959)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
- Peter Cushing confronts Christopher Lee in bandages in this stylish early Hammer.
Teenage Zombies (1959)
- Dir. Jerry Warren
- A group of teenagers fall prey to a mad female scientist whose island they happen upon. Here, other prisoners and a variety of creatures are being…
I Bury the Living (1958)
- Dir. Albert Band
Feat. Richard Boone
- Weird, imaginatively designed graveyard chiller with Richard Boone as a cemetery curator who thinks he has power over life and death by shifting…