Subgenre Sampler
Walking Dead: 141 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
- Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton
- Campy drive–in classic about a mad scientist who pulls a teen from a car wreck and 'repairs' him. Best seen as a double feature with 'Teenage…
- Voodoo Woman (1957)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Tom Conway, Marla English
- A greed–and–revenge themed horror melodrama set deep in the jungle, where a mad scientist (Conway) botches his first attempts to create a…
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- Dir. Charles Barton
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi…
- One of the best of the 35 features A&C made between 1940 and 1956 sends up those golden–age monster mashes with winning gags and detailed…
- I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
- Incandescent spook story about a nurse who unleashes historical and spiritual demons when called out to a Caribbean island. Its scare value may have…
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff
- Boris Karloff meets his match when mad Dr. Frank builds his forlorn monster a mate. Sequel to FRANKENSTEIN is possibly the best horror of the '30s…
- White Zombie (1932)
- Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn
- Creaky but effectively eerie chiller with Bela Lugosi as a voodoo king menacing naive newlyweds in Haiti. The trance–like direction and tiny…