Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1652 Films to Buy & Rent
Vampire Lovers (1970)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing
- Hammer's famous lesbian–vampire pick made a cult star of the Polish–born volupte, Ingrid Pitt, as Carmilla. Esteemed…
Vampyros Lesbos (1970)
- Dir. Jess Franco
- Notorious sexploitation–er from German bad boy dir. Jess Franco, peddles the softcore tale of a real estate agent trapped on an island ruled by…
Wizard of Gore, The (1970)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Ray Sager
- One of gore–merchant Lewis’ (BLOOD FEAST) best, involving a bogus stage magician, whose act carves murderous carnage through his…
Castle of Fu Manchu, The (1969)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin
- The final bungled entry in the FU MANCHU series, with Christopher Lee on the same quest for world domination as ever, this time conducted from his…
Scream and Scream Again (1969)
- Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
- Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee all turn in for this Hammer mad–doctor–creates–super–being yarn.
Spirits of the Dead (Histoires Extraordinaires) (1969)
- Dir. Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Terence Stamp, Alain Delon…
- A classy compendium of three Edgar Allan Poe stories directed by Europe's finest.
Metzengerstein (Dir. Roger Vadim) – Jane and Peter Fonda…
Venus in Furs (Paroxismus) (1969)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. James Darren, Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski…
- A high point for dir. Franco's psychedelic Euro–sleaze vision, with a jazz musician becoming obsessed with a beautiful woman, her bloodied…
Blood of Fu Manchu, The (Kiss and Kill) (1968)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Christopher Lee, Tsai Chin, Shirley Eaton…
- Fourth in Christopher Lee's FU MANCHU series with the calculating Oriental maniac here holed up in the South American jungle spreading world chaos…
Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James, The (1968-2010)
- A spooky collection of tales from the BBC adapted from the pen of the great Gothic author M.R. James.
Films include: The Ash Tree
A View From a…
Cremator, The (1968)
- Dir. Juraz Herz
Feat. Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlasta Chramostova
- Widely considered one of the greatest films of the Czech new wave, a blackly humorous fantasy horror following the increasingly deranged impulses of…