Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1652 Films to Buy & Rent
Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)
- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Christopher Lee, Douglas Wilmer, Rupert Davies
- First sequel to the brilliant revival of Sax Rohmer's 1920s serial in FACE OF FU MANCHU, again with Lee cooking up a dastardly plot – here to…
Dark Shadows (TV Series) (1966)
- Feat. Jonathan Frid, Joan Bennett
- A camp classic of 'Gothic soap opera', this long–running daytime melodrama centred on 175–year–old vampire Barnabas Collins and a…
Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The (1966)
- Dir. Alan Rafkin
Feat. Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond…
- A pretty darned funny Don Knotts vehicle that has the rubber–faced comedian as a timid typesetter who hasn't a chance of becoming a reporter…
Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)
- Dir. Don Weis
Feat. Nancy Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Tommy Kirk…
- Seventh and final in a loose series of 'Beach Party' movies, featuring Nancy Sinatra and an ageing Boris Karloff.
Island of Terror (1966)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing
- Peter Cushing stars in this Hammer sci–fi tale about cancer research gone awry.
Kill Baby Kill (Operazione paura; Curse of the Living Dead) (1966)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Erika Blanc, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Fabienne Dali
- One of dir. Bava's most intensely baroque horror visions, set in a small Transylvanian village where bodies start turning up with gold coins embedded…
Manos The Hands of Fate (1966)
- Dir. Harold P. Warren
- Legendary cult turkey concerning a family looking for a place to stay in the desert, and picking a sinister ranch–house looked after by a…
Mystery and Imagination (TV Series) (1966-1970)
- A cult British series devoted to feature–length tele adaptations of Gothic works by some of the 19th century's greatest writers, including Bram…
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…
Reptile, The (1966)
- Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Noel Willman, Ray Barrett
- When villagers start dying from snake venom in Cornwall, things point suspiciously to the tinkerings of a strange doctor. Moody Hammer schlock.