Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Classics: 184 Films to Buy & Rent
- Seventh Victim, The (1943)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell…
- One of the finest of producer Val Lewton’s low–budget RKO horror films, here investing a tale of satanists at work in NYCs Greenwich Village…
- Son of Dracula (1943)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton…
- The toothsome Count (not the son, despite the title), here played by Lon Chaney Jnr, sinks fangs into a selection of Southern belles and their…
- Cat People (1942)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Simone Simon, Jack Holt, Kent Smith…
- Producer Val Lewton's most celebrated low–budget horror evokes a disturbing atmosphere of repression and menace with shadows, music and the…
- Black Cat, The (1941)
- Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford…
- A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
- Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner…
- Handsomely produced version of the Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, in which a mild doctor transforms himself by night into a murderous maniac.
- Wolf Man, The (Wolfman) (1941)
- Dir. George Waggner
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains
- Universal horror classic has Lon Chaney Jnr. bitten by werewolf Bela Lugosi among the foggy glades of Alpine–set English villages.
- Ghost Breakers, The (1940)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson…
- THE CAT AND THE CANARY stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard reunite for this middling chiller with Goddard inheriting a haunted mansion on a small…
- Killer Bats (The Devil Bat) (1940)
- Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien
- Although fairly low–tech in its special effects this short horror boasts a committed performance from Lugosi, as a doctor who is developing…
- Cat and the Canary, The (1939)
- Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard
- Bob Hope lends his charm to this playful remake of 1927 expressionist silent film about siblings who inherit an uncle's fortune but must first prove…
- Dark Eyes of London (Human Monster; Dead Eyes of London) (1939)
- Dir. Walter Summers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt
- Weirdly atmospheric chiller has Bela Lugosi using his blind disciples as pawns in an elaborate murder/insurance scam.