Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1652 Films to Buy & Rent
Two Thousand Maniacs (1964)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Connie Mason, William Kerwin
- One of the more enjoyable of Herschell Gordon Lewis' early gore efforts, with a better and funnier idea than most – southern town celebrates…
Black Sabbath (Three Faces of Fear) (1963)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Boris Karloff, Michele Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi…
- Finely wrought three–part portmanteau film from the talents of Italian horror–maestro Mario Bava. Boris Karloff provides the…
Blood Feast (1963)
- Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason
- Blame this one! – The pioneer of the splatter film, the first to graphically depict human entrails etc. Very bad acting and a ludicrous plot…
Day of the Triffids (1963)
- Dir. Steve Sekely
Feat. Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey
- Harmless plants mutate into giant man–eaters after a strange meteor blinds those who witnessed it. From John Wyndham's famous novel.
Dementia 13 (1963)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton
- An early shocker from Francis Coppola proving that even the best start at the bottom. Quite a blurry print.
Haunted Palace, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Lon Jr. Chaney, Debra Paget…
- Minor Corman–Price collaboration has Price in a dual role both as the genteel inheritor of a castle, and as the fiendish warlock who once…
Haunting, The (1963)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson…
- Exquisite photography/design and nerve–shredding sound effects urgently conspire for this, the definitive haunted house movie.
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Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza…
- An ominous and highly–regarded Hammer horror in which a honeymooning couple are stranded in Bavaria where they become embroiled in the…
Paranoiac (1963)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell
- A Hitchcockian thriller from Hammer studio about a man long believed dead (Oliver Reed) who returns to the family estate, a palatial mansion near…
Raven, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff…
- A great cast inhabits this low budget fantasy–comedy version of Edgar Allan Poe's tale – one of Corman's best.