Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1659 Films to Buy & Rent
Innocents, The (1961)
- Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins…
- Notable adaptation of Henry James' ghost story "The Turn of the Screw", featuring Deborah Kerr as a neurotic nanny.
Taking a job at a spooky…
Pit and the Pendulum, The (1961)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Barbara Steele
- Corman's most famous plundering of Poe extracts a host of psycho–sexual tensions out of a fine script. Vincent Price is convinced he is the…
Scream of Fear (Taste of Fear) (1961)
- Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis…
- Christopher Lee's favourite Hammer film in exercise in sustained tension with Susan Strasberg as a paralysed young woman haunted by visions of her…
Brides of Dracula (1960)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt
- Recognised as one of Hammer Studios' best horrors, this acclaimed sequel to HORROR OF DRACULA reconvenes director/actor team Fisher and Cushing. This…
Circus of Horrors (1960)
- Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Anton Diffring, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton…
- After horribly botching a face–job, plastic surgeon Anton Diffring hides out in a travelling circus with some of his 'beauties', who begin to…
Eyes Without a Face (Yeux sans visage, Les) (1960)
- Dir. Georges Franju
Feat. Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob
- Landmark European horror tells with French artistry and tonal malevolence the magnificent obsession of a surgeon determined to restore his…
Fall of the House of Usher, The (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Mark Damon
- More stately than Corman's later Poe adaptations, this three hander set the template with its tale of a poorly nymph afflicted with the 'family…
Hammer Horror Series, The (Brides of Dracula, Curse of the Werewolf, Phantom of the opera, Paranoiac, Kiss of the Vampire, Nightmare, Night Creatures, Evil of Frankenstein) (1960-1964)
- A 2–disc double sided pack containing eight Hammer Horrors from the early sixities.
Horror Hotel (The City of the Dead) (1960)
- Dir. John Moxey
Feat. Christopher Lee
- A search party ventures to Salem county after an occult student disappears under mysteriously witchy circumstances. Eerie photography.
Mario Bava Collection (Black Sunday, Black Sabbath, Hatchet For a Honeymoon, Shock, Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre) (1960-1977)
- Dir. Mario Bava
- Four horror classics plus the documentary on Italy's influential "Maestro of the Macabre".