Subgenre Sampler
Horror: 1652 Films to Buy & Rent
Fly, The (1958)
- Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price
- Classic B–movie is a hammy horror tale of an obsessed scientist who unwittingly turns himself into a freak of nature.
Horror of Dracula (1958)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
- Quintessential Hammer horror is the first of six films with the peerless pairing of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as the razor–fanged Count…
House On Haunted Hill (1958)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart
- Vincent Price is in full ham here, offering patrons $10,000 each to endure a night in the titular spooky mansion. Good fun, if a bit slight.…
How To Make A Monster (1958)
- Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Robert Harris
- A Hollywood make–up artirst (Harris) is sacked by his studio and decides to enact brutal revenge on the management layer with the help of two…
I Bury the Living (1958)
- Dir. Albert Band
Feat. Richard Boone
- Weird, imaginatively designed graveyard chiller with Richard Boone as a cemetery curator who thinks he has power over life and death by shifting…
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Kim Spalding, Shawn Smith
- 50's sci–fi horror set in a future 1973. A hostile martian life form stows away on a rescue ship heading to Mars to recover survivors of an…
Return of Dracula (1958)
- Dir. Paul Landres
Feat. Francis Lederer
- Coinciding with Hammer studios revival of the Transylvanian count, this commendable effort has a long–in–the–tooth Francis Lederer…
Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn…
- One of the best in the series of six Frankenstein films made by Hammer, with Peter Cushing reprising one of his signature roles as Baron Frank. …
Abominable Snowman (1957)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Richard Wattis
- Hammer Horror's version of the 'yeti' legend has Cushing and Tucker journey to the roof of the world to hunt out the elusive creature. From a…
Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
- The first true Hammer gothic horror and number one in the Frankenstein series bringing together the fantastic talents of Cushing (as the Baron) and…