Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Classics: 184 Films to Buy & Rent
- King Kong (1933)
- Dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
- An iconic classic of cinema that literally smashed new ground in terms of special effects, and must have had unwitting audiences of the day…
- Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh
- An early horror which formed the basis of Vincent Price's HOUSE OF WAX. Containing its own grisly twists on the 'waxing' process, this is well worth…
- Bela Lugosi Collection (White Zombie, Killer Bats, Ghost on the Loose) (1932-1943)
- Black Cat, The (1934) / The Raven / The Mummy (1932-1935)
- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer, Lew Landers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff
- Notable debut of B–movie legend Ulmer, pits Bela Lugosi against Boris Karloff's formibable architect of evil. Bizarre sets and a dreamy,…
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins
- Lurid and expressionistic 30s version of Stevenson's novel, and still the best, with Fredric March (who won an Oscar) as the idealist Doctor who…
- Freaks (1932)
- Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams
- The only film in history to exploit real–life 'mutants' is actually a sensitive and fascinating piece of cinema history. Perhaps misunderstood…
- Mummy, The (1932)
- Dir. Karl Freund
Feat. Boris Karloff
- Boris Karloff gives a famously restrained performance, in one the great Universal Studios horrors. Story of the bandage–man's rise from the…
- Old Dark House, The (1932)
- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
- Seeking refuge from an encroaching storm, six travellers pick the wrong house to take shelter in, with a spooky Boris Karloff, among other terrors in…
- Vampyr (1932)
- Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Julian West, Henriette Gerard
- Seminal psychological horror film makes up for in atmosphere what it lacks in technical sophistication. Dream–like plot concerns a young man…
- White Zombie (1932)
- Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn
- Creaky but effectively eerie chiller with Bela Lugosi as a voodoo king menacing naive newlyweds in Haiti. The trance–like direction and tiny…