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…