Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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.…
Mysterians, The (1957)- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Kenji Sahara, Susumu Fujita - Pastel coloured invader movie from the creative team behind GODZILLA. Aliens refugees from a planet destroyed by atomic bombs flee to Earth in the…
Ghost Ship (1952)- Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden… - Small–budget supernatural yarn with a uniquely British flavour about a couple that purchase a haunted yacht.
Scared Stiff (1952)- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin - Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin make a ‘spooktacle’ of themselves in this version of Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard’s Broadway hit.
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947)- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison - A whimsical tone pervades this mildly spooky tale of widow Gene Tierney being haunted by phantom sea–captain Rex Harrison. Music by Bernard…
Spiral Staircase, The (1946)- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore, George Brent - This creaky staircase descends into a spooky mansion of cantankerous matriarchs, mute nymphettes, 'weak' stepsons and impending murder. Dated, yes,…
Vincent Price Double (The Bat, Shock!) (1946-1959)- Dir. Crane Wilbur, Alfred L. Werker
Feat. Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon - A double feature of B–grade Vincent Price horrors. SHOCK! (1946) – Dir. Alfred L. Werker. This concerns a murderous psychiatrist…
Blithe Spirit (1945)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Rex Harrison - Novelist Rex Harrison jestingly arranges a seance, and inadvertently conjures up the ghost of his first wife, who then wittily haunts his new…
Dead of Night (1945)
- Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden
- This model of the horror portmanteau film remains unsurpassed by modern all–comers, with five strong, scary short stories that converge quite…
Place of One's Own, A (1945)- Dir. Bernard Knowles
Feat. James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price… - Elegant Victorian ghost story has an elderly couple James Mason and Margaret Lockwood buy a house possessed by a spirit who begins to fascinate their…
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