Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Deviltry: 81 Films to Buy & Rent
- Rosemary's Baby (1968)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Mia Farrow
- First major film to deal with the occult as subject matter has lost little of its potency. The trauma of pregnancy is heightened for Mia Farrow as…
- Witchfinder General (The Conqueror Worm) (1968)
- Dir. Michael Reeves
Feat. Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies…
- An astonishing, darkly uncompromising historical account of hypocrisy, injustice and death in olde England that features an atypically malevolent…
- Witches, The (1966)
- Dir. Cyril Frankel
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen…
- Hammer horror adapted by Nigel Kneale under the pseudonym Peter Curtis, and featuring the final big–screen film role for Joan Fontaine.
- Gorgon, The (1964)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco…
- A small village falls prey to an unseen monster. Citizens are found turned to stone after every full moon. The town Doctor (Peter Cushing) concludes…
- Masque of the Red Death (1964)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher…
- The best of Corman's Poe adaptations allies the director's playful yet virulent treatment to one of the writer's most strongly allegorical stories.…
- Haunted Palace, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Lon Jr. Chaney, Debra Paget…
- Minor Corman–Price collaboration has Price in a dual role both as the genteel inheritor of a castle, and as the fiendish warlock who once…
- Devil's Hand, The (1962)
- Dir. William J. Hole Jnr
Feat. Linda Christian, Robert Alda, Neil Hamilton
- Hammy low–budget horror of a man seduced by a blonde vixen who forces him to become involved in a mysterious satanic cult she holds allegiance…
- Night of the Eagle (Burn, Witch, Burn) (1962)
- Dir. Sydney Hayers
Feat. Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston
- A successful academic (Peter Wyngarde) plumbs a prime teaching post at an English village idyll, causing a flurry of petty jealousies among the…
- 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.
- Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon) (1957)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis…
- Classy occult thriller survives its big reputation through an intelligent script and controlled sense of menace. Dana Andrews' cynical professor…