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Hammer
Horror films
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This list includes Hammer
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4-Sided Triangle Director: Terence Fisher Cast: Barbara Payton; James Hayter; Stephen Murray; John van Eyssen; Percy Marmont; Jennifer Dearman; Glyn Dearman; Sean Barrett; Kynaston Reeves; John Stuart; Edith Saville "A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends, the perfect triangle. But years later when Lena returns to her sleepy home the tone of the relationship changes and it is Robin she loves. Bill has discovered a method of duplication and decides to make an exact replica of the woman he cannot have... .with disastrous consequences for them all." |
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Blood Orange (aka Three Stops to Murder) Director: Terence Fisher Cast: Tom Conway; Mila Parely; Naomi Chance; Eric Pohlmann; Andrew Osborne; Richard Wattis; Margaret Halstan; Eileen Way; Michael Ripper; Betty Cooper; Thomas Heathcote; Alan Rolfe; Roger Delgado; Reed de Rouen; Delphi Lawrence; Christina Forrest Two women have been brutally murdered. Both wearing the same dress designed by the renowned couturier, Helen Pascal; the dress known as Blood Orange. Tom Conway, ex FBI, has been hired to solve the seemingly unrelated burglary at the same venue. What he unravels is a tale of greed, lust and murder involving some of London's most beautiful women. |
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Britain's first rocket has been successfully launched and returns to Earth but communication has been severed. Only one of the three spacemen (Wordsworth) remains on board whose physical and mental health has been severely damaged. He is put under strict observation but his wife smuggles him out of the hospital only to unleash the biggest threat ever to civilisation. For the survivor is being consumed by an alien force, who gains strength from human flesh to multiple and grow, threatening to engulf and kill all living organisms. Professor Quatermass (Donlevy) must find a way to overcome the thing before it becomes impossible. |
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After a mysterious explosion leaves a large fissure in the ground, two young boys are confronted by an unknown phenomenon that inflicts severe radiation burns on one of them. There follows a the spate of attacks at radiation establishments as the inexplicable life-form plunders radium stores. Dr. Adam Royston, an expert in atomic research, is brought in to explain and curtail the activities of this alien creature before it causes disaster. |
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Botanist John Rollason (Cushing) joins up with ruthless adventurer Tom Friend (Tucker) in search of the mysterious yeti. When the creature is discovered to be of great intelligence, the difference in personality and motive between the two men causes a crisis. |
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Baron Victor Frankenstein was the archetypal
aristocrat, well-read, cultured and arrogant. Beyond the sophisticated
veneer existed a cruel, utterly unscrupulous man, obsessed with ambition.
Determined to realise his greatest dream to create life, he had assembled
a creature from organs gathered from various unwilling donors. The creature
is successful brought to life but the instability of the brain, damaged
during surgery, causes uncontrollable violent spasms that result in indiscriminate
murder....and it is the Baron to whom the blame is laid with fatal consequences. |
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Quatermass II (aka Enemy from Space) Director: Val Guest Cast: Brian Donlevy; John Longden; Sidney James; Bryan Forbes; William Franklyn; Vera Day; Charles Lloyd Pack; Tom Chatto; John van Eyssen; Percy Herbert; Michael Ripper; John Rae; Marianne Stone; Ronald Wilson; Jane Aird; Betty Impey; Lloyd Lamble Professor Quatermass (Donlevy) and his assistant, Marsh, investigate indefinable matter that has been falling from the sky in the vicinity of a mysterious research plant. On handling a specimen his assistant passes out, his face strangely disfigured. Before Quatermass can help armed security guards arrive, brutally attacking him and taking Marsh back to the plant. His investigations tells him the plant is a legitimate government project producing synthetic food but Quatermass believes a far more sinister project is being undertaken by alien life-forms and unless their plans are foiled, will translate into devastating consequences for mankind. |
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Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War. |
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Dr. Van Helsing, investigating the death of his friend concludes that Jonathan Harker was the victim of a blood-sucking vampire. When Hacker's fiancée, Lucy, becomes trapped by the terrifying force and hypnotic power of Count Dracula, Van Helsing releases her tortured soul by driving a stake through her heart. But Dracula persists in seeking revenge against Harker, targeting Lucy's beautiful sister, Mina. Van Helsing swears to exorcise this evil forever by confronting the vile and depraved Count himself. |
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Baron Frankenstein, working under the protective pseudonym Dr. Victor Stein, together with his assistant Dr. Kleve transplants a dwarf's brain into another body. He creates a deranged cannibal. When Frankenstein's patients attack and kill him Dr Kleve performs the same operation transferring Frankenstein's brain into a new body. As Dr. Frank, the scientist can continue his career. |
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The curse of the Baskerville family brings misfortune, violence and death to succeeding generations. It has reared its ugly head and foul murder has been committed when Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the moor. Sherlock Holmes suspects that the one remaining Baskerville is to be the next victim....not from the terror of the hound from hell but of cruel, cold-blooded murder. Someone is set to gain a great deal by the death of Sir Henry Baskerville and the master sleuth is determined to uncover who and why before it is too late. |
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Dr George Bonner (Diffring) has discovered the secret of eternal life. With periodic operations and regular doses of a liquid gland-serum Bonner has retained his virility, resembling a man in his early thirties and not his true age of 104. But the serum must prepared from the glands of young healthy humans and Bonner is prepared to commit any crime to remain forever alive, forever young. |
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One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis (Lee), high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel Banning (Furneaux), wife of one of the explorers (Cushing), resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.. |
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Stranded in the Bavarian countryside, schoolteacher Marianne (Monlaur) accepts an invitation from Baroness Meinster to stay the night at her schloss. In the bleak, dilapidated chateau she stumbles across the Baroness's son (Peel), chained by the ankle to the wall. Alarmed at his imprisonment she releases the Baron only to unleash the terrifying evil of the vampire that feeds his unearthly hunger on the innocent, the young and the beautiful. |
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India 1826. The cult of Thugee was sweeping the sub-continent. Worshippers of the goddess Kali demonstrated their devotion by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of victims. This wave of religious fervour challenges the stability of the Raj and threatens anarchy and chaos but can the cool pragmatism of the British compete against the power of this extreme and zealous passion? |
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The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (aka The House of Fright) Director: Terence Fisher Cast: Paul Massie; Dawn Addams; Christopher Lee; David Kossoff; Oliver Reed; Francis de Wolff; Norma Marla; Magda Miller; Joy Webster After a series of scientific experiments directed towards freeing the inner man and controlling human personalities, the kindly, generous Dr Henry Jekyll (Massie) succeeds in freeing his own alter ego, Edward Hyde, a sadistic, evil creature whose pleasure is murder. |
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Throughout his upbringing unnatural phenomena surrounded Leon. He is plagued with a terrible curse over which he exercises no control. During the full moon he changes into a ferocious beast initiating an orgy of indiscriminate killing. His love for Christina enables Leon to suppress his lycanthropic feelings until the engagement is broken off which precipitates a tragic conclusion. |
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Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death. |
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Wheelchair bound, Penny Appleby, arrives to stay with her father and new wife, but on arrival he is not there and over the next few days Penny is convinced she has seen her father's dead body. No one believes her except the chauffeur and together they uncover the body. Whilst driving towards the police station, Penny's stepmother hails down the car. Insisting he must speak with her Bob gets out of the car, leaving the hand brake off and allowing the crippled Penny to plunge over the cliff to her death. The two are determined to rid themselves of Penny as they did her father. A dead Penny cannot talk ... or can she? A ingenious thriller. |
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When the Red Dragon Tong murders his daughter, Geoffrey Jackson is determined to crush this underground organisation. The Tong, a ruthless clan whose profits from protection rackets, white slave traffic, smuggling and drug-running amount to millions of dollars, will resort to anything to protect their powerful position. |
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What secret lay behind the dreaded Marsh Phantoms, the ghostly riders whose silent approach in the darkness of the bleak, unwelcoming Romney Marshes causes men to die of fright? Are they a genuine manifestation or a cover for illegal smuggling activities. Perhaps Dr Blyss, the benign vicar of the quiet village of Dymchurch, knows the truth about the ruthless pirate and smuggler who lies buried in the village graveyard and can unravel the phenomenon of the curse of Captain Clegg. |
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The hauntings at the London Opera House provoke the resignation of the prima donna. Unknown Christine Charles (Sears) has been chosen as her replacement but is summarily dismissed when she rebuffs the advances of the impresario. That night she is abducted by a deformed dwarf, taken to the cellars to the Opera House where she meets a hideously mutilated man (Lom). He knows the secret of the Phantom of the Opera and recites a chilling story of injustice, depravity and covetousness. |
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Having escaped from a penal colony for a crime he did not commit, Jonathan Standing meets up with a group of ruthless pirates. Under the pretence of righting the injustices against him they convince Jonathan into leading them to his settlement. There they pursue a policy of violent terror trying to force the inhabitants to hand over their legendary wealth. The pirate leader stumbles on a statue made from pure gold and, with Jonathan and his father hostage, they begin the journey back to their ship. But between them and the sea is the ferocious waters home to thousands of flesh eating sea creatures - Blood River. |
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Whilst on vacation in England, American Simon Wells, stumbles onto a top secret project using children as guinea-pigs to create a race of human beings, resilient to a post nuclear catastrophe. Wells is confronted by the forces of authority that want him silenced forever. |
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The rape of his teenage daughter instigated a violent, maniacal retribution on the perpetrator for which Georges was incarcerated in an asylum for the insane. When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder for which he has been carefully and surreptitiously groomed to take full responsibility. |
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Kiss of the Vampire Honeymooning in Bavaria, the young couple become stranded and are forced to stay the night in the area. Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau that sits imposingly above the village, invites them to dinner that evening. Their association with Ravna and his charming, beautiful family is to prove disastrous as they become unwittingly embroiled with this family of vampires who seek to initiate them into their diabolical creed. |
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Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place. |
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1588. Badly holed during an engagement in the English Channel with the British Fleet, the small privateer, Diablo, sails to a remote coastal village in England for supplies and repairs. Informing the villagers that the Spanish Armada has been a success, the band of pirates terrorise the village into submission, abusing the women and pillaging them of all their wealth. When they take some of the women hostage the villages can take the abuse no longer, determined to fight the ruthless barbarians at whatever cost. |
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Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator? |
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In the first decade of this century, Vandoff experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare. Much of the time the creature took the form of a beautiful and seductive woman, but during periods of the full moon she becomes a living horror, vicious and deadly. Professor Namaroff has come to investigate the deaths, bringing with him his beautiful assistant whose knowledge of the Gorgon is more intimate than anyone would ever realise. |
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When American Tom Penderel came to England he knew there would be national eccentricities of character to adapt to. What he didn't bargain for was entanglement with the most bizarre and lethal family in Britain. Every one of the Femm family was as peculiar as the Femm legacy they were tied to, in which each were willed a great fortune provided they were in the ancestral home by midnight. Otherwise they forfeited their claims. Tom's arrival heralds a series of fatal accidents afflicting the clan but the violent storm outside left him in the clutches of the remainder of the family... a serious health hazard to the sane mind! |
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In three weeks the two surviving members of the Ashby family will receive their inheritance. Eleanor Ashby, a weak, nervous character since the horrific accident, adamantly swears she has seen her dead brother Tony. Her brother, Simon reinforces her own doubts about her sanity, knowing that if she were committed he would receive all of the legacy. But brother Tony does appear and Simon is determined to get rid of both. This is a story with a psychotic twist about greed, hatred and death. |
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Because of a recurring nightmare heiress Janet believes she is going mad, inheriting her mother's insanity. Meeting her guardian's wife she recognises her as the woman who haunts her in her dreams and instinctively stabs her. But Janet becomes a victim of a ingenious plot to get rid of both Mrs Baxter and herself in this masterful story about fear, illusion and death. |
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Patricia Carroll arrives in the country to meet Mrs Trefoil, the mother of her fiancé, who recently died in the USA. Out of politeness she agrees to stay the night. Slowly Mrs Trefoil' s attitude towards her guest changes. She begins addressing her as a child, asking intimate questions, making impossible demands and when Patricia tries to leave she is imprisoned in the cellar. There follows her enforced degradation and depersonalisation as she is cleansed in preparation for her ritual killing to join her fiancé for a marriage made in Heaven. |
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Ten-year-old Joey Fane returns home from the special school he has attended since killing his baby sister. But at home he creates a terrible fuss, moving from the bedroom Nanny (Davis) has prepared to one with a strong lock, refusing to eat anything Nanny cooks and adamant that Nanny shall not come near him. He even accuses Nanny of trying to kill him! Poor sweet, kindly Nanny, who single-handedly runs the Fane household? Obviously William is still highly disturbed and dangerous... .or is he? |
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Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival. |
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The lost city of Kuma is ruled by the cruel, arrogant, beautiful queen, Ayesha (Andress), gifted with eternal life. She lures Leo Vincey (Richardson) into her world, seeing in him the reincarnation of the lover she long ago murdered in a fit of violent jealousy. Against all advice Leo is determined to stay and Ayesha persuades him to bathe in the flame of eternal youth... with disastrous consequences. |
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The Brigand of Kandahar 1880. British India. Robert Case, a half-caste
lieutenant, is unjustly discharged from the British Army. He joins the
rebel Bengali tribesmen offensive against the colonial enemy. They capture
a foreign journalist and Case recounts his story of false accusation on
trumped-up charges, instigated by the bigotry and racism of his commanding
officers. Following a successful attack by the British against the rebels
Case is brutally shot by Colonel Drewe, his accuser. The journalist returns
home determined to report the true story of The Brigand of Kandahar. |
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Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, the two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner devoted to an existence of depravity and evil. |
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As the Earth wrestles with its agonising birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from opposing clans fall in love, existing conventions are shattered forever as each tribe struggles for supremacy and Man embarks on his tortuous voyage of civilisation. |
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Sir James Forbes (Morell) arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. But the dead are not allowed to rest in peace. Local squire Charles Harris (Carson), a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and unsafe tin mines that are shunned by the local population. But his magic relies on human sacrifice and he unleashes his army of the undead on the unsuspecting village with horrific consequences. |
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Rasputin (Lee), a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan their revenge, the evil Rasputin works his satanic power over the beautiful women who serve at the Tsar's palace. Even the Tsarina herself is seduced by his evil ways and, as his influence begins to dominate government policy, there is only one course of action left....to destroy him before he destroys them all. |
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Harry and Valerie Spalding (Barret, Daniel) arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by a lethal reptilian bite. They befriend a young woman (Pearce) whose tyrannical father (Willman) controls her life and, as they discover that others in the village have suffered a similar fate, their investigations lead to Anna. What they uncover is a victim of the most terrifying legacy... a destiny of mutilation and murder. |
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Following a nervous breakdown Gwen Mayfield (Fontaine) takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed. |
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Frankenstein Created Woman Director: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing; Susan Denberg; Thorley Waters; Derek Fowlds; Robert Morris; Duncan Lamont; Peter Blythe; Barry Warren; Alan MacNaughtan; Peter Madden; Philip Ray; Ivan Beavis; Colin Jeavons; Bartlett Mullins; Alec Mango A deformed tormented girl, drowns herself after her lover, was framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths. |
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Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true . One by one the explorers are being murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust. |
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During excavations in London a large unidentified object is unearthed. It defies definition although the area has always been associated with diabolical evil. Within its walls Professor Quatermass (Keir) discovers the remains of intelligent alien creatures that attempted to conquer the Earth in prehistoric times and, through their experiments on early man, altered human evolution to its present state. Though dormant for many centuries, the power supply from the excavations is being drained by the ship until its terrifying force can be unleashed and the creatures can reinstate their violent dominance over man. |
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Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina (Jarvinen), set out to defy the invaders and discard their yoke of bondage. The Roman commander, Justinian, is sent to quell the uprising, punishing the dissenters with brute force but when he becomes emotionally attached to Selina, he is torn between his duty to Rome and his love for the Viking Queen. |
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Mrs Taggart (Davis) always celebrates her anniversary with her grown sons. It's a tradition practised since the death of her husband and she is determined for it to continue. None of her three sons have dared to cross their ruthless domineering mother but this anniversary they intend to try. With cruel and brutal twists, the family get-together becomes a social nightmare beyond endurance. |
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The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death. |
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In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting exorcism. And once more fear and terror strikes Transylvania as the undead Prince of Darkness stalks the village of Keineneburg to ensnare victims and satisfy his evil thirst. |
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In the violent storm a cargo steamer is badly damaged and, with its cargo of misfit passengers, drifts into uncharted seas to discover a lost world of giant, prehistoric creatures and peoples of primitive customs and violent passions. |
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Leader of a tribe of amazon women, Queen Kari (Beswick), has vanquished a rival tribe, and rules them with savage ruthlessness and cruel arrogance. A white hunter (Latimer) stumbles onto the enclave and falls for one of the slaves, so unleashing the anger and envy of the possessive, sadistic Queen. |
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An eccentric millionaire gives a beautiful and mysterious young woman, possessed by the spirit of the dead Queen Ayesha, refuge but she brings a terrifying shadow of death to everything she touches. Drawn towards the lost city of Kuma she is taken further from her one true love and even nearer to the eternal flame. The Queen Ayesha is about to be reborn. |
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Ruthlessly blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical information, abducts Dr Brandt, a former colleague, from an insane asylum. On route the doctor dies and the Baron and his reluctant assistant transplant his brain into the body of a dead professor. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wrecks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery... Baron Frankenstein. |
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The colonisation of space began in 1986 and now, fifty years on, the moon is frontier territory. The prospectors, the drillers, the exploiters and the exploited all surviving in this alien environment. The prospects for lucrative rewards exist but the premium paid for potential gain is often the ultimate sacrifice- life. |
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Victor Frankenstein, descendant of the infamous scientist, Baron Von Frankenstein, follows in his experimental footsteps. Initially his success involves the resuscitation of a tortoise and progressing onto more ambitious projects, including creating his own monster. The gothic genre is re-worked to create a drama of black humour and farce. |
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The Scars of Drcaula Director: Roy Ward Baker Cast: Christopher Lee; Dennis Waterman; Jenny Hanley; Christopher Matthews; Patrick Troughton; Michael Gwynn; Michael Ripper; Wendy Hamilton; Anouska Hempel; Delia Lindsay; Bob Todd; Bert Palmer; David Leland; Richard Durden; Margo Boht; Clive Barrie The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... .loved to death by Dracula's mistress. But after they discover his blood-drained corpse in Dracula's castle necropolis, the Vampire Lord's lustful vengeance begins. |
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Dracula's cloak, a ring and a phial of dried blood are the unholy relics bought by a depraved Satanist obsessed with resurrecting the King of the Undead. Joined at a deconsecrated church by three Victorian gentlemen with a secret taste for the extreme and perverted, a demonic ritual ends in the Satanist's murder by the three men, now terrified that their nocturnal entertainments have gone too far. And they are right- life has been bestowed on the Prince of Darkness once again; and the Count avenges his servant's ultimate sacrifice by initiating the children of the three hypocrites into unspeakable acts of violence and terror. |
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In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog (Cushing) whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla (Pitt) reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood. |
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Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs (Keir) and Corbeck (Villiers), are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs's daughter, Margaret (Leon), becomes involved in a series of macabre and terrifying incidents, powerless against the forces of darkness, directed by Corbeck, that are taking possession of her body and soul to fulfil the ancient prophesy that Queen Tara will be resurrected to continue her reign of unspeakable evil. |
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Based on the true story of Elisabeth Bathory, the eighteenth-century Transylvanian Countess who indulged herself in an orgy of murder and vampirism before before being walled up in her room by the authorities. The ageing Countess Dracula discovers by accident that the blood of young virgins has an unnatural restorative effect on her celebrated beauty. Years later, she becomes engaged to a handsome young Hussar and is forced to repeat vile atrocities with ever-increasing regularity to hold off old age. On her wedding day, her past catches up with her, and she ages through many years in a few dreadful moments. |
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As the first nomadic tribes wander across the vast wilderness of the infant planet they confront hostilities created by the harsh environment and each other. After a massive volcanic eruption a tribal chief is killed and his two sons fight for supremacy, not only for the leadership of the tribe but also for the love of a beautiful young woman. The age-old battlegrounds of rivalry, envy and passion are explored in this tale of prehistoric adventure. |
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In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever. |
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The Hands of the Ripper Director: Peter Sasdy Cast: Eric Porter; Jane Merrow; Angharad Rees; Derek Godfrey; Dora Bryan; Marjorie Rhodes; Keith Bell; Margaret Rawlings; Lynda Baron; Marjie Lawrence; Norman Bird; Elizabeth MacLennan; Barry Lowe; A.J. Brown A series of murders occur that mirror those committed by the Whitechapel Ripper. Through his experiments with early psychoanalysis Dr John Pritchard discovers a deadly violence in one of his young female patients. As he delves into the recesses of her schizophrenic mind he uncovers that Anna is possessed by her dead father's spirit, willing her to commit acts of gruesome savagery over which she has no control. But the most chilling revelation of all is the identity of her father... .Jack the Ripper himself. |
Lust for a Vampire Director: Jimmy Sangster Cast: Ralph Bates; Yutte Stensgaard; Suzanna Leigh; Michael Johnson; Barbara Jefford; Mike Raven; Helen Christie; David Healy; Michael Brennan; Pippa Steele; Luan Peters; Christopher Cunningham; Judy Matheson; Caryl Little; Jack Melford; Eric Chitty Karnstein Castle, an ominous, threatening ruin overlooks an exclusive finishing school for girls where Richard Lestrange (Bates) takes up the post of English teacher. He falls in love with one of the pupils, the beautiful, enigmatic Mircalla Karnstein (Stensgaard). A spate of mysterious deaths at the school is hastily covered up but when the father of one of the dead girls opens her grave he discovers the vampire bite. The Karnstein legend continues. Every forty years they rise from their graves spreading their evil vampirism and terror. The villagers descend on the school demanding blood. Richard rushes to warn Mircalla but as they embrace she opens her mouth to bite his neck as... the burnt-through beam crashes down, burying itself into Mircalla's heart. |
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Twins of Evil (aka Twins of Dracula) Director: John Hough Cast: Peter Cushing; Mary Collinson; Madelaine Collinson; Dennis Price; Isobel Black; Kathleen Byron; Damien Thomas; David Warbeck; Harvey Hall; Alex Scott; Judy Matheson; Luan Peters; Sheelah Wilcocks; Katya Wyeth While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein (Thomas) resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village Gustav Weil (Cushing), head of Puritan group 'The Brotherhood', leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces (Collinsons) has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Weil's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil. |
Demons of the Mind (aka Blood Will Have Blood) Director: Peter Sykes Cast: Paul Jones; Patrick Magee; Gillian Hills; Robert Hardy; Michael Hordern; Yvonne Mitchell; Shane Briant; Kenneth Warren; Virginia Wetherell; Robert Brown; Barry Stanton; Deirdre Costello; Sidonie Bond; Thomas Heathcote; John Atkinson; George Cormack In a remote province of Bavaria fear and superstition are rife. The disappearance of several young girls leads the community to believe that a demon prowls the impenetrable forest. But the only demons are those of the mind, the tortured obsessed mind of Baron Zorn, haunted by nightmares of blood and destruction, believing that his family is doomed by hereditary evil. Kept separated and incarcerated his two children are helpless in the desperate struggle for sanity and attempt to break loose from the suffocating atmosphere of a home. haunted by guilt and torment. But they are motivated by the forces of their macabre destiny, helpless in the hands of their grime fate. |
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Dracula AD 1972 Director: Alan Gibson Cast: Christopher Lee; Peter Cushing; Stephanie Beacham; Christopher Neame; Michael Coles; William Ellis; Marsha Hunt; Janet Key; Philip Miller; Michael Kitchen; David Andrews; Caroline Munro; Lally Bowers Set in London's Chelsea of the early 1970's, supposedly for teen thrills, Johnny Alucard organises a black magic ceremony in a desolate churchyard. The culmination of the ritual, however, is the rejuvenation of Count Dracula from shrivelled remains. Alucard, Dracula' s disciple, lures victims to the deserted graveyard for his master's pleasure and one of the victims delivered is Jessica Van Helsing. Descended from the Van Helsing line of vampire hunters her grandfather, equipped with all the devices to snare and destroy the Count, confronts his arch enemy in the age-old battle between good and evil. |
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Fear in the Night Director: Jimmy Sangster Cast: Peter Cushing; Joan Collins; Ralph Bates; Judy Geeson; James Cossins; Gillian Lind; Brian Grellis; John Bown It took Penny Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Penny is convinced he means to harm her... is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences? |
Straight on Till Morning Director: Peter Collinson Cast: Rita Tushingham; Shane Briant; James Bolam; Katya Wyeth; Annie Ross; Tom Bell; Claire Kelly; Harold Berens; John Clive; Tommy Godfrey; Mavis Villiers; Lola Willard; John Clive Brenda Thompson moved to London to begin living those intoxicated fantasies that all young women imagine city life to offer. Soon after her arrival she begins a relationship with Peter with whom she is tremendously happy. When she becomes pregnant Peter's behaviour towards her alters as he reveals the most frightening and unpredictable side of his personality. He forces Brenda to listen to a series of recordings, exposing a past of shocking cruelty... .of sadistic murder. |
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Vampire Circus Director: Robert Young Cast: Adrienne Corri; Lynne Frederick; Thorley Walters; Anthony Corlan; Laurence Payne; John Moulder-Brown; Richard Owens; Elizabeth Seal; Robin Hunter; Domini Blythe; Robert Tayman; John Brown; Mary Wimbush; Christina Paul; Robin Sachs; Lalla Ward After a spate of vile murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse (Tayman), driving a stake through his heart. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. It is the children of Schtettel who become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance. |
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Man at the Top Joe Lampton (Haigh) worked his way out of
working class mediocrity and into an enviable position of power, wealth
and influence. After becoming managing director of a powerful pharmaceutical
company he discovers professional negligence that resulted in loss of
life. When he confronts the chief executive of the company he realises
the full extent of the company's complicity and is torn between self-preservation
and self-respect. |
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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter Director: Brian Clemens Cast: Horst Jannson; John Carson; Shane Briant; Caroline Munro; John Cater; Lois Daine; William Hobbs; Brian Tully; Robert James; Perry Soblosky; Paul Greenwood; Lisa Collings; John Hollis; Ian Hendry; Vanda Ventham When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunter. Mysterious and powerful, Kronos has dedicated his life to destroying the evil pestilence. Once a victim of its diabolical depravity he knows the vampire's strengths and weaknesses as well as the extreme dangers attached to confronting the potent forces of darkness. |
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell Director: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing; Shane Briant; Madeline Smith; Dave Prowse; John Stratton Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever. |
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The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires Director: Roy Ward Baker Cast: Peter Cushing; Julie Ege; David Chang; Shih Szu; Robin Stewart; John Forbes-Robertson; Robert Hanna; Chan Shen; James Ma; Liu Hui Ling; Liu Ka Yong; Wong Han Chan; Chen Tien Loong; Fong Kah Ann Professor Van Helsing (Cushing) had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula (Forbes-Robertson). But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors. |
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The Satanic Rites of Dracula (aka Count Dracula and his Vampire Bride) Director: Alan Gibson Cast: Christopher Lee; Peter Cushing; Joanna Lumley; Michael Coles; William Franklyn; Freddie Jones; Richard Vernon; Patrick Barr; Barbara Yu Ling; Lockwood West; Richard Mathews; Maurice O'Connell; Valerie van Ost The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing (Cushing) to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in fact Count Dracula (Lee) who, sick of his interminable existence, has decided that he must end it all in the only possible way- by destroying every last potential victim. |
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Shatter Director: Michael Carreras Cast: Stuart Whitman; Ti Lung; Peter Cushing; Lily Li; Anton Diffring; Yemi Ajibade; Liu Ka Yong; Huang Pei Chi; Liu Ya Ying; Lo Wei; James Ma; Chiang Han; Kao Hsiung Shatter (Whitman), an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small East African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly… |
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Devil A Daughter Director: Peter Sykes Cast: Richard Widmark; Christopher Lee; Honor Blackman; Denholm Elliott; Michael Goodliffe; Nastassja Kinski; Eva Maria Meineke; Anthony Valentine; Derek Francis; Isabella Telezynska; Constantin de Goguel; Anna Bentinck After excommunication from the Church, the dark, fanatical Father Michael (Lee) sought the ways of the Devil. He founded a closed convent 'The Children of the Lord' to rear children in the ways of Satan. Catherine Beddows (Kinski) has been selected to become the Devil's daughter on her eighteenth birthday, to reign as his representative on Earth. Her father enlists the help of occult specialist, John Verney (Widmark), who embarks on a mesmeric and cataclysmic confrontation with Father Michael for Catherine's soul. |
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