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Christopher Lee stars as Father Michael Rainer, an excommunicated priest who heads a satanic cult called "The Children of the Lord" which hides its dark purpose of rearing innocent children in the ways of Satan, behind a front as a closed Catholic convent.

One of his charges, Catherine Beddows (Nastassja Kinski) has a special destiny to fulfill: She was promised to the devil before her birth, chosen to reign as his representative on earth when she comes of age. It's up to an occult novelist named John Varney (Richard Widmark) a close friend of Catherine's father, stop Rainer before it's too late.

A classic Universal tale of monsters and sci-fi from the 1950s. Determined to recapture the beauty of her youth, a vain woman stumbles upon an elixir that will restore her beauty and give her the secret of eternal youth - but only when it is mixed with blood taken from the newly dead!

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Matthew is returning home to his London estate after months spent in a mental asylum following the disappearance of his little brother. Still racked by feelings of guilt Matthew plays a recorded news reconstruction of the abduction and hears his brother's voice calling out to him for help.

Not knowing what is real or imagined, he fears he is losing his mind. Ignored by his alcoholic father, Matthew visits a clairvoyant who reveals an ancient curse and a disturbing history of missing children in the area. While he desperately struggles to put the pieces together and find out who, or what, is taking the children, the hauntings and abductions escalate. As Matthew races closer to the chilling truth, he finds himself entering a dark world from which there is no going back...

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Once hounded from his castle for creating a monstrous living creature, Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) returns to his ancestral home in Karlstaad, determined to continue his experiments into the creation of life.

High in the mountains, Frankenstein and his faithful assistant, Hans (Sandor Elès), stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in ice. He is brought back to life, but Frankenstein is forced to employ a hypnotist, Zoltan (Peter Woodthorpe), to complete the process. Unbeknown to Frankenstein, Zoltan now controls the creature and has plans to use him to rob and pillage the local villages. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell, or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?

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A forgotten gem from the legendary Hammer Studios, available for the first time on home video in the UK, this sinister classic spins a gruesome web of unhappy families.

It is three weeks before the Ashby siblings Simon, a brutish alcoholic, and Eleanor, a nervous wreck, are to come into their late parents' inheritance. While Simon plans to have his sister certified insane and locked away, Eleanor keeps seeing the lurking figure of their long-dead brother Tony around the estate. Who or what is this apparition, and does he threaten to reveal skeletons in the closet (and elsewhere)?

The story about a group calling themselves the Alps - a service providing stand-ins in for the recently deceased, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues to aid the grieving process - the film bounds from one uncanny set-piece to the next in a dazzling mix of black humour, unsettling drama and delicious ambiguity.

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"Fantomas", the mysterious arch-criminal who holds Paris in the grip of terror, was first brought to the screen in this legendary serial by celebrated French cinema pioneer Louis Feuillade.

The creation of authors Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, 'Fantomas' perpetrated the most appalling crimes in 32 hugely popular pulp novels and became a cult favourite of the avante garde, including the painters Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali. Feuillade's serial was one of cinema's earliest and most strikingly original crime dramas, starring Rene Navarre as Fantomas, the master of disguise and leader of a vast army of street thugs, and Edmond Breon as his nemesis, Inspector Juve.

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'People of the Mountains' is set in a remote Transylvanian community where a woodcutter lives with his young family, working the high mountain forests.

Beginning as a lyrical portrait of a long-vanished way of life, the story gives way to the catastrophic impact of industrialisation on the community and the tragedies which follow in its wake. Istvan Szots has been compared to Ford, Dovzhenko and Renoir but this film, shot almost entirely on location and using mostly non-professional actors, was also cited by De Sica and Zavattini as a model for the Italian neorealist movement of the 1940s. Disapproved of by the ruling authorities, the reputation of this powerful and elemental film has continued to grow and it is now considered one of the greatest Hungarian films of all time.

Set within a Gutsul community in the Ukranian Carpathian mountains, this visually stunning and richly detailed tale of a young man who yearns for a lost love is a beguiling mix of folklore, sorcery and religious symbolism, which brought Paradjanov to prominence and won numerous awards.

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Winner of 6 Academy Awards including Best Director for writer/director Damien Chazelle, and winner of a record-breaking 7 Golden Globe Awards, "La La Land" is more than the most acclaimed movie of the year - it's a cinematic treasure for the ages that you'll fall in love with again and again.

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star as Mia and Sebastian, an actress and a jazz musician pursuing their Hollywood dreams - and finding each other - in a vibrant celebration of hope, dreams and love.

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In this extraordinary film, witnesses and historians tell Melies' incredible story. The Magic of Melies uses rare archival footage, film excerpts, and reconstructions to reveal the life, art, and unique techniques of the legendary film pioneer.

Melies' innovations - including special effects, hand-tinting, backdrops, and costumes profoundly shaped the course of film history.
These magnificently restored prints are a dream-like journey into the world of Georges Melies. The 15 films presented here demonstrate the breadth of Melies' command of different genres, including trick film, spectacle, burlesque, and fantasy film.

Featuring
- The Four Troublesome Heads (1898)
- A Trip To The Moon (1902)
- The Infernal Cakewalk (1903)
- The Scheming Gambler's Paradise (1905)
- The Music Lover (1903)
- The Infernal Boiling Pot (1903)
- The Man With The Rubber Head (1901)
- Playing Cards (1904)
-. Hilarious Poker (1905)
- The Devilish Tenant (1909)
- Untameable Whiskers (1904)
- Imperceptible Transmutations (1904)
- Bluebeard (1901)
- Fat And Lean Wrestling Match (1900)
- The One-Man Band (1900) - With original music by Eric La Guen

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Monika isn't like other young women. She shares her small flat with Rob, a recently disinterred corpse which serves as the object of her affections.

But then she meets good-natured Mark, and soon finds herself torn between the prospect of a 'normal' life with a living, breathing partner and her overwhelming desire for her rotting bed-fellow.

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Legendary film director John Huston creates one of his most cerebral films that will stay with the viewer for a long time.

Set in the American Deep South during the post-war era, 'Wise Blood' stars Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes, an unhinged and aimless war-veteran, who decides to become a Bible-thumping preacher for a quasi-religious cult called 'The Church Without Christ'. Linking up with a fraudulent hustler from hellfire-and-brimstone preaching circuit - who pretends to be blind for the assembled believers - Motes is put under pressure by the fraudster to blind himself for real so that he can truly 'see the light'. A dark satire on religious movements that, beautifully acted by Dourif, Huston and William Hickey.

In the near future, a weary Logan (Hugh Jackman) cares for an ailing Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.

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Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
In the desert known as 'Zarpa Mesa' a lunatic scientist, played by Jackie Coogan, is breeding giant spiders, deadly dwarves and an army of beautiful and deadly superwomen who kill their love lorn prey with venemous fingernails.
Carnival of Souls (1962)

Following an almost fatal car crash the survivor, a fragile young woman, is haunted by a pale phantasmal figure that seemingly dwells in a nearby abandoned carnival. An unsettling and disquieting movie considered one of the classics of supernatural cinema.
The Ape Man (1943)
Crazed scientist, Dr. James Brewtser, played by Bela Lugosi has uncovered a formula for a potion that can tranform a man into a half-ape. Unfortunately there is no known cure and Brewsters collegue Dr. Randall refuses to help him harvest human spinal fluid which he believe is his only hope.