Mary Carter inherits her family's ancestral home, located on a small island off Cuba and, despite warnings and death threats she decides to take possession of the reputedly haunted castle. Mary is joined by radio broadcaster Larry Lawrence who, believing he has killed a mob gunman flees New York with his butler Alex. Once on the Island the threesome enter the eerie castle and after viewing the ghost of one of Mary's ancestors and fighting off a menacing zombie they find the key to the castle's treasure but are interrupted by an all-too-human-foe.
It is England in the 1830's. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.
Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong), the man responsible for bringing King Kong to New York, decides to leave town before he is sued for the damage caused by Kong's rampage. Denham and Captain Englehorn (Frank Reicher) head out on the high seas but pick up stowaways, Hilda (Helen Mack), and Helstrom (John Marston), the man who sold Denham the map to Kong's home, Skull Island. Helstrom insists there is a hidden treasure on the island and the ship makes sail to search for it. But a mutiny on the ship leaves Denham and his companions stranded on Skull Island, where King Kong still has relatives...
Hugely popular on its release, The Ghost of St Michael's features Hay in one of his signature roles as William Lamb, a pedagogue called out of retirement because of the war to join the staff of a school that has been evacuated to a remote Scottish castle. According to legend the castle is haunted and whoever should hear the sound of ghostly bagpipes will surely meet a grisly end. With members of the school's staff dropping like flies, Lamb is called upon to solve the gruesome mystery. Featuring delightful interplay between Hay and Claude Hulbert, there is also a standout turn from John Laurie as the school caretaker given to telling the fearsome story of the castle's ancient curse.
Determined to make a life for herself and her daughter, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney), a young widow, moves into a cottage overlooking the windswept English coast. She soon learns that it's haunted by the ghost of its former owner, a salty sea captain (Rex Harrison). But the Captain's effort to scare off his new tenant soon develops into a most unlikely love affair. When Lucy runs out of money, the Captain "ghost writes" a book for her based on his life story. Their publishing success, however, brings her the amorous attentions of a man who's still very much alive (George Sanders). Soon Lucy must decide between the pleasures of the spirit and those of the flesh, and the Captain must choose a course that may haunt him forever.
A haunting sequel to Cat People (1942) co-directed by Robert Wise in which Amy, the young daughter of Irena (Simon Simon) and Oliver (Kent Smith), is a very imaginative child who is unable to differentiate fantasy from reality, and has no friends of her own age. Amy makes an imaginary friend through the ghost of her father's dead first wife, Irena, and befriends Julia Farren (Julia Dean), an aging, reclusive actress who is also alienated from her own daughter. This sequel, produced by the great Val Lewton, is widely regarded as 'the best movie about horror movies and why grown-ups watch them'.
"Runaway Daughters" tells the story of the misadventures of a trio of teenage girls. Audrey Barton (Marla English) wants something more out of life than her parents' money can buy; Dixie (Mary Ellen Kaye) wants to escape the tyranny of her misogynistic father; and Angela Forrest (Gloria Castillo) is a child of divorce, left to fend for herself in a hostile world. Consequently, the three take it upon themselves to improve their lot in life by running away from home. The three heroines find themselves in trouble in their pursuit of happiness and make some important life decisions as they carry along their journey.
Archaeologists Dr. Roger Bentley (John Agar) and Dr. Jud Bellamin (Hugh Beaumont) stumble upon a race of Sumerian albinos living deep under the Earth who have failed to evolve in over 5000 years. They keep mutant humanoid mole men as their slaves to harvest their food. The Sumerian albinos' ancestors were forced underground after the cataclysmic floods in ancient Mesopotamia. These people have lived underground for so long that they are weakened by bright light. Whenever their population increases they sacrifice the old to the Eye of Ishtar. They come to believe that Bentley and Bellamin are messengers of Ishtar. They give Bentley a slave, a beautiful woman named Adad (Cynthia Patrick) who is shunned by the albinos because of her tan skin. Adad and Bentley fall in love and he invites her to the surface, if they can ever get out!
One man is a paragon of virtue. The other is a murderous creature of the London night. They are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And they are the same person. Best Actor Academy Award winner Fredric March plays the man/monster in the exoressionistic, pre-Code 1932 version (Side A), morphing before your eyes into a fiend that impacted the look of Creature Features to come. Spencer Tracy headlines the 1941 film of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of mind and madness (Side B). It's a glossy, star-powered work whose Freudian undercurrents include a dreamscape in which carriage horses whipped by Hyde transform into the women in his life (Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner). Two of the very beast from horror's archives. Two ways to watch and appease your inner monster!
Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his attorney gathers his six remaining relatives in his old mansion in the swamps of Louisiana to read the will. The family maid appears and announces that the spirits have told her that one of them will die that night and Hendrick, the local prison guard warns them that "The Cat" a homicidal maniac has escaped and could appear at any minute. This sets up a night filled with murders, mysteries and intrigue.
During the 1930's and 40's, Tod Slaughter was the consummate villain of the silver screen. Screen classics such as Sweeney Todd and Maria Marten established him as Britain's top horror movie star after Boris Karloff. Whether it was wholesale murder, larceny, blackmail, unbridled madness or torture, Tod Slaughter delighted his cinema audiences by playing the foulest of villains. This disk contains three of Slaughter's previously unreleased films, the most famous of which is the digitally re-mastered "The Face at the Window" in which a series of grisly murders in nineteenth century France is attributed to a wolf-man. "The Crimes of Stephen Hawke" sees Slaughter as 'The Spinebreaker', a crazed killer stalking London. The final film in this epic Tod trilogy is "It's Never Too Late to Mend" where an evil prison governor presides over a cruel reign of torture to his inmates until an uprising sees him take a dose of his own medicine...
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson star in this ground-breaking comedy classic. Way ahead of its time, it's been described as 'Pythonesque' and has influenced generations of comedians. Somewhere amid the non-stop gags and hysterical mayhem there's a plot involving the staging of a musical, a romance, a bumbling private eye and a man who keeps wandering on with a pot plant for 'Mrs Jones'! But any plot is incidental to the speed, imagination and sheer craziness that has been said to outstrip the Marx Brothers (Time Out Film Guide). And there's even room for the greatest Lindy Hop dance routine ever filmed.
After being jilted by his fiance, Arthur Pilbeam wants a job where he won't encounter women. He is sent to a lighthouse on a remote Scottish island which is being run as a meteorological station and he is to be the only inhabitant. However, Jane, a young girl, has stowed-away on his boat. She is looking for her uncle on the neighbouring island. Then model Bobbie turns up - her boat has been torpedoed. With the arrival of another boat load of survivors, bringing the total occupancy of the island up to 13, things are getting a little crowded. That's when they all start to disappear, one by one...
An eminent, dying Egyptologist (Boris Karloff) has purchased a precious stone stolen from an Egyptian tomb which, he believes, will appease the ancient gods after his death if they are buried together. When the stone is stolen from his tomb, he returns as a ghoul - furious at the theft and hell-bent on wreaking revenge upon those responsible!
Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara star as a young couple who – after being separated by loss – discover an eternal connection and a love that is infinite. An unforgettable meditation on love and grief, A Ghost Story emerges ecstatic and surreal – a wholly unique experience that lingers long after the credits roll.
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