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Horror Classics

Here's a strange mix of quality. At one end there are classics of the genre, modern ones like House on Haunted Hill and Night of the Living Dead; German expressionist silents like Metropolis and Nosferatu and Lon Chaney's versions of The Phantom the Opera and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. There's also John Barrymore's silent version of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and the intriguing low budget film Carnival of Souls.

At the other end, there is the worst film I've yet encountered, The Beast of Yucca Flats, along with really awful movies like The Monster Walks, Maniac and The Brain That Wouldn't Die. The latter is one of those 'so bad it's good' films and Dwayne Esper's Maniac is as fascinating as it's awful, but there's unredeemable dreck here too.

There's a lot of Roger Corman here, not only with films he directed himself, including one of his most popular, The Little Shop of Horrors and one of his earliest, Swamp Women, but also with films he produced or financed, like Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13. Karloff, Lugosi and Price are all here too, though not necessarily in their best roles, and sometimes in films that are not really horror in the slightest, like the Mr Wong movies.

Contents

Title Year Director(s) IMDb
The Amazing Mr X 1948 Bernard Vorhaus IMDb
The Ape 1940 William Nigh IMDb
Atom Age Vampire 1960 Anton Giulio Majano IMDb
Attack of the Giant Leeches 1959 Bernard L Kowalski IMDb
The Bat 1959 Crane Wilbur IMDb
The Beast of Yucca Flats 1961 Coleman Francis IMDb
Black Dragons 1942 William Nigh IMDb
Bloodlust 1961 Ralph Brooke IMDb
Bluebeard 1944 Edgar G Ulmer IMDb
The Brain That Wouldn't Die 1962 Joseph Green IMDb
Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey IMDb
The Corpse Vanishes 1942 Wallace Fox IMDb
Creature from the Haunted Sea 1961 Roger Corman IMDb
Dead Men Walk 1943 Sam Newfield IMDb
Dementia 13 1963 Francis Coppola IMDb
Doomed to Die 1940 William Nigh IMDb
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 1920 John S Robertson IMDb
The Fatal Hour 1940 William Nigh IMDb
The Giant Gila Monster 1959 Ray Kellogg IMDb
The Gorilla 1939 Allan Dwan IMDb
House on Haunted Hill 1959 William Castle IMDb
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923 Wallace Worsley IMDb
Indestructible Man 1956 Jack Pollexfen IMDb
Invisible Ghost 1941 Joseph H Lewis IMDb
The Killer Shrews 1959 Ray Kellogg IMDb
King of the Zombies 1941 Jean Yarbrough IMDb
The Last Man on Earth 1964 Ubaldo Ragona IMDb
The Last Woman on Earth 1960 Roger Corman IMDb
The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 Roger Corman IMDb
The Mad Monster 1942 Sam Newfield IMDb
Maniac 1934 Dwayne Esper IMDb
Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang IMDb
Monster from a Prehistoric Planet 1967 Haruyasu Noguchi IMDb
The Monster Maker 1944 Sam Newfield IMDb
The Monster Walks 1932 Frank R Strayer IMDb
Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A Romero IMDb
Nightmare Castle 1965 Mario Caiano IMDb
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 1922 F W Murnau IMDb
One Body Too Many 1944 Frank McDonald IMDb
Phantom from 10,000 Leagues 1956 Dan Milner IMDb
The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian IMDb
Revolt of the Zombies 1936 Victor Halperin IMDb
The Screaming Skull 1958 Alex Nicol IMDb
A Shriek in the Night 1933 Albert Ray IMDb
Swamp Women 1955 Roger Corman IMDb
The Terror 1963 Roger Corman IMDb
Tormented 1960 Bert I Gordon IMDb
The Vampire Bat 1933 Frank R Strayer IMDb
White Zombie 1932 Victor Halperin IMDb
The World Gone Mad 1933 Christy Cabanne IMDb


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