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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.
Title | Year | Director(s) | IMDb |
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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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