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The Wooden Spoon Massacre

The Wooden Spoon MassacreAfter being unjustly attacked, a cook goes on a killing spree.

Le château hanté (1897)

Le château hanté (1897)A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

The Red Spectre (1907)

The Red Spectre (1907)A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.

The Call of Cthulhu (2006)

The Call of Cthulhu (2006)A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.

London After Midnight (2002)

London After Midnight (2002)A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney.

The Fall of the House of Usher (1942)

The Fall of the House of Usher (1942)Curtis Harrington's student film based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story.

The Tell-Tale Heart (1934)A madman is so obsessed by the protruding eye of the old man with whom he lives that he plots to murder him.

Sweeney Todd (1928)

Sweeney Todd (1928)A man dreams he is the 'demon barber' who cuts sailors' throats for jewels and uses the corpses for pies.

Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan (1927)

Yotsuya Kaidan (1927)

The Gorilla (1927)

The Gorilla (1927)An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.

Irohagana Yotsuya Kaidan (1927)

Botan dôrô (1926)

The Bat (1926)

The Bat (1926)A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.

The Monster (1925)

The Monster (1925)A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

The Wolf Man (1924)

The Wolf Man (1924)Gerald Stanley (John Gilbert) is an English gentleman who is engaged to Beatrice Joyce (Alma Frances). But Stanley's personality changes whenever he drinks, and his brother (who also loves Beatrice) uses this to his advantage.

Botan dôrô (1924)

The Hands of Orlac (1924)

The Hands of Orlac (1924)A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.

Yotsuya Kaidan (1923)

Botan dôrô (1923)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

Botan dôrô (1921)

The Haunted House (1921)

The Haunted House (1921)A bank teller becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.

Yotsuya Kaidan (1921)

Yotsuya Kaidan (1921)

The Dark Mirror (1920)

The Dark Mirror (1920)New York society member Priscilla Maine is troubled by strange dreams in which she vividly sees members of the underworld involved in a murder. She confides this to her admirer, Dr. Philip Fosdick, who undertakes to solve the mystery.

Sacrifice (1918)

Sacrifice (1918)Mad scientist, doctor Ten Brinken artificially inseminates a prostitute with a dead man's semen. The resulting child grows up to be a beautiful, evil woman who turns against her creator.

Yotsuya Kaidan (1915)

The Portrait (1915)

The Portrait (1915)A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long, but only an 8 minute fragment is known to have survived.

Botan Dōrō (1914)

Yotsuya Kaidan (1913)

The Pit and the Pendulum (1913)

The Pit and the Pendulum (1913)Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.

The Werewolf (1913)

The Werewolf (1913)An old Indian legend tells of the supposed ability of persons who have been turned into wolves through magic power to assume human form at will for purposes of vengeance. This film is presumed lost.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Satan (1912)

Satan (1912)La historia ilustra intervenciones de Satanás a lo largo de la historia de la humanidad.

Yotsuya Kaidan (1911)Earliest japanese horror film.

The Mummy (1911)

The Mummy (1911)An electric current accidentally brings a female mummy back to life with decidedly romantic inclinations, much to the surprise of a young Egyptologist and his less than understanding fiancée. This film is presumed lost.

Sleepy Hollow (1911)

Sleepy Hollow (1911)

The Queen of Spades (1910)

The Queen of Spades (1910)Based on Pushkin's short story: When his friends play faro, Germann always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying nearby is said to possess a secret for winning a fortune at the game. Germann is determined to learn this secret from her, and he initiates a romance with her grand-daughter Liza, in order to improve his chances.

The Haunted Hotel (1907)

The Haunted Hotel (1907)A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

Bluebeard (1901)

Bluebeard (1901)A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

The Golem (1915)

The Golem (1915)This mostly lost film is often confused with director Paul Wegener third and readily available interpretation of the legend; Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920). In this version of the golem legend, the golem, a clay statue brought to life by Rabbi Loew in 16th century Prague to save the Jews from the ongoing brutal persecution by the city's rulers, is found in the rubble of an old synagogue in the 20th century. Brought to life by an antique dealer, the golem is used as a menial servant. Eventually falling in love with the dealer's wife, it goes on a murderous rampage when its love for her goes unanswered.

Within

WithinThis psychedelic horror short inspired by vintage cinema follows a raped girl's descent into derangement and makes the audience feel as claustrophobic as the character.

Shin Yotsuya Kaidan (1925)

Faust (1926)

Faust (1926)God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.

Frankenstein (1910)

Frankenstein (1910)Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.

Dante's Inferno (1911)

Dante's Inferno (1911)The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.

Stalker (2025)

Stalker (2025)A silent film following a man on the verge of the nervous breakdown as he is pursued by an ominous stalker.

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