The Picture of Dorian Gray (1961)A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
The Curse of the Doll People (1961)Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
The Spiral Staircase (1961)Based on the screenplay by Mel Dinelli, this story revolves around Helen Warren, a beautiful mute girl, who becomes the target of a mysterious killer who preys on young handicapped women.
Pas de couvertureThe Tell-Tale Heart (1961)German television version of the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe.
Les Yeux de l'Enfer (1961)L'histoire du Docteur Allen Barnes, qui récupère un mystérieux masque tribal. Quand il porte le masque, Barnes fait l'expérience de visions oniriques qui deviennent de plus en plus perturbantes et violentes. Ces visions commencent à altérer sa personnalité, jusqu'à la folie...
Reptilicus (1961)After copper miners discover a piece of the frozen tail of a giant prehistoric reptile in Lapland, scientists inadvertently bring it back to life.
Witches Brew (1960)Rita Landre plays a witch who casts spells to make anyone she wants disappear. She also makes her own clothes disappear.
The Golem (1960)A shortened, sixty-minute version of Der Golem, re-edited for US release and featuring a score by Cordula Heth.
House of Terror (1960)Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. These haven't worked so far, and the bodies have been waxened and placed on display in the museum to cover his crimes. His big chance seems to come, however, when he learns that the mummified body of a modern man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body and take it back to his lab - where the experiment flops again.
Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane (1960)Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that she can become empowered as an agent of her father's vengeance.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1960)Edgar Marsh est un libraire timide et angoissé, qui vit seul dans une grande maison sur la rue Morgue à Paris. Son seul ami est son contraire, un bourreau des cœurs, Carl. Edgar tombe amoureux d’une belle jeune femme qui a emménagé en face de chez lui, Betty. Mais celle-ci tombe amoureuse de Carl. Quand Edgar s’en aperçoit, il est pris de fureur.
The Hand (1960)During World War II, a group of British soldiers are captured by the Japanese, tortured and their hands are cut off. Years later, a mad killer terrorizes London by cutting off the hands of his victims.
Les Mains d'Orlac (1960)Pianiste célèbre, Stephen Orlac subit une opération chirurgicale des mains après avoir été victime d'un accident d'avion. Quelques mois plus tard, il se rend compte qu'il n'est plus en mesure de jouer comme auparavant et il finit par se convaincre que les mains d'un autre ont été greffées à la place des siennes. Désemparé, il s'enfuit alors qu'il séjourne sur la Côte d'Azur en compagnie de sa fiancée, Louise. Installé dans un hôtel marseillais, il devient la proie d'un couple, Li-Lang, chanteuse, et Néron, son amant.
Sacrifice (1959)Filmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance, “Gisei” features Hijikata and members of his Asbestos Hall Troupe in a brutal allegory of a closed society. Shot by noted Japanese film scholar Donald Richie, “Gisei” still conveys the shock that Japanese audiences in 1959 must have felt at the birth of Hijikata's ankoku butoh, or "dance of darkness". Richie met Hijikata through mutual friend Yukio Mishima. They decided to collaborate on a film about segregation. Richie memorialized the film in his diary: “It is more than ever about the death of an individual, a distinct kind of human sacrifice.”
Le cri de la mort (1959)Un cow-boy et son acolyte se rencontrent une famille d'élevage en ranch est hanté par les esprits et les vampires.
L'Homme et le monstre (1959)Samuel, un pianiste talentueux vit avec sa mère. Tout semble être normal mais en réalité, le musicien cache un terrible secret, chaque nuit, Samuel se transforme en un monstre immonde à chaque fois qu'il entend une certaine mélodie...
The Turn of the Screw (1959)In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
Le désosseur de cadavres (1959)Un docteur découvre qu'une creature engendrée par la peur provoque la mort de l'organisme humain.
Return of the Monster (1958)Mad scientist is trying to transplant the soul of an animated, talking skeleton into a living body. Also, there's a monster. Number three of three in Zorro Escarlata series.
Pas de couvertureThe Telltale Heart (1958)Canadian adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s story “The Tell-Tale Heart”.
The Living Corpse (1958)Famed director Zhu Shilin tries his hand at a horror film! The beginning of The Living Corpse immediately sets the tone with a folk duet clearly inspired by the popular 1956 musical Songs of the Peach Blossom River. The duet, in addition to Zhu's frequent use of long, empty shots and crisp editing, gives this horror film a traditional poetic charm and a strong folk flavor. Mise-en-scene and sound effects create a terrifying atmosphere, and successfully communicate the ghostliness of a world without ghosts.
Pas de couvertureThe Tell-Tale Heart (1958)As in Edgar Allan Poe's original 1843 short story, a murderer (Joe Marzano) buries a body beneath the floor of his room and thinks the heartbeats of his victim can be heard while the police are investigating. After he confesses, the sound is revealed to be the ticking of the victim's watch.
Lake of the Dead (1958)Un groupe de six Osloïtes venus rendre visite à leur ami Bjørn, se retrouve une fois sur les lieux devant un chalet vide. De cette absence va débuter une enquête. La disparition de Bjørn semble se mêler au passé du lieu et du lac bleu non loin de là.
Pas de couvertureThe Tell-Tale Heart (1958)Austrian television version of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart from 1958.
Pas de couvertureJack the Ripper (1958)Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series "The Veil" (1958) - "Summer Heat," "Genesis," "Food on the Table," and "Jack the Ripper."
Macabre (1958)La fille d'un médecin est kidnappée et enterrée vivante. Il dispose de seulement cinq heures pour la retrouver et la sauver.
Scared to Death (1958)A young woman hires Viruta y Capulina to find a notorious jewel thief, known as Rostov.
How to Make a Monster (1958)When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
Nightmare (1957)"Nightmare" was a hosted horror movie special with Tom Alderman as "The Nightcrawler" presenting the 1931 movie "Dracula" for WSUN-TV Channel 38, St. Petersburg, Florida.
The Ghost Train (1957)Lashing rain, thunderstorms, fog and a godforsaken, eerie train station: the mood among the six travelers who have to wait for their connecting train here in the middle of the night is extremely tense. In keeping with the gloomy scenery, the station master also tells his involuntary guests the story of the ghost train ...
Les Proies du vampire (1957)Marta revient après des années d'absence dans l'hacienda familiale de la Sierra Negra. Mais c'est un retour bien funeste pour la jeune femme car sa tante bien-aimée est morte, emportée par une mystérieuse maladie. Accablée par le chagrin, Marta est inconsolable, et ne comprend que trop tard, qu'elle est la proie du Comte Duval, un vampire assoiffé de sang.
Pas de couvertureThark (1957)As legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow arranges for her large country house, Thark, to be sold to the nouveau riche Mrs Frush. Frush reports that the house is haunted and all and sundry investigate.
Not of This Earth (1957)An alien from planet Davanna, whose population has developed a terminal blood disease caused by nuclear radiation, is sent to Earth to acquire fresh human blood for his people.
Gorilla (1956)In this adventure, set deep within the Belgian Congo, a local witch doctor decides the only way to stop a rampaging gorilla from terrorizing his people is to sacrifice a new-born baby. Meanwhile a local game warden and a journalist researching a story on the natives team up to stop the crazed simian.
The She-Creature (1956)A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
Fright (1956)A woman believes herself to be the reincarnated spirit of an ancient prince's lover. Meanwhile, a murderer turns out to be the reincarnated spirit of the prince himself.
Pas de couvertureNang Nak Phra Khanong (1955)Horror movie telling the story of the legend of Mae Nak Phra Khanong.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1955)Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic. Part of Chrysler sponsored series "Climax!"
Pas de couvertureThe Raven (1954)This film presents a version of Edgar A. Poe’s “The Raven” complemented by the engravings of Gustave Dore. The intense and emotional black and white engravings that Dore executed to illustrate this poem are washed over with red, blue and green. The colours fade and dissolve with the art work to increase the mystery and fantasy which Poe created with his words.
