Bermuda Island (2023)Passengers on their way to a tropical paradise crash at sea and find themselves on a deserted island. Desperate to survive the elements and infighting between survivors, they find that the island has more in store for them than they could ever imagine.
Pasha's Nightmare (1905)A boss has a dream in which he is tortured and tries to escape. Some women gently wake him up. France, 1905 Prod.: Pathé Frères (scène à trucs, n. 1297) 35mm. L.: 79 m. D.: 4’ a 16 f/s. Bn From: BFI National Archive
Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Kaiki Nozomi (2010)The 2010 theatrical two-part series of the immensely popular ghost story franchise. Starring Hello! Project's No. 1 idol, Erina Mano, who takes on a genuine horror challenge. The terror unfolds as it preys on a high school girl who has closed her heart due to her sister's death.
Calling Dr. Death (1943)Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
The Mistletoe Bough (1904)During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strange visitation thirty years later.
I Curse This Land (2024)In a sleepy coastal village a curse lies waiting. Legend has it one night centuries ago when a smuggler was delivering his illicit wares, the excise men pounced. One of the villagers had betrayed him. The smuggler was caught and quickly hanged as an example but, his widow was more than she seemed, the practitioner of an ancient religion of magic and sorcery. The villagers formed a mob to hunt her down as a witch, they brutalised her, tarred and feathered her, but before they could kill her she put one last curse upon the land; that nothing should flourish, no life or love, before taking her own life and spilling her blood upon the land.
A Catastrophe in Hester Street (1904)Two workers leave boxes of explosives with a push cart street vendor while they visit a bar. They return drunk and accidentally drop a box of nitro powder, causing an explosion that wrecks the block and blows off the vendor’s arm. A policeman shows up to the carnage and tries to replace the vendor’s arm with a severed leg.
The Infernal Cauldron (1903)A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.
From Black (2023)Una tossicodipendente in recupero, disperata per la colpa dopo la scomparsa del suo giovane figlio, si ritrova con una strana offerta per conoscere la verità. Fino a che punto è disposta ad andare per una possibilità di redenzione?
The Dead Reborn (2013)From biochemical virus outbreaks to bizarre occult rituals, the dead have risen to walk the Earth once more. In these three chilling tales of the living dead, no one is safe: Can you withstand the heart-pumping horror of The Dead Reborn?
The Inn Where No Man Rests (1903)A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to happen in his room, and before long he has created a disturbance that has everyone running to his room to find out what is going on.
Nessuna copertinaBeelzebub's Daughters (1903)Beelzebub, making fire on the tips of his fingers, develops a large blaze, from which three girls emerge, who commence a dance in the heart of the flames, while two devils shake burning torches; all disappear. This scene is the first of its kind and is quite magical in its effect.
Subsurface (2023)Trapped and alone, a young man must confront the pain he's ignored when he finds himself face-to-face with consequence.
Nessuna copertinaA Father’s Vengeance (1902)A squire strangles a girl and throws her in a river, and is shot by her father.
The Treasures of Satan (1902)The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth. Satan, who has made his way into the chateau, puts the seven bags in a strong box, and makes with his hands some cabalistic motions. The miser comes into the hall and is greatly astonished to find his fortune missing. He opens the coffer and immediately the bags leap out. He gathers them up and puts them back into the coffer. When he opens it again he finds that they have been transformed into seven young girls, who rush out and chase after him, beating him unmercifully. They shut him up in the coffer from which his gold has vanished. The miser pushes open the lid of the coffer, and to his profound despair finds that both young girls and money have disappeared. (This view is most sensational in its mysterious scenes.) (Star Film Catalog)
Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman.
The Serpent and the Lovers (1961)It was shot in year 1956 but only released in year 1961 Hong Kong-Thailand-Japan co-production.
The Devil and the Statue (1901)At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade falls to pieces, disclosing the devil. Juliet, frightened, runs to the window and calls Romeo. The latter attempts to enter and protect his fiancée, but at a gesture from the devil the window is instantly covered with a grating and Romeo makes frantic efforts to break it. The devil begins to dance a wild dance before Juliet, who is beside herself from terror. The devil gradually becomes the size of a giant (a novel effect). Juliet implores the statue of Madonna, which becomes animated, descends from its pedestal, and stretching out its arms orders the devil to disappear. (Méliès Catalog)
Jiro Tsunoda's Invitation from the Spirit World - True Terrifying Experiences (2000)A collection of horror stories navigated by psychic commentator Jiro Tsunoda. Includes three episodes in total, including "Adulterous Death," which depicts a terrifying experience related to a ghost story told in an office.
The Haunted Curiosity Shop (1901)An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.
赤い報告書２ 密室の淫戯－ホテトル嬢殺人事件－ (1988)A hotelier killed a customer. The play in the hotel's closed room began with sudden violence. As if to ridicule the irresistible woman, a video camera or a horrendous torture device set up by the customer was being used. And then.., When the physical humiliation tore into the woman's heart, she turned into a weapon.
Ribspreader (2022)Decades after his career as a tobacco advertising icon, Bryan Burns’ life is in ruins. After his mother dies of lung cancer, he is tormented by a talking cigarette on an anti-smoking billboard. He snaps and transforms into the Ribspreader, a killer stalking the city, extinguishing smokers and cutting out their lungs to make his macabre smoking jacket.
Nessuna copertinaDavey Jones' Locker (1900)Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The legs separate and continue a dance while the body of the skeleton faces us and the skull moves its jaw bone. It rises and the legs rejoin the skull and body for an additional jig back and forth on deck.
Jeremy Dyson's Haunted Recordings (2012)Jeremy Dyson undertook some research for THE HAUNTED BOOK at Leeds Library. He decided to film the time he spent in this building, well-known for its ghostly happenings. These are those recordings.
Nessuna copertinaChinese Magic (1900)Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.
Nessuna copertinaThere Will Be ZombiesThe story takes place on the eve of Thai New Year, where Thai people celebrate the festival by splashing water on each other.
How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an automobile comes up the road, straight towards the camera. As it gets nearer, the occupants start to wave frantically, but can a collision be avoided?
The Accursed Urns (1969)A string of weird incidents occur in Kyoto. Elderly men die after their ocular nerves are burned when they peek into antique urns on the veranda at their homes. Part of "Operation: Mystery".
Nessuna copertinaFaust and Marguerite (1900)Marguerite is seated in front of the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to behead the fair Marguerite. Faust refuses, whereupon Mephistopheles draws the sword across the throat of the lady and she suddenly disappears and Faust is seated in her place.
Nessuna copertinaThe Troublesome Fly (1900)A huge fly is bothering an old gentleman, who is trying to take a nap. The old gentleman, after standing the torment as long as he can, jumps up and taking a shot-gun, fires at the fly and blows it to pieces, then goes back to bed to sleep in peace. The idea is a very good one, and is very well worked out.
Uncle Josh's Nightmare (1900)Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing film using a stationary camera much more valuable for its historical, rather than entertainment value.
Shadow of a Doubt (1961)Sit Muk-fu covets the beauty of the maidservant Ku Kar-lin. Ku concocts a scheme with her husband Wong Hoi to swindle money out of the lascivious man and has to flee into hiding with Sit being stabbed to death during their secret liaison. Detector Lui Hak investigates into the murder at Ku's house and arrests the husband who has a sharp knife in his possession. Bearing witness to the murder, their daughter Bo-bo fights to prove her father's innocence. Upon receiving a score of mysterious phone calls revealing Ku's whereabouts, Lui lures the woman out with Bo-bo as bait, subduing and detaining the suspect. The detective fathoms the mystery of the murder case which leads him to another suspect, But Kei. But has been extorting money from Sit and forces his daughter, the sole heir to his inheritance, into marriage in return for concealing his murder-for-money scheme. But submits to arrest without resistance while Ku and husband walk free, acquitted of the charges.
Turn-of-the-Century Surgery (1900)George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch the night before an operation. In this clinic, a sign pleads “On est prie de ne pas crier/Please do not cry”, and the doctors set about the patient with saws, cheerily hacking off limbs, and then slopping them into a bucket, all the while arguing ferociously with each other. They then reattach arms and legs from a bucket of “exchange pieces” (using glue) before re-animating their victim, I mean patient, with bellows. (from http://silentlondon.co.uk/2015/01/23/10-disgusting-moments-in-silent-cinema/)
When the Night Breaks (1973)In a bustling shopping district, a humble tailor accompanies his daughter for an afternoon out — until a trio of thugs begin harassing her in broad daylight. Unable to stay passive amidst the crowd’s indifference, he intervenes with tragic results. Two years later, having served time for excessive self-defense, he remains haunted by both the violence and the apathy of society. A veteran detective, still unsettled by the case, notices the tailor quietly providing money to the same thugs. What drives him? A modern horror tale with social undertones, adapted from Futaro Yamada’s short story “The Black Curtain,” this episode merges psychological unease, moral ambiguity, and a chilling critique of bystander indifference.
Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel (1900)Uncle Josh checks into a hotel, presumably to get a better nights rest than he gets at home. Of course the way bad luck follows Josh around we know this is a forlorn hope. Sure enough, quicker than you can say "Georges Méliès" a ghost pops up to make sure Uncle Josh is denied a good nights rest.
Single Black Female 3: The Final Chapter (2025)After being wrongfully arrested for murder, Monica has finally been proven innocent. All charges have been dropped and the police have shifted their focus to Simone, who has seeming disappeared. But Simone is bonding with her daughter Joy.
Nessuna copertinaThe Prince of Darkness (1900)In this picture some very remarkable effects are obtained by the reversal of the motion of the negative. A man comes home, somewhat under the influence of liquor, and starts to remove his outer clothes. As fast as he removes each article and throws it from him, it immediately flies back, and when he is completely bewildered by this weird proceeding, His Satanic Majesty suddenly appears, and the man collapses.
The Edge of Fear (1967)One by one, the Urdaz family is plagued by a series of mysterious disappearances, starting with the tyrannical father that everyone fears.
A Visit to the Spiritualist (1899)A countryman goes to see a spiritualist and is frightened by what he sees.
Nessuna copertinaThe DesignerGerry's need for an identity pushes her to join the massive multi-level marketing company, Kismetta, opening her up to a world of chaos that succumbs her to her own delusional reality.
