101 Horrors you must see before you die

Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari [Germany]

Director: Robert Wiene
Producers: Rudolf Meinert, Erich Pommer
Script: Hans Janowitz, Carl Mayer
Photo: Willy Hameister
Music: Alfredo Antonini, Giuseppe Becce
Starrings: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Rudolf Lettinger

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep. When Alan asks Cesare about his future, Cesare answers that he will die before dawn. The next morning Alan is found dead. Francis suspects Cesare of being the murderer, and starts spying on him and Dr. Caligari. The following night Cesare is going to stab Jane in her bed, but softens when he sees the beautiful woman, and instead of committing another murder, he abducts her. Jane's father awakens because of the noise, and he and some servants follow the fleeing Cesare. When Cesare cannot outrun his pursuers anymore, he gently places Jane down on the ground, and runs away. Francis and the police investigate the caravan of Dr. Caligari, but the doctor succeeds in slipping away. Francis pursues the fleeing Dr. Caligari, and sees him disappear into a madhouse. Francis enters the madhouse, where he is sure he will find the truth behind all these mysterious events.

Remake...
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2005)

Der Golem [Germany]

Directors: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener
Producer: Paul Davidson
Script: Henrik Galeen, Paul Wegener
Photo: Karl Freund, Guido Seeber
Music: Hans Landsberger
Starrings: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Hans Strüm, Lothar Müthel, Ernst Deutsch, Max Kronert, Otto Gebühr, Dore Paetzold, Listal, Loni Nest

Like all German expressionistic films of the era, Der Golem benefits greatly from it's style. The sets, the lighting, the atmosphere, the music and everything make sure that the film always has a nice setting to work it's story from and as a big of fan of atmosphere anyway, I found this to be a very favourable aspect of the movie. However, for a movie to truly work it must find a happy medium between it's style and it's substance, and although the story behind Der Golem certainly has some meaning and a message behind it, it is not portrayed in a way that is interesting enough to keep itself afloat, and that is the film's primary downfall. The plot follows a Rabbi who creates a giant figure out of clay (the Golem), which he plans to breathe life into by way of an evil god. However, the Rabbi's assistant has other plans for the Golem, and sets about ordering it to carry out criminal acts, including the kidnapping of it's creator's daughter; Miriam.

Other...
The Golem (Der Golem) (1915)

Nosferatu [Germany]

Director: F.W. Murnau
Producers: Enrico Dieckmann, Albin Grau
Script: Henrik Galeen (from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula)
Photo: Fritz Arno Wagner
Music: Hans Erdmann
Starrings: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach, Georg H.Schnell

Wisbourg, Germany based estate agent Knock dispatches his associate, Hutter, to Count Orlok's castle in Transylvania as the Count wants to purchase a isolated house in Wisbourg. They plan on selling him the one across the way from Hutter's own home. Hutter leaves his innocent wife, Ellen, with some friends while he is away. Hutter's trek is an unusual one, with many locals not wanting to take him near the castle where strange events have been occurring. Once at the castle, Hutter does manage to sell the Count the house, but he also notices and feels unusual occurrences, primarily feeling like there is a dark shadow hanging over him, even in the daytime when the Count is unusually asleep. Hutter eventually sees the Count's sleeping chamber in a crypt, and based on a book he has recently read, believes the Count is really a vampire or Nosferatu. While Hutter is trapped in the castle, the Count, hiding in a shipment of coffins, makes his way to Wisbourg, causing death along his way, which most attribute to the plague. Hutter himself tries to rush home to save his town and most importantly save Ellen from Nosferatu's imminent arrival. In Wisbourg, Ellen can feel the impending darkness as Nosferatu gets closer. But she learns that a sinless woman can sacrifice herself to kill the vampire. Will Hutter be able to save Ellen either from Nosferatu and/or her self-sacrifice?

Remake...
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Häxan [Denmark, Sweden]

Director:Benjamin Christensen
Script: Benjamin Christensen
Photo: John Ankerstjerne
Music: Launy Grøndahl
Starrings: Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Benjamin Christensen, Elith Pio, Oscar Stribolt, Tora Teje, John Andersen, Poul Reumert, Karen Winther, Kate Fabian, Else Vermehren

The writer and director Benjamin Christensen discloses a historical view of the witches through the seven parts of this silent movie.
In the beginning, there is a slide-show alternating intertitles with drawings and paintings to illustrate the explanations of the behavior of pagan cultures and in the Middle Ages regarding their vision of demons and witches.
Then there is a dramatization of the situation of the witches in the Middle Ages, with the witchcraft and the witch-hunts.
Finally Benjamin Christensen compares the behavior of hysteria of the modern women of 1921 with the behavior of the witches in the Middle Ages, concluding that they are very similar.
"Häxan" is incredibly perfect for a for a 1922 movie. Like in a thesis, he exposes his point of view based in his study of the theme along the time. The reconstitution of the witches in the Middle Ages is amazing. The last part with the comparison with the hysteric women is funny in 2010, but it was the reality in 1921. My vote is eight.

The Phantom Of The Opera [USA]

Director: Rupert Julian
Producer: Carl Laemmle
Script: Raymond L. Schrock, Elliott J. Clawson (from a novel by Gaston Leroux)
Photo: Virgil Miller, Charles Van Enger
Starrings: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis, Snitz Edwards, Olive Ann Alcorn

One of the most eminent horror films ever made and perhaps even the most famous silent horror movie from that time. Lon Chaney starred in over 150 films (most of them silent ones) but he'll always be remembered best for his personification of Erik, the Phantom. And justified! Even though this role was played by many respectable actors afterwards (like Claude Rains, Herbert Lom and Robert Englund) Lon Chaney is – and remains – the one and only Phantom of the Opera. The film itself is depressing and dark, with terrific photography and settings. Deep down the catacombs of the Parisian Opera building, the phantom reigns in forgotten dungeons and underground lakes. After all these years of dwelling in the opera, he has fallen in love with the unsuccessful singer, Christine. He helps her career a little and threatens to kill the prominent singer Carlotta if she doesn't hand over the her role in Faust to Christine. The until then unknown singer is thankful and meets her `master' in the catacombs. Her appreciation soon turns into fear when she finds out her benefactor is the horribly scarred Phantom of the Opera. The biggest difference between this first version and the later remakes lies in the roots of the Phantom. Here, Erik is said to be an escaped madman whereas he merely only was a hurt romanticist in later versions. His deformed appearance isn't explained and neither is shown how he falls for the beautiful, shy Christine.

Others...
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
Phantom of the Opera (Il fantasma dell'opera) (1998)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Dracula [USA]

Director: Tod Browning
Producers: Tod Browning, Carl Laemmle Jr.
Script: Garrett Fort, Dudley Murphy (form the novel by Bram Stoker)
Photo: Karl Freund
Starrings: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan

After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire. Renfield is drugged by the eerily hypnotic count, and turned into one of his thralls, protecting him during his sea voyage to London. After sucking the blood and turning the young Lucy Weston into a vampire, Dracula turns his attention to her friend Mina Seward, daughter of Dr. Seward who then calls in a specialist, Dr. Van Helsing, to diagnose the sudden deterioration of Mina's health. Van Helsing, realizing that Dracula is indeed a vampire, tries to prepare Mina's fiance, John Harker, and Dr. Seward for what is to come and the measures that will have to be taken to prevent Mina from becoming one of the undead.

Other Dracula movies...
Horror of Dracula (Dracula) (1958)
Dracula (1979)
Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula) (1992)
Dracula 3D (2012)

M [Germany]

Director: Fritz Lang
Producer: Seymour Nebenzal (uncredited)
Script: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang
Photo: Fritz Arno Wagner (scenography by Emil Hasler)
Starrings: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Ellen Widmann, Gustaf Gründgens, Theodor Loos, Inge Landgut, Friedrich Gnaß, Fritz Odemar

There have been a rash of child abductions and murders in a German town. The murderer lures the children into his confidence by candy and other such child friendly items. Everyone is on edge because the murderer has not been caught. The most substantial pieces of evidence the police have are hand written letters by the murderer which he sent to the newspaper for publication. Unknown even to himself, a blind beggar, who sold the murderer a balloon for one of the child victims, may have key information as to the murderer's identity. The murder squad's work is made even more difficult with the large number of tips they receive from the paranoid public, who are quick to accuse anyone of suspicious activity solely for their own piece of mind that someone - anyone - is apprehended for the heinous crimes. Conversely, many want to take the case into their own hands, including the town's leading criminals since the increased police presence has placed a strain on their ability to conduct criminal activity. Although they both have the same end goal of capturing the murderer, the police and the criminals seem to be working at cross purposes, which may provide an edge to the murderer in getting away.

Frankenstein [USA]

Director: James Whale
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Script: Francis Edward Faragoh, Garrett Fort (from a novel by Mary Shelley)
Photo: Arthur Edeson
Music: Bernhard Kaun
Starrings: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan, Frederick Kerr, Dwight Frye, Lionel Belmore, Marilyn Harris

Henry Frankenstein is a brilliant scientist who has been conducting experiments on the re-animation of lifeless bodies. He has conducted experiments on small animals and is now ready to create life in a man he has assembled from body parts he has been collecting from various sites such as graveyards or the gallows. His fiancée Elizabeth and friend Victor Moritz are worried about his health as he spends far too many hours in his laboratory on his experiments. He's successful and the creature he's made come to life is gentle but clearly afraid of fire. Henry's father, Baron Frankenstein, bring his son to his senses and Henry agrees that the monster should be humanely destroyed. Before they can do so however, the monster escapes and in its innocence, kills a little girl. The villagers rise up intent on destroying the murdering creature.

Other Frankenstein movies...
Frankenstein (1910)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Frankenstein (1994)

Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [USA]

Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Producer: Adolph Zukor
Script: Percy Heath, Samuel Hoffenstein (based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel)
Photo: Karl Struss
Music: Arrangement by Herman Hand
Starrings: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert, Halliwell Hobbes

Henry "Harry" Jekyll is a well respected member of London society. In his personal life, he is pre-engaged to Muriel Carew, the daughter of a brigadier general. In his professional life, he is a medical doctor, scientist and academician. He theorizes that in each man is a good side and an evil side which can be separated into two. In doing so, the evil side can be controlled and the good side can live without worry, in combination leading to the betterment of society. In his experiments, he uses himself as the subject to test his hypothesis. His evil side, who he coins Mr. Hyde, escapes into London, and terrorizes party-girl Ivy Pierson. Jekyll, aware of Hyde's goings-on, decides to stop his experiments because of the suffering he has caused Ivy. What Jekyll is unaware of is how ingrained Hyde is in Jekyll's life.

Others...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

Freaks [USA]

Director: Tod Browning
Script: Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon
Photo: Merritt B. Gerstad
Starrings: Harry Earles, Olga Baclanova, Wallace Ford, Daisy Earles, Johnny Eck, Prince Randion, Daisy Hilton, Violet Hilton, Leila Hyams, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor, Rose Dione, Josephine Joseph

A carnival barker displays a sideshow freak called the Feathered Hen and tells her story. Cleopatra, a trapeze artist with the carnival, is adored by a midget named Hans. Frieda, Hans' fiancée (also a midget), warns Hans that Cleopatra is only interested in him so that he will give her money. Cleopatra has an affair with Hercules, and when Frieda lets it slip that Hans is to come into an inheritance, Cleopatra and Hercules plan to get the money be having Cleopatra marry Hans. During the wedding reception, Cleopatra, although openly romantic with Hercules, is accepted by the freaks, but is revolted and mocks them. The freaks decide that they no longer need Hercules in their carnival and have a new career for Cleopatra all lined up, and make sure she doesn't "chicken" out.

Remake...
Freakshow (2007)

Vampyr [France, Germany]

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Producers: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Julian West
Script: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Christen Jul (from the novel Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu)
Photo: Rudolph Maté, Louis Née
Starrings: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Jan Hieronimko, Sybille Schmitz, Rena Mandel, N. Babanini, Albert Bras

Young traveller Allan Grey arrives in a remote castle and starts seeing weird, inexplicable sights (a man whose shadow has a life of its own, a mysterious scythe-bearing figure tolling a bell, a terrifying dream of his own burial). Things come to a head when one of the daughters of the lord of the castle succumbs to anaemia - or is it something more sinister?

White Zombie [USA]

Director: Victor Halperin
Producers: Edward Halperin, Phil Goldstone
Script: Garnett Weston
Photo: Arthur Martinelli
Music: Guy Bevier, Xavier Cugat
Starrings: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer, John Harron, Brandon Hust, George Burr Macannan, John Printz, Dan Crimmins

Young couple Madeleine and Neil are coaxed by acquaintance Monsieur Beaumont to get married on his Haitian plantation. Beaumont's motives are purely selfish as he makes every attempt to convince the beautiful young girl to run away with him. For help Beaumont turns to the devious Legendre, a man who runs his mill by mind controlling people he has turned into zombies. After Beaumont uses Legendre's zombie potion on Madeleine, he is dissatisfied with her emotionless being and wants her to be changed back. Legendre has no intention of doing this and he drugs Beaumont as well to add to his zombie collection. Meanwhile, grieving 'widower' Neil is convinced by a local priest that Madeleine may still be alive and he seeks her out.

The Old Dark House [USA]

Director: James Whale
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Script: Benn W. Levy, R.C. Sherriff (from J. B. Priestley's novel Benighted)
Photo: Arthur Edeson
Music: David Broekman
Starrings: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore, Gloria Stuart, Raymond Massey

Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Trying to make the best of it, the guests must deal with their sepulchral host, Horace Femm and his obsessive, malevolent sister Rebecca. Things get worse as the brutish manservant Morgan gets drunk, runs amuck and releases the long pent-up brother Saul, a psychotic pyromaniac who gleefully tries to destroy the residence by setting it on fire.

Remake...
The Old Dark House (1963)

Island Of Lost Souls [USA]

Director: Erle C. Kenton
Producer: Erle C. Kenton
Script: Philip Wylie, Waldemar Young (from H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr Moreau)
Photo: Karl Struss
Music: Arthur Johnston, Sigmund Krumgold
Starrings: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Kathleen Burke, Leila Hyams

After his ship goes down, Edward Parker is rescued at sea. Parker gets into a fight with Captain Davies of the Apia and the Captain tosses him overboard while making a delivery to the tiny tropical island of Dr. Moreau. Parker discovers that Moreau has good reason to be so secretive on his lonely island. The doctor is a whip-cracking task master to a growing population of his own gruesome human/animal experiments. He does have one prize result, Lota the beautiful panther woman. Parker's fortunes for escape look up after his fiancée Ruth finds him with the help of fearless Captain Donohue. However, when Moreau's tribe of near-humans rises up to rebel, no one is safe...

Remake...
Island of Lost Souls (2007)

King Kong [USA]

Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Producers: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, David O. Selznick
Script: James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose
Photo: Eddie Linden, Eddie Linden, Vernon Walker (special effects by Willis O'Brien)
Music: Max Steiner
Starrings: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot

Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann is it's grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts.

Sequel...
The Son of Kong (1933)
Remakes...
King Kong (1976)
King Kong Lives (1986)
King Kong (2005)
Other King Kong movies...
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
King Kong Escapes (1967)

The Black Cat [USA]

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Producer: E.M. Asher (uncredited)
Script: Edgar G. Ulmer, Peter Ruric
Photo: John J Mescall
Music: Heinz Roemheld
Starrings: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop, Egon Brecher

Honeymooning in Hungary, Joan and Peter Allison share their train compartment with Dr. Vitus Verdegast, a courtly but tragic man who is returning to the remains of the town he defended before becoming a prisoner of war for fifteen years. When their hotel-bound bus crashes in a mountain storm and Joan is injured, the travellers seek refuge in the home, built fortress-like upon the site of a bloody battlefield, of famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig. There, cat-phobic Verdegast learns his wife's fate, grieves for his lost daughter, and must play a game of chess for Allison's life.

More...
The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
The Black Cat (1941)
Crimes of the Black Cat (1972)

The Bride Of Frankenstein [USA]

Director: James Whale
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Script: William Hurlbut, John L. Balderston
Photo: John J. Mescall
Music: Franz Waxman
Starrings: Colin Clive, Ernest Thesiger, Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Valerie Hobson, Gavin Gordon, Douglas Walton, Dwight Frye, Una O'Connor, E.E. Clive, Lucien Prival

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature, a woman, to be the companion of the monster.

Other Frankenstein movies...
Frankenstein (1910)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Frankenstein (1994)

The Wolf Man [USA]

Director: George Waggner
Producer: Jack Gross
Script: Curt Siodmak
Photo: Joseph A. Valentine
Music: Charles Previn, Hans J. Salter and Frank Skinner
Starrings: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, Evelyn Ankers, Patric Knowles, J.M. Kerrigan

Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with village girl Jenny Williams, who is attacked by Bela, a gypsy who has turned into a werewolf. Larry kills the werewolf but is bitten during the fight. Bela's mother tells him that this will cause him to become a werewolf at each full moon. Larry confesses his plight to his unbelieving father, Sir John, who then joins the villagers in a hunt for the wolf. Larry, transformed by the full moon, heads for the forest and a fateful meeting with both Sir John and Gwen.

More...
Werewolf of London (1935)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
She-Wolf of London (1946)
Remake...
The Wolfman (2010)

Cat People [USA]

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Producer: Val Lewton
Script: DeWitt Bodeen
Photo: Nicholas Musuraca (scenography by Albert S. D'Agostino, Walter E. Keller, special effects by Vernon L. Walker)
Music: Roy Webb
Starrings: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Tom Conway, Jack Holt

Irena Dubrovna, a beautiful and mysterious Serbian-born fashion artist living in New York City, falls in love with and marries average-Joe American Oliver Reed. Their marriage suffers though, as Irena believes that she suffers from an ancient curse- whenever emotionally aroused, she will turn into a panther and kill. Oliver thinks that is absurd and childish, so he sends her to psychiatrist Dr. Judd to cure her. Easier said than done...

Sequel...
The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Remake...
Cat People (1982)

I Walked With A Zombie [USA]

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Producer: Val Lewton
Script: Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray
Photo: J. Roy Hunt (scenography by Albert S. D'Agostino and Walter E. Keller)
Music: Roy Webb
Starrings: Tom Conway, Frances Dee, James Ellison, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Christine Gordon, Theresa Harris, Sir Lancelot

A young Canadian nurse (Betsy) comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager (Paul Holland). Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever. When she falls in love with Paul, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give Paul what she thinks he wants.

Remakes...
Ritual
I Walked with a Zombie (2011)

Les Diaboligues [France]

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Producer: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Script: Jérôme Géronimi, Frédéric Grendel, René Masson(based on a novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac)
Photo: Armand Thirard
Music: Georges Van Parys
Starrings: Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Véra Clouzot

In a French provincial town, Michel Delassalle, a sadistic headmaster of a school belonging to his wife Christina, a fragile young woman with a weak heart, carries on an affair with Nicole Horner, a strong, forceful teacher who has been his mistress from the day she arrived. He has, however, treated her as badly as his wife, and the two women have been driven into an alliance against him. Together they work out an elaborate plan to rid themselves of their common tormentor. Luring him away from the school to Nocole's cheap lodging house, they induce him to drink some doctored whiskey - and drown him in a bath. The body is later wrapped in a nylon tablecloth, packed into a laundry basket, taken back to the school, and at dark tipped into the grimy water of the school swimming pool. When, shortly after, the pool is drained, watched in anguished expectation from a window by the women, no corpse is there. Soon other mysterious events begin to occur.

Remake...
Diabolique (1996)

The Bad Seed [USA]

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Producer: Mervyn LeRoy
Script: John Lee Mahin (based on a play by Maxwell Anderson)
Photo: Hal Rosson
Starrings: Patty McCormack, Nancy Kelly, William Hopper, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Varden, Henry Jones, Jesse White, Paul Fix, Gage Clarke, Joan Croydon, Frank Cady

Christine Penmark seems to have it all: a lovely home, a loving husband and the most "perfect" daughter in the world. But since childhood, Christine has suffered from the most terrible recurring nightmare. And her "perfect" daughter's accomplishments include lying, theft and possibly much, much worse. Only Christine knows the truth about her daughter and only Christine's father knows the truth about her nightmare.

Remake...
The Bad Seed (1985)

The Curse Of Frankenstein [UK]

Director: Terence Fisher
Producers: Anthony Hinds, Max Rosenberg
Script: Jimmy Sangster (based on Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein)
Photo: Jack Asher
Music: James Bernard
Starrings: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Robert Urquhart, Melvyn Hayes, Valerie Gaunt

In prison and awaiting execution, Dr. Victor Frankenstein recounts to a priest what led him to his current circumstance. He inherited his family's wealth after the death of his mother when he was still only a young man. He hired Paul Krempe as his tutor and he immediately developed an interest in medical science. After several years, he and Krempe became equals and he developed an interest in the origins and nature of life. After successfully re-animating a dead dog, Victor sets about constructing a man using body parts he acquires for the purpose including the hands of a pianist and the brain of a renowned scholar. As Frankenstein's excesses continue to grow, Krempe is not only repulsed by what his friend has done but is concerned for the safety of the beautiful Elizabeth, Victor's cousin and fiancée who has come to live with them. His experiments lead to tragedy and his eventual demise.

More Frankenstein movies...
Frankenstein (1910)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Frankenstein (1994)

Horror Of Dracula [UK]

Director: Terence Fisher
Producer: Anthony Hinds
Script: Jimmy Sangster (based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula )
Photo: Jack Asher
Music: James Bernard
Starrings: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, John Van Eyssen, Carol Marsh, Melissa Stribling, Charles Lloyd Pack, Olga Dickie

Jonathan Harker takes employment with Count Dracula, ostensibly to catalog his vast library. In fact, he is on a mission to kill the Count, a vampire. Before he can do so however, the Count gains the upper hand and Harker soon finds himself as one of the walking dead. Dracula has taken an interest in Harker's fiancée, Lucy Holmwood and it is left to Harker's colleague, Dr. Van Helsing to protect her. He has difficulty convincing Lucy's brother, Arthur Holmwood, of the dangers or even the existence of vampires. Soon, however, Arthur's wife Mina is targeted by Count Dracula and he and Van Helsing race to find his lair before she is lost to them forever.

More Dracula movies...
Dracula (1979)
Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula) (1992)
Dracula 3D (2012)

The Tingles [UK]

Director: William Castle
Producer: William Castle
Script: Robb White
Photo: Wilfred Cline
Music: Von Dexter
Starrings: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln, Philip Coolidge, Richard Barthelmess, Gail Bonney, William Castle, Pat Colby, Amy Fields, Bob Gunderson

Dr. Warren Chapin is a pathologist who regularly conducts autopsies on executed prisoners at the State prison. He has a theory that fear is the result of a creature that inhabits all of us. His theory is that the creature is suppressed by our ability to scream when fear strikes us. He gets a chance to test his theories when he meets Ollie and Martha Higgins, who own and operate a second-run movie theater. Martha is deaf and mute and if she is unable to scream, extreme fear should make the creature, which Chapin has called the Tingler, come to life and grow. Using LSD to induce nightmares, he begins his experiment.

Les Yeux Sans Visage [Italy, France]

Director: Georges Franju
Producer: Jules Borkon
Script: Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Claude Sautet (based on Jean Redon's novel)
Photo: Eugen Schuftan
Music: Maurice Jarre
Starrings: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, François Guérin, Alexandre Rignault, Juliette Mayniel

A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter Christiane, whose face has been entirely spoiled in a car crash. All the experiments fail, and the victims die, but Génessier keeps trying...

Remake...
Madness (1994)

Peeping Tom [UK]

Director: Michael Powell
Producer: Michael Powell
Script: Leo Marks
Photo: Otto Heller
Music: Brian Easdale
Starrings: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce, Miles Malleson, Shirley Anne Field, Pamela Green, Esmond Knight, Martin Miller, Michael Goodliffe, Jack Watson

As a boy, Mark Lewis was subjected to bizarre experiments by his scientist-father, who wanted to study and record the effects of fear on the nervous system. Now grown up, both of his parents dead, Mark works by day as a focus-puller for a London movie studio. He moonlights by taking girlie pictures above a news agent's shop. But Mark has also taken up a horrifying hobby: He murders women while using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. One evening, Mark meets and befriends Helen Stephens, a young woman who rents one of the rooms in his house. Does Helen represent some kind of possible redemption for Mark - or is she unknowingly running the risk of becoming one of his victims?

Psycho [USA]

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Script: Joseph Stefano (by Robert Bloch's novel Psycho)
Photo: John L. Russell
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Starrings: Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Simon Oakland, Vaughn Taylor, Frank Albertson

Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

Sequel...
Psycho II (1983)
Psycho III (1986)
Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
Remakes...
Psycho (1998)

La Maschera Del Demonio [Italy]

Director: Mario Bava
Producer: Massimo De Rita
Script: Ennio De Concini, Mario Serandrei (based on Vij by Nikolaj Gogol)
Photo: Mario Bava
Music: Roberto Nicolosi
Starrings: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Ivo Garrani, Andrea Checchi, Arturo Dominici, Enrico Olivieri, Antonio Pierfederici, Tino Bianchi

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant. Only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor stand in her way.

Movies by the same name...
Black Sunday (1977)
Black Sunday (1989)

The Innocents [UK]

Director: Jack Clayton
Producers: Jack Clayton, Albert Fennell
Script: William Archibald, Truman Capote (based Henry James short story The Turn of the Screw)
Photo: Freddie Francis
Music: Georges Auric
Starrings: Deborah Kerr, Martin Stephens , Pamela Franklin, Megs Jenkins, Peter Wyngarde, Michael Redgrave

In late 19th century England, a woman (Kerr) becomes governess of a small orphan girl living in a lonely stately home occupied only by the child, a housekeeper and a small complement of servants. Her initial misgivings allayed by the child's angelic nature, her anxieties are once more aroused when the girl's brother, equally captivating, is sent home from boarding school for wickedness of some unspecified kind. Eeerie apparitions and inexplicable behavior on the children's part cause her to wonder about the house's history, especially about the fate of the previous governess, Miss Jessel and the former valet, Peter Quint. She fears for the children's souls and for her own sanity. Eventually convinced that there is an unnatural force at work, perverting the innocence of her charges, she sets out to secure the children's salvation by wresting them from its power. Though her struggle reaches a resolution, its real nature and its outcome ultimately remain ambiguous.

Carnival Of Souls [USA]

Director: Herk Harvey
Producer: Herk Harvey
Script: John Clifford
Photo: Maurice Prather
Music: Gene Moore
Starrings: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt, Herk Harvey, Tom McGinnis, Forbes Caldwell, Dan Palmquist, Steve Boozer, Bill de Jarnette, Pamela Ballard

Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around in a car with two friends. When challenged to a drag, the women accept, but are forced off of a bridge. It appears that all are drowned, until Mary, quite some time later, amazingly emerges from the river. After recovering, Mary accepts a job in a new town as a church organist, only to be dogged by a mysterious phantom figure that seems to reside in an old run-down pavilion. It is here that Mary must confront the personal demons of her spiritual insouciance.

Remake...
Carnival of Souls (1998)

What ever happened to Baby Jane? [USA]

Director: Robert Aldrich
Producers: Robert Aldrich, Kenneth Hyman
Script: Lukas Heller (by Henry Farrell's novel by the same name)
Photo: Ernes Haller
Music: Frank De Vol
Starrings: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Maidie Norman, Wesley Addy, Julie Allred, Anne Barton, Marjorie Bennett, Bert Freed, Anna Lee

In a tale that almost redefines sibling rivalry, faded actresses Blanche and 'Baby' Jane Hudson live together. Jane was by far the most famous when she performed with their father in vaudeville but as they got older, it was Blanche who became the finer actress, which Jane still resents. Blanche is now confined to a wheelchair - Jane ran her over with the car while drunk, even though she has no memory of it - and Jane is firmly in control. As time goes by, Jane exercises greater and greater control over her sister, intercepting her letters and ensuring that few if anyone from the outside has any contact with her. As Jane slowly loses her mind, she torments her sister going to ever greater extremes.

The Birds [USA]

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Script: Evan Hunter (based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier)
Photo: Robert Burks
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Starrings: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies, Charles McGraw

Melanie Daniels is the modern rich socialite, part of the jet-set who always gets what she wants. When lawyer Mitch Brenner sees her in a pet shop, he plays something of a practical joke on her, and she decides to return the favor. She drives about an hour north of San Francisco to Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends the weekends with his mother Lydia and younger sister Cathy. Soon after her arrival, however, the birds in the area begin to act strangely. A seagull attacks Melanie as she is crossing the bay in a small boat, and then, Lydia finds her neighbor dead, obviously the victim of a bird attack. Soon, birds in the hundreds and thousands are attacking anyone they find out of doors. There is no explanation as to why this might be happening, and as the birds continue their vicious attacks, survival becomes the priority.

Sequel...
The Birds II: Land's End (1994)
Remake...
The Birds (2013)

The Haunting [USA]

Director: Robert Wise
Producers: Robert Wise, Denis Jonson
Script: Nelson Gidding (after Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House)
Photo: Davis Boulton
Music: Humphrey Searle
Starrings: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Fay Compton, Rosalie Crutchley

Located in a remote part of New England and isolated from any nearby community, Hill House is a 90-year-old, 19th century mansion with a long history of death and murder. When Dr. John Markway gets a chance to stay there for a few weeks, he sees an opportunity to study what is reportedly a genuine haunted house. With several other including Luke Sanderson, Eleanor 'Nell' Lance and a one-named woman named Theodora, they prepare to launch their experiments. Theo is there because of her ESP skills while Nell had a previous experience with a poltergeist and Luke represents the family that still owns Hill House. Soon after their arrival, the temporary occupants begin to face terrifying ordeals. Nell, who has lived a sheltered and repressed life life having spent all of her time caring for her recently deceased mother, is the clearly focus of the emanations and the haunting. She is both terrified ans comforted in Hill House and part of her wants to stay. The spirits seem to want to keep her as well.

Remake...
The Haunting (1999)

鬼婆 [Japan]

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Producers: Hisao Itoya, Tamotsu Minato, Setsuo Noto, Kazuo Kuwahara
Script: Kaneto Shindô
Photo: Kiyomi Kuroda
Music: Hikaru Hayashi
Starrings: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jûkichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama, Senshô Matsumoto, Kentaro Kaji, Hosui Araya, Fudeko Tanaka

After being forcefully inducted as a soldier into war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp. They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors, killing them and selling their belongings to a greedy merchant. The woman comes to mistrust her daughter-in-law who has coupled up with a deserter, and begins to wear a facial mask she has taken from a slain samurai. Soon the mask will not come off again. In this disguise she is at first taken for a demon by her daughter.

The Masque of the Red Death [UK]

Director: Roger Corman
Producer: Roger Corman
Script: Charles Beaumont, R. Wright Campbell (based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe)
Photo: Nicolas Roeg
Music: David Lee
Starrings: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee, Robert Brown, Julian Burton

Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites several dozen of the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. Prospero orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst a general atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a mysterious hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity.

Remake...
Masque of the Red Death (1989)

Repulsion [UK]

Director: Roman Polanski
Producer: Gene Gutowski
Script: Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach
Photo: Gilbert Taylor
Music: Chico Hamilton
Starrings: Catherine Deneuve, Yvonne Furneaux, John Fraser, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark, Renee Houston, Valerie Taylor, James Villiers, Helen Fraser, Hugh Futcher

A Belgian girl, Carol, works as a manicurist at a London beauty salon. While having lunch, a good looking young man, Colin, spots her and makes a date for another evening. She shares a flat with her sister Helen. Her sister's married lover, Michael, brings out her dislike of men which she cannot explain to Colin. Michael takes Helen abroad for a holiday. Left alone in their flat, Carol's moments of catalepsy and hallucination increase and deepen into madness.

Вий [USSR]

Director: Georgi Kropachyov, Konstantin Yershov
Script: Georgi Kropachyov, Aleksandr Ptushko, Konstantin Yershov
Photo: Viktor Pistjalnikov, Fjodor Provorov (special effects by Aleksandr Ptushko)
Music: Karen Chatjaturjan
Starrings: Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Aleksei Glazyrin, Nikolai Kutuzov

While losing himself, wandering home whilst on leave from his seminary, novice monk Khoma stays in the barn of an old woman. A scuffle breaks out. Later, he is summonsed to stand and prey over a young dead woman, in the local church, for three nights. It is here that while in the long, dark nights, of the locked doors, that the dead regain life, the souls of Hell taunt the young monk to near terrifying insanity and the test of Faith will be as powerful as the witches, monsters and the mighty demon Viy who haunt his every step and bay for his very soul.

Vargtimmen [Sweden]

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Producer: Lars-Owe Carlberg
Script: Ingmar Bergman
Photo: Sven Nykvist
Music: Lars Johan Werle
Starrings: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg, Gudrun Brost, Bertil Anderberg, Ingrid Thulin, Erland Josephson, Naima Wifstrand, Ulf Johansson, Lenn Hjortzberg

An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories.

Rosemary's Baby [USA]

Director: Roman Polanski
Producer: William Castle
Script: Roman Polanski (after Ira Levin's novel Rosemary's Baby)
Photo: William Fraker
Music: Christopher Komeda
Starrings: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Ralph Bellamy, Maurice Evans, Charles Grodin, Victoria Vetri, Patsy Kelly, Elisha Cook Jr.

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a building with a bad reputation. They discover that their neighbours are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a lot of time with them. Strange things start to happen: a woman Rosemary meets in the washroom dies a mysterious death, Rosemary has strange dreams and hears strange noises and Guy becomes remote and distant. Then Rosemary falls pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbours have special plans for her child.

Sequels...
Son of Rosemary(book)
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976)

The Devil Rides Out [UK]

Director: Terence Fisher
Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys
Script: Richard Matheson (after Dennis Wheatley's novel by the same name)
Photo: Arthur Grant
Music: James Bernard
Starrings: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Patrick Mower, Leon Greene, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Sarah Lawson, Paul Eddington

In the countryside of England, the Duc de Richleau a.k.a Nicholas welcomes his old friend Rex Van Ryn that has flown to meet him and Simon Aron, who is the son of an old friend of them that had passed away but charged them the task of watching the youngster. Nicholas and Rex unexpectedly visit Simon that is receiving twelve mysterious friends. Sooner Nicholas, who is proficient in black magic, learns that the guests are member of a satanic cult and Simon and his friend Tanith Carlisle will be baptized by the powerful leader Mocata to serve the devil. The two friends abduct Simon and Tanith expecting to save their souls but Mocata summons the Angel of Death and the Goat of Mendes to help him in a battle between the good and the forces of evil.

Night Of The Living Dead [USA]

Director: George A. Romero
Producers: Karl Hardman, Russell Streiner
Script: George A. Romero, John A. Russo
Photo: George A. Romero (make-up Karl Hardman, Vincent J. Guastini)
Starrings: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley, Russell Streiner

Chaos descends upon the world as the brains of the recently deceased become inexplicably reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh. Speculation rests on a radiation-covered NASA satellite returning from Venus, but it only remains a speculation. Anyone who dies during the crisis of causes unrelated to brain trauma will return as a flesh-eating zombie, including anyone who has been bitten by a zombie. The only way to destroy the zombies is to destroy the brain. As the catastrophe unfolds, a young woman visiting her father's grave takes refuge in a nearby farmhouse, where she is met by a man who protects her and barricades them inside. They both later discover people hiding in the basement, and they each attempt to cope with the situation. Their only hope rests on getting some gasoline from a nearby pump into a truck that is running on empty, but this requires braving the hordes of ravenous walking corpses outside. When they finally put their plans into action, panic and personal tensions only add to the terror as they try to survive.

Sequels by Romero...
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Land of the Dead (2005)
Diary of the Dead (2007)
Survival of the Dead (2009)
Sequels by Russo...
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)
Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993)
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (2005)
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005)
Remakes...
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)

Valerie A Tyden Divu [Czechoslovakia]

Director: Jaromil Jires
Producer: Jirí Becka
Script: Jaromil Jires, Ester Krumbachová (based on a novel by Vítezslav Nezval)
Photo: Jan Curik
Music: Lubos Fiser, Jan Klusák
Starrings: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prymek, Jan Klusák, Libuse Komancová, Karel Engel, Martin Wielgus

A thief awakens Valerie, just 13, taking earrings left to her by her mother. By morning, the earrings have been returned, Valerie's first period has begun, and a troupe and a missionary have arrived in her Medieval town. The thief is Orick; he reports to a cloaked constable who may also be the missionary. Attention to sexuality is everywhere: Valerie's grandmother's puritanical nature, the missionary's sermon to the town's virgins, the parish priest's attempt to seduce Valerie, and lusty adults at play. Valerie's nascent sexuality puts her in great danger. Can she navigate the passage from innocence to experience, a route teaming with vampires, a murderer, and an obscure family tree?

The Abominable Dr. Phibes [USA, UK]

Director: Robert Fuest
Producers: Ronald Dunas, Louis M. Heyward
Script: James Whiton, William Goldstein
Photo: Norman Warwick
Music: Basil Kirchin
Starrings: Vincent Price, Peter Jeffrey, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, Norman Jones , Terry-Thomas, Sean Bury, Susan Travers, David Hutcheson, Alex Scott

Doctors are being murdered in a bizarre manner: bats, bees, killer frog masks, etc., which represent the nine Biblical plagues. The crimes are orchestrated by a demented organ player with the help of his mute assistant. The detective is stumped until he finds that all of the doctors being killed assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of Dr. Phibes, but he couldn't be the culprit, could he? He was killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death...

Sequel...
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)

Les Lèvres Rouges [Belgium, France, Germany]

Director: Harry Kümel
Producers: Paul Collet, Henry Lange
Script: Pierre Drouot, Jean Ferry, Manfred R. Köhler, Harry Kümel
Photo: Eduard van der Enden
Music: François de Roubaix
Starrings: Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau, Georges Jamin, Paul Esser, Joris Collet, Fons Rademakers

A chic, good-looking and suitably 70's couple arrive at an extravagant and deserted seaside hotel after eloping. Stefan is wealthy and happily English, with a hidden streak of sadism, while Valarie is intelligent but of inferior (Swedish) blood. To keep her with him at the eerie hotel he lies consistantly about his relationship with his mother and his plans to tell her of their marriage. Meanwhile he has mysterious phone conversations with an older, dominant and pampered sissy. Two fresh guests arrive; the Hungarian countess, Elizabeth Bathory and her voluptuous protege, Ilona. Virgin corpses begin showing up about the city drained of their blood. A wary detective lurks around the hotel taunting his only suspect, the Countess.

Bracula [USA]

Director: William Crain
Producers: Samuel Z. Arkoff, Norman Herman, Joseph Naar
Script: Raymond Koenig, Joan Torres
Photo: John M. Stevens
Music: Gene Page
Starrings: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala, Gordon Pinsent, Charles Macaulay, Emily Yancy, Ted Harris, Lance Taylor Sr.

Blacula is the story of Manuwalde, an African Prince. This movie presents a modern version of the classic Dracula story in a very chilling and inventive way. In 1780, after visiting Count Dracula, Manuwalde is turned into a vampire and locked in a coffin.. The scene shifts to 1972, when two antique collectors transport the coffin to Los Angeles. The two men open the coffin and unleash Blacula on the city of Los Angeles. Blacula soon finds Tina, who is his wife, Luva, reincarnated, and gains her love. Tina's friend, Dr. Gordon, discovers Blacula is a vampire and hunts him down.

Sequel...
Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973)

The Last House On The Left [USA]

Director: Wes Craven
Producer: Sean S. Cunningham
Script: Wes Craven
Photo: Victor Hurwitz
Music: David Alexander Hess
Starrings: David Hess, Richard Towers , Cynthia Carr, Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, Jeramie Rain, Fred J. Lincoln, Marc Sheffler, Ada Washington, Marshall Anker, Martin Kove, Ray Edwards

On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Mari Collingwood tells her parents that she is going to the concert of underground band Bloodlust in New York with her friend Phyllis Stone. She borrows the family's car and heads with her friend to a dangerous neighborhood in the city. Meanwhile, the sadistic and cruel escapees Krug Stillo and Fred 'Weasel' Podowski are hidden in a hideout with their partners Sadie (Jeramie Rain) and Krug's addicted son Junior Stillo (Marc Sheffler) after killing two guards and one shepherd in their runaway. The two girls seek marijuana near the theater and meet Junior that offers some Colombian grass to them. They go to his apartment and are subdued by the criminals that rape Phyllis. On the next morning, they hide the girls in the trunk of their convertible and head to Canada. However, they have a problem with the car's rod and they stop on the road close to Mari's house...

Remake...
The Last House on the Left (2009)

Don't Look Now [Italy, UK]

Director: Nicolas Roeg
Producers: Peter Katz, Anthony B. Unger
Script: Allan Scott , Chris Bryant (based on Daphne Du Maurier novel)
Photo: Anthony B. Richmond
Music: Pino Donaggio
Starrings: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa

John and Laura Baxter's daughter Christine drowns in a lake on their English estate. They decide to move to Venice for a short time so John can work on the restoration of a historic church. Before moving down, they put their son, John Jr, in boarding school. In Venice John has lunch with Laura, who still hasn't fully recovered from the loss of their daughter. Laura helps an old lady at the next table when some dust gets in her eye. Her blind sister, claiming to be psychic, tells Laura she can see her daughter and that she is happy and close by. She also announces that John is psychic and he must leave Venice because he's in danger. Laura is happy with the revelation but John is skeptical with the elderly psychic. The couple get a call from their son's boarding school director telling them he had a minor accident. In the morning Laura travels home to be with their son. Meanwhile, John has an accident on the church scaffolding. Walking back to their hotel he sees Laura and the elderly sisters on a funeral gondola. He also sees someone wearing his daughter's red hooded cloak, the same one she wore the day she drowned. John decides to follow the gondola to find out if the sisters abducted his wife and to discover who is wearing the red cloak. A decision with tragic results

Remake...
Don't Look Now (2011)

The Exorcist [USA]

Director: William Friedkin
Producers: William Peter Blatty, Noel Marshall, David Salven
Script: William Peter Blatty (after his The Exorcist (1969))
Photo: Owen Roizman
Music: Michael Oldfield
Starrings: Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, William O'Malley

A movie actress taking up temporary residence in Washington D.C. has her troubles. The script for the movie she's filming seems inadequate. Her ex, who is also the father of her adolescent daughter, Regan, neglects to call the girl on her birthday. And the attic has rats. Meanwhile, Father Karras, a priest and a psychiatrist, is losing his faith; and he's dealing with a sick mother who needs medical care he hasn't the money to provide. Another priest, the old and ailing Father Merrin, has just returned from Iraq with forebodings of evil. These three persons meet when the sweet and cheerful Regan turns foul-mouthed and violent. But her sickness is beyond the reach of a medical doctor or a psychiatrist. What Regan needs is an exorcist.

Sequels...
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
The Exorcist III (1990)

The Wicker Man [UK]

Director: Robin Hardy
Producer: Peter Snell
Script: Anthony Shaffer
Photo: Harry Waxman
Music: Paul Giovanni
Starrings: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, Lindsay Kemp, Russell Waters, Aubrey Morris, Irene Sunters, Walter Carr, Ian Campbell, Leslie Blackater, Roy Boyd

Sergeant Neil Howie arrives on a Scottish island looking for a missing teenager girl, Rowan Morrison. The place belongs to Lord Summerisle and is famous because of their plantation of apples and other fruits and their harvest. Sgt. Howie realizes that the locals are pagans, practicing old rituals, and Rowan is probably alive and being prepared to be sacrificed. The end of the story is a tragic surprise.

Remake...
The Wicker Man (2006)
Followup...
The Wicker Tree (2010)