Carnival of souls USA, 1962 Genre: Suspense, horror Director: Herk Harvey Screenwriter: John Clifford Soundtrack composer: Gene Moore Production: Herk Harvey (Harcourt Productions) Cinematography: Maurice Prather Starring: Candace Hilligoss (Mary Henry) Frances Feist Sidney Berger Art Ellison Stan Levitt Tom McGinnis Forbes Caldwell Dan Palmquist Bill de Jarnette Pamela Ballard …
Dementia 13 USA, 1963 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Screenwriter:Francis Ford Coppola (with uncredited contributions by Jack Hill and Al Locatelli). Soundtrack composer:Ronald Stein Editor:Stuart O’Brien (with contributions by Morton Tubor) Producer:Roger Corman Starring: William Campbell (Richard Haloran) Luana Anders (Louise Haloran) Bart Patton (Billy Haloran) Mary Mitchel (Kane) Patrick Magee …
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (O.V. “Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens”) Germany, 1922 Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Script: Henrik Galeen Main actors:Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach Genre: Horror Plot 1838. Young Hutter, happily married to Ellen, works for a real estate agency in the German town …
White Zombie USA, 1932 Director: Victor Halperin Screenplay: Garnett Weston Cast: Béla Lugosi, John Harron, Madge Bellamy, Robert Frazer Genre: Horror Plot Neal and Madeleine, Americans visiting Haiti, come to the castle of Mr. Beaumont, whom they met during the boat trip to the island. The young couple is about …
Frankenstein USA, 1931 Director: James Whale Genre: Horror, literary adaptation Screenplay: Garrett Fort, Francis Edward Faragoh Main actors: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles Plot Henry Frankenstein is an ambitious scientist who has set out to conduct an important experiment. Along with his assistant the hunchback Fritz is …
The Bride of Frankenstein USA, 1935 Director: James Whale Screenplay: William Hurlbut Screenplay: Garrett Fort Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester Plot One stormy night, the famous English poet Lord Byron finds himself in a castle with the married couple formed by his writer friends Percy B. …
Dracula USA, 1931 Director: Tod Browning Genre: Horror, literary adaptation Script: Garrett Fort Cast: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan Plot British lawyer Renfield travels to a remote corner of deep Transylvania to meet an eccentric aristocrat who lives in an old castle. The two …
Virgin among the living dead (V.O. Une vierge chez les morts vivants) France, 1973 Director: Jesús Franco Genre: Horror Plot Christina (Christina von Blanc) is a young orphan who arrives at a castle in the countryside to meet her relatives and collect an inheritance. Her father has hanged himself shortly …
Naked Blood (V.O. Nekeddo Buraddo: Megyaku) Japan, 1996 Director: Hisayasu Sato Genre: Horror/Science Fiction/Gore Screenplay: Taketoshi Watari Cast: Misa Aika, Yumika Hayashi, Mika Kirihara, Sadao Abe Plot Young Eiji manufactures a serum to “turn pain into pleasure”, with which he intends to “save humanity”. He calls this drug “My Son”. …
Rampo Noir (O.V. Ranpo Jigoku) Japan, 2005 Directors: Akio Jissoji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Sato, Suguru Takeuchi Genre: Horror, ero-guro Plot The film is divided into four unrelated segments. “The Mars Canal” – Very brief, these are dreamlike sequences of a tormented individual escaping naked through a rocky landscape while recalling …
