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 …
