Rebecca USA, 1940 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay: Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Genre: Drama, suspense Music: Franz Waxman. Editing: Hal C. Kern. Production: David O. Selznick. Main cast: Laurence Olivier (Maxim de Winter) Joan Fontaine (The second Mrs. de Winter) Judith …
I lunghi capelli della morte Italy, 1964 Director: Antonio Margheriti Screenwriters: Antonio Margheriti, Tonino Valerii (Story: Ernesto Gastaldi) Genre: Gothic horror Soundtrack composer: Carlo Rustichelli Production company: Cinegai S.p.A Main actors: Barbara Steele (Helen) Giorgio Ardisson (Kurt, Count Humboldt’s son) Halina Zalewska (Elisabeth, youngest daughter of the executed woman) Umberto …
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 …
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. …
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 …
