Science Fiction/Thrillers

A Bucket of Blood (1959)

Director Roger Corman's outrageous horror spoof starring Dick Miller as a coffeehouse busboy who accidentally kills a cat, covers it in plaster, and puts it on display. Hailed as a "new talent," Miller soon moves on to human subjects.

Director: Roger Corman

Cast: Judy Bamber, John Brinkley, Jhean Burton, Julian Burton, Antony Carbone, Burt Convy, Myrtle Damerel, Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Ed Nelson, John Shaner, Bruno Ve Sota

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 66 minutes.

All the Kind Strangers (1974)

Seven orphaned children living in a remote swamp decide to obtain "new" parents by abducting two strangers and holding them against their wills. Unsettling drama about a very different "family" stars Stacy Keach, Samantha Eggar, Robby Benson, and John Savage. AKA: "Evil in the Swamp."

Director: Burt Kennedy

Cast: Robby Benson, Brent Campbell, John Connell, Samantha Eggar, Arlene Sue Farber, Stacy Keach, Tim Parkison, Patti Parkison, John Savage

Thriller, Color, Runtime: 73 minutes.

Assignment Outer Space (1961)

When its guidance system fails, an orbiting space center veers out of control and threatens to smash Earth.

Director: Antonio Margheriti

Cast: Alain Dijon, Franco Fantasia, Gabriella Farinon, Aldo Pini, Joe Pollini, Archie Savage, Anita Todesco, Rik Van Nutter, Rik Von Nutter

Sci-Fi, Color, Runtime: 73 minutes.

Atom-Age Vampire (1960)

Italian-made shocker about a scientist who turns into a murdering beast in order to supply donors for his experiments to restore the scarred face of the woman he loves.

Director: Anton Giulio Majano

Cast: Sergio Fantoni, Rina Franchetti, Ivo Garrani, Alberto Lupo, Andrea Scotti

Horror, Black & White, Runtime:  87 minutes.

Attack From Space (1964)

Starman, the superhero from the Emerald Planet, returns to stop the Nazi-like forces of the Sapphire Galaxy from taking over the Earth in this mix of sci-fi action and martial arts.

Director: Koreyoshi Akasaka

Cast: Kan Hayashi, Junko Ikeuchi, Utako Mitsuya, Fumiko Miyata, Shoji Nakayama, Tomohiko Ohtani, Minoru Takada, Ken Utsui

Sci-Fi, Black & White, Runtime: 76 minutes.

Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

A dismal Southern swamp is the home for these bloodsucking behemoths who joyfully drain the poor white trash who live there. Produced by Roger Corman.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Cast: George Cisar, Ken Clark, Michael Emmet, Joseph Hamilton, Walter Kelley, Tyler McVey, Gene Roth, Jan Shepard, Bruno Ve Sota, Yvette Vickers, Daniel White

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 63 minutes.

Attack of the Monsters (1969)

Two precocious young boys steal aboard a flying saucer and are taken to a planet inhabited by brain-eating gals in silvery, skintight suits.

Director: Noriaki Yuasa

Cast: Miyuki Akiyama, Eijii Funakoshi, Yuko Hamada, Nobuhiro Kashima, Christopher Murphy, Kon Omura

Sci-Fi, Color, Runtime: 80 minutes.

Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)

A gang of gold thieves think they're safe once they reached their mountain hideout, unaware that the nearby cave is inhabited by a cobweb-covered "snow beast."

Director: Monte Hellman

Cast: Linn Ahlstrand, Wally Campo, Sheila Carol, Michael Forest, Kay Jennings, Christopher Robinson, Richard Sinatra, Frank Wolff

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 72 minutes.

Beast Of Borneo (1934)

Crazed scientist Eugene Sigaloff is out to prove his own evolutionary theory by conducting odd experiments on apes. He and his stunning assistant manage to persuade hunter John Preston to help them trap a wild ape to complete Sigaloff's tests, but when it becomes apparent to Preston that the man is insane, a dangerous struggle for survival ensues. Mae Stuart also stars.

Director: Harry Gordon

Cast: Doris Brook, Val Duran, Borneo Joe, orangutan, John S. Peters, John Preston, Alexander Schoenberg, Eugene Sigaloff, Mae Stuart

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 61 minutes.

Black Dragons (1942)

It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness and Dr. Melcher is condemned to a lifetime of imprisonment so the secret may die with him.

Director: William High

Cast: Joan Barclay, Robert Fiske, Robert Frazer, Bernard Gorcey, Kenneth Harlan, I. Stanford Jolley, Max Hoffman Jr., Bela Lugosi, Frank Melton, Irving Mitchell, Clayton Moore, George Pembroke, Edward Piel Sr.

Sci-Fi, Thriller, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.

The Black Raven (1943)

A lonely roadside inn welcomes Death as a guest in this chilling story of maniacal murders among some stranded travellers.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Byron Foulger, I. Stanford Jolley, Noel Madison, Wanda McKay, Robert Middlemass, Charlie Middleton, Bob Randall, Glenn Strange, George Zucco

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.

Blood Thirst (1965)

Mystifying mix of fright and spy thrills from the Philippines, as a woman becomes involved with sun cultists and seeks to retain her youth through ritual killings and bizarre experiments, and a secret agent must stop her. With Robert Winston, Yvonne Nielson. AKA: "Blood Seekers."

Director: Robert Hartford-Davis

Cast: Eddie Infante, Yvonne Nielson, Bruno Punzalan, Vic Silayan, Robert Winston

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 73 minutes.

Blood Tide (1981)

A primitive Greek island becomes the center of a series of bloody murders caused by a horrifying monster.

Director: Richard Jefferies

Cast: Lydia Cornell, Jose Ferrer, James Earl Jones, Lila Kedrova, Martin Kove, Deborah Shelton, Mary Louise Weller

Horror, Color, Runtime: 84 minutes.

Bloody Pit of Horror (1965) 

The owner of a creepy castle is possessed by the spirit of a crimson-tighted ancestor and terrorizes a photographer and his models in the dungeon.

Directors: Max Hunter, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig

Cast: Nando Angelini, Louise Barrett, Albert Gordon, Mickey Hargitay, Rita Klein, Femi Martin, Barbara Nelly, Alfred Rice, Moa Thai, John Turner, Ralph Zucker

Horror, Color, Runtime: 83 minutes.

Bloody Wednesday (1985)

A seemingly normal day in a suburban restaurant turns into a day of terror when a disturbed gunman enters and opens fire on everyone inside. When, why, and how did the killer lose his mind? Could this happen in a town near you? .

Director: Mark G Gilhuis

Cast: Teresa Mae Allen, Pamela Baker, Raymond Elmendorf, John Landtroop, Jeff O'Haco, Navarre Perry

Horror, Color, Runtime: 96 minutes.

Bluebeard (1944)

John Carradine stars in this harrowing tale about a 19th-century artist in Paris who cannot control his urge to kill his models once he has painted their portraits.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast: Iris Adrian, Nils Asther, John Carradine, Henry Kolker, Teala Loring, Emmett Lynn, Patti McCarty, Jean Parker, George Pembroke, Sonia Sorel, Ludwig Stossel

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 71 minutes.

Bowery At Midnight (1942)

Creepy mystery starring Bela Lugosi as a psychology professor who uses a mission as a front for his criminal deeds. When people become aware of his activities, Lugosi has them killed and buried in a basement, then revives them with a special drug.

Director: Wallace Fox

Cast: John Archer, Vince Barnett, John Berkes, Anna Hope, Lew Kelly, Bela Lugosi, J. Farrell McDonald, Wanda McKay, Ray Miller, Tom Neal, Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Wheeler Oakman, Lucille Vance

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 62 minutes.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1963)

A demented (but hopelessly romantic) surgeon keeps his fiancee's disembodied head alive after an auto accident while he searches for a body transplant "donor."

Director: Joseph Green

Cast: Doris Brent, Bruce Brighton, Leslie Daniel, Audrey Devereau, Jason Evers, Bruce Kerr, Adele Lamont, Virginia Leith, Lola Mason, Paula Maurice, Bonnie Shari

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 71 minutes.

Bride Of The Gorilla (1951)

Jungle action and voodoo terror in the African tropics, as doctor Raymond Burr marries beautiful Barbara Payton, only to find himself the victim of a man-beast's curse.

Director: Curt Siodmak

Cast: Raymond Burr, Paul Cavanagh, Lon Chaney Jr., Tom Conway, Martin Garralaga, Moyna MacGill, Paul Maxey, Barbara Payton, Felippa Rock, Woody Strode, Carol Varga, Giselle Werbisek

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 57 minutes.

Carnival Of Souls (1962)

A car plunges off a bridge, and a young woman emerges, apparently unscathed. Wandering off, her odyssey takes her to a strange small town and a carnival pavilion whose patrons walk the line between the living and the dead.

Director: Herk Harvey

Cast: Pamela Ballard, Sidney Berger, Steve Boozer, Art Ellison, Frances Feist, Herk Harvey, Candace Hilligoss, Stan Levitt, Tom McGinnis, Dan Palmquist, Larry Sneegas

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 83 minutes.

Cat People  (1942)

When naval construction designer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) sees Serbian born beauty Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon) at a zoo, he flirts with her, and soon they fall in love and marry. Complications arise because Irena believes she is the victim of an ancient Serbian curse that causes her to turn into a panther if a man tries to make love to her.

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 73 minutes.

Cathy's Curse (1977)

A family moves into a new house, only to find that their little girl has become possessed by the spirit of a dead relative. 

Director: Eddy Matalon

Cast: Randi Allen, Bryce Allen, Dorothy Davis, Sony Forbes, Bob Gerolami, Renee Girard, Mary Morter, Beverley Murray, Lisa Nickelt, Hubert Noel, Alan Scarfe, Roy Witham

Horror, Color, Runtime: 82 minutes.

The City of the Dead/Horror Hotel (1960)

A curious co-ed in pursuit of her history studies visits a ramshackle Massachusetts town that had been the site of witch burnings...and lands in the clutches of a coven that has risen from the ashes!

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Cast: William Abney, George Baxt, Ann Beach, Valentine Dyall, James Dyrenforth, Nickolas Grace, Maxine Holden, Patricia Jessel, Fred Johnson, Christopher Lee, Dennis Lotis, Norman Macowan, Tom Naylor, Betta St. John, Venetia Stevenson

Horror, Color, Runtime: 76 minutes.

Condemned To Live (1935)

Ralph Morgan stars as a kindly village doctor who fears he may be the vampire killer who's been stalking the town.

Director: Frank R. Strayer

Cast: Mischa Auer, Lucy Beaumont, Barbara Bedford, Edward Cecil, Pedro De Cordoba, Maxine Doyle, Robert Frazer, Russell Gleason, Marilyn Knowlden, Ralph Morgan, Ferdinand Schuman-Heink, Hedi Shope, Carl Stockdale, Paul Weigel

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 68 minutes.

Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977)

A spaceship intercepts a mysterious message and then crashes on the planet the message is being sent from. There they uncover a force that threatens to take over the Earth.

Director: Alfonso Brescia

Cast: John Richardson, Yanti Somer, West Buchanan, Katia Christine, Vassili Karis, Eleonora King, Percy Hogan, Giuseppe Fortis, Daniele Dublino, Romeo Costantini, Charles Borromel, Massimo Bonetti, Malisa Longo, Aldo Canti

Sci-Fi, Color, Runtime: 89 minutes.

Creature from the Haunted Sea  (1961)

When a Carribean Island is engulfed by a revolution, one unscrupulous American mobster, Renzo Capeto plans to clean up with a get-rich-quick scheme. His diabolical plan is to provide refuge for the loyalists, and the contents of the government coffers, on his boat. He would then murder his passenger and escape with a fortune. Planning to blame their deaths on a mythical sea monster, no one is more surprised than Renzo, when the real monster appears with its own agenda.

Director: Roger Corman

Cast: Edmundo Rivera Alvarez, Robert Bean, Antony Carbone, Roger Corman, Beach Dickerson, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Sonya Noemi, Edward Wain

Comedy, Crime, Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 75 minutes.

Deep Red (1975)

Dario Argento's striking terror tale involves a series of bizarre murders predicted by a dead psychic and probed by English jazz musician David Hemmings and reporter Daria Nicolodi. Delving into the case, the pair encounter a haunted house, a little girl who likes to impale lizards, and other creepy goings-on. Rated R

Director: Dario Argento

Cast: Aldo Bonamano, Clara Calamai, Giuliana Calandra, Nicoletta Elmi, Vittorio Fanfoni, David Hemmings, Geraldine Hooper, Gabriele Lavia, Glauco Mauri, Piero Mazzinghi, Furio Meniconi, Macha Meril, Daria Nicolodi, Eros Pagni, Lorenzo Piani, Salvatore Puntillo, Piero Vida

Horror, Color, Runtime: 101 minutes.

Daughter of Horror (1955)

Also known as Dementia. This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.

Director: John Parker

Cast: Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman, Richard Barron, Ed Hinkle, Lucille Rowland, Jebbie VeSota, Faith Parker, Gayne Sullivan, Shorty Rogers, Ed McMahon

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 55 minutes.

Dead Men Walk (1943)

George Zucco plays both mild-mannered Dr. Lloyd Clayton, who kills his "evil-twin" in self defense (played also by Zucco). Clayton's evil-twin comes back from the dead, exacting revenge of Dr Clayton's family. Dwight Frye (Dracula, Frankenstein) is the revivified Clayton's partner in this dastardly sibling rivalry.

Director: Sam Newfield

Cast: Mary Carlisle, Fern Emmett, Sam Flint, Dwight Frye, Hal Price, Robert Strange, Nedrick Young, George Zucco

Dementia 13 (1963)

Early directorial effort by Francis Ford Coppola is an eerie, bizarre story of madness, as a series of brutal axe murders occur on a Scottish island. Luana Anders, William Campbell, Patrick Magee star.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Luana Anders, William Campbell, Barbara Dowling, Eithne Dunne, Patrick Magee, Mary Mitchell, Derry O'Donovan, Bart Patton, Ron Perry, Peter Read, Karl Schanzer

Horror, Black & White, Runtime: 75 minutes.

Destroy All Planets (1968)

It's that mean, green flying machine, Gamera, back this time to save two youngsters from aliens and go up against Viras, a squid-like creature with three tentacles and six legs. AKA: "Gamera Versus Viras."

Director: Noriaki Yuasa

Cast: Carl Craig, Koji Fujiyama, Kojiro Hongo, Akira Natsuki, Peter Williams, Junko Yashiro

Sci-Fi, Color, Runtime: 90 minutes.

Detour (1945)

Made on pennies by Edgar G. Ulmer, this seedy story focuses on a New York night club pianist hitchhiking to L.A. who is picked up by an amiable gambler. When his rider dies of a heart attack, the pianist takes his wallet and dumps the body. But when he picks up a woman on the road, he finds himself in trouble because of her suspicions and reckless nature. Tom Neal and Ann Savage star.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast: Roger Clark, Claudia Drake, Pat Gleason, Esther Howard, Edmund MacDonald, Tom Neal, Tim Ryan, Ann Savage

Mystery, Black & White, Runtime: 68 minutes.

Dominique (1978)

Gripping horror tale follows evil millionaire Cliff Robertson as he plots to rid himself of his wife by subjecting her to a series of twisted mind games. After his efforts lead to her suicide, Robertson becomes plagued by mysterious visions and supernatural occurrences. Are his dastardly actions coming back to haunt him? With Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter. AKA: "Avenging Spirit," "Dominique Is Dead."

Director: Michael Anderson

Cast: Jenny Agutter, Leslie Dwyer, Judy Geeson, Michael Jayston, Jack McKenzie, Ron Moody, Cliff Robertson, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, David Tomlinson, Simon Ward, Jack Warner

Horror, Color, Runtime: 95 minutes.