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| Black Cat, The (1934) |
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Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Synopsis: The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie film that was surprisingly morbid and perverse for its time. Peter (David Manners) and Joan Allison (Julie Bishop) are honeymooning in Budapest when they meet mysterious scientist Dr. Vitus Verdegast (Lugosi) aboard a train. When the trio's bus from the train station gets into an accident, the young couple accompanies Verdegast to the castle of the sp ... Read more
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| Black Devil Doll (2007) |
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Director: Jonathan Lewis
Synopsis: Heather thought that a Ouija board was nothing but an innocent child's game. Little did she know, this child's game would open a flaming door to hell and re-animate the soul of a recently executed black militant serial killer! With his spirit now trapped in the body of a trash-talking ventriloquist doll, Heather and her friends must fight off the unrelenting horrors and unspeakable deviant advances of a three foot killer with a taste for young flesh and warm blood. Can t ... Read more
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| Black Sheep (2006) |
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Director: Jonathan King
Synopsis: A genetic engineering experiment gone horribly awry turns a large flock of docile sheep into unrelenting killing machines in this rural horror comedy directed by Jonathan King and featuring special effects designed by Weta Workshop. When the death of his father and a stress-induced fear of sheep pushes him toward the edge of a nervous breakdown, skilled farmer Henry Oldfield leaves the family farm behind in a desperate bid to achieve inner peace. Upon returning to the fa ... Read more
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| Black Sunday (1960) |
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Director: Mario Bava
Synopsis: Generally considered to be the foremost example of Italian Gothic horror, this darkly atmospheric black-and-white chiller put director Mario Bava on the international map and made the bewitching Barbara Steele a star. Steele plays Princess Asa, a high priestess of Satan who is gruesomely executed in 1600s Moldavia by having a spiked mask hammered into her face. Before she dies, Asa vows revenge on the family who killed her and returns from the grave two centuries later t ... Read more
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| Blade in the Dark, A (1983) |
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Director: Lamberto Bava
Synopsis: This horror-thriller from director Lamberto Bava stars Andrea Occhipinti as Bruno, a composer who becomes involved in a frightening series of murders while staying at an isolated villa. The story turns on a scene in the horror film Bruno is scoring: a young child, taunted by cruel bullies, descends into a dark cellar after a bouncing tennis ball. The kids hear a scream and the ball bounces up to them, leaving bloody tracks on the wall. Pretty Sandra, Bruno's director, ex ... Read more
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| Blob, The (1958) |
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Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Synopsis: In his first starring role, Steve McQueen plays a typical oversexed, car-lovin' highschooler who can't get anyone to believe his story about a huge meteor, which crashes to earth and begins exuding a pink, gooey substance. Affixing itself to the body of an old man, the "blob" begins parasitically sucking the life out of several unfortunate humans, growing to an enormous size. Problem is, the disappearances of the victims can all be explained (one is supposed to be out of ... Read more
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| Blood Castle (1970) |
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Director: José Luis Merino
Synopsis: A beautiful young woman travels to a remote estate to seek employment as a biochemist for Baron Janos Dalmar. She finds herself attracted to him, so immerses herself in her work to suppress her lusty desires. A rash of rather brutal murders occurs in the area and she soon discovers that the Baron is not what he seems. Not long thereafter, the Baron transforms into a demon, and the beautiful young woman becomes his very own love slave. ... Read more
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| Blood Feast (1963) |
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Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Synopsis: Herschell Gordon Lewis, the acknowledged "Godfather of Gore," shattered taboos against graphic violence onscreen with this bloody horror film. Mal Arnold plays Fuad Ramses, a mad Egyptian caterer with bushy eyebrows who is gathering body parts to use in a "Blood Feast" to honor the ancient goddess Ishtar. He's been hired by the mother of young Egyptology student Suzette (Playboy Playmate Connie Mason) to cater a special party. Luckily, Suzette happens to be dating a cop ... Read more
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| Blood of the Vampire (1958) |
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Director: Henry Cass
Synopsis: When Dr. John Pierre (Vincent Ball) is falsely accused of practicing medical heresy, he is sent to a remote castle prison run by Dr. Callistratus (Donald Wolfit), a maniacal scientist who specializes in strange diseases of the blood. Aided by violent prison guards and a creepy hunchback, Dr. Callistratus proves to be much more than he seems. A moody Gothic horror film in the grand Hammer tradition, penned by famed terror scribe, Jimmy Sangster (Curse of Frankenstein, Hor ... Read more
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| Blood Stained Shadow, The (1978) |
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Director: Antonio Bido
Synopsis: This well-handled giallo thriller was directed by Antonio Bido (Il Gatto dagli Occhi di Giada). After a young girl is murdered by a mysterious stranger, the young Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) comes home to Venice to visit his brother (Craig Hill), a priest with many enemies. As people start dying left and right, Bido introduces an odd assortment of characters, including a wife-killing doctor, an abortionist, and a nutty gay Count (Massimo Serato) who molests childre ... Read more
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| BloodRayne (2005) |
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Director: Uwe Boll
Synopsis: The war against the forces of darkness becomes a family affair in this cinematic prequel to the popular video game Bloodrayne. In 16th century Europe, Lord Kagan (Ben Kingsley) is an evil ruler who holds more power than any man alive, but he still dreams of having more, and when he's told of three magic talismans who, when united, will give him intense supernatural strength and the gift of immortality, he will stop at nothing to attain them. However, three warriors who h ... Read more
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| Bloodstained Butterfly, The (1971) |
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Director: Duccio Tessari
Synopsis: Prolific Italian filmmaker Duccio Tessari (La Morte Risale a Ieri Sera) returned to the giallo field with this first-rate detective thriller which begins with a French co-ed (Carole Andre) repeatedly stabbed in a park during a thunderstorm. The suspicion falls on sportscaster Alessandro Marchi (Giancarlo Sbargia), who is being framed (or so it seems) by his trysting wife (Ida Galli, aka Evelyn Stewart) and lawyer (Gunther M. Stoll). Unfortunately, while Marchi is being r ... Read more
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| Bone Sickness (2004) |
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Director: Brian Paulin
Synopsis: Her husband's health suddenly devastated by a terminal bone disease, a desperate young wife finds her search for alternative treatment leading to unexpectedly grave consequences. Medical science may have failed her husband, but determined wife Kristin isn't willing to let her spouse go without a fight. Though her bid to find an effective alternative treatment at first yields encouraging results, the sudden onset of rotting flesh and a proclivity towards cannibalism in he ... Read more
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| Bonesetter, The (2003) |
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Director: Brett Kelly
Synopsis: Hunted and killed a century ago for committing heinous crimes against boys and girls, a ruthless bonesetter (Jody Haucke) may stalk the living -- again -- in a quest to finish his evil plan. When the children of a small town begin to disappear one by one, the shy local librarian and a street-smart mom team up to put a crimp in the bonesetter's sadistic plot. Looks like they're gonna do some bone crunchin' themselves! ... Read more
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| Brain Eaters, The (1958) |
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Director: Bruno VeSota
Synopsis: When a mysterious cone, 50-feet tall by 50-feet across at its base, is discovered sticking out of the ground near the town or Riverdale, IL, a group of investigators from Washington, D.C., are sent in to determine its origins. They discover that various townspeople have been murdered, while others, including the mayor, have disappeared; and when they reappear, they're under some form of outside control. The interior of the cone seems to violate every known law of physics ... Read more
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| Brain That Wouldn't Die, The (1962) |
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Director: Joseph Green
Synopsis: An arrogant scientist brings his fiancée back from the dead in this vintage cult horror film. Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason Evers, here billed as Herb Evers) performs medical experiments despite the trepidation of his surgeon father (Bruce Brighton); transplantation is Bill's main area of interest, but he's also had some success using electric shock to restore life to the recently deceased. When Bill causes a car crash that decapitates his fiancée, Jan Compton (Virginia Leith) ... Read more
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| Brain Twisters (1991) |
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Director: Jerry Sangiuliano
Synopsis: In this tame thriller, a university research psychologist is using computer-game software in experiments on students to investigate the possibility of covertly bringing about major changes in behavior. The company that is providing the software for very little money knows that nobody should be using it but hopes to recoup some of its development costs by getting it into colleges in this fashion. Unfortunately, the students become very violent after being exposed to the g ... Read more
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| Brainiac (1962) |
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Director: Chano Urueta
Synopsis: From director Chano Urueta comes this horror flick about 17th-century Spanish nobleman Baron Vitelius (Abel Salazar), who vows vengeance as he faces execution for heresy, sorcery and dogmatism. Fast-forward 300 years: A comet slams into Earth, releasing his spirit to hunt down his executioners' descendants and suck out their brains, enacting his singularly gruesome form of revenge. ... Read more
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| Bucket of Blood, A (1959) |
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Director: Roger Corman
Synopsis: A fine example -- perhaps the best available -- of "B"-movie overlord Roger Corman's "Weekend Wonders" from the producer/director's early career (see also the original Little Shop of Horrors), this horror-comedy was also the first of beloved actor Dick Miller's dozen-odd portrayals of the character Walter Paisley. A geeky waiter and busboy at a happening Beatnik café, Walter is intensely jealous of the swinging social lives of the artistic types who hang there. A bizarre ... Read more
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| Burial Ground (1981) |
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Director: Andrea Bianchi
Synopsis: Curiosity killed the cat -- or in this case, the professor. The loopy academic unseals a mysterious underground crypt, only to unleash dozens of ripe, flesh-hungry zombies, who march into the night in search of (living) prey. Luckily for them, a house party is in full swing right next door to the cemetery. ... Read more
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