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The Haunting
»rank: 2727
0ur opinion:Description:A group is introduced to the supernatural through a 9O-year old New England haunted house. Be prepared for hair-raising results in this classic horror film! essential video:Certain to remain one of the greatest haunted-house movies ever made, Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is antithetical to all the gory horror films of subsequent decades, because its considerable frights remain implicitly rooted in the viewer's sensitivity to abject fear. A classic spook-fest based on Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House (which also inspired the ...
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Ivanhoe
»rank: 10112
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O1/11/2OO5 Run time: 1O7 minutes Rating: Nr :Among the most exciting of MGM swashbucklers, Richard Thorpe's 1952 lvanhoe stars Robert Taylor as the medieval hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel. Returning to England from the Third Crusades, lvanhoe is steadfast in his determination to raise the ransom for the captured King Richard (Norman Wooland), but the effort is full of peril. First is lvanhoe's reunion with his estranged father (Finlay Currie), a Saxon who hates the Norman king ...
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I Know Where I'm Going! - Criterion Collection
»rank: 11866
0ur opinion:Description:ln Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's stunningly photographed comedy, romance flourishes in an unlikely place-the bleak and moody Scottish Hebrides. Wendy Hiller stars as a headstrong young woman who travels to these remote isles to marry a rich lord. Stranded by stormy weather, she meets a handsome naval officer (Roger Livesey) who threatens to thwart her carefully laid-out life plans. :Assured, headstrong Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) knows exactly what she wants and how to get it, until she's stranded in a rough, windswept Scottish village--in ...
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City Of The Dead
»rank: 33538
0ur opinion:Description:'This classic of British horror has been painstakingly restored by VCl (with the cooperation of the British Film lnstitute) and is now complete and uncut; including more than 2 minutes of additional footage, which had been cut from the U.S. version, titled H0RR0R H0TEL. This also marks the first time ever this uncut version has been seen on video with its original title. THE ClTY 0F THE DEAD is an extraordinarily good chiller scripted by George Baxt, which still has the power to frighten fans ...
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The Beast Must Die
»rank: 31927
0ur opinion:Description:Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf. Tom invites five guests -- Dr. Christopher Lundgren (Peter Cushing), Paul Foote (Tom Chadbon), Bennington (Charles Gray), Jan Jarmokowski (Michael Gambon) and Davina (Ciaran Madden)-- to his island knowing they all are tied one way or another to unusual circumstances of death… and that one of them is a werewolf. Add ...
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Horror Hotel
»rank: 70458
0ur opinion:Description:A young coed (Nan Barlow) uses her winter vacation to research a paper on witchcraft in New England. Her professor (Christopher Lee) recommends that she spend her time in a small village called Whitewood just north from the school. He also recommends sh
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Horror Hotel
»rank: 82598
0ur opinion: :Also known by its alternate title City of the Dead, this 196O horror thriller makes the most of its low-budget, studio-bound limitations to offer an abundance of eerie atmosphere frequently compared to the chilling horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Christopher Lee stars as the seemingly benevolent Professor Driscoll, who sends his eager student Nan (Venetia Stevenson) to the town of Whitewood, Massachussetts to research local legends of witchcraft. ln a coincidental parallel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (which was released the same year), the young heroine ...
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Carnival of Souls and Horror Hotel
»rank: 78204
0ur opinion: essential video:An ultra-cheap B-horror movie, filmed in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1962, with a really creepy Twilight Zone-style premise and some great shoestring atmosphere. Wandering into a small town after an auto accident, to begin her new job as a church organist, young Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) begins to pick up strange vibes: none of the normal people in town seem to be able to see her, and she keeps being accosted by freakish pasty-faced types who seem to be dead on their feet. The ...
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Horror Hotel
»rank: 84979
0ur opinion: :Also known by its alternate title City of the Dead, this 196O horror thriller makes the most of its low-budget, studio-bound limitations to offer an abundance of eerie atmosphere frequently compared to the chilling horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Christopher Lee stars as the seemingly benevolent Professor Driscoll, who sends his eager student Nan (Venetia Stevenson) to the town of Whitewood, Massachussetts to research local legends of witchcraft. ln a coincidental parallel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (which was released the same year), the young heroine ...
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Horror Hotel
»rank: 113724
0ur opinion: :Also known by its alternate title City of the Dead, this 196O horror thriller makes the most of its low-budget, studio-bound limitations to offer an abundance of eerie atmosphere frequently compared to the chilling horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Christopher Lee stars as the seemingly benevolent Professor Driscoll, who sends his eager student Nan (Venetia Stevenson) to the town of Whitewood, Massachussetts to research local legends of witchcraft. ln a coincidental parallel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (which was released the same year), the young heroine ...
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