When the star of a London Opera house (Heather Sears) is kidnapped, a producer (Edward de Souza) tracks down the Phantom (Herbert Lom) who is intent on seeking his revenge.
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Horror History: Wednesday, July 4, 1962: Tales of Terror was released in theaters
From the haunting tales of Edgar Allan Poe, comes a chilling trilogy of terror. In Morella, Locke (Vincent Price) blames the death of his wife on their only child and sends her away. When she returns 26 years later, her mother’s spirit inhabits her body and haunts the tortured man. In The Black Cat, Fortunato (Price) takes a drunken montresor (Peter Lorre) home and falls in love with the montresor’s wife… so the jealous montresor takes revenge and buries them both alive. In The Case Of M. Valdemar, Valdemar (Price) seeks relief from M. Carmichael (Basil Rathbone), an evil mesmerist. Carmichael has designs on Valdemar’s wife and holds him in a tortured state between life and death…until death itself intervenes.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 4, 1962: Tales of Terror was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, August 23, 1961: The Pit and the Pendulum was released in theaters
Vincent Price plays a 16th century Spanish nobleman who slowly goes crazy when he thinks that his wife has been buried alive. It’s all a joint plot between the supposed dead wife and her doctor/lover to get Price’s money. Price now totally insane, assumes his father’s identity (that of a grand inquisitor) and starts to murder!
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 23, 1961: The Pit and the Pendulum was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, June 7, 1961: The Curse of the Werewolf was released in theaters
This re-imagining of the classic horror story is set in 18th century Spain and follows an orphan child who terrifies those around him when he becomes a werewolf after a hunting expedition.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 7, 1961: The Curse of the Werewolf was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, May 3, 1961: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (aka Jekyll’s Inferno) was released in US theaters
While deeply absorbed in research designed to isolate the double nature in man, Dr. Jekyll (Paul Massie) succeeds in releasing his own savage alter ego, Mr. Hyde.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, May 3, 1961: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (aka Jekyll’s Inferno) was released in US theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, February 15, 1961: Black Sunday was released in US theaters
In an absolutely mesmerizing performance, Black Sunday stars Barbara Steele as Asa Vajda, a beautiful woman tortured and executed as a witch – but not before pronouncing a curse upon those who have condemned her, a curse that is fulfilled some 200 years later.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, February 15, 1961: Black Sunday was released in US theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, December 7, 1960: Village of the Damned was released in theaters
After a mysterious blackout, the inhabitants of a British village give birth to emotionless, super-powered offspring.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, December 7, 1960: Village of the Damned was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, September 8, 1960: Psycho was released in theaters
The greatest Hitchcock chiller of them all. Ask Norman Bates and his mother, who run the lonely Bates Motel – a place the guests are just dying to leave!
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, September 8, 1960: Psycho was released in theaters”Horror History: Monday, September 5, 1960: The Brides of Dracula was released in US theaters
A brave young woman (Yvonne Monlaur) takes refuge in a mysterious chateau but soon finds herself the prey of a treacherous vampire intent on claiming her.
Read more “Horror History: Monday, September 5, 1960: The Brides of Dracula was released in US theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 5, 1960: The Little Shop of Horrors was released in theaters
Seymour Krelboyne (Jonathan Haze) works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker Audrey Fulquard (Jackie Joseph).
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 5, 1960: The Little Shop of Horrors was released in theaters”Horror History: Saturday, June 18, 1960: House of Usher was released in theaters
When a beautiful young woman’s suitor arrives to ask her hand in marriage, the doors of the mysterious house of Usher fling open…and terror begins. It seems the young woman’s brother is violently oppos- ed to her planned marriage and resorts to macabre ends to prevent the tainted Usher blood from spreading to future generations.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 18, 1960: House of Usher was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, January 1, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Four of Us are Dying” premiered
Season 1 Episode 13
A man who can change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 1, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Four of Us are Dying” premiered”Horror History: Wednesday, December 16, 1959: The Mummy was released in theaters
Three English archaeologists find the tomb of an Egyptian high priestess buried nearly four thousand years before. They discover a guard who had been buried alive with her.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, December 16, 1959: The Mummy was released in theaters”Horror History: Tuesday, February 17, 1959: House on Haunted Hill was released in theaters
Vincent Price stars as a very wealthy man who gives a haunted house party, offering to give each of his guests $10,000 — if they can survive the night.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, February 17, 1959: House on Haunted Hill was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, September 10, 1958: The Blob was released in theaters
A cult classic of gooey greatness, The Blob follows the havoc wreaked on a small town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylike invader. Strong performances and ingenious special effects help The Blob transcend the schlock sci-fi and youth delinquency genres from which it originates.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, September 10, 1958: The Blob was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, May 8, 1958: Horror Of Dracula was released in theaters
The first Hammer Dracula film in which, the infamous vampire (Christopher Lee, Star Wars) is given a new, elegant and ruthless persona as he descends upon England.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, May 8, 1958: Horror Of Dracula was released in theaters”Horror History: Sunday, May 26, 1957: The Deadly Mantis was released in theaters
What’s worse than a horde of locusts? A gigantic man-eating praying mantis, released from a million years of deep, frozen sleep and ready to claw its way to world domination!
This menacing insect kills everything in its path while scientists and military men work feverishly to stop it. Craig Stevens (Abbott And Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde) stars as the commander in charge of putting an end to this beastly insect with William Hopper (20 Million Miles To Earth) as the paleontologist and Alix Talton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) as his beautiful assistant, a photojournalist, assigned to help in this epic battle between man and mantis!
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, May 26, 1957: The Deadly Mantis was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, May 2, 1957: The Curse of Frankenstein was released in theaters
The Frankenstein epic finds Baron Victor Frankenstein in jail, attempting to convince his jailers that a monster he created was responsible for the crimes for which he is accused.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, May 2, 1957: The Curse of Frankenstein was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, August 16, 1956: Bela Lugosi passed away
Rest In Peace, Mr. Lugosi.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, August 16, 1956: Bela Lugosi passed away”Horror History: Thursday, June 23, 1955: Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy was released in theaters
Two bumbling Americans (Abbott and Costello) stumble on the discovery of a lifetime when their search for a mummy leads them to a sacred medallion that holds the key to buried treasure.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, June 23, 1955: Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, March 5, 1954: Creature from the Black Lagoon was released in theaters
In one of the most beloved sci-fi horror classics ever, a mysterious amphibious monster escapes captivity in order to be with a scientist’s beautiful female lab assistant.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 5, 1954: Creature from the Black Lagoon was released in theaters”Horror History: Saturday, April 25, 1953: House of Wax was released in theaters
A museum fire turns a handsome man into a human monster who steals the bodies of his victims from the morgue to create life-like wax images.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 25, 1953: House of Wax was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, November 20, 1952: The Black Castle was released in theaters
An Englishman enters an Austrian nobleman’s castle, complete with torture chamber and alligator moat.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, November 20, 1952: The Black Castle was released in theaters”Horror History: Saturday, December 8, 1951: The Strange Door was released in theaters
Screen legends Charles Laughton (Witness for the Prosecution) and Boris Karloff (Black Sabbath) haunt the dungeons of a medieval château in this horrific adaptation of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) story. Laughton, the Sire de Maletroit, is an evil French nobleman, so obsessed with hatred of his own brother (Paul Cavanagh, A Bill of Divorcement) that he imprisons him in the castle dungeon. The Sire also tries to destroy the life of his brother’s daughter (Sally Forrest, Not Wanted) by forcing her to marry a rogue (Richard Stapley, The Girl from Rio), but his plans are upset when they fall in love. Aided by Voltan (Karloff), an abused servant, the lovers attempt to escape, but the Sire imprisons them in a cell with closing walls that may spell violent deaths for the young lovers. Directed by Joseph Pevney (Female on the Beach).
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, December 8, 1951: The Strange Door was released in theaters”Horror History: Saturday, March 18, 1950: Brad Dourif was born
Happy Birthday, Mr. Dourif!
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, March 18, 1950: Brad Dourif was born”Horror History: Tuesday, June 15, 1948: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was released in theaters
There’s plenty of hilarious monster mayhem afoot when Abbott and Costello are forced to retrieve Dracula (Bela Lugosi) and the Monster (Glenn Strange) from a secret hideaway island.
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Wolf Man (Lon Chaney, Jr.) & Dracula (John Carradine) beg Dr. Edelman (Onslow Stevens) to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor’s nurse.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 7, 1945: House of Dracula was released in theaters”Horror History: Saturday, September 1, 1945: Isle of the Dead was released in theaters
Boris Karloff stars in this classic horror film about a group of people who seek refuge from the plague on a Baltic Island only to fear that one of their number is a vampire.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, September 1, 1945: Isle of the Dead was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, December 22, 1944: The Mummy’s Curse was released in theaters
In his last appearance, Lon Chaney, Jr. stars as one of the screen’s most memorable movie monsters: the mummy Kharis from Egypt, who is tormented by his forbidden love for Princess Ananka.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 22, 1944: The Mummy’s Curse was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, December 1, 1944: House of Frankenstein was released in theaters
A scientist (Boris Karloff) escapes from prison and revives Dracula (John Carradine), Frankenstein (Glenn Strange), & Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.) to get revenge on his behalf.
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