A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre “Hansel and Gretel” twist.
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Horror History: Friday, March 10, 1972: Frogs was released in theaters
Malevolent frogs proliferate at a country residence.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 10, 1972: Frogs was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, March 9, 1972: Tales from the Crypt was released in theaters
Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, March 9, 1972: Tales from the Crypt was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, September 2, 1971: Lust For a Vampire was released in US theaters
A mysterious man performs the rites of black magic bringing the notorious female vampire Carmilla Karnstein back to life. Looking to quench her bloodlust for the fairer sex, she enrolls at an exclusive girl’s school as the young debutante Mircalla (Yutte Stensgaard), and begins to feast on her fellow students as well as indulging in her unholy desires for a teacher.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, September 2, 1971: Lust For a Vampire was released in US theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 27, 1971: Let’s Scare Jessica to Death was released in theaters
An ex-mental patient lives with her husband in an old farmhouse, with the undead for neighbors.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 27, 1971: Let’s Scare Jessica to Death was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, June 30, 1971: What’s the Matter with Helen? was released in theaters
Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters star in this stylish shocker set in 1930s Hollywood about two women who come to Tinseltown to start an idyllic new life and end up in a terrifying nightmare.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 30, 1971: What’s the Matter with Helen? was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, June 18, 1971: Willard was released in theaters
A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 18, 1971: Willard was released in theaters”Horror History: Thursday, June 17, 1971: The Horror of Frankenstein was released in US theaters
On the sudden death of his father, young Victor Frankenstein inherits his title, his castle and his taste for grisly experiments.
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Alan Alda’s character is a music journalist whose career as a piano player came to an end when his debut concert received undeservedly scathing reviews.
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Horror History: Friday, May 21, 1971: The Cat o’ Nine Tails was released in US theaters
When a break-in occurs at a secretive genetics institute, blind puzzle-maker Franco Arnò, who overheard an attempt to blackmail one of the institute’s scientists shortly before the robbery, teams up with intrepid reporter Carlo Giordani to crack the case. But before long the bodies begin to pile up and the two amateur sleuths find their own lives imperilled in their search for the truth…
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Love means never having to say you’re ugly.
One by one, Vincent Price kills off a team of doctors who failed to save his wife on the operating table. Due to injury in an auto accident, Phibes has no face or voice. He devises gruesome ends for the doctors, each death patterned after one of the plagues brought down on Ramses in ancient Egypt — from bats to locusts.
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A Scotland Yard inspector’s search for a missing film star leads him to a haunted house. The house sets the framework for four separate tales of terror written by the author of Psycho, Robert Bloch, and starring horror icons Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Ingrid Pitt. All four stories center on the mysterious fates of tenants who have leased the mansion over the years.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 2, 1971: The House That Dripped Blood was released in US theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, December 23, 1970: Scars of Dracula was released in US theaters
The legendary Christopher Lee is back as Dracula, bringing unspeakable horrors upon a local village that defies his evil reign.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, December 23, 1970: Scars of Dracula was released in US theaters”Horror History: Tuesday, October 27, 1970: The House That Would Not Die premiered on television
Ruth Bennett (Barbara Stanwyck, Witness to Murder, The Lady Eve) has inherited an old house in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Amish country. She moves into the house with her niece, Sara Dunning (Kitty Winn, The Panic in Needle Park, The Exorcist). The house was built before the Revolutionary War and is said to be haunted by the spirits of its original inhabitants. With the help of Pat McDougal (Richard Egan, The 300 Spartans, GOG), a local professor, and one of his students, Stan Whitman (Michael Anderson Jr., The Sons of Katie Elder, Major Dundee), they delve into the history of the house and find a scandal that involves a Revolutionary War general, who was suspected of being a traitor, and his daughter, who had disappeared after eloping with her boyfriend, a young British soldier. The spirits of the general and his daughter take possession of Pat’s and Sara’s bodies and a dark secret is revealed.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, October 27, 1970: The House That Would Not Die premiered on television”Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1970: The Wizard of Gore was released in theaters
Montag the Magnificent is The Wizard of Gore, is a seedy small-time magician with a shocking stage act. Hypnotizing pretty young women from the audience to be his obedient volunteers, Montag then proceeds to mutilate them in a series of illusions. Trouble is, after the show, the “illusions” become all too horribly real!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1970: The Wizard of Gore was released in theaters”Horror History: Sunday, June 7, 1970: Taste the Blood of Dracula was released in theaters
Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitementin their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of countDracula’s servants.
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A deranged scientist, seeking to create a race of super humans by means of organic transplant, commits a series of brutal murders in order to utilize the bodies. Screen and horror legends Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 13, 1970: Scream and Scream Again was released in US theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, February 11, 1970: Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed was released in US theaters
Together with a young doctor,Karl and his fiancée Anna kidnap the mentally sick Dr. Brandt, to perform the first brain transplantation ever.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, February 11, 1970: Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed was released in US theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, January 14, 1970: The Dunwich Horror was released in theaters
A young college girl falls in love with a boy who is the last descendant of a race of strange creatures who once inhabited the Earth. In an attempt to use her as a sacrifice in an inholy rite that will bring his people back to life, the boy comes face to face with a university professor whose knowledge of the occult is more than a match.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, January 14, 1970: The Dunwich Horror was released in theaters”Horror History: Sunday, October 5, 1969: Blood Of Dracula’s Castle was released in theaters
A chilling, blood-curdling tale about a young couple that inherits an old castle, only to find that it is already inhabited by a crusty butler, an obsessed killer, and a couple of vampires who kidnap and sacrifice young girls in order to live forever.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, October 5, 1969: Blood Of Dracula’s Castle was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, August 20, 1969: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? was released in theaters
The battle of wits is on! Oscar(r) winners Geraldine Page and Ruth Gordon ‘sharpen their claws on each other (Boxoffice) in this enjoyable piece of jolly horror (Los Angeles Times) about a lost fortune, a mad heiress and a housekeeper hellbent on digging up the truth! Mrs. Marrable (Page) is a society matron who’s had some shocking news. Her late husband left her only a stamp collection! Determined to maintain her extravagant lifestyle, she takes advantage of an unlikely new source of incomeher housekeepers by robbing them not only out of their life savings, but also their lives! The turnover rate for help speeds faster than a revolving door until Mrs. Marrable’s latest hire (Gordon) develops a drive to unearth the terrible secret buried in the front yard!
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 20, 1969: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? was released in theaters”Horror History: Sunday, June 1, 1969: Satan’s Sadists was released in theaters
Motorcycle maniacs chase an ex-Marine and a waitress into the desert after brutally murdering patrons and staff at a roadside diner. From legendary cult director Al Adamson!
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, June 1, 1969: Satan’s Sadists was released in theaters”Horror History: Wednesday, May 14, 1969: Nightmare in Wax was released in theaters
Vince Rinaud is a former film special effects artist who is disfigured by Max Block, the head of Paragon Pictures, and also a rival for the affections of a woman (Anne Helm). Leaving the film industry, Vince becomes a recluse and opens a wax museum. Within a few months, four popular Paragon stars disappear. Suspiciously wax figures of the missing stars soon feature as wax models in the museum.
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When the niece of a prominent clergyman becomes Dracula’s victim, the monsignor vows to put a stop to Dracula’s deadly ways.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, February 6, 1969: Dracula Has Risen from the Grave was released in US theaters”Horror History: Sunday, February 2, 1969: Boris Karloff passed away
Rest In Peace, Mr. Karloff.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, February 2, 1969: Boris Karloff passed away”Horror History: Tuesday, October 1, 1968: Night of the Living Dead was released in theaters
A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.
Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, Night Of The Living Dead is a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.
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The story of a loving young New York City couple who are expecting their first child. Like most first-time mothers, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) experiences confusion and fear. Her husband (John Cassavetes), an ambitious but unsuccessful actor, makes a pact with the devil that promises to send his career skyward.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 12, 1968: Rosemary’s Baby was released in theaters”Horror History: Sunday, May 19, 1968: Astro-Zombies was released in theaters
After being fired from the Space Agency, the disgruntled (not to mention crazy) Dr. Demarco creates an Astroman from a criminal’s dead body. However, he loses control of his creation, which goes on a killing spree, attracting the attention of an international spy ring and the CIA.
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An expert on bats, Professor Abronsius and his dim witted assistant, Alfred, travel to Transylvania to try to find and destroy vampires.
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A tormented girl (Susan Denberg) drowns herself after her lover is framed for her father s murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing), experimenting with the transfer of souls, places her lover s soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. With no memories of her past life, she becomes driven by a ghostly revenge and carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
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