To the Devil… a Daughter (1976)
Synopsis: An American author who specializes in the occult (Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death) tries to rescue an innocent teenage girl (Nastassja Kinski, Cat People) from the clutches of a […]
Tag Archives: Horror
Stories designed to scare the bejesus out of people
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
Synopsis: A terrifying encounter with the supernatural is guaranteed to all customers who buy (or steal) items from an old antique store. Reaction & Thoughts: “… each purchase comes with […]
Dracula and Son (1976)
Synopsis: After they are kicked out of their Transylvanian castle by communists, Count Dracula (Christopher Lee, The Wicker Man), and his son Ferdinand (Bernard Menez, Day for Night), end up […]
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Synopsis: Writer Ben Rolfe (Oliver Reed, The Devils), his wife Marian (Karen Black, Five Easy Pieces), their young son Davey (Lee H. Montgomery, Ben) and Ben’s aunt (Bette Davis) rent […]
Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973, TV-Movie)
Synopsis: College art student Peggy Johns (Sian Barbara Allen, You’ll Like My Mother) goes to work in a mansion as a part-time housekeeper for a reclusive sculptor (Ted Bessell, TV’s […]
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
Synopsis: In 1950, a wealthy man dies under mysterious circumstances and leaves his sprawling mansion to his estranged grandson (James Patterson, In the Heat of the Night). Twenty years later, […]
Curtains (1983)
Synopsis: In order to prepare for the starring role in her director husband’s (John Vernon, The Outlaw Josey Wales) next movie, an actress (Samantha Eggar, The Collector) fakes mental illness […]
Little Shop of Horrors (1986, Director’s Cut)
Synopsis: A timid flower shop clerk, Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis, Ghostbusters), discovers a strange plant he names Audrey II, which attracts a great deal of attention at his work place. […]
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Synopsis: Mousy Seymour Krelborn (Jonathan Haze, The Terror) is an amateur botanist who works in a third-rate flower shop. After inadvertently creating a strange-looking plant, Seymour becomes a local celebrity, […]
Kwaidan (1964)
Synopsis: Four supernatural tales that take place in feudal Japan. Reaction & Thoughts: One of the most poetic horror films I’ve ever seen. The stunningly beautiful images, the deliberately artificial […]
Dead & Buried (1981)
Synopsis: A small town sheriff (James Farentino, The Final Countdown) is baffled by a sudden series of grisly murders. Reaction & Thoughts: “I’ll take my secret to the grave.” Unfairly […]
The 7th Victim (1943)
Synopsis: After a teenager (Kim Hunter, A Streetcar Named Desire) is informed that her sister has disappeared, the teen decides to leave school and search for the missing sibling. The […]
The Leopard Man (1943)
Synopsis: An ambitious talent agent, Jerry Manning (Dennis O’Keefe, Walk a Crooked Mile), decides to hire a leopard for his client’s singing act, but the wild beast escapes and women […]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Synopsis: Wheelchair-bound ex-movie star Blanche Hudson (Joan Crawford, A Woman’s Face) is at the mercy of her mentally disturbed sister and ex-vaudeville child star “Baby” Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) in […]
The Walking Dead (1936)
Synopsis: An ex-convict (Boris Karloff, Frankenstein) is executed for a crime that he didn’t commit. After the execution, a brilliant scientist (Edmund Gwenn, The Trouble with Harry) brings the dead […]
Phobia (1980)
Synopsis: A psychiatrist (Paul Michael Glase, TV’s Stasky & Hutch) gains publicity for his unorthodox methods of treating people’s phobias. When his patients begin to die one by one, a […]
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981, TV-Movie)
Synopsis: In a small town, a posse of angry men kills a mentally disabled man (Larry Drake, Benny Stulwicz in TV’s L.A. Law) after he is (falsely) accused of hurting a […]
Salem’s Lot (1979, TV-Mini-Series)
Synopsis: In a small town in Maine, a writer (David Soul, TV’s Starsky & Hutch) discovers that a vampire is slowly turning the town’s residents into creatures of the night. Reaction & […]
Drácula (1931, Spanish-Language Version)
Synopsis: A mysterious Transylvanian aristocrat, Count Drácula (Carlos Villarias), moves to London, England. Drácula is really a blood-thirty vampire who begins to terrorize the city. An intrepid intellectual, Professor Van […]
Dracula (1931)
Synopsis: Mysterious Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi, Murders in the Rue Morgue), a Transylvanian vampire, moves to London, England, and begins a killing spree. A determined occult expert, Professor Van Helsing […]
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Synopsis: Two young Americans, David (David Naughton, The Hot Dog: The Movie) and Jack (Griffin Dunne, After Hours), who are backpacking through England, are attacked by a werewolf. Jack is […]
White Zombie (1932)
Synopsis: A young couple, Madeleine Parker (Madge Bellamy, Charlie Chan in London) and her fiancé Neil Parker (John Harron, The Crowd Roars), agree to get married at a friend’s Haitian […]
Train to Busan (2016, aka Busanhaeng)
Synopsis: In modern South Korea, passengers inside a train try to survive amidst a sudden zombie epidemic. Reaction & Thoughts: Word War Z, Asian style. Hands down, the best zombie […]
