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 […]
Tag Archives: Horror
Stories designed to scare the bejesus out of people
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 […]
Thirteen Women (1932)
Synopsis: Former students of an all-girls private school start dying under mysterious circumstances. It looks as if someone from their past has a personal vendetta against them. Reaction & Thoughts: […]
The Tenant (1976, aka Le Locataire)
Synopsis: In Paris, France, a meekly Polish man (filmmaker Roman Polanski, Chinatown) rents an apartment in an old building where its inhabitants make his life miserable. The constant hostility takes […]
The Phantom of the Opera (1990, TV-Mini-Series)
Synopsis: In 1800s France, aspiring opera singer, Christine Daaé (Teri Polo, Meet the Parents), begins taking singing lessons from a mysterious stranger in disguise. Unbeknownst to Christine, the masked tutor […]
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 […]
