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: […]
Tag Archives: Horror
Stories designed to scare the bejesus out of people
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: A high school girl, Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter, A Streetcar Named Desire), has been informed that her older sister has disappeared. Mary decides to leave school and search for […]
The Leopard Man (1943)
Synopsis: An ambitious talent agent, Jerry Manning (Dennis O’Keefe, Raw Deal), decides to hire a leopard for his client’s singing act, but the wild beast escapes and women start showing […]
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, Conde Drácula (Carlos Villarias), moves to London, England. Dracula is really a blood-thirty vampire who begins to terrorize the city. An intrepid intellectual, Professor Van Helsing […]
Dracula (1931)
Synopsis: 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 (Edward […]
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 […]
